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• Joke Zonneveld, Beverwijk († 2005)
• Klaas Scheepstra († 1957)
• N.N. van den Eshof, Amersfoort († 1957)
• Jan Malda, Blije, Nederland († 2015)
• Wim Hendrix, Maasbree († 2012)
• Arend Siegfried Klatt, Rijswijk
• Miranda Heeren, Sint Willebrord († 1996)
• Mike Kadlecik, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Alfred van der Tien, amsterdam, Nederland († 2014)
• Randall Scott LENSEN († 1990)

• Betsy (Wilhelmina) Kuyper (63)
• Adriaan van Gestel (83), Weelde (B)
• Cornelis Adriaan Burgers (74), Velp,GD, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Maria van Winsen (0), Warmond
• Christianus van Doorn (70), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Kouters (3), Lage Zwaluwe
• Antonius Gerardus Bon (48), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alfred Friedrich Wilhelm Hausler (67), San Juan (Puerto Rico)
• Bernadina Kenning (81), Stearns County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Van Heerde (57), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1955 » Hazel O'Connor, English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1955 » Jack Morris, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1955 » Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast
• 1955 » Páidí Ó Sé, Irish footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1956 » Loretta Schrijver, Dutch television host, news anchor
• 1957 » Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman
• 1957 » Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
• 1957 » Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach († 2014)
• 1957 » Joan Benoit, American runner
• 1957 » Yuri Shevchuk, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)
• 1955 » Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1956 » H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1961 » George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)

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 9 » The 8.6 M_w  Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
• May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
• August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
• September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

The temperature on May 16, 1957 was between 7.9 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.