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• Theodoor van Gogh, 's gravenhage († 2004)
• Don Clifford Mast († 1976)
• Marinus Jacobus Gerardus Maria Reijnders, Roosendaal († 1957)
• Wayne Anthony Duncan, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California († 2002)
• James Martin MURPHY, Castro Valley,Alameda,Californie,ÉTATS-UNIS d'AMÉRIQUE († 1957)
• Theo van Gogh, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Johanna Hendrika Grada Breij, Arnhem († 1958)
• Maria Bernardina Mak, Hensbroek († 2012)
• Theodoor (Theo) van Gogh, Den Haag († 2004)
• Robert Eduard Bij, Katwijk († 1987)

• Anthonius Franciscus de Graaf (90), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Camille Lucien Baudry (73), Saint Jean le Vieux, 01640, France
• Alice Maude Olivia Montagu (94), Croworth Park, Sunningdale, Surrey, England
• Christina Kats (73), Dwingeloo
• Antonia Petronella Vogels (35), Beek en Donk
• Antje Stuifbergen (81), Uitgeest
• Christina Kats (73), Dwingeloo, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Antje Stuijfbergen (81), Uitgeest
• Charles Fortuné baron van der Straten Waillet (76), Waillet
• Arend Bletgen (71), Deventer

• 1957 » Jo Brand, English comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Nikos Galis, American basketball player
• 1957 » Quentin Willson, English TV presenter, Top Gear.
• 1957 » Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1958 » Ken Green, American golfer
• 1958 » Tomy Winata, Indonesian businessman and philanthropist, founded the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation
• 1959 » Nancy Savoca, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Al Perez, American wrestler
• 1960 » Gary Ella, Australian rugby player
• 1960 » Susan Graham, American soprano and educator

• 1948 » D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician and diplomat, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882)
• 1951 » Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (b. 1856)
• 1951 » Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Herman Groman, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1957 » Bob Shiring, American football player and coach (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1968 » Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1971 » Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910)

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.
• 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 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
• September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on July 23, 1957 was between 12.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.