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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. • January 3Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. • January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball in Test cricket. • January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns on health grounds. • January 10Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. • January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. • January 14Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. • January 15 – The film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is released in Japan. • January 16 – Global hotel brand Marriott opens its first hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. • January 20Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). • January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. FebruaryFebruary 2 – President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River, near Sukkur. • February 4 • France prohibits U.N. involvement in Algeria. • The first nuclear-powered submarine, , logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980. • A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in Bishop, Virginia, United States, kills 37 men. • February 6 – The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison ("possibly of a heart attack"), on July 17, 1947February 10 – The Confederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting in Khartoum. • February 15Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union. • February 16Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens at cinemas in Sweden. • February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, United States, kills 72 people. • February 18Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. • The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife. • February 23 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc opens in Dakar. March , the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence • March 1U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma. • Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay. • 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 3Net als toen, sung by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, lyrics by Willy van Hemert), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (held at Frankfurt), for the Netherlands. • March 6 • United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent nation of Ghana. • Zodi Ikhia founds the Nigerien Democratic Front (FDN) in Niger. • March 8Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal. • March 14 – President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia. • March 171957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash: Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others are killed in a plane crash. • March 22 – A United States Air Force Boeing C-97 disappears somewhere over the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Japan. All 67 people and the aircraft remain missing to this day. • March 25 – The Treaty of Rome (Patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of the European Union) between Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. • March 27 – The 29th Academy Awards Ceremony is held in Hollywood. Around the World in 80 Days wins Best Picture. AprilAprilIBM sells the first compiler for the Fortran scientific programming language. • April 1 – The first new conscripts join the . • April 5 – The Communist Party of India wins the elections in Kerala, making E. M. S. Namboodiripad its first chief minister. • April 9Egypt reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping. • April 12 – The United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self-rule on January 1, 1958. • April 13 – The 1957 alleged Jordanian military coup attempt against Hussein Bin Talal is made by Ali Abu Nuwar. • April 15 • The Distant Early Warning Line is handed over by contractors to the U.S. and Canadian military. • White Rock secedes from Surrey, British Columbia, following a referendum. • April 17 – Suspected English serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at the Old Bailey. • April 2425 – The 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occur on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. • April 30 – The solar eclipse of April 30, 1957, a non-central annular solar eclipse that does not have a northern path limit, takes place. This is the last of 57 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118. MayMay 2 – "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "God Save the Queen", which is retained as a royal anthem. • May 8 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor. • May 15Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly. • Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years. • May 16Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary General of NATO. • May 24May 24 incident: Anti-American riots erupt in Taipei, Taiwan. • May 30Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2–0 at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid, to win the 1956–57 European Cup (football). JuneJune 1 – Launch of the first Ayanami-class destroyer warship by the JMSDF. • June 9Broad Peak, on the China-Pakistan border, is first ascended. • June 21John Diefenbaker becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Canada. • June 27Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, U.S., killing 400 people. JulyJuly 1 • The International Geophysical Year begins. • The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. • Hugh Everett III publishes the first scientifically founded many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. • Production of the Citroën Traction Avant automobile, begun in 1934, ceases. • July 6 – At the age of fifteen, Paul McCartney meets John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton. • July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV 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 14Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. • July 16United 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 23Asghar Khan becomes the first native Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force and the world's youngest Air Vice Marshal at 36 years old. • July 25Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba as its first president. • July 28 • The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khrushchev Thaw, opens in Moscow. • Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992. • July 29 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. AugustAugust 4Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century. • August 31 – The Federation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom, subsequently celebrated as Malaysia's National Day. Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaya. The country's new Constitution had come into force on August 27. The Alliance Party and its successor are the ruling coalition until 2018. September gains independence from the British Empire • September 5Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista’s forces bomb anti-government riots in Cienfuegos. • September 9 – The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is enacted, establishing the United States Commission on Civil Rights. • September 21Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father Haakon VII. • The sailing ship Pamir sinks off the Azores in a hurricane. • September 26West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opens on Broadway in New York City. • September 29 – The Kyshtym disaster occurs at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia. October launched into space • October 1 – The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil. • October 4Space AgeSputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. • The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow delta wing interceptor aircraft is unveiled. • October 9 – The Jodrell Bank radio telescope in Cheshire, England, is controlled from its control room for the first time. • October 10Windscale fire: Fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor on the north-west coast of England releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, including iodine-131. • October 11 – The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation Center as part of Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts. • October 20 – Two trains collide at Yarımburgaz in Turkey; 95 die. • October 27Celâl Bayar is re-elected president of Turkey. November the dog became the first animal to orbit Earth. • November 1 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect Michigan's two peninsulas. • November 3Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with the first animal to orbit the Earth, a dog named Laika, on board. There is no technology available to return her to Earth. • November 13 • Flooding in the Po Valley of Italy leads to flooding also in Venice. • Gordon Gould invents the laser. • November 15Yugoslavia announces the end of an economic boycott of Francoist Spain (although it does not reinstitute diplomatic relations). • 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight leaves 45 dead. • November 16Adnan Menderes of the Democrat Party forms the new government of Turkey (23rd government, last government formed by DP and Menderes). • November 30Indonesian president Sukarno survives a grenade attack at the Cikini School in Jakarta, but six children are killed. • 1957 New Zealand general election: The Labour Party defeats the governing National Party, with Walter Nash succeeding Keith Holyoake as Prime Minister. DecemberDecember 1 – In Indonesia, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses. • December 4 • The Lewisham rail crash in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead. • 1957 Bayankhongor Earthquake in Mongolia kills 30+ people • December 5 – All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia. • December 6 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, when the Vanguard rocket blows up on the launch pad. • December 10 – Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize, for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations. • December 18 – A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois. • December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time. Date unknown Mao Zedong admits that 800,000 "class enemies" had been summarily liquidated in China between 1949 and 1954. • Gruppe SPUR, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany. • Raja Fashions, a tailoring business, is founded in Hong Kong. • The so-called 'mound of Midas', the Great Tumulus near Gordium, is excavated. • Three new neo-grotesque sans-serif typefaces are released: Folio (designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by Max Miedinger) and Univers (designed by Adrian Frutiger); all will be influential in the International Typographic Style of graphic design. • Albeit the practice was in decline since the late 19th Century, and illegal since 1912, the very last new case of Chinese foot binding was reported this year. == Births ==
Births
January January 3Bojan Križaj, Slovenian alpine skier • January 4Patty Loveless, American country music singer • January 6Nancy Lopez, American golfer • January 7Katie Couric, American television host • Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender • Julian Solís, Puerto Rican former world bantamweight champion boxer • January 8David Lang, American composer • January 9Bibie, Ghanaian singer • January 11Bryan Robson, English footballer • Claude Criquielion, Belgian bike racer (d. 2015) • January 12John Lasseter, American director, writer and animator • January 13Lorrie Moore, American writer • Daniel Scioli, Argentine politician and sportsman • January 14Anchee Min, Chinese writer • January 15Mario Van Peebles, Mexican-born African-American actor and director • January 16Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor • January 17Steve Harvey, African-American comedian, television host, radio personality and actor • January 22Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player (d. 2022) • Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician • January 23Princess Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover • January 26Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) • January 27Frank Miller, American comic book writer • Janick Gers, British heavy metal guitarist • January 29Grażyna Miller, Polish poet • January 30Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) February February 1Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer (d. 1999) • February 2Phil Barney, French singer • February 5Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress • February 6Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian • Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director, and writer • February 8Cindy Wilson, American rock singer (The B-52's) • February 9Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager • February 14Soile Isokoski, Finnish lyric soprano • February 16LeVar Burton, African-American actor • February 17Loreena McKennitt, Canadian singer, composer, harpist (''Mummers' Dance'') • February 18Marita Koch, German athlete • Vanna White, American game show presenter (Wheel of Fortune) • February 19Falco, Austrian rock musician (Rock Me Amadeus) (d. 1998) • Ray Winstone, British actor • February 20Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach • February 23Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009) • Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (d. 2004) • February 25Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean politician, 9th President of SingaporeFebruary 27Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of the Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd n EddyTimothy Spall, English actor • February 28Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer • John Turturro, American actor, writer and director MarchMarch 4Mykelti Williamson, American actor • March 5Mark E. Smith, English singer (d. 2018) • March 6Eddie Deezen, American actor and comedian • March 8Clive Burr, British heavy metal drummer (d. 2013) • March 9Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician • March 10Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda (d. 2011) • Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician • March 11Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (d. 2020) • Isabel Ordaz, Spanish actress • March 12Val Demings, American politician • Marlon Jackson, African-American singer • March 15Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese actor • Park Overall, American film and television actress • Steve Witkoff, American real estate investor, former lawyer, and diplomat • March 18György Pazdera, Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép) • March 19Christopher Murray, American actor • March 20Vanessa Bell Calloway, African-American actress • Spike Lee, African-American film director and actor • Theresa Russell, American actress • March 22Michael Mosley, British television and radio journalist, producer, presenter and writer (d. 2024) • March 23Edna Molewa, South African politician (d. 2018) • Lucio Gutiérrez, 41st President of EcuadorRobbie James, Welsh footballer • Amanda Plummer, American actress • March 27Stephen Dillane, English actor • March 28Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor • March 29Christopher Lambert, French-American actor • March 30Shen Yi-ming, Taiwanese Air Force general officer (d. 2020) • Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer who discovered SN 1987AMarch 31Marc McClure, American actor AprilApril 1J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician • Denise Nickerson, American actress and receptionist (d. 2019) • April 2Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress • April 4Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director • April 5Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner • April 8Henry Cluney, Irish musician • April 9Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011) • April 12Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter • April 14Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer • April 17Afrika Bambaataa, American DJ and producer (d. 2026) • April 19Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman • April 21Herbert Wetterauer, German artist and author • Faustin-Archange Touadéra, 8th President of the Central African RepublicApril 22Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of PolandApril 23Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d. 2014) • Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer • April 24Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-British Labour Party politician and convicted sex offenderApril 25Eric Bristow, English darts player (d. 2018) • Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, 7th Prime Minister and 8th President of Burkina Faso • April 28Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Cuban-born experimental filmmaker • April 29Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor • Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (d. 2003) MayMay 1Jo Jorgensen, American libertarian politician and academic • May 3Jo Brand, English comedian • May 5Richard E. Grant, English actor • May 10Sid Vicious (John Beverley), English punk rock bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979) • May 13Carrie Lam, Hong Kong civil servant • May 14Daniela Dessì, Italian operatic soprano (d. 2016) • May 15Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler • Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister) • May 16Joan Benoit, American Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner • Pipiet Senja, Indonesian writer (d. 2025) • Bob Suter, American professional ice hockey player (d. 2014) • May 17Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (d. 2003) • May 18Michael Cretu, Romanian–German new-age musician (Enigma) • Frank Plasberg, German journalist and television presenter • May 20Yoshihiko Noda, 62nd Prime Minister of JapanMay 21Rebecca Jones, Mexican actress • Judge Reinhold, American actor • Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress • May 22Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast • Gary Sweet, Australian actor • May 23Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish singer and dancer (d. 1995) • May 24John Harrington, American professional ice hockey player • Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer • John G. Rowland, American Republican politician, Governor of Connecticut and felon • May 26François Legault, Canadian politician, Premier of QuebecPontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician • May 27Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, English post-punk singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees) • May 28Kirk Gibson, American baseball player • May 29Ted Levine, American actor • May 31Jim Craig, American professional ice hockey player JuneJune 1Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director • June 3Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player • June 5Kim Tai-chung, Korean martial artist and former actor and Bruce Lee double (d. 2011) • June 7Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter • June 8Scott Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert) (d. 2026) • Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress • June 12Timothy Busfield, American actor • Gamal Al-Ghandour, Egyptian football referee • Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer • Tarek Shawki, Egyptian academic, 25th Minister of Education and Technical Education in EgyptJune 14Maxi Jazz, British musician, rapper, singer-songwriter and DJ (d. 2022) • June 15Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor • June 19Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003) • June 21Michael Bowen, American actor • Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal, Archbishop of ManilaJune 23Frances McDormand, American actress • June 25William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore • June 27Erik Hamrén, Swedish football player • June 28Georgi Parvanov, President of BulgariaJune 29Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of TurkmenistanJune 30Silvio Orlando, Italian actor JulyJuly 2Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler • July 4Princess Chulabhorn of ThailandJenny Seagrove, English actress • M. Nasir, Singaporean-Malaysian poet, singer-songwriter, composer, producer, actor and film director • Dmitry Nazarov, Soviet-Russian actor • July 5Doug Wilson, Canadian ice hockey • July 7Mohd Puad Zarkashi, Malaysian politician • July 9Paul Merton, English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter • Marc Almond, English singer • Kelly McGillis, American actress • July 10Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist • July 12Rick Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003) • July 13Lília Cabral, Brazilian actress • Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director • July 17Shinobu Otake, Japanese actress • July 18Nick Faldo, British golfer • July 21Jon Lovitz, American actor and comedian • Stefan Löfven, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden • July 23Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004) • July 24Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbek politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and 2nd President of UzbekistanJuly 26Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor • Nana Visitor, American actress • July 27Hansi Müller, German footballer • July 29Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast • Fumio Kishida, 100th Prime Minister of Japan AugustAugust 2Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, Malaysian politician (d. 2011) • August 4John Wark, Scottish footballer • August 6Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New JerseyAugust 7Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast • August 9Melanie Griffith, American actress • August 10Juli Básti, Hungarian actress • August 11Richie Ramone, American rock drummer (Ramones) • August 15Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor • August 16Tim Farriss, Australian rock guitarist (INXS) • Laura Innes, American actress and director • Phil Murphy, American politician • August 17Robin Cousins, British figure skater • August 18Carole Bouquet, French actress • Denis Leary, American comedian and actor • August 19Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet • August 20Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player • August 22Steve Davis, British snooker player • August 24Stephen Fry, British comedian, author and actor • August 25Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director • August 26Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer • Uzo, Nigerian-American film producer and director • August 27Bernhard Langer, German golfer • August 28Ivo Josipović, President of CroatiaRick Rossovich, American actor • Daniel Stern, American actor • Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist, philosopher • August 29Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (d. 2001) • Shirō Sagisu, Japanese composer • August 30Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player • August 31Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) • Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d. 1999) SeptemberSeptember 1Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born American singer • September 6José Sócrates, 117th Prime Minister of PortugalSeptember 7Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish athlete • September 8Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezuelan singer • September 11Preben Elkjær, Danish footballer • September 12Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian • Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer • Rachel Ward, English-born actress • Hans Zimmer, German composer • September 13Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the PhilippinesCesare Bocci, Italian actor • Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer • September 16David McCreery, Irish footballer • September 18Mark Wells, American professional ice hockey player • September 20Sabine Christiansen, German journalist and television presenter • September 21Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor • Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of AustraliaSeptember 22Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor • Mark Johnson, American professional ice hockey player and coach • Dalia Reyes Barrios, Venezuelan art collector • September 24Brad Bird, American animator, director, writer, producer and voice actor • September 25Michael Madsen, American actor (d. 2025) • September 26Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and football manager • September 27Peter Sellars, American theatre director • September 29Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian • September 30Fran Drescher, American actress OctoberOctober 4Bill Fagerbakke, American actor • October 5Bernie Mac, African-American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2008) • October 7Jayne Torvill, British ice dancer and Olympian • October 8Magdalena Cajías, Bolivian academic, historian, and politician • October 9Herman Brusselmans, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist • October 10Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese manga artist • October 11Dawn French, British comedian • Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor • October 12Clémentine Célarié, French actress • October 15Mira Nair, Indian born-American film maker • Stacy Peralta, American director and skateboarder • October 20Manuel Huerga, Spanish film director and screenwriter • October 21Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate • Steve Lukather, American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer • October 22Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician • October 23Paul Kagame, 4th President of RwandaOctober 24John Kassir, American actor and comedian • October 25Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (Bart Simpson from The Simpsons) • October 26Julie Dawn Cole, English actress and psychotherapist • Bob Golic, American football player • October 27Jeff East, American actor • Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director • October 28Ahmet Kaya, Turkish folk singer (d. 2000) • Stephen Morris, British drummer • October 29Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (Homer Simpson from The Simpsons) • Kevin Pollak, American actor • October 31Shirley Phelps-Roper, American political and religious activist • Robert Pollard, American musician NovemberNovember 1Peter Ostrum, American actor and veterinarian • November 3Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and martial artist • November 4Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of AustraliaAleksandr Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast • November 5Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984) • November 6Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer • Ciro Gomes, Brazilian lawyer and politician • Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive • Lori Singer, American actress and musician • November 7Christopher Knight, American actor • November 9Magalvi Estaba, Venezuelan politician • November 10George Lowe, American voice actor and comedian • November 11Vince DiCola, American composer • Ana Pastor, Spanish politician • November 12Cécilia Attias, wife of French Prime Minister Nicolas SarkozyNovember 13Greg Abbott, American attorney and politician • Roger Ingram, American jazz musician, author, educator, trumpet designer • November 14Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998) • November 15Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist • November 18Olivia Heussler, Swiss photojournalist • November 19Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000) • Tom Virtue, American actor • November 20Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (d. 1985) • John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002) • Goodluck Jonathan, 14th President of NigeriaSophie Lorain, Canadian actress, director and producer • November 22Don Newman, American basketball coach and player (d. 2018) • Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto • November 23William Kaelin Jr., American cellular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate • November 24Denise Crosby, American screen actress • November 26Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (d. 2018) • Matthias Reim, German singer-songwriter • November 27Kenny Acheson, Irish race car driver • Edda Heiðrún Backman, Icelandic actress, singer, director and artist (d. 2016) • Caroline Kennedy, American author, attorney and daughter of 35th President John F. Kennedy • November 30Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian DecemberDecember 1Tjahjo Kumolo, Indonesian politician (d. 2022) • Deep Roy, Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer, and comedian • Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011) • December 3Maxim Korobov, Russian businessman and politician • December 4Eric S. Raymond, American open source software advocate • December 6Thomas Brinkman, American politician • Andrew Cuomo, American politician • December 7Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019) • December 9José Luis Gil, Spanish actor and voice actor • Peter O'Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer • Donny Osmond, American singer and actor (The Osmonds) • December 10Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012) • Paul Hardcastle, English musician • José Mário Vaz, former President of Guinea-BissauDecember 12Sheila E., American percussionist, singer, author, and actress • December 13Steve Buscemi, American actor • December 15Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress • December 16Nikolaos Michaloliakos, Greek politician, founder and leader of Golden Dawn, a neo-nazi party • December 17Doug Parker, Canadian voice actor and voice director • December 19Kevin McHale, American basketball player • Tracy Pew, Australian musician (d. 1986) • December 20Billy Bragg, British singer • Joyce Hyser, American actress • Anna Vissi, Greek singer • December 21Tom Henke, American baseball player • Ray Romano, American actor and comedian • December 24Hamid Karzai, President of AfghanistanDecember 25Shane MacGowan, English-born Irish Celtic punk singer-songwriter (The Pogues) (died 2023) • December 29Oliver Hirschbiegel, German film director • December 30Matt Lauer, American newscaster • Joanna Pacuła, Polish actress ==Deaths==
Deaths
JanuaryJanuary 4Theodor Körner, Austrian statesman, 5th President of Austria (b. 1873) • January 10Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) • January 14Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899) • January 16Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English army officer and colonial administrator (b. 1874) • Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867) • January 20James Brendan Connolly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1868) • January 26Helene Costello, American actress (b. 1906) • William Eythe, American actor (b. 1918) • José Linhares, Brazilian lawyer, 15th President of Brazil (b. 1886) • Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese diplomat and politician (b. 1887) February February 1Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (b. 1890) • February 2Julia Morgan, American architect (b. 1872) • February 4Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter (b. 1904) • February 8Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) • John von Neumann, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1903) • February 9Miklós Horthy, Austro-Hungarian admiral and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1868) • February 10Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867) • February 16Josef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and composer (b. 1876) • Sir John Townsend, Irish mathematical physicist (b. 1868) • February 18Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader, executed (b. 1920) • Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877) • February 19Märta Torén, Swedish actress (b. 1925) • February 20Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish politician and academic (b. 1878) • February 25Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893) March March 4Larbi Ben M'hidi, Algerian revolutionary leader (executed in Paul Aussaresses custody) (b. 1923) • March 5William Cameron Menzies, American film production designer (b. 1896) • March 6Sir Alexander Godley, British general (b. 1867) • March 7Wyndham Lewis, English painter (b. 1882) • March 8János Esterházy, Hungarian politician in Czechoslovakia (b. 1901) • Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (b. 1886) • March 11Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888) • March 12Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877) • March 14Eugenio Castellotti, Italian racing driver (car crash) (b. 1930) • March 16Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876) • March 17Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907) • March 26Édouard Herriot, French politician, 66th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872) • Max Ophüls, German film director and writer (b. 1902) • March 28Gheorghe Tătărescu, Romanian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1886) • Jack B. Yeats, Irish artist (b. 1871) • March 29Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888) • March 31Gene Lockhart, Canadian actor (b. 1891) April April 3Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor (b. 1883) • April 4E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909) • April 6Pierina Morosini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and blessed (b. 1931) • April 8Dorothy Sebastian, American actress (b. 1903) • Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1880) • April 15Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917) • April 16Pieter van der Hoog, Dutch bacteriologist, dermatologist, and Islamicist (b. 1888) • Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1882) • April 23Roy Campbell, South African poet (b. 1901) • April 24Elizabeth Hesselblad, Swedish nurse and Roman Catholic saint (b. 1870) • April 25Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1880) • April 26Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903) May May 1Grant Mitchell, American actor (b. 1874) • May 2Joseph McCarthy, American senator (b. 1908) • May 4Katie Johnson, British actress (b. 1878) • May 7Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877) • Zenón Noriega Agüero, Peruvian general, interim President of Peru (b. 1900) • May 9Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892) • Heinrich Campendonk, German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. 1889) • May 12Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (b. 1885) • May 13Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886) • May 14Marie Vassilieff, Soviet artist (b. 1884) • May 16Eliot Ness, American Prohibition agent (b. 1903) • May 17Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian composer (b. 1880) • May 20Gilbert Murray, Australian-British classical scholar and intellectual (b. 1866) • May 21Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer and actor (b. 1889) • May 29James Whale, English film director (b. 1889) • May 31Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878) JuneJune 1Luisa Casati, Italian patron of the arts (b. 1881) • Russell Hicks, American actor (b. 1895) • June 6Kulyash Baiseitova, Soviet composer (b. 1912) • June 12Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician (b. 1904) • June 13Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876) • June 15Princess Norina Matchabelli, Italian perfumier (b. 1881) • June 17Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873) • Augusto Samuel Boyd, 20th President of Panama (b. 1879) • June 21Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) • June 23Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum, Syrian patriarch (b. 1887) • June 24František Kupka, Czech painter and graphic artist (b. 1871) • June 26Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878) • Malcolm Lowry, English poet and novelist (b. 1909) • June 27Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924) • Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (b. 1900) JulyJuly 3Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1932) • July 8Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879) • July 10Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist (b. 1880) • July 11Aga Khan III, 48th Nizari Imam (b. 1877) • July 15George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885) • James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920 (b. 1870) • July 23Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (b. 1896) • July 24Metodija Andonov-Čento, Macedonian statesman (b. 1902) • Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b. 1885) • July 26Carlos Castillo Armas, Guatemalan military officer and politician, 28th President of Guatemala (b. 1914) • July 28Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator and author (b. 1876) • Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d. 1895) AugustAugust 3Devdas Gandhi, youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1900) • August 4Washington Luís, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869) • August 5Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) • August 7Oliver Hardy, American actor (b. 1892) • August 10Leo Bagrow, Russian-born historian of cartography (b. 1881) • August 11Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist (b. 1883) • August 16Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) • August 19David Bomberg, British Vorticist painter (b. 1890) • August 20Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (b. 1885) • August 21Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian oceanographer (b. 1888) • August 23Eugène Schueller, French chemist and entrepreneur (b. 1881) • August 30Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (b. 1903) SeptemberSeptember 1Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921) • September 16Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864) • September 20Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865) • September 21 – King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872) • September 22Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) OctoberOctober 3Lőrinc Szabó, Hungarian poet (b. 1900) • October 4Pierneef, South African artist (b. 1886) • October 8Hassiba Ben Bouali, Algerian militant (b. 1938) • October 13Erich Auerbach, German philologist (b. 1892) • October 19V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (b. 1892) • October 20Jack Buchanan, British actor (b. 1891) • October 23Frederick Burton, American actor (b. 1871) • October 24Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905) • October 25Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b. 1902) • Lord Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878) • October 26Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) • Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883) • October 27Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil and electrical engineer, aircraft designer and industrialist (b. 1886) • October 29José Patricio Guggiari, Paraguayan politician, 32nd President of Paraguay (b. 1884) • Louis B. Mayer, American film studio mogul, former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (b. 1885) NovemberNovember 2Ted Meredith, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891) • November 3Charles Brabin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1882) • Laika, Soviet space dog (b. c. 1954) • Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1897) • November 4Joseph Canteloube, French composer and singer (b. 1879) • Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b. 1897) • Grigore Preoteasa, Romanian activist (b. 1915) • November 7Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter and printmaker (b. 1883) • November 11Masao Maruyama, Japanese general (b. 1889) • November 13Antonín Zápotocký, 6th President and 15th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) • November 15Andrzej Bursa, Polish poet (b. 1932) • November 17Cora Witherspoon, American actress (b. 1890) • November 18Rudolf Diels, German Nazi civil servant and Gestapo chief (b. 1900) • November 24Prince George of Greece and Denmark, high commissioner of the Cretan State (b. 1869) • Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) • November 25William V. Pratt, American admiral (b. 1869) • November 26Billy Bevan, Australian actor (b. 1887) • Petros Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884) • November 29Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897) • November 30Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890) DecemberDecember 2Harrison Ford, American silent film actor (b. 1884) • December 4 – Sir John Lavarack, Australian general, Governor of Queensland (b. 1885) • December 6Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist (b. 1881) • December 10Maurice McLoughlin, American tennis champion (b. 1890) • Napoleon Zervas, Greek World War II Resistance leader (b. 1891) • December 11Musidora, French actress (b. 1889) • December 15Alfonso Bedoya, Mexican actor (b. 1904) • December 17Dorothy L. Sayers, British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1893) • December 21Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886) • December 24Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1894) • December 25Charles Pathé, French film pioneer (b. 1863) • December 31Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906) ==Nobel Prizes==
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