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• Yvonne van der Ploeg, Leiden († 2023)
• NN Piechnick, Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Willem Abraham Schrier, Markenesse, Flevoland, Nederland († 2017)
• Greta Nagels, Hasselt, België († 2017)
• Marion van Dissel, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Willem Abraham Schrier († 2017)
• Gary Vanor OKERLUND († 1997)
• Maria Anna Theresia van Rijthoven, Oosterhout
• NN Eijkenboom († 1957)
• Bastiaan Molenaar, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Arnoldus Eduardus Verraes (83), Breda
• Catharina van Katwijk (68), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Baukje Gossink (56), Amsterdam
• Christina van Harten (86), Hellevoetsluis
• Albert SNIPPE (83), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arthur Bester (88), New Norfolk, TAS, Australia
• Annigje Jans de Boer (68), Ziekenbarak Vollenhove
• Albert van LOHUIZEN (88), IJsselmuiden
• Anna Maria Schrooten (76), Schiedam
• Beatrice May Lewis (51), Moncton, Westmorland Co, New Brunswick, Canada

• 1954 » George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
• 1954 » Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
• 1956 » Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
• 1956 » Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
• 1957 » Ai Weiwei, Chinese sculptor and activist
• 1957 » Daniel Stern, American actor and director
• 1957 » Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
• 1957 » Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
• 1958 » Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
• 1959 » Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1943 » Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)
• 1959 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (b. 1890)
• 1965 » Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
• 1976 » Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)

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 9 » British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
• January 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
• September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
• November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on August 28, 1957 was between 8.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.