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• Leonardus Marinus van Tilburg, Breda
• Hanelore Wells, Tynemouth, Yorkshire, England (GB) († 2009)
• Sandrina Johanna van Vliet († 1957)
• Wietske Minks, Enschede († 2016)
• Robert Oostdijck, Rotterdam
• Greetje Boerema, Sappemeer († 2019)
• Hendrika van Oord, Werkendam († 2021)
• martinus theodorus leonardus maria (mat) rongen, helden-koningslust
• Geert Vording, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)
• Marie Claire Vangheluwe, Roeselare († 2015)

• Annegje Hofstee (77), Boijl, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• ADRIANA JOHANNA GRIEKSPOOR (91), AMSTERDAM
• Adolphina Regina Vanden Eynde (85), Gent,Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen,Belgi√´
• Anna Catharina Amkreutz (68), Kerkrade (L
• Cornelis Drost (66), Utrecht
• Bernardus Johannes Genegel (40), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelis Drost (66), Utrecht
• Antje Kila (72), Rotterdam
• Adolf octaaf De Meester (69), Heusden
• Bruce Allen REIDENGA (0), Harvey Cook County Illinois U.S.A

• 1953 » Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
• 1955 » Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano and actress
• 1955 » Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia († 2012)
• 1956 » Jana Wendt, Australian television host
• 1956 » Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
• 1958 » Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
• 1959 » Andrew Jones, New Zealand cricketer
• 1960 » Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach († 2014)
• 1961 » John Corbett, American actor
• 1961 » Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1949 » Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 » Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)
• 1959 » Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
• 1965 » Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
• 1968 » Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)
• 1968 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1968 » Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)

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 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
• June 27 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas–Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
• 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.
• October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• November 8 » Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on May 9, 1957 was between 3.9 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.