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• Lucia Cornelia Maria Nieuwboer, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Jeanette Jolanda Buitenhuis, Noord-Oost-Polder († 1990)
• Anthonie Gerrit "Ton" Honig, Duffel, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 2010)
• Caroline Eileen CRICHTON-STUART, Mount Stuart House, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland († 1984)
• Beth Ann Oosterbaan († 2020)
• John Dennis Davidson, St.Louis, Missouri († 2004)
• Eileen Caroline CRICHTON-STUART († 1984)
• Anja Denekamp, Apeldoorn († 2018)
• Hendrik Elisabeth Gerard Marie ( Erik) Baggen, Geleen († 2014)
• petronella johanna leonarda (nellie) verbugt, helden

• Arnoldus Maarten van der Hoef (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Joanna Krete (62), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aberdina Hage (80), Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aartje Pieters RUILING (89), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Annechiena Kiewiet (69), Haren
• Alida Geertruida Tönis (56), Rotterdam
• Antonia Breure (74), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Allegonda Theodora Maria Gruijters (79), Wehl (Doetinchem)
• Allegonda Hendrika Wilhelmina van Maaren (48), 's-Gravenhage
• Alida Elisabeth Cheizoo (82), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Christine Ebersole, American actress and singer
• 1954 » Christina Rees, British politician
• 1955 » Kelsey Grammer, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1958 » Alan Trammell, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1958 » Jake Burns, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Kim Coates, Canadian actor
• 1958 » Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » José María Cano, Spanish singer-songwriter and painter
• 1960 » Plamen Oresharski, Bulgarian economist and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1960 » Steve Wynn, American singer-songwriter

• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)
• 1967 » Charles Beaumont, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (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. 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 9 » British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
• April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
• June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
• October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

The temperature on February 21, 1957 was between -0.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.