Alla källor som gick bort år 1957

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December 28th 1956: John Bennett (1865-1956) - American children's writer and illustrator (1865-1956)

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1957

Alan Gregg (1890-1957) - American physician
Arthur Powell Davies (1902-1957) - Unitarian clergyman
Henry S. Haskins (1875-1957)
Rose Fyleman (1877-1957) - British writer (1877–1957)
Carolyn Hill (1875-1957) - American painter (1875–1957)
Carrie Hill (1875-1957) - American painter (1875–1957)
Ernst Raue (1903-1957)
Frank Powell (1886-1957) - Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director (1886–1957)
Fritz Kaufmann (1889-1957) - German film director (1889–1957)
Hal Clements (1869-1957) - actor from the United States
Kurt Simon (1881-1957) - German publisher
Phil Townsend (1896-1957)
Richard Swann (1867-1957) - paleontologist (1867-1957)
Stuart Hoffman (1874-1957) - American newspaper publisher, authority on meteorites, who originally described the Horse Creek meteorite
William Perkins - American architect (born 1957)
January 1st: Ruth Draper (1884-1957) - English monologuist
January 6th: Gil Gall (1896-1957) - Major League Baseball shortstop (1896–1957)
January 7th: Bill Dyer (1917-1957) - Australian rules footballer (1917–1957)
January 10th: Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) - Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
January 14th: Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) - who became a preeminent motion picture tough guy and was a top box office attraction during the 1940s and 50s.
January 16th: Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) - Italian composer
January 20th: John Minton (1917-1957) - painter and illustrator (1917-1957)
February 2nd: Julia Morgan (1872-1957) - American architect and engineer (1872-1957)
February 2nd: Valéry Larbaud (1881-1957) - French writer and poet (1881-1957)
February 8th: John von Neumann (1903-1957) - who made important contributions in quantum physics, logic, meteorology and computer science.
February 9th: George Norman Douglas (1865-1957) - British writer (1868–1952)
February 9th: Chris Reese (1881-1957) - American politician
February 10th: Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) - of children's fiction based on her own youth in the American Midwest.
February 11th: Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) - (1885 - 1957) British artist (1885–1957)
February 12th: J. Anker Larsen (1874-1957) - Danish actor and author (1874-1957)
February 12th: Anker Larsen (1874-1957) - Danish actor and author (1874-1957)
February 14th: Lord Vansittart (1881-1957) - British diplomat (1881-1957)
February 18th: Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957) - American astronomer (1877–1957)
February 23rd: Gene Marsh (1893-1957) - American actor
March 3rd: William Long (1885-1957) - Australian politician (1885–1957)
March 7th: Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) - English artist
March 7th: George Blackburn (1899-1957) - English footballer and manager (1899-1957)
March 9th: Ken Crawford (1898-1957) - American football player (1898-1957)
March 12th: Josephine Hull (1886-1957) - English English? actor
March 14th: Bob Burns (1884-1957) - American actor (1884-1957)
March 16th: Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) - Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876-1960)
March 17th: Ramon Magsaysay (1907-1957) - president of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
March 19th: Burton Rascoe (1892-1957) - American writer (1892-1957)
March 22nd: Peter Smid (1894-1957)
March 23rd: Rene Dubois (1908-1957) - Swiss lawyer (1908-1957)
March 26th: Edouard Herriot (1872-1957) - French politician
March 26th: Max Ophüls (1902-1957) - German film director (1902-1957)
March 27th: Warren Snyder (1903-1957) - Canadian rower (1903–1957)
March 28th: Christopher Morley (1890-1957) - US writer
March 29th: Joyce Cary (1888-1957) - English writer
April 2nd: John McPherson (1867-1957) - Scottish footballer born 1867
April 7th: George S. Clason (1874-1957) - American businessman and writer (1874–1957)
April 16th: John Donato (1882-1957) - Italian-American mob boss (1882–1957)
April 17th: Doug Berry (1907-1957) - Australian politician (1907–1957)
April 26th: Albert Edward Wiggam (1871-1957) - American psychologist and eugenicist
April 29th: Frank Bennett (1890-1957) - American actor (1890-1957)
May 2nd: Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957) - American politician (1908–1957)
May 4th: Katie Johnson (1878-1957) - English actress (1878–1957)
May 10th: George Jenkins - British QC
May 14th: Thit Jensen (1876-1957) - Danish author
May 15th: Fred Dust (1866-1957) - American writer
May 16th: Eliot Ness (1903-1957) - American Prohibition agent (1903-1957)
May 20th: Michael Bruce (1894-1957) - British author (1894-1957)
May 26th: Robert Lawson (1892-1957) - American children's illustrator and writer (1992–1957)
May 29th: James Whale (1889-1957) - British-born American film director
June 9th: Don Blandin (1894-1957) - American poet and artist (1894-1957)
June 11th: Vernon Smith (1880-1957) - British bishop (1880–1957)
June 12th: Jimmy Dorsey (1904-1957) - US music bandleader
June 12th: Peggy Joyce (1893-1957) - American actress, model and dancer (1893–1957)
June 15th: C. Cumming (1880-1957) - American football coach (1880-1957)
June 17th: Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873-1957) - English writer
June 26th: Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) - British writer (1909–1957)
July 5th: Rosenius (1865-1957) - Swedish ornithologist and author (1865–1957)
July 8th: Adrian Fitzpatrick (1915-1957) - (1915-1957)
July 10th: Sholem Asch (1880-1957) - Polish writer
July 11th: Aga Khan III (1877-1957) - 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community (1877-1957)
July 13th: George DeVries (1896-1957) - Australian politician (1896-1957)
July 15th: George Cleveland (1885-1957) - actor
July 15th: Dorothy Lord (1877-1957) - compiler and editor of Maltby-Maltbie Family History
July 18th: James LeBlanc (1895-1957) - Canadian Catholic priest
July 19th: Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) - Italian writer (1898-1957)
July 21st: Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) - American writer (1885–1957)
July 23rd: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957) - Sicilian Prince and writer (1896-1957)
July 23rd: Norman Gillespie (1882-1957) - American football, basketball, baseball, and tennis coach
July 23rd: Sterne (1878-1957) - American sculptor and painter (1878-1957)
July 24th: Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) - French writer
July 24th: Louise Driscoll (1875-1957) - American poet (1875–1957)
July 28th: Stuart Duncan (1871-1957) - Heir
August 3rd: Richard Stokes (1897-1957) - British politician (1897-1957)
August 7th: Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) - US actor
August 24th: Ronald Knox (1888-1957) - English priest and theologian (1888–1957)
August 25th: Clifford Bennett (1884-1957) - Australian rules footballer (1884-1957)
September 2nd: Peter Freuchen (1886-1957) - Danish writer, explorer and anthropologist (1886-1957)
September 12th: Tom Pearson (1872-1957) - Welsh rugby union player (1872–1957)
September 17th: Fred Lucas (1902-1957) - New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach (1902-1957)
September 20th: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Finnish music composer
September 21st: Peter Herzog (1876-1957) - Austrian teacher and writer
September 23rd: Ronald Simpson (1896-1957) - British actor (1896-1957)
October 3rd: Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957) - architect (1862–1957)
October 3rd: Walter Duranty (1884-1957) - American journalist (1884–1957)
October 10th: Trevor Grant (1926-1957) - cricketer (1926-1957)
October 12th: Anders Sandrew (1885-1957)
October 13th: Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) - German philologist (1892-1957)
October 13th: Gordon Higgins (1905-1957) - Canadian politician (1905–1957)
October 20th: Peggy Thorn - (died 1957)
October 24th: Christian Dior (1905-1957) - French fashion designer
October 25th: Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) - English
October 26th: Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) - whose work represent a major contribution to modern Greek literature.
October 27th: Gerald Hurst (1877-1957) - British politician (1877-1957)
October 29th: Louis B. Mayer (1882-1957) - American film mogul.
October 29th: Louis Burt Mayer (1884-1957) - Canadian-American film producer (1884–1957)
October 31st: Martha Black (1866-1957) - Canadian politician (1866-1957)
November 3rd: Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) - Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
November 17th: Jack Richardson (1870-1957) - actor (1870–1960)
November 19th: Jack Allen (1903-1957) - English footballer (born in 1903)
November 25th: Diego Rivera (1886-1957) - Mexican artist
November 26th: Anton Brenner (1896-1957) - Austrian architect
November 29th: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) - Austrian-born American composer and conductor (1897–1957)
November 30th: Fred Sears (1913-1957) - American actor (1913-1957)
November 30th: Pavle Jovanovic (1859-1957) - Serbian painter (1859-1957)
December 1st: Richard Lies (1890-1957) - German cantor and church musician
December 2nd: Helen Hays (1879-1957) - American woman, spouse of Will H. Hays (1879-1957)
December 5th: James A. Linen (1884-1957) - Peerage person ID=457060
December 6th: Julie Eckstein (1881-1957)
December 6th: Robert Work (1880-1957) - British politician (1880-1957)
December 17th: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) - English writer
December 22nd: Bob Zuppke (1879-1957) - German-US football coach
December 26th: Edward Atkinson (1878-1957) - British judge

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