About the day » Wednesday July 24, 1957Calender converter

• Maarten van de Ven, Zijtaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1973)
• Petronella Elisabeth Matthia Ernest, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2012)
• Michael Allen van der Kamp
• Mia van Ooijen, Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland († 1957)
• Betsy Tol, Beemster, Nederland († 2008)
• Richard Martinus Borst, Gorssel (GE, NLD) († 1996)
• Jozefina Susanna Maria KRABBE, Weerselo, Nederland, Overijssel, Nederland († 1958)
• Johannes Adriaan Westdijk, Nootdorp († 1969)
• Roy Stephen Hardee, Loris, Horry County, South Carolina († 1997)
• MARC - CHARLES FONTEYNE, Lille, 59000 († 2013)

• Charles Eddie Clark (83), Middlebury, Vermont, États-Unis
• Bernardina Arnolda BEER (86), Culemborg
• Maria Elisabeth Van Eekelen (71)
• Dirk Kuperus (83), Berlikum (Berltsum)
• Antje Smit (70), Slochteren
• Dierick Abbas (72), Renville, Renville County, Minnesota
• Anna Maria Thaens (81), Linde Peer, Limburg, België
• * Franciscus (Frans) Vesters (79), Eindhoven
• Arie Hoetjes (97), Heemstede
• Cornelia Grietje van Dorp (53), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1953 » Jon Faddis, American trumpet player, composer, and conductor
• 1953 » Julian Brazier, English captain and politician
• 1953 » Tadashi Kawamata, Japanese contemporary artist
• 1954 » Erdoğan Arıca, Turkish footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1954 » Jorge Jesus, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1955 » Brad Watson, American author and academic
• 1956 » Charlie Crist, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of Florida
• 1957 » Pam Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1958 » Jim Leighton, Scottish footballer and coach
• 1960 » Catherine Destivelle, French rock climber and mountaineer

• 1957 » Sacha Guitry, French actor and director (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (b. 1917)
• 1965 » Constance Bennett, American actress and producer (b. 1904)
• 1966 » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 1969 » Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (b. 1897)
• 1974 » James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1980 » Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1986 » Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

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 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.
• March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
• September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
• October 3 » The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on July 24, 1957 was between 13.3 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.