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• Corrie Zonneveld, Castricum († 2000)
• Herwig Richard Gustaaf D'Hondt, Roeselare († 1995)
• Kees Jan Zandburg, Diemen († 1978)
• Anne Wolthuizen, Emmen
• Martina Reina Johanna Brand, Apeldoorn († 1992)
• joke koers, wierden († 2005)
• Mark Evan van de Brake, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa († 2013)
• Julita da Silva, Perimbó, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2023)
• Corien de Kort, Ulvenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Doreen Ann Rottink, Waterloo Iowa († 2013)

• Ane Gauwes Spanjer (92), Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands
• Carel Gerhard Abraham Godschalk (65), Rotterdam
• Antonius Kerkhof (77), Venray
• Anna Maria Josephina De Geyter (79), Tielt,, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Annie Frances Johnston HEATH (78), Portland, Victoria, Australia
• "Maria Antonietta" Leonia di Borbone-Due Sicilie (58), Wiesendange, Suisse
• Alida Rood (65), Wognum
• Aaltjen Bannink (86), Gelselaar
• Antonius Cornelius Martinus Ponsioen (82), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Agatha Charlotta Wilhelmina DOORMAN (88), ís-Gravenhage

• 1955 » Michael Schenker, German guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1956 » Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish author
• 1956 » Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 » Anatoly Pisarenko, Ukrainian weightlifter and trainer
• 1958 » Eddie Cheever, American race car driver
• 1959 » Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach
• 1959 » Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 » Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer
• 1960 » Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1960 » Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)
• 1957 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American novelist (b. 1867)
• 1959 » Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)

• 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 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
• November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on January 10, 1957 was between 1.5 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.