About the day » Sunday May 19, 1957Calender converter

• Gary Allen de Kruyf
• OG Hazenoot, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• John Clifford RIBBENS, San Antonio, Texas († 1984)
• Pouwer, Middelburg
• Frits WIELAND († 1965)
• Niek Vollebregt († 2021)
• Teuni Naaktgeboren, 's-Gravendeel (Zuid-Holland) († 2017)
• Carl van Dijck, Davis, Yolo, California (USA) († 1998)
• Marga Ressing, Lievelde († 1991)
• René Cornelis Petrus (René) Coenders, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)

• Arij van der Stel (82), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette le Cocq (82), Armour (Zuid Dakota) (USA)
• Adriaan de Beste (76), Rotterdam
• GROUWELS (100), Sint-Lambrechts-Herk
• Anthonie Hendrik de Heus (80), Weesp
• Barbara Elisabeth Catharina Thijs (82), Maastricht
• Annechien HAANDRIKMAN (54), Ees (Borger), Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonie Hendrik Heus (80), Weesp
• Cornelis Wagner (74), Den Haag
• Baukje Leewis (66), Rotterdam

• 1953 » Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1953 » Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian finswimmer
• 1954 » Hōchū Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor
• 1954 » Phil Rudd, Australian-New Zealand drummer
• 1954 » Rick Cerone, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1955 » James Gosling, Canadian-American computer scientist, created Java
• 1956 » Martyn Ware, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
• 1956 » Oliver Letwin, English philosopher and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1957 » Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
• 1957 » James Reyne, Nigerian-Australian singer-songwriter

• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)
• 1958 » Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1969 » Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1901)

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 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
• March 17 » A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
• April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
• May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
• July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
• 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.

The temperature on May 19, 1957 was between 8.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.