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• Grietje Tjerkje Hakvoort, Urk († 2021)
• Marisa Carpanoni, Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia († 2012)
• Leonardus Johannes Manders 13ARJ, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2013)
• Andre Johannes Jacobus Krook, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Johannes Pieter Vreugdenhil, Schipluiden († 1975)
• Petrus Hermanus Christiaan Krapels, Rotterdam
• Anita Kasten, Kerkrade († 2002)

• Adrianus Otto- (71), Ter Aar, Nederland
• Albert van Engelen (25), Zwolle
• Anna Catharina Stuijts (56), Hoogerheide
• Adrianus Otto (71), Langeraar
• Anna Maria van Mallinckrodt (88), Ostwig, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Anna Catharina Stuijts (56), Hoogerheide
• August Alfert (44), Epe
• Anna Brasser (71), Alkmaar
• Baukje Keimpes de Boer (100), Leeuwarden
• Adriana Cornelia van As (59), Tilburg

• 1954 » Pat Croce, American businessman and author
• 1955 » Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer
• 1955 » Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
• 1956 » Dale Brown, American author and pilot
• 1957 » Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer
• 1958 » Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
• 1959 » Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1960 » Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player
• 1961 » Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
• 1961 » k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1949 » Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
• 1950 » George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1952 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
• 1958 » Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
• 1959 » Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
• 1960 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
• 1961 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Ngô Đình Nhu, Vietnamese activist, archivist, politician, and tactical strategist (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.
• March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
• September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
• November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
• November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.

The temperature on November 2, 1957 was between 5.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.