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• Jacob van Dijk († 1987)
• Johan Mol, Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• N.N. van Dijck († 1957)
• Zegert (Gert) van der Vlist, Voorthuizen († 2008)
• conrardus josephus (coen) hanssen, helden-grashoek
• Randy Lee Angerhofer, Milbank-South Dakota (USA) († 2013)
• maria arnoldina johanna (mariet) haenraets, helden-beringe († 2024)
• NN Zondag, Meppel († 1957)
• Markus Wenning, Harpel († 1973)
• Zegert van der Vlist († 2008)

• Alfons Stael (80), Leke,8600,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Allie Beatrice Gourley (55), Stanford, Lincoln, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Leonardus van Gruythuysen (76), Maasbommel
• Cornelis HENDRIKS (75), Helmond, 3703, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Emelie VANGHELUWE (54), Zwevezele
• Egbert Klos (89), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Engelke E Stubby (79), Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington
• Catharina Hilversum (75), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Lena "Kate" West (59), Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Fieret (75), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1955 » Michel Platini, French footballer and manager
• 1955 » Tim Bray, Canadian software developer and businessman
• 1956 » Rick Sutcliffe, American baseball player and broadcaster
• 1957 » Berkeley Breathed, American author and illustrator
• 1957 » Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal
• 1958 » Gennady Padalka, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1958 » Víctor Montoya, Bolivian journalist and author
• 1959 » John Baron, English captain and politician
• 1959 » Marcella Detroit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 » Tom Chambers, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1951 » Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867)
• 1951 » Gustave Sandras, French gymnast (b. 1872)
• 1952 » Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1896)
• 1954 » Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Claude Farrère, French captain and author (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1964 » Andrew Goodman, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 » James Chaney, American civil rights activist (b. 1943)
• 1964 » Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1967 » Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (b. 1892)

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 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
• November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.

The temperature on June 21, 1957 was between 11.5 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.