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• Sid Smit, Alkmaar († 2019)
• José Eduardo Oliva, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2012)
• Betty van Ryswyk, Mora-Minnesota (USA) († 1957)
• Hendrikus Johannes Petrus Zeestraten, Voorhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• N.n. Gerits, Nuth, Limburg, Nederland
• Ronny Josephus Maria Giele, Vogelwaarde, Nederland
• Anna Maria Johanna Martina Kitzen, Sittard, Ned
• Dorothea Brigitta Pel, Eindhoven († 2016)
• Marion Astrid Fleurke, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Lesley Jane Elms, Derby, Derbyshire, England († 2002)

• Dirk Andries Benning (72), Nijmegen (GL)
• Adriaan Casteleijn (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Emmerik (68), Soest
• Cornelis de Rooij (76), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Everdina Pietersen (86), Paterswolde (gem. Tynaarloo)
• Anna Elisabeth Kolen (78), Meerssen, LI, Netherlands
• Amelia Schipper (67), Enschede
• Antonetta Maria Verhoof (70), Tilburg
• Charles Justin Matthews (71), Alabama, United States
• Egbert van Rijssen (71)

• 1955 » Diana Scarwid, American actress
• 1955 » Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
• 1956 » Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1957 » Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 1957 » Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
• 1958 » Hugh Orde, British police officer
• 1958 » Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1958 » Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
• 1959 » Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
• 1959 » Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver

• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)

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.
• May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
• August 31 » The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
• September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
• October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.

The temperature on August 27, 1957 was between 10.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.