About the day » Monday January 7, 1957Calender converter

• André D'D'Hondt
• EIJLANDER, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1957)
• Hamers, Loon op Zand († 1957)
• Wilma Geertje Maria van der Schrier († 2019)
• Edwin Keunen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Maria Wilhelmina Maria Bruijn, Langedijk († 2014)
• N.N. Olieslagers, Breda († 1957)
• Edwin Keunen, Tilburg NB Netherlands († 2008)
• Thea Jansen († 1958)
• Edouard Macé de Gastines, Paris († 1975)

• Arie Albertus de Gans (82), Nieuwveen
• Antje Oud (75), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Oud (75), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertha G. Byrd (68)
• Aaltje Noorderijk (73), Ermelo
• Alberd van der Linde (72), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Bernadette Mria Haver (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Franciscus Aben (60), Helmond
• Carolyn Wright (0), Ashland, Boyd, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Deurhof (52), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

• 1952 » Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
• 1953 » Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
• 1954 » Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
• 1955 » Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
• 1956 » David Caruso, American actor
• 1957 » Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
• 1959 » Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
• 1959 » Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
• 1960 » Loretta Sanchez, American politician
• 1961 » John Thune, American lawyer and politician

• 1941 » Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
• 1951 » René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (b. 1886)
• 1960 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
• 1963 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1964 » Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 » David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1968 » J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Dirk
13. Paul
14. Johan
15. Wilhelmus
16. Michael

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Yvonne
10. Margaretha
11. Hendrika
12. Petronella
13. Marianne
14. Ingrid
15. Jacoba
16. Linda

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

The temperature on January 7, 1957 was between 2.7 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.