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• Josephine Maria Meijer, Bedum, Nederland († 1988)
• Wilmar Westmaas, Alphen aan den Rijn († 2022)
• Henricus Johannes Antonius van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Cornelis Johannes Maria Hoogeveen, Noordwijk († 2022)
• Cornelis Roland van den Berg, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Nederland († 1988)
• Marja Annette de Graaf († 2021)
• Hilde Vermeulen
• Detlef Hoster († 1980)
• Josephine Maria Meijer, Bedum, Groningen, Nederland († 1988)
• Hilja OVING († 2021)

• Aaltje Bijleveld (78), Groningen
• Arie Cornelis Heemes (74), Sommelsdijk
• Albert Berenpas (82), Deventer
• Antonetta Josephina van Hasselt (73), Gilze en Rijen
• Auguste Bernardine Franziska Abeln (84), Kneheim, Germany
• Albert Berenpas (81), Deventer
• Antonius Markwat (71), Woerden
• (79), Veenoord, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Augustine Victorine Bonnardel
• ANNA ELISABETH BREUGELMANS (156), Nijlen

• 1952 » Doug Falconer, Canadian football player and producer
• 1953 » Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator
• 1955 » Curtis Strange, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1955 » John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
• 1955 » Tom Izzo, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 » Payne Stewart, American golfer († 1999)
• 1958 » Derek White, Scottish rugby player
• 1959 » Cynthia Carter, Welsh journalist, author, and academic
• 1959 » Jody Watley, American entertainer
• 1959 » Steve Folkes, Australian rugby league player and coach († 2018)

• 1947 » Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1948 » Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (b. 1869)
• 1948 » Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871)
• 1951 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878)
• 1962 » Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and engineer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1966 » Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (b. 1912)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Paul
13. Dirk
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. Jacoba
15. Ingrid
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.
• January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
• June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
• August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
• September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
• October 3 » The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

The temperature on January 30, 1957 was between 4.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.