About the day » Wednesday May 22, 1957Calender converter

• Louisa Maria Aletta van Wyk, Zuid-Afrika, R.S.A. († 2013)
• Alain Marquet, Chalons sur Saone (CH), Frankrijk († 1995)
• Paulina Gezina Maria Horst, Geesteren († 1958)
• Johan Cornelis Paans, Almkerk († 1957)
• Roy Wayne Geiling, Macon,Illinois († 2006)
• Paulina Gesina Maria Horst, Manderveen († 1958)
• Cees van Dongen († 2011)
• Dita Verkerk († 2022)
• gertruda wilhelmina petronella maria (gertie) opstals, helden-dorp
• Jelma Kosters, Avereest (Dedemsvaart) († 2019)

• Berend Meinen (54), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna De Groep (68), Temse, België
• Antoinetta Maria van Halderen (75), Den Haag
• Alagonda Geertruida Dallinga (79), Groningen
• Beertjen Deetman (90), Ermelo (Nunspeet),, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alijda Maria Geerling (81), Utrecht
• Augustinus Bernardus Cornelius (Guus) WILLEMS (56), Acht, Eindhoven, 3547, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan de Winter (83), Goes
• Arthur Morgan NMOR02.ART01 (52), Bristol Royal Infirmary, England
• Christiaan Akker, van den (76), Arnhem,Gemeente Arnhem,Gelderland,Nederland

• 1953 » François Bon, French writer
• 1954 » Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist († 2002)
• 1954 » Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1956 » Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet († 2018)
• 1957 » Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician
• 1959 » David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach
• 1959 » Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1959 » Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
• 1959 » Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
• 1960 » Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)

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 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
• January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
• March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• April 9 » The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
• October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

The temperature on May 22, 1957 was between 4.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.