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• Wernerus Johannes Meddens, Amsterdam († 1958)
• Gezina Hendrika Martina VAN 'T WOUT, Den Haag, ZH, Nederland († 2006)
• Bert Nijhof, Meerssen,6230,Limburg,Nederland
• Marleen Clara Margriet Parmentier, Roeselare († 2021)
• Lori Lynn Goldhorn, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2021)
• Cornelia Hendrika RIBBENS, Heerlen († 2020)
• Cornelis van der Horst, Schoonhoven
• Cornelius H. Willemen, Gilze en Rijen († 2006)
• Andreas Johannes Franciscus ter Burg, Oostzaan († 2021)
• Petrus Nicolaas Maria van Gijlswijk, Noordwijkerhout († 2015)

• Alwine Cornélie Louise Bischoff (59), Soerabaya
• Abraham Versteeg (56), Overveen
• Adriana, Cornelia van Iersel (81), Goirle
• Antje Meulema (83), Peize
• Anthonius Johannes Krol (57), tilburg-berkel
• Anna Catharina Theunis (77), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Hees (85), Zundert
• Anna Pieternella Henkes (78), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Barendregt (67), Rockanje, 3235, Nederland
• Arnoldus van Nus (65), Amersfoort

• 1955 » Frank Baumgartl, German runner († 2010)
• 1956 » La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1956 » Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1957 » Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
• 1957 » Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director
• 1957 » Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
• 1958 » Annette Bening, American actress
• 1958 » Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist († 2011)
• 1958 » Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1958 » Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach

• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
• 1948 » May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1957 » James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1963 » Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)
• 1966 » Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
• 1968 » Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)

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 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
• February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
• March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• 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.
• November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.

The temperature on May 29, 1957 was between 6.1 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.