About the day » Friday March 15, 1957Calender converter

• Darcy Ann Klotzbach, Sun Prairie, Dane, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2020)
• Rob Merkx
• Trijntje Pauwelina (Tineke) WIERTSEMA, Uithuizermeeden Groningen Netherlands († 1958)
• Elisabeth Caecilia Helen Antonia von Habsburg-Lothringen († 1983)
• Adrianus Maria Johannes Verpoorten, Tilburg
• Elisabeth Caecilia Helen Antonia von Österreich, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1983)
• Anton Knigge († 1969)
• Elizabeth Caecilia Helen VON OSTERREICH, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 1983)
• Josephus Johannes Aloysius Marie Suijkerbuijk, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1969)
• Arnolda Johanna Petronella Snoek, Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1959)

• Antonius Johannes Voets (63), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Adriaan Hollebrandse (65), Gemeente 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Mannes Brinkman (83), Deventer
• Barend Huisman (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antje Meelker (71), Niebert, Nederland
• Albert Gilbertson (77), High Catton
• Anna Jans Wierenga (41), Ezinge
• Alice Shirek Glaser (63), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Moor (74), Delft
• Arie van der Heide (75), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1955 » Dee Snider, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1955 » Mohsin Khan, Pakistani cricketer
• 1956 » Clay Matthews, Jr., American football player and coach
• 1957 » David Silverman, American animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 » Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
• 1957 » Víctor Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1958 » Anne Davies, English television presenter and newsreader
• 1959 » Harold Baines, American baseball player and coach
• 1959 » Lisa Holton, American journalist and author
• 1959 » Renny Harlin, Finnish director and producer

• 1944 » Otto von Below, Prussian general (b. 1857)
• 1951 » John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Lester Young, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1909)
• 1962 » Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1962 » Charles Bartliff, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1966 » Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
• 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)

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 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 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
• July 11 » Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
• October 3 » The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
• 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 15, 1957 was between 8.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.