About the day » Thursday March 7, 1957Calender converter

• N.N. Rijsdijk, Rotterdam († 1957)
• Thomas Grevink, Emmer-Compascuum, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Theo Peperkamp, Tiel († 2019)
• Henk Pasterkamp, t Harde, Gemeente Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1966)
• René Zuidervaart, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• René Smit, Soest († 1968)
• Levenloos kind Tuerlings, Tilburg († 1957)
• maria catharina petronella van de mortel, deurne
• Cees de Veth, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Auguste Etienne Barthélémy Arlold Bernard Marie Ghislain 'Gossy' FRANCOTTE, Liège, 62063, Liège, Belgique († 2015)

• Anna Geertruida Snoek (69), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Pieters Dotinga (85), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Donga (80), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Johnson, Oakdale, Allen, Louisiana, United States of America
• Anthonia Adriana Gillisse (41), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Bal (78), Delft
• Anna Hooiveld (68), Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Dirk van Mastbergen (67), Rotterdam
• Achiel Maddelein (80), Klerken
• Anthonia Adriana Gillisse (41), amsterdam, Nederland

• 1955 » Tommy Kramer, American football player
• 1956 » Andrea Levy, English author († 2019)
• 1956 » Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer
• 1957 » Mark Richards, Australian surfer
• 1957 » Robert Harris, English journalist and author
• 1957 » Tomás Yarrington, Mexican economist and politician, Governor of Tamaulipas
• 1958 » Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach († 2012)
• 1958 » Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist
• 1958 » Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter († 2014)
• 1959 » Tom Lehman, American golfer

• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)
• 1949 » Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
• 1973 » Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (b. 1927)
• 1975 » Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)

• 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 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 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".
• 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.
• August 1 » The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
• October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

The temperature on March 7, 1957 was between 8.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.