1957
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960 |
| 1957 by topic: |
| Subject: Archaeology - Architecture - Art |
| Aviation - Film - Literature Meteorology - Music (Country) Rail transport - Radio - Science |
| Sports - Television |
| Countries: Australia - Canada - India - Ireland |
| Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - Soviet Union - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe |
| Leaders: Sovereign states - State leaders |
| Religious leaders - Law |
| Categories: Births - Deaths - Awards - Works |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar).
- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1957
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths - Ship events
- 4 Nobel prizes
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
[edit] Events of 1957
[edit] January
- January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany. IRA attack on Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
- January 1 - Legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that will lead to his death a little over two weeks later.
- January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
- January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published.
- January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket.
- January 9 - Anthony Eden resigns.
- January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
- January 14 - Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer at age 57.
- January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.
- January 16 - Arturo Toscanini dies of a stroke at age 89.
- January 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for second term as President of the United States.
- January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they captured it from Egypt in a battle on October 29, 1956).
- January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- January 23 - Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River - he drowns as a result.
- January 26 - The Planetarium of the Park of Ibirapuera, which was the first Planetarium in the Southern Hemisphere, is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
- January 31 - Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
[edit] February
- February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria.
- February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union.
- February 16 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom
[edit] March
- March 1 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma.
- March 1 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.
- March 1 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
- March 1 - Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published.
- March 3 - Net als toen by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, text by Willy van Hemert) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1957 for Netherlands
- March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent nation of Ghana.
- March 7 - Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine.
- March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
- March 10 - Al-Qaeda Leader and known terrorist Osama Bin Laden was born
- March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
- March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
- March 14 - President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia.
- March 20 - French newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners.
- March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU.
[edit] April
- April 1 - The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr.
- April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
- April 9 - Egypt reopens Suez Canal for all shipping.
- April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1, 1958.
- April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity.
- April 17 - suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.
[edit] May
- May 2 - Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello.
- May 3 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- May 15 - Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years.
- May 16 - Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary General of NATO.
[edit] June
- June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak.
- June 15 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
- June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
- June 25 - United Church of Christ formed in Cleveland, Ohio by merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
- June 27 - Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.
[edit] July
- July - International Geophysical Year begins.
- July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the very first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
- July 11 - His Highness Price Karim Aga Khan becomes a 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sulatan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III have appointed Prince Karim in his will.
- July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
- July 25 - Habib Bourguiba becomes the first president of Tunisia. Tunisia becomes a republic.
- July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
[edit] August
- August 4 - Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.
- August 21 - Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing.
- August 28 - Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) set the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.
- August 31 - The Federation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom. Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya.
[edit] September
- September 1 - 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.
- September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the US National Guard to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
- September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day".
- September 5 - The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road went on sale.
- September 9 - Catholic Memorial opened its doors for the first time in Boston.
- September 21 - Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of Haakon VII.
- September 23 - Academy Award-winning The Three Faces of Eve is released.
- September 24 - President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine.
[edit] October
- October 4 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
- October 9 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
- October 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
- October 11 - Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened.
- October 21 - 95 die as two trains collide in Turkey.
- October 23 - Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
- October 25 - Assassination of a Mafia boss Albert Anastasia in a barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel.
- October 27 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey.
- October 31 - Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the U.S., beginning with the Toyota Crown and the Toyota Land Cruiser
[edit] November
- November 1 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's two peninsulas.
- November 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika.
- November 6 - Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
- November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- November 13 – Invention of the laser by Gordon Gould.
- November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice.
- November 14 - Apalachin Meeting - The leaders of the American Mafia meet at a convention in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara. It is broken up by a curious patrolman.
- November 15 - Plane crash in the Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.
- November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
- November 25 - President Eisenhower has a stroke.
- November 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children are killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.
[edit] December
- December 1 - In Indonesia, Sukarno announces nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.
- December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in UK leaves 92 dead.
- December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
- December 6 - First U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
- December 20 - First flight of the Boeing 707 airliner.
[edit] Undated
- Consumers' Association founded (UK).
- Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
- Civil Rights Commission established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
- IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
- Citroën stops production of its Traction Avant motor car (production started in 1934).
- The Piña Colada was invented by Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton. [1]
- SPUR is founded
- In December of that year, the CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on television for the first time.
- Foundation of the Confederation of African Football
[edit] Ongoing
[edit] Fictional
The fictional references to 1957 are: (unknown).
[edit] Environmental change
- The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil.
- The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1957 MCMLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2710 |
| Armenian calendar | 1406 ԹՎ ՌՆԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 113 – 114 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2501 |
| Chinese calendar | 4593/4653-12-1 (丙申年十二月初一日) — to —
4594/4654-11-11(丁酉年十一月十一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1673 – 1674 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1949 – 1950 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5717 – 5718 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2012 – 2013 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1879 – 1880 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5058 – 5059 |
| Holocene calendar | 11957 |
| Iranian calendar | 1335 – 1336 |
| Islamic calendar | 1376 – 1377 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 32 (昭和32年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2617 (皇紀2617年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11957 |
| Julian calendar | 2002 |
| Korean calendar | 4290 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2500 |
[edit] January-February
- January 1 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
- January 1 - Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
- January 4 - Charles Allen, Television magnate
- January 6 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- January 7 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- January 7 - Katie Couric, American television host
- January 7 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- January 7 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- January 11 - Robert Earl Keen, American musician and singer
- January 12 - John Lasseter, American director, writer, and animator
- January 13 - Lorrie Moore, American writer
- January 14 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
- January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexican-born actor and director
- January 15 - Patrick Dixon, British business guru and author
- January 22 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
- January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
- January 24 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
- January 27 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
- January 29 - Grazyna Miller, Polish poet
- January 30 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- February 4 - Don Davis, American composer
- February 4 - Harry G. Pellegrin, American musician and novelist
- February 5 - Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress
- February 6 - Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
- February 6 - Robert Townsend, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
- February 8 - Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's)
- February 9 - Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
- February 16 - LeVar Burton, American actor
- February 16 - James Ingram, American singer
- February 18 - Vanna White, American game show presenter
- February 19 - Falco, Austrian musician (d. 1998)
- February 20 - Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
- February 27 - Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
- February 27 - Adrian Smith, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
- February 28 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
- February 28 - Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
[edit] March-April
- March 3 - Eric Walters, Canadian author
- March 4 - Rick Mast, former American NASCAR driver
- March 4 - Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- March 5 - Ray Suarez, American journalist
- March 9 - Mark Mancina, American composer
- March 9 - Faith Daniels, American journalist
- March 9 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
- March 10 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
- March 12 - Steve Harris, British bassist (Iron Maiden)
- March 17 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
- March 18 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
- March 20 - Spike Lee, American film director and actor
- March 29 - Christopher Lambert, American-born actor
- March 30 - Paul Reiser, American actor
- March 31 - Marc McClure, American actor
- April 1 - Denise Nickerson, American child actress
- April 4 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- April 4 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese television performer and musician (Rats & Star)
- April 5 - Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
- April 8 - Henry Cluney, Irish musician
- April 9 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
- April 11 - Michael Card, American musician
- April 14 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
- April 18 - Genie (feral child), Susan Wiley, "Genie", American feral child
- April 22 - Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov, Russian businessman
- April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
[edit] May-June
- May 3 - William Clay Ford, Jr., American automobile executive
- May 3 - Jo Brand, English comedian
- May 10 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
- May 21 - Judge Reinhold, American actor
- May 21 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
- May 23 - Jimmy McShane (aka. Baltimora) Northern Irish dancer (d. 1995)
- May 22 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- May 26 - Margaret Colin, American actress
- May 26 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
- May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux, British singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- May 28 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
- May 29 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
- June 1 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
- June 2 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
- June 3 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- June 8 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- June 10 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
- June 12 - Timothy Busfield, American actor
- June 12 - Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
- June 15 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- June 19 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
- June 19 - Maxwell Fraiser, rapper for Faithless, DJ
- June 23 - Frances McDormand, American actress
- June 27 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
[edit] July-August
- July 1 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
- July 2 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
- July 3 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
- July 11 - Peter Murphy, British singer (Bauhaus)
- July 13 - Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
- July 14 - JoLee Crawford, daughter of Dudley & Joan Crawford, Sister of Tom & Lisa Crawford, Aunt Jo to Lindsey, Tommy & Chelsea Crawford and Paulina & Red Crawford-Gerber
- July 17 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
- July 21 - George Landress, American songwriter, music producer and sound engineer
- July 23 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
- July 26 - Nana Visitor, American actress
- July 27 - Bill Engvall, American comedian
- July 29 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
- August 6 - Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
- August 7 - Mark Bagley, American comic book artist
- August 7 - Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
- August 9 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
- August 11 - Richie Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
- August 14 - Peter Costello, Australian Treasurer
- August 17 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
- August 18 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
- August 18 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
- August 19 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet
- August 22 - Steve Davis, British snooker player
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, British comedian, author, and actor
- August 27 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
- August 28 - Daniel Stern, American actor
- August 31 - Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d. 1999)
[edit] September-October
- September 1 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born singer
- September 8 - Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezulean singer
- September 12 - Rachel Ward, British actress
- September 16 - David McCreery, Irish footballer
- September 19 - Chris Daniel, President of Torrid (retail chain president)
- September 22 - Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor
- September 30 - Fran Drescher, American actress
- October 4 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
- October 5 - Bernie Mac, American stand up comedian and actor
- October 7
- Jayne Torvill, British ice skater
- Michael W. Smith, American musician
- October 11 - Dawn French, British comedian
- October 14 - Kenny Neal, American guitarist
- October 15 - Stacy Peralta, American director professional skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur
- October 18 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
- October 21 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 25 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress - (Known among others, as the voice of Bart Simpson in The Simpsons)
- October 26 - Bob Golic, American football player
- October 27 - Jeff East, American actor
- October 29 - Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor - (Known among others, as the voice of Homer Simpson in The Simpsons)
- October 30 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
- October 31 - Robert Pollard, American musician
[edit] November-December
- November 5 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984)
- November 6 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive
- November 7 - Christopher Knight, American actor
- November 14 - Gregg Burge, African-American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
- November 15 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
- November 17 - Debbie Thrower, British TV News Presenter (BBC)
- November 18 - Olivia Heussler, Swiss photojournalist
- November 24 - Denise Crosby, American actress
- November 27 - Kenny Acheson, Irish race car driver
- November 30 - Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born comedian
- December 6 - Thomas Brinkman, American politician
- December 8 - Phil Collen, British singer and guitarist (Def Leppard)
- December 9 - Donny Osmond, American singer
- December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- December 13 - Steve Buscemi, American actor
- December 13 - Morris Day, American musician (The Time (Band))
- December 13 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
- December 20 - Billy Bragg, British singer
- December 20 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
- December 20 - Anna Vissi, Greek singer
- December 21 - Tom Henke, baseball player
- December 21 - Ray Romano, American actor and comedian
- December 24 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
- December 25 - Shane McGowan, Irish singer and songwriter (The Pogues)
- December 30 - Matt Lauer, American newscaster
[edit] Unknown dates
- Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer
- Eugene Spafford, American computer scientist
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January - March
- January 10 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- January 16 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
- February 1 - Friedrich Paulus, German field marshall (b. 1890)
- February 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (b. 1903)
- February 9 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (b. 1868)
- February 9 - John Axon, British railwayman and hero (b. 1900)
- February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
- February 16 - Józef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and composer (b. 1876)
- February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
- February 25 - Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
- March 11 - Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
- March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
- March 25 - Max Ophüls, German film director and writer (b. 1902)
- March 29 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
[edit] April - June
- April 4 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
- April 15 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
- May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
- May 9 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
- May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
- May 16 - Eliot Ness, American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent (b. 1903)
- May 31 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
- June 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873)
- June 21 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
- June 26 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
- June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b. 1909)
- June 27 - Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
[edit] July - September
- July 4 - Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1933)
- July 24 - Sacha Guitry, Russian-born playwright, actor, and director (b. 1885)
- July 28 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
- August 5 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize larueate (b. 1877)
- August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor (b. 1892)
- August 16 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
- August 19 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
- September 1 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
- September 20 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
- September 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
[edit] October - December
- October 25 - Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b. 1902)
- October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878)
- October 26 - Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
- November 4 - William Haywood, British architect (b. 1876)
- November 4 - Shoghi Effendi, Lebanese Bahá'í leader (b. 1897)
- November 24 - Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- November 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
- November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
- December 21 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
- December 25 - Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian (b. 1877)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
[edit] Ship events
- List of ship launches in 1957
- List of ship commissionings in 1957
- List of ship decommissionings in 1957
[edit] Nobel prizes
- Physics - Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
- Chemistry - Lord Alexander R. Todd
- Physiology or Medicine - Daniel Bovet
- Literature - Albert Camus
- Peace - Lester Bowles Pearson
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
[edit] External links
[edit] Table of Contents
Contents |
