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• N.n. Gerits, Nuth, Limburg, Nederland
• Slaats, Waalwijk
• Clarissa Catharina Röell, Amersfoort,Gemeente Amersfoort,Utrecht,Netherlands († 1958)
• Sid Smit, Alkmaar († 2019)
• Milford van Weerd, Yuma, Arizona, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Dorothea Brigitta Pel, Eindhoven († 2016)
• Harmen Jan Lensink, Leerdam († 2021)
• Petronella Johanna Maria Heesakkers, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Anna Maria Johanna Martina Kitzen, Sittard, Ned
• José Eduardo Oliva, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2012)

• Alzira Meyer Gonçalves (73)
• Cornelia Johanna Rollema (100), Baarn
• Carel Marinus van der linden (62), Heemstede
• Adriaan Lambrechtse (20), Utrecht
• Bregtje Rozemeijer (85), Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Rooij (76), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• A. (Abraham) Lincoln Filene (92), Marston Mills, MA, United States
• Anna Maria van Emmerik (68), Soest
• Amelia Schipper (67), Enschede
• Verheul (0), Vleuten-De Meern, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1955 » Diana Scarwid, American actress
• 1955 » Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
• 1956 » Glen Matlock, English singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1957 » Bernhard Langer, German golfer
• 1957 » Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author
• 1958 » Hugh Orde, British police officer
• 1958 » Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 1958 » Tom Lanoye, Belgian author, poet, and playwright
• 1959 » Daniela Romo, Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess
• 1959 » Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver

• 1948 » Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 11th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Cesare Pavese, Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1956 » Pelageya Shajn, Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888)
• 1963 » W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868)
• 1964 » Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1965 » Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the Philips Pavilion (b. 1887)
• 1967 » Brian Epstein, English businessman and manager (b. 1934)
• 1968 » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906)

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 3 » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• August 21 » The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
• November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
• 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.
• December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The temperature on August 27, 1957 was between 10.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.