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• Ronny Hemelaar († 1999)
• Philippe Simon Therese Edouard Caluwe, Usumbura, Burundi († 1957)
• Marian Vermeij, Woerden († 2012)
• Maria Christina Jozef Van Zaelen, Bornem († 2020)
• Robert Allen Harris († 2022)
• Cornelia Ammerlaan († 1970)
• David Andrew Detzler, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada @@ St. Mary's General Hospital († 1996)
• Alexander Elisabeth Leonardus Cals, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1958)
• Henricus Lambertus Maria Somers, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Woltherus Douma, Pretoria (Z.A.) († 1957)

• Alexander William Palmer (76), New South Wales, Australia
• Cornelia Hendriks (82), Bladel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan van Olphen (94), Vledder, Nederland
• Alfredo da Costa Barbosa (85), Iacanga, São Paulo, Brasil
• Barendina Christina Timmerman (69), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Petronella van der Heijden (80), Helmond
• Adolph Pieter Greve (62), Rotterdam
• Alle Osinga (93), Arnhem
• Anthonia van Ruijven (84), Rotterdam
• Catherina Margretha Hundmann (69), East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1955 » James Reilly, Irish surgeon and politician, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
• 1956 » Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1957 » Laura Innes, American actress and director
• 1957 » R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra († 2015)
• 1958 » Angela Bassett, American actress
• 1958 » Diane Dodds, Northern Irish educator and politician
• 1958 » José Luis Clerc, Argentinian tennis player and coach
• 1958 » Madonna, American singer-songwriter, producer, actress, and director
• 1958 » Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 » Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist and manager

• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
• 1971 » Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (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.
• January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
• February 22 » Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
• April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
• May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
• July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
• July 29 » The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

The temperature on August 16, 1957 was between 12.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 19.6 mm of rain during 9.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.