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• Debra Kea Kolthoff († 1957)
• Randall Eugene Kittrell <KB ObFgtTNBu>1 "Randy", Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee († 2012)
• Gerda Kamies, Amsterdam
• Joke KLEIN GUNNEWIEK, Avest, gem. Eibergen († 1962)
• Tetje Zondervan, Blokzijl
• hubertina gertruda maria sijben, helden-panningen († 2002)
• Lei BEKS, Urmond (NL/LI) († 2000)
• Ria Steegmans, Hasselt († 2023)
• Steven John Bellware, Detroit,Wayne,MI († 1989)
• Randall E. Kittrell <KB ObFgtTNBu>1 "Randy", Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee († 2012)

• Adriana Zandee (86), Oostkapelle
• Adrianus AKKERMANS (83), Breda (Nl)
• Anna Maria Claes (78), Anderlecht, België
• Arnoldus Springvloed (76), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Albert Jan van Raalte (69)
• ANNA MES (84), VEGHEL
• Anna Verbeiren (34), Lebbeke
• Adrianus van Laarhoven (84), Tilburg
• Adriana ZANDEE (86), Oostkapelle, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aleida Catharina Maria Kuijpers (52), Eindhoven

• 1956 » Allan Evans, Scottish footballer
• 1956 » Catherine Holmes, Australian judge
• 1956 » Gerti Schanderl, German figure skater
• 1956 » Lutz Haueisen, German cyclist
• 1956 » Rafael Ábalos, Spanish author
• 1957 » Annik Honoré, Belgian journalist and music promoter († 2014)
• 1957 » Clémentine Célarié, French actress, singer, and director
• 1957 » Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper
• 1957 » Serge Clerc, French comic book artist and illustrator
• 1957 » William F. Laurance, Australian biologist

• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
• 1958 » Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 » Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
• 1964 » John Watkins, Canadian diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1967 » Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (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.
• February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
• February 22 » Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
• March 9 » The 8.6 M_w  Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
• March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
• August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

The temperature on October 12, 1957 was between 6.0 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.