About the day » Wednesday May 8, 1957Calender converter

• Piet Noordstrand († 1981)
• Sibbele Snijder, Dijken († 2001)
• Janice Marian Kruse, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 2008)
• Wilhelmus Antonius Johannes KAPTEIN, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Ellie Olde Bijvank († 2012)
• Ferdinand Aris Weyns, Zwolle, Gem. Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnoldus Gerardus van den Berg († 1968)
• Wilhelmus Antonius Johannes Kaptein, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Lamont Darrell "Monty" SAUNDERS, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, United States of America († 2018)
• Dirk Geerligs († 1997)

• Aletta Christina Lafors (85), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria de Ruijter (76), Heemskerk
• Antonius van Zundert (74), Breda
• Antje de Vries (80), gemeente Franekeradeel
• Albert Boer (71), Beilen
• Bernardus Paulus Floore (67), Wormer
• Arend Reitsema (68), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Beert Eikenaar (87)
• Adrianus Gerardus van der Heijde (83), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Lovina Woods (70), Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, Verenigde Staten

• 1955 » Mladen Markač, Croatian general
• 1955 » Stephen Furst, American actor and director († 2017)
• 1956 » Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor and martial artist
• 1957 » Bill Cowher, American football player and coach
• 1957 » Gary Lunn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources
• 1957 » Rino Katase, Japanese actress
• 1958 » Brooks Newmark, American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury
• 1958 » Lovie Smith, American football player and coach
• 1958 » Roddy Doyle, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1958 » Simone Kleinsma, Dutch actress and singer

• 1945 » Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (b. 1858)
• 1948 » U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician and immunologist (b. 1865)
• 1952 » William Fox, Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres (b. 1879)
• 1959 » John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881)
• 1960 » J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1904)
• 1965 » Wally Hardinge, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)

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.
• April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
• 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.
• June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• December 6 » Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.

The temperature on May 8, 1957 was between -2.6 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.