About the day » Saturday May 18, 1957Calender converter

• Karin Dijkgraaf, Rotterdam († 2019)
• Lidwina Maria Antonia Veldkamp, Luttenberg († 2010)
• Mark F. Hoover, San Jose, Calif († 2004)
• Mark Francis Hoover* Pastor, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States of America († 2004)
• Johanna Maria Theresia Mulders, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1958)
• Antonia Bernardina Adriana Sparreboom, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Jan Lardinois, Tongeren, België († 1992)
• Johann Hermann Marquering († 2012)
• Leonardus Wilhelmus Antonius Smits, Schiedam († 1995)
• Henry FitzRoy Saint John († 2011)

• Catharina Frederika Tieslink (71), zwolle
• Antje Adriana Huijsdens (74), Hilversum
• Adrianus van Bochove (69), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa
• Antje Adriana Huijsdens (74), Hilversum
• Cornelis Molenaar (78)
• Antje Engel (70), Woubrugge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Francisca HOEFNAGELS (62), Baarle-Hertog,2387,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Adriana van Rijswijk (63), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Albertine Taylor (86)
• Adriana van Rijswijk (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1954 » Wreckless Eric, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 » Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor and screenwriter
• 1956 » Catherine Corsini, French director and screenwriter
• 1956 » John Godber, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1957 » Henrietta Moore, English anthropologist and academic
• 1957 » Michael Cretu, Romanian-German keyboard player and producer
• 1958 » Rubén Omar Romano, Argentinian-Mexican footballer and coach
• 1958 » Toyah Willcox, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1959 » Graham Dilley, English cricketer and coach († 2011)
• 1959 » Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)

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 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• July 29 » The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
• December 20 » The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.

The temperature on May 18, 1957 was between 9.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.