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• Glenda Maatsen-Daamen, Paramaribo († 2006)
• Kind van der Horst, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Charles Edward Pevensey TENNANT († 1996)
• Jeroen Stam, Amsterdam
• Petronella Henrica Catharina Wilhelmina Maria Knapen, Nederweert († 1960)
• Hillegonda Klein Heerenbrink, Hengelo († 1996)
• Eduard J.A.M. van der Lans, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• van der Zande, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2021)
• Bernarda Johanna SPRONG, Beesd († 2014)
• Marjan Arendje Heemskerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Bonna Maria Wisse (62), Zaamslag Nederland
• Albert Huizing (86), Buinen Borger-Odoorn Drenthe Nederland
• Adriana Apeldoorn (69), Uitgeest
• Aagtje ENKHUIZEN van (59), Oostzaan
• Andries Oepkes Visser (34), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Annetje Kindermans (54), Rotterdam
• Annigje Pieters Dam (69), Baarn
• ANNIGJE DAM (69)
• Catharina Kool (66), IJsselstein
• Adriaan Dieleman (83), Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland

• 1955 » Christopher McDonald, American actor
• 1955 » Janice Dickinson, American model, agent, and author
• 1956 » Ann Westin, Swedish comedian
• 1956 » Desmond Haynes, Barbadian cricketer and coach
• 1957 » Jake E. Lee, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1957 » Jimmy Spencer, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1958 » Chrystine Brouillet, Canadian author
• 1958 » Matthew Ward, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 » Tony McKegney, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1959 » Adam Boulton, English journalist

• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)
• 1966 » Camilo Torres Restrepo, Colombian priest and theologian (b. 1929)
• 1966 » Gerard Antoni Ciołek, Polish architect and historian (b. 1909)
• 1967 » Antonio Moreno, Spanish-American actor and director (b. 1887)
• 1970 » Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish air marshal (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)

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.
• March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
• May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
• July 11 » Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
• September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

The temperature on February 15, 1957 was between -0.1 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.