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• Hendrik Jan (Han) van der Laan, Den Helder
• Elisabeth S.A.S. Princesse de Habsbourg Lorraine, Archiduchesse d'Autriche, à Essen († 1983)
• Elisabeth Caecilia Helen Antonia VON ÖSTERREICH, Essen North Rhine-Westphalia Germany († 1983)
• Theodorus van Schip, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Elizabeth Caecilia Helen VON OSTERREICH, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1983)
• Luc CASTELAIN, Kortrijk († 2013)
• Rob Merkx
• Arnolda Johanna Petronella Snoek, Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1959)
• Anna Johanna Sikkens, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1957)
• Janice Marie Marlatt, Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States of America († 1957)

• Adriana Johanna Blankers (73), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Annie WAGENAAR (35), Leeuwarden Friesland Netherlands
• Antonius Johannes Voets (63), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Arie van der Heide (75), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis BREDIUS (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jans Wierenga (41), Ezinge
• Alice Shirek Glaser (63), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Pires de Campos (70), Jaú, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adrianus Cornelis Bredius (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arie van der Steen (51), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1955 » Dee Snider, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1955 » Mohsin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• 1956 » Clay Matthews, Jr., American football player and coach
• 1957 » David Silverman, American animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
• 1957 » Víctor Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Anne Davies, English television presenter and newsreader
• 1959 » Harold Baines, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 » Lisa Holton, American journalist and author
• 1959 » Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer

• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)

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 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
• March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• April 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
• October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
• October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

The temperature on March 15, 1957 was between 8.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.