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• Yvonne Charlotte Smeekes, Hilversum († 2002)
• Ronald Arthur Weggelaar, Kemh. Australië († 2010)
• Yvonne Charlotte van Kampen, Hilversum († 2002)
• Albert Dirk Pleiter, Perth, Australië († 1993)
• Irene Haring, Westwoud, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Reina Alberta Reijnst († 2010)
• Rosa Maria Clementine Beate van Steenis († 2005)
• Alexandra Johanna van der Ende, Maassluis († 2007)
• Cobi Truijens († 2015)
• wilhelmus johannes maria (wiel) janssen, liessel

• Arie Cornelis van den Heuvel (79), haaften
• Anna* Catharina Elisabeth Berger (75), Emsdetten, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Arie Cornelis Heuvel (79), Haaften
• Aaltje Estië (73), Dedemsvaart
• Benjamin Harrison Duskin (68), Atlantic, Cass, Iowa, United States
• Cornelis Looije (83), Ter Heijde, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis van den Heuvel (79), Haaften
• Erich Joseph Hubert Smeets (16), Heerlen
• Bertus Riggeling (0), Velp
• Adrianus van Beers (73), Ammerzoden

• 1953 » Raúl Ramírez, Mexican tennis player
• 1953 » Robert Crais, American author and screenwriter
• 1954 » Allan Lamb, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1954 » Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1955 » E. Lynn Harris, American author († 2009)
• 1956 » Peter Reid, English footballer and manager
• 1956 » Sohn Suk-hee, South Korean newscaster
• 1958 » Kelly Johnson, English hard rock guitarist and songwriter († 2007)
• 1960 » John Taylor, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
• 1960 » Philip M. Parker, American economist and author

• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)

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 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
• October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
• December 2 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.

The temperature on June 20, 1957 was between 12.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.