About the day » Thursday September 26, 1957Calender converter

• Kris LAPAUW († 2007)
• Diana MARSHALL († 1961)
• Carla TEERDS († 1971)
• Peter HESKETH, Ratcliffe, England († 2004)
• Gerrit Smit († 1994)
• Huig van Duijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Renze Weistra, Groningen († 2002)
• Herbert Gruber († 2017)
• Irma Berdina Cornelia Weesie, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 2004)
• Robert Lee Johnson, Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia († 1999)

• Arnoldus Franciscus Petrus Maria Lombaers (87), Veldhoven
• Agnes Baroness Of Reichenfels (75), Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium
• Andreas VAN BEMMELEN (55), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Weijs (75), Vollenhove
• Antoni van der Hart (68), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Janssen (62)
• Arie den Dulk (55), Scheveningen
• Arnoldus LoMBARTS (87)
• Arnoldus Franciscus Petrus Maria Lombarts (87), Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Franciscus Petrus Maria Lombarts (87), Veldhoven

• 1956 » Linda Hamilton, American actress
• 1956 » Steve Butler, American race car driver and engineer
• 1957 » Bob Staake, American author and illustrator
• 1957 » Klaus Augenthaler, German footballer and manager
• 1957 » Michael Dweck, American photographer and director
• 1958 » Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter († 1980)
• 1958 » Kenny Sansom, English footballer
• 1958 » Richard B. Weldon, Jr., American sailor and politician
• 1958 » Robert Kagan, Greek-American historian and author
• 1958 » Rudi Cerne, German figure skater and journalist

• 1947 » Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1951 » Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1863)
• 1953 » Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and educator (b. 1895)
• 1954 » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (b. 1868)
• 1957 » Arthur Powell Davies, American minister and author (b. 1902)
• 1959 » Leslie Morshead, Australian general (b. 1889)
• 1959 » S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1899)
• 1959 » Teodor Ussisoo, Estonian furniture designer and educator (b. 1878)
• 1965 » James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (b. 1898)

• 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 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
• March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
• 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.
• October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

The temperature on September 26, 1957 was between 7.0 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.