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• Gusta Wilhelmina Halff, Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Lea Stöver, Eindhoven, 5632 NL, Nederland († 2007)
• Henk Dijksterhuis († 1966)
• Hendrika Paulina Oosterbroek, Voorst (Terwolde) († 1959)
• Janna Cornelia van Vliet, Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Widjaiperkash Ramdin
• Levenloos geboren van den Berg, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Catriena Maria Zaal, Amsterdam († 2002)
• Michael Alan Shirek, California, Verenigde Staten († 1957)
• Martha Bernarda Karolina Steverink, Gaanderen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)

• Adelaide JOHNSON (82), Soham, Cambridgeshire, England
• Alphonse HERINCKX (18), Braine-le-Chateau (B)
• Antonie Prinsen (67), Epe
• Albertus Hazelaar (82), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie MULDER (71), Lincoln Lancaster County Nebraska U.S.A
• Bernardus Willem Daniel van Dijkman (85), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Richards (90), Provo, Utah, Utah
• Antonius van Hees (83), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Kuipers (66), Almelo
• Ailko van der Veen (30), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1954 » Bill Buford, American author and journalist
• 1954 » David Hidalgo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 » Tony Dungy, American football player and coach
• 1956 » Kathleen Webb, American author and illustrator
• 1956 » Sadiq al-Ahmar, Yemeni politician
• 1957 » Bruce Grobbelaar, Zimbabwean footballer and coach
• 1959 » Brian Higgins, American politician
• 1959 » Oil Can Boyd, American baseball player
• 1959 » Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician († 2012)
• 1959 » Walter Ray Williams, Jr., American bowler

• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist (b. 1893)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (b. 1892)

• 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 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
• March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
• September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
• November 3 » Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
• November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

The temperature on October 6, 1957 was between 7.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.