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• Doodgeboren kind Oomen, Breda († 1957)
• Omar Conrado GIORDANENGO, La Quinta, Cordoba, Argentina († 2002)
• Paula Digneffe, Sint-Truiden, België († 1991)
• Kathleen Ann Lunsford, United States of America († 2004)
• Renatus Maria Benda, Delft († 2004)
• Henricus Adrianus Johannes Maria de Ronde, Rotterdam, ZH Netherlands († 2005)
• Peter Pelkmans
• Willem de Gooijer, Blaricum († 1994)
• Marion Zonneveld, Castricum († 1998)
• Francien van Ballegooij († 2003)

• Arthur Canfield (64), Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Waarts (72), Sprang-Capelle
• Aloijsius Oomen (68), Breda
• Albertus Augustus Mahieu (73), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Jan de Graaf (70), Kampen
• Aart van 't Net (73)
• Aaltje Flier (79), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• * Arie Stravers (82), Arkel
• Anna Maria Hofstede (70), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonie Barend Logher (69), Breda

• 1956 » Adam Nawałka, Polish football player and manager
• 1956 » Darrell Pace, American archer
• 1956 » Dianne Reeves, American singer
• 1956 » Dwight Yoakam, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1957 » Graham Rix, English footballer and coach
• 1957 » Paul Kagame, Rwandan soldier and politician, 6th President of Rwanda
• 1958 » Frank Schaffer, German sprinter
• 1958 » Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, author, and academic
• 1958 » Rose Nabinger, German singer
• 1959 » Nancy Grace, American lawyer and journalist

• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)
• 1950 » Al Jolson, Lithuanian-American actor and singer (b. 1886)
• 1953 » Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (b. 1869)
• 1959 » George Bouzianis, Greek painter (b. 1885)
• 1959 » Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (b. 1871)
• 1964 » Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (b. 1886)

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.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
• June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

The temperature on October 23, 1957 was between 3.7 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.