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• Albertus Coenen, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Earline Lapeyrouse, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Gerrit Arjen Meijer, Achlum († 2018)
• Froukje de Haan, Burgwerd, Friesland, Nederland († 2021)
• Wojciech Adam Odziemczyk († 2018)
• Duane Arie Roozeboom, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2004)
• Arnoldus Cornelis Maria Vermeulen, Breda
• Timothy David KLEIN, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 2020)
• Krzysztof Odziemczyk († 1976)
• Wilhelmus Christiaan Nannings († 2014)

• Barbara Steenssens (76), Bornem
• Arie van Wingerden (85), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht(ZH)
• Bart Koren (67), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Corneille Jean Alfred Vossen (73), Tilburg
• Alexander Eduard van Goor den Oosterlingh (65), 's-Gravenhage
• Arnoldus van Bree (79), Heeze
• Adriana Windhouwer (79), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Petronella Drop (89), Vlaardingen
• Catharina Maria Haspels (85), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• (Stillborn) NIEVEEN (0), Lancaster County Nebraska U.S.A

• 1953 » George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1953 » Mike Rann, English-Australian journalist and politician, 44th Premier of South Australia
• 1953 » Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
• 1954 » Alex English, American basketball player and coach
• 1954 » László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter
• 1955 » Mamata Banerjee, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 1956 » Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 14th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
• 1958 » Ron Kittle, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler
• 1960 » Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer and sportscaster

• 1943 » George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
• 1951 » Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
• 1956 » Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
• 1970 » Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 » Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)

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 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
• April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
• July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
• August 1 » The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

The temperature on January 5, 1957 was between 11.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.