About the day » Wednesday May 1, 1957Calender converter

• N.N. van de Lustgraaf, Veenendaal (Ut/NL) († 1957)
• Nadine Buyckx († 1987)
• Theodorus Johannes van den Eshof, Hoogland
• Teunis van Dulken, Abcoude († 1998)
• Jannetje van der Horst, Sassenheim († 2012)
• Dahlia Ariena aan de Wiel († 2021)
• Marcel Johan Lodewijk Lambrechts, Essen (België), Provincie Antwerpen († 2021)
• Wim Benno Bergink, Zeist
• Nicolaas Gerardus van 't Hoff, Hoorn Nh, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• George Warren Fisher III, J. Arthur Dosher Memorial Hosp., Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina († 1957)

• Anna Johanna Alida Maria Kerchman (64), Wassenaar
• Pelt, Hoorn
• Berendina Jacoba Bresser (Snelder) (56), Arnhem
• Aaltje Rinzes Epema (82), Idaarderadeel
• Anetta Johanna Paulina Lemaire (49), Den Haag
• Catharina Margaretha de Ruijter (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• van de Lustgraaf (0), Veenendaal
• Cornelis Arend Redert (4), Spijkenisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Perry Walker (71), Kosciusko, Attala, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Alma Frances Brown (67), Grenfell NSW Australia

• 1954 » Ray Parker Jr., American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1955 » Alex Cunningham, Scottish politician
• 1955 » Martin O'Donnell, American composer
• 1955 » Ray Searage, American baseball player and coach
• 1956 » Catherine Frot, French actress
• 1956 » Phil Foglio, American illustrator
• 1957 » Rick Darling, Australian cricketer
• 1957 » Uberto Pasolini, Italian banker, director, and producer
• 1959 » Lawrence Seeff, South African cricketer and basket weaver
• 1959 » Yasmina Reza, French actress and playwright

• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1953 » Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (b. 1876)
• 1956 » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)
• 1968 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician (b. 1886)
• 1968 » Jack Adams, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1895)
• 1970 » Yi Un, Korean prince (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.
• March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
• April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
• May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
• September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• 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 May 1, 1957 was between 4.9 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.