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• Henk te Koppele, Didam (Nieuw-Dijk) († 1980)
• Ken Wei, Guangdong, China († 1995)
• N.N. Pansters, Nuth († 1957)
• Jan Watze Hoogenhout († 1977)
• Johannes Marinus Adrianus de Haan, Noordwijkerhout († 1957)
• Emilius Paulus Maria van Hoeckel, 's-Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Niederlande († 2014)
• Nanette Marie Ruijgrok, Delft, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2022)
• Marnic André Anna Van de Vyver, Zottegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 2016)
• Gertruda Wilhelmina Maria Peeters, Tegelen († 1957)
• Hubertus Johannes Maria Trompert, Lisserbroek († 2009)

• Anton Julius Vatne (76), Meløy, Meløy, Nordland, Norway
• Anna Adriana Bastiaansen (73), Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Martinus Nijmeijer (71), Wierden
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• BEREND VAN BRUGGEN (51), Hilversum
• Adriana Johanna Roberta Peij (87), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Amédée de Broglie (66), Paris 16e, 75056, France
• Arie Knippel (82), Rotterdam
• Anetta Josephina Cimmermans (80), Maastricht (NL)
• Annie Francis Morse (68)

• 1955 » Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)
• 1955 » Timothy Garton Ash, English historian and author
• 1956 » Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
• 1956 » Mel Harris, American actress
• 1956 » Sandi Patty, American singer and pianist
• 1957 » Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster († 2017)
• 1957 » Rick Husband, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1958 » J. D. Hayworth, American politician and radio host
• 1958 » Tonya Lee Williams, English-Canadian actress and producer
• 1959 » David Brown, Australian meteorologist

• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Ray Stannard Baker, American journalist and author (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
• 1949 » Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (b. 1860)
• 1950 » Elsie de Wolfe, American actress, author, and interior decorator (b. 1865)
• 1956 » John Hayes, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1868)
• 1961 » Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1879)
• 1962 » Roger Wolfe Kahn, American composer and bandleader (b. 1907)
• 1965 » Christfried Burmeister, Estonian speed skater (b. 1898)
• 1966 » D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher and author (b. 1870)

• 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.
• July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
• September 2 » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
• September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
• September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
• September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

The temperature on July 12, 1957 was between 14.6 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.