1957
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| Leaders: Sovereign states – State leaders – Religious leaders – Law |
| Categories: Births – Deaths – Works – Introductions – Establishments – Disestablishments – Awards |
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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1957
January
February
March
Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence
April
May
June
July
- July
- The International Geophysical Year begins.
- The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.
- July 9 – Elvis Presley's Loving You opens in theaters.
- July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.
- July 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- 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 – Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba its first president.
- July 28
- The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khruschev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow.
- Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan kill 992.
- July 28 – A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco.
- July 29 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
- The Consumers' Association is founded in the United Kingdom.
- The Civil Rights Commission is established in the USA under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
- Citroën stops production of its Traction Avant motor car (production started in 1934).
- Gruppe SPUR is founded.
- The Confederation of African Football is founded.
- Operation Dropshot, an all-out U.S. war with the Soviet Union, is expected to be triggered by the Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia, as it was anticipated in 1949.
- Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" have been summarily liquidated between 1949 and 1954.
- The so-called 'mound of Midas', the Great Tumulus near Gordium, is excavated.
Ongoing
Environmental change
Births
January
- January 1
- Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
- Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
- January 4 – Charles Allen, British television magnate
- January 6 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- January 7
- Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- Katie Couric, American television host
- Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
- Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- January 9 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer
- January 11 – Bryan Robson, English footballer
- 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, American actor and director
- Patrick Dixon, British business guru and author
- January 16 – Ricardo Darin, Argentinian actor
- January 17 – Steve Harvey, American actor
- January 21 – Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
- January 22
- Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
- Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
- Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
- January 23 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
- January 24 – Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
- January 29 – Grazyna Miller, Polish poet
- January 30 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
February
- February 2 – Phil Barney, French singer
- February 4 – Elaine Carbines, Member of the Australian Labor Party
- February 5 – Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress
- February 6 – Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
- February 8 – Cindy Wilson, American rock singer (The B-52's)
- February 9 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
- February 11 – Mitchell Symons, British writer
- February 15 – Shahriyar Mandanipour, Iranian writer
- February 16
- LeVar Burton, American actor
- February 17 – Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer, composer, harpist
- February 18
- Vanna White, American game show presenter
- Marita Koch, German athlete
- February 19 – Falco, Austrian rock musician (d. 1998)
- February 20 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
- February 23 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009)
- February 27
- Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
- Rob de Castella, Australian long-distance runner
- February 28 – Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
March
- March 3 – Eric Walters, Canadian author
- March 4
- Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
- Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
- March 9 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
- March 10 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
- March 11 – Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
- March 12 – Marlon Jackson, American singer
- March 17 – Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
- March 18 – György Pazdera, Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép)
- March 20
- Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
- Spike Lee, American film director and actor
- March 23 – Teresa Ganzel, American comedienne and actress
- March 26 – Leeza Gibbons, American television personality
- March 29 – Christopher Lambert, French actor
- March 30 – Paul Reiser, American comedian and actor
- March 31 – Alan Duncan, British politician
April
- April 1
- J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician
- Denise Nickerson, American child actress
- April 2 – Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress
- April 4 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- April 5 – Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
- April 8 – Henry Cluney, Irish musician
- April 9 – Severiano Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
- April 11
- Michael Card, American Christian musician
- Ian Stuart, singer for white power skinhead band Skrewdriver
- April 12 – Suzzanne Douglass, American actress
- April 12 – Ace Frehley, American Musician
- April 14 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
- April 18 – Genie (feral child), "Genie", American feral child
- April 22 – Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov, Russian businessman
- April 25 – Eric Bristow, English darts player
- April 27 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
- April 29 – Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
May
- May 3
- William Clay Ford, Jr., American automobile executive
- Jo Brand, English comedian
- May 10 – Sid Vicious, English rock bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
- May 14 – Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler
- May 15 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
- May 16 – Jean Benoit, American Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner
- May 17 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (d. 2003)
- May 20 – Stewart Nozette, American astronomer.
- May 21
- Judge Reinhold, American actor
- Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
- May 22
- Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast
- May 23 – Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish dancer (d. 1995)
- May 24 – Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer
- May 26 – Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
- May 27 – Siouxsie Sioux, British rock singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
- May 29 – Jeb Hensarling, American politician
June
- June 1 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
- June 2 – King Lizzard, American entertainer
- June 3 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- June 7 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter
- June 8 – Scott Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert)
- June 10 – Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- June 12
- Timothy Busfield, American actor
- Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
- June 14 – Debbie Arnold, British actress and voice artiste
- June 15 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- June 19
- Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
- Maxwell Fraiser, African-British rapper for Faithless, DJ
- June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress
- June 27
- John Bolaris, American meteorologist
- Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
- June 28 – Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player
July
- July 1 – Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
- July 2 – Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
- July 3
- July 9
- Marc Almond, English singer
- Kelly McGillis, American actress
- July 13 – Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
- July 17 – Fern Britton, British television presenter
- July 18 – Nick Faldo, British golfer
- 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
- Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
- July 27 – Hansi Muller, German footballer
- July 29 – Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
August
- August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
- August 7 – Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
- August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress
- August 11 – Richie Ramone, American rock drummer (The Ramones)
- August 14 – Peter Costello, Australian politician
- August 15 – Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
- August 17 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater
- August 18
- Carole Bouquet, French actress
- Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
- August 19 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet
- August 20 – Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
- August 22 – Steve Davis, British snooker player
- August 24 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, author, and actor
- August 27 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer
- August 28
- Rick Rossovich, American actor
- Daniel Stern, American actor
- August 29 – Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (d. 2001)
- August 30 – Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player
- August 31 – Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d. 1999)
September
- September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born American singer
- September 8
- Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezuelan singer
- Heather Thomas, American actress and activist
- September 11 – Brad Bird, American animator and director
- September 11 – Preben Elkjaer Larsen, Danish footballer
- September 12 – Rachel Ward, British actress
- September 13 – Vinny Appice, American drummer
- September 16 – David McCreery, Irish footballer
- September 21
- Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor
- Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister
- September 22 – Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor
- September 26 – Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and football manager
- September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician
- September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress
October
- October 4 – Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
- October 5 – Bernie Mac, American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2008)
- October 7 – Jayne Torvill, British ice skater
- October 8 – Ewan Stewart, Scottish actor
- October 11 – Dawn French, British comedian
- October 14 – Kenny Neal, American guitarist
- October 15 – Stacy Peralta, American director and former skateboarder
- October 21 – Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 26 – Bob Golic, American football player
- October 27 – Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director
- October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (Homer Simpson from 'The Simpsons')
- October 30 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
- October 31
- Robert Pollard, American musician
- Brian Stokes Mitchell, American actor and singer
November
- November 5 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984)
- November 6 – Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive
- November 7 – Christopher Knight, American actor
- November 8 – Jerry Gumbert, American filmmaker and author
- November 14 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
- November 15 – Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
- November 17 – Debbie Thrower, British TV news presenter
- 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 Canadian comedian
December
- December 4 – Eric S. Raymond, American open source software advocate
- December 6 – Thomas Brinkman, American politician
- December 9
- Donny Osmond, American pop singer
- Peter O’Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer
- December 10 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
- December 13 – Steve Buscemi, American actor
- December 15 – Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress
- December 19 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
- December 20
- Billy Bragg, British singer
- Joyce Hyser, American actress
- Anna Vissi, Greek singer
- December 21
- Tom Henke, American baseball player
- 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
- Patricia Kalember, American actress
- Matt Lauer, American newscaster
Deaths
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)
- January 20 – James Connolly, American athlete (b. 1868)
- January 26
- Helene Costello, American actress (b. 1906)
- William Eythe, American actor (b. 1918)
- February 1 – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (b. 1890)
- February 8
- February 9
- 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)
- Walter James Bolton, Last person to be executed in New Zealand (b. 1888)
- February 19 – Märta Torén, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
- February 23 – Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
- February 25
- Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
- B.P. Schulberg, American film producer (b. 1892)
- March 5 – William Cameron Menzies, American film production designer (b. 1896)
- March 7 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter (b. 1882)
- March 8 – János Esterházy, Hungarian politician in Czechoslovakia (b. 1901)
- March 11 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
- March 12 – Josephine Hull, American actres (b. 1886)
- March 14 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian racing driver (car crash) (b. 1930)
- 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)
- March 31 – Gene Lockhart, Canadian actor (b. 1891)
April–June
- April 3 – Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor (b. 1883)
- April 4 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
- April 5 – Alagappa Chettiar, Indian philanthropist (b. 1909)
- April 8 – Dorothy Sebastian, American actress (b. 1903)
- April 15 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
- April 16 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American gangster (b. 1882)
- April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903)
- May 1 – Grant Mitchell, American actor (b. 1874)
- May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
- May 7 – Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877)
- May 9 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
- May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (b. 1885)
- May 13 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
- May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
- May 16 – Eliot Ness, American policeman (b. 1903)
- May 29 – James Whale, English film director (b. 1889)
- May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
- June 1
- Luisa Casati, Italian patron of the arts (b. 1881)
- Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader (b. 1897)
- Russell Hicks, American actor (b. 1895)
- June 12
- Robert Alton, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1906)
- Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician (b. 1904)
- June 13 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876)
- June 15 – Princess Norina Matchabelli, Italian perfumier (b. 1880)
- 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)
July–September
- July 4 – Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1933)
- July 8 – Grace Coolidge, wife of United States President Calvin Coolidge (b. 1879)
- July 11 – Aga Khan III, 48th Nizari Imam (b. 1877)
- July 15
- George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885)
- Vasily Maklakov, Russian liberal politician and parliamentary orator (b. 1869)
- July 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (b. 1896)
- July 24
- Metodija Andonov-Čento, Macedonian statesman (b. 1902)
- Sacha Guitry, Russian-born playwright, actor, and director (b. 1885)
- July 28
- Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
- Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (b. 1876)
- August 5 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (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, Vorticist painter (b. 1890)
- August 20 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (b. 1885)
- August 21 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (b. 1879)
- August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (b. 1903)
- September 1 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921) (car crash)
- September 9 – Muhammad al-Muqri, grand vizier of Morocco (b. ?1844)
- September 16 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
- September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- September 21 – Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872)
- September 22 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888)
October–December
- October 19 – Vere Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (b. 1892)
- October 20 – Jack Buchanan, British actor (b. 1891)
- October 24
- October 25
- October 26 – Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, American studio mogul and former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (b. 1885)
- November 3 – Charles Brabin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1882)
- November 4
- November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress (b. 1890)
- November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886)
- November 25 – Raymond Griffith, American actor (b. 1895)
- November 26 – Billy Bevan, Australian actor (b. 1887)
- November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
- November 30 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
- December 2 – Harrison Ford, American silent film actor (b. 1884)
- December 8 – Reginald Sheffield, English actor (b. 1901)
- December 10 – Maurice McLoughlin, American tennis champion (b. 1890)
- December 11 – Musidora, French actress (b. 1889)
- December 21 – Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
- December 24 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
- December 25 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian (b. 1877)
- December 26 – Charles Pathé, French film pioneer (b. 1863)
Ship events
- List of ship launches in 1957
- List of ship commissionings in 1957
- List of ship decommissionings in 1957
Nobel Prizes
Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Around the World in Eighty Days, Michael Todd
- Best Director: George Stevens, Giant
- Best Foreign Language Film: La strada, Italy
- Best Actor: Yul Brynner, The King and I
- Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Anastasia
- Best Supporting Actor: Anthony Quinn, Lust for Life
- Best Supporting Actress: Dorothy Malone, Written on the Wind
- Best Original Screenplay: The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Around the World in Eighty Days, James Poe and John Farrow and S.J. Perelman
- Best Motion Picture Story: The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo
- Best Black-and-White Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me
- Best Color Cinematography: Lionel Lindon, Around the World in 80 Days
References