About the day » Monday November 18, 1957Calender converter

• Gerarda Johanna Maria de Haas, IJsselstein († 2011)
• Neeltje Hakkert († 1973)
• Richard Owen Nelson, Emmetsburg, Palo Alto County, US-IA († 2003)
• Bonnie Kay Herder, Kalamazoo († 2010)
• Gemma Maria Boeing, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Fred B Foster AFOS01.FRE03RD, Rimbey, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada († 2016)
• Frederika (Ria) Hobers, Schoonebeek
• Neeltje Hakkert,, Deil († 1973)
• NN Ronken, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Levenloos geboren kind Mersmann, Gildehaus, Niedersachsen, Germany († 1957)

• Antonius Johannes Aldenhoven (58), Nijmegen
• Andries Rijnberg (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Waard (80), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Kuipers (82), Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amálie Šulcová (83)
• Aleida van DUINEN (72), Amersfoort, Nederland, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Rijvers (65), Breda, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adelaide M Muna (72), Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee
• Antje Kersten (48), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldina Johanna Hendriks (72), Bemmel

• 1955 » Carter Burwell, American composer and conductor
• 1956 » Jim Weirich, American computer scientist, developed Rake Software († 2014)
• 1956 » Noel Brotherston, Irish-English footballer and painter († 1995)
• 1956 » Warren Moon, American football player and sportscaster
• 1957 » Tony Bunn, American bassist, composer, producer, and writer
• 1958 » Daniel Brailovsky, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1959 » Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1960 » Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
• 1960 » Ivans Klementjevs, Latvian canoeist
• 1960 » Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1940 » Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet and author (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Chris Watson, Chilean-Australian journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
• 1941 » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1952 » Paul Éluard, French poet and author (b. 1895)
• 1962 » Niels Bohr, Danish footballer, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1965 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and bureaucrat, 33rd Vice President of the United States, 11th US Secretary of Agriculture (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Ted Heath, English trombonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Danny Whitten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crazy Horse) (b. 1943)

• 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 9 » British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
• January 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• 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 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.

The temperature on November 18, 1957 was between 1.2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.