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• Wouter Franciscus Lapré, 's-Gravenhage († 1957)
• Wayne Charles CONGER († 1993)
• levenloos van der Staal, 's-Gravenhage († 1957)
• peter franciscus hendrikus maria (peter) grommen, helden-beringe
• Rosangela Albertoni, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil († 2021)
• Marl Alvine Hollenshead, Tennessee († 2000)
• Margaretha (Margot) Keune († 2008)
• Margaretha KEUNE († 2008)
• Manja van Oudenallen *, Haarlem († 2014)
• wilhelmus franciscus marie (wiel) sonnemans, helden-beringe

• Charles Cloyd Colyer (72), Mercy Hospital, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Elsie Lina Maria Cordes Lutz [iWki] (66), St. Louis, Missouri
• Adrianus Noordzij (80), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Janssen (70), Smilde
• Francisca van Bekkum (74), Leiden
• Charles Antoine Verbaert (66), Schaarbeek, Provincie Brabant, België
• Dirk Geerts van der Heide (71), Groningen
• Geertje Flootman (55), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Ferdinand Kuitwaard (49), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anke Alberdina Hazenberg (62), Kampen

• 1956 » Andy King, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1956 » Erica Flapan, American mathematician
• 1956 » Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
• 1956 » Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1956 » Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer
• 1957 » Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Treasurer of Australia
• 1958 » Bobby Eaton, American wrestler and trainer
• 1958 » Philip Dunne, English farmer and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
• 1959 » Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
• 1959 » Marcia Gay Harden, American actress

• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
• 1956 » Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 » Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
• 1963 » Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1964 » Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 1965 » Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)

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 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• March 13 » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
• July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
• 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.
• November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
• December 2 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.

The temperature on August 14, 1957 was between 11.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.