Famous Deaths for Year 1957

Months in Year 1957: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 189

Jan 1st - Ruth Draper, US elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72
Jan 1st - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
Jan 4th - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian pres (1951-57), dies at 84
Jan 7th - Al White, choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour), dies
Jan 9th - Mary Carr Moore, composer, dies at 83
Jan 10th - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
Jan 11th - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
Jan 14th - Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57
Jan 16th - Alexander Cambridge, gov-gen (S Afr 1923-31/Canada 1940-5), dies at 82
Jan 16th - Arturo Toscanini, Italian US conductor (NBC), dies in NYC at 89
Jan 19th - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
Jan 20th - James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
Jan 21st - Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87
Jan 23rd - Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
Jan 24th - Daniel Taylor, cricketer (bro of Herbie, 2 Tests for S Af 1914), dies
Jan 25th - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
Jan 25th - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
Jan 28th - Fred Stein, TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88
Jan 30th - Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65
Feb 1st - Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66
Feb 2nd - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
Feb 4th - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66
Feb 4th - Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
Feb 5th - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
Feb 7th - Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
Feb 8th - John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53
Feb 9th - Miklos Horthy von Nagybanya, Hung admiral/regent (1920-44), dies at 88
Feb 10th - Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90
Feb 12th - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at 82
Feb 12th - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
Feb 16th - Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Lord Halifax], Brit min of Transport, dies at 63
Feb 18th - Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies
Feb 18th - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
Feb 19th - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
Feb 22nd - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72
Feb 23rd - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
Feb 25th - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
Feb 25th - Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
Mar 2nd - Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
Mar 7th - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
Mar 8th - Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
Mar 11th - Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68
Mar 12th - Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
Mar 12th - Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
Mar 13th - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
Mar 14th - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
Mar 15th - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
Mar 16th - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
Mar 16th - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
Mar 23rd - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77
Mar 25th - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
Mar 25th - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
Mar 26th - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
Mar 29th - Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68
Mar 31st - Gene Lockhart, NYC actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
Apr 1st - Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
Apr 4th - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
Apr 8th - Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies
Apr 15th - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
Apr 19th - Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
Apr 19th - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
Apr 22nd - Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
Apr 23rd - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
Apr 24th - Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
Apr 26th - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
Apr 27th - Mario A Gianini, creator (maraschino cherry), dies
Apr 28th - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
Apr 29th - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
Apr 30th - Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven), dies at 80
May 1st - Grant Mitchell, actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82
May 2nd - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47
May 2nd - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
May 5th - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer, dies at 74
May 8th - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75
May 9th - Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
May 9th - Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at 67
May 12th - Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at 71
May 12th - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
May 14th - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
May 16th - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
May 17th - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54
May 21st - Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies
May 21st - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
May 29th - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
May 30th - Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
May 31st - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
Jun 7th - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies
Jun 9th - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
Jun 12th - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
Jun 17th - D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
Jun 21st - Don McBride, actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68
Jun 21st - Frantisek Kupka, Czech writer, dies at 85
Jun 23rd - Louis Fornberg, writer, dies at 48
Jun 26th - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
Jun 27th - Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48
Jun 28th - Ede Poldini, composer, dies at 88
Jul 3rd - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
Jul 3rd - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
Jul 4th - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
Jul 5th - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
Jul 8th - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
Jul 8th - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
Jul 8th - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
Jul 9th - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
Jul 9th - Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
Jul 10th - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77
48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (Jul 11th) Jul 11th - Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
Jul 15th - George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74
Jul 15th - Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87
Jul 15th - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
Jul 15th - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
Jul 19th - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
Jul 20th - Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
Jul 21st - Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
Jul 21st - Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies
Jul 23rd - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
Jul 24th - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
Jul 26th - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
Jul 28th - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
Jul 30th - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
Aug 1st - Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
Aug 3rd - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer
Aug 4th - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
Aug 5th - Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
Aug 7th - Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel & Hardy, dies at 65
Aug 9th - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
Aug 16th - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
Aug 18th - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
Aug 19th - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
Aug 19th - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
Aug 21st - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
Aug 21st - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
Aug 24th - Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71
Sep 1st - Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
Sep 1st - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
Sep 2nd - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90
Sep 9th - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
Sep 11th - Petar Stojanovic, composer, dies at 80
Sep 16th - Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93
Sep 17th - John W "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81
Sep 20th - Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, Fin composer (Finlandia), dies at 91
Sep 21st - Haakon VII (CF Charles WA), Danish king of Norway (1905-57), dies
Sep 22nd - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
Sep 28th - Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies
Sep 28th - Luis Cluzeau-Mortet, composer, dies at 67
Oct 10th - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
Oct 14th - Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78
Oct 17th - John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70
Oct 19th - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65
Oct 23rd - Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86