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• Levenloos Geboren Hieltjes, Arnhem, GLD, Nederland († 1957)
• Johannes Franciscus Hendrikus Mandos, Boxtel Nederland († 1980)
• Wilhelmus Johannes Abelen, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland-Hoogland († 1959)
• Alice Groenendijk, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dethmer Boels († 1988)
• Hermanus Burger, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Paul Visée, Genk († 1990)
• Annetta Maria Lucia (Annemieke) van der Lee († 2010)
• Arnold Hendrikus Stoker, Velsen († 2023)
• Cornelis│Kees van der Marel, Leiden († 2014)

• Clasina Maria Mobron (80)
• Christina Maria van Dijk (55), Mijdrecht (Utrecht)
• Christopher Paul (Mick) CIRCUIT (35), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Alina Lenstra (85), Meppel
• Cuintje van Lith (Lit) (76), Est en Opijnen
• Clasina Maria Mobron (79), Bergh, Montferland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltiena Luciena Hovenkamp (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Joseph" Charles-Marie Boudoux d'Hautefeuille (72), Amiens, Somme, France
• Antonetta Kuijpers (62), Ede
• Alina Koops Lenstra (85), Meppel

• 1953 » Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1955 » Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1956 » Alexey Pajitnov, Russian video game designer and computer engineer, creator of Tetris
• 1956 » Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
• 1957 » Tad Williams, American author
• 1958 » Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1959 » Laila Robins, American actress
• 1959 » Tamara Tunie, American actress
• 1960 » Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic
• 1961 » Garry Jack, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1953 » Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
• 1957 » Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
• 1965 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 » Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)

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.
• 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".
• May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
• July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• October 29 » Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset.
• 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 March 14, 1957 was between 7.8 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.