About the day » Saturday March 2, 1957Calender converter

• Rosa Bruynooghe, Torhout († 2015)
• Gregorius Josephus Maria Langeveld, Voorhout,Gemeente Teylingen,South Holland,Nederland († 2006)
• Hanneke Spijker, Zutphen
• Richard Thumann, Surabaja, Jammu, India
• Dennis Duane Folkerts, Buffalo Ctr., Winnebago Co., IA († 1997)
• Marcel KERSTEN († 1990)
• Dolly Okawa, United States of America († 2004)
• Theresia Francisca Maria van de Ven, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• James Michael Garrah, Kingston, Ontario, Canada († 1960)
• Lucas van Nuil, Geesbrug, Oosterhesselen († 2022)

• Aaltje Brouwer (82), Loenen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaldert Pit * (52), de Bult (Steenwijkerwold)
• Amelia Cornelia Verhoeven (67), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne Dijkstra (90), Triemen, Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Amalia Cornelia Verhoeven (67), Baarn
• Anna M HOULE (85), Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States
• Adrianus Bergwerff (97), Rozenburg, Nederland
• Andries Hoogstra * (84), Steenwijk
• Berend Brouwer (64), Enschede
• Bate BOER (81), Zeegse (Vries), Drenthe, Nederland

• 1955 » Dale Bozzio, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
• 1955 » Jay Osmond, American singer, drummer, actor, and TV/film producer
• 1955 » Ken Salazar, American lawyer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1956 » John Cowsill, American musician, songwriter, and producer
• 1956 » Mark Evans, Australian rock bass player
• 1957 » Dito Tsintsadze, Georgian film director and screenwriter
• 1957 » Hossein Dehghan, Iranian general and politician, Iranian Minister of Defense
• 1957 » Mark Dean, American inventor and computer engineer
• 1958 » Ian Woosnam, English-Welsh golfer
• 1958 » Kevin Curren, South African-American tennis player

• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)
• 1949 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b. 1879)
• 1953 » James Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)
• 1967 » José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish author and critic (b. 1873)

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.
• May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
• July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
• August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
• September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
• October 1 » First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.

The temperature on March 2, 1957 was between -0.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.