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• Klaas ten Have, Winsum
• Carolina Anna Andrea (Carla) Jansen, Doetinchem, Gld, Nederland († 1999)
• Vicky Lynn Boneschans, Los Angeles County, California († 1977)
• Geraldine Wilhelmina Hendrika Alards, Pakenham,, Victoria, Australië († 1963)
• Jacobus Kooning, Vlaardingen († 1994)
• Monte Doyle McCracken, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Gerrit Paul Zielstra, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 1982)
• Charlotte Fredricia Block Cappendale, Celle, Germany († 1981)
• Tieme Jonkers, Greater Napanee, Ontario, Canada († 2011)
• Harrie Elshof († 1995)

• Cornelis de Haan (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Peen (73), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelia Houweling (44), 's-Gravenhage
• Cornelia Johanna Adriana Maria Verdegaal (0), De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Mudde (84), Rotterdam
• Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff (84), Den Haag
• Beulah M. MrsCalvinN Addison [KsBu] (55), Vernon Parish ac, Louisiana ac
• Adriana Louisa Reis (92), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Ketelarij (78), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Charles Powell TERRY (51), Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia

• 1955 » Bill Osborne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1955 » Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
• 1955 » Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver († 1992)
• 1955 » John de Mol Jr., Dutch businessman, co-founded Endemol
• 1955 » Margaret Moran, British politician and criminal
• 1955 » Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician
• 1955 » Michael O'Keefe, American actor
• 1956 » James A. Winnefeld, Jr., American admiral
• 1957 » Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-English businessman and politician
• 1958 » Brian Paddick, English police officer and politician

• 1947 » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
• 1947 » Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910)
• 1960 » Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Lee Moran, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1962 » Milt Franklyn, American composer (b. 1897)
• 1964 » Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)

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.
• June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• October 4 » Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• November 7 » Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

The temperature on April 24, 1957 was between 6.4 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.