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1957
1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
Environmental change
Undated
January
February
March
Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in Britain - 92 dead
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December 5 - All Dutch nationals expelled from Indonesia
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December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, blowing up on the launchpad
Year in topic
Births
January
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January 6 - Nancy Lopez, golfer
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January 7 - Nicholson Baker, novelist
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January 7 - Katie Couric, television host
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January 7 - Julian Solis, world champion boxer
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January 11 - Robert Earl Keen, musician, singer
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January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
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January 15 - Julian Sands , actor
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January 19 - Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer
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January 22 - Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
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January 23 - Earl Falconer , bassist
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January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
February
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February 6 - Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
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February 6 - Robert Townsend , comedian, actor, director, producer
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February 8 - Cindy Wilson, singer, of The B-52's
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February 16 - LeVar Burton, actor (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
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February 16 - James Ingram, singer
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February 18 - Vanna White, game show presenter
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February 19 - Falco, singer (d. 1998)
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February 27 - Viktor Markin, Soviet athlete
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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December 8 - Phil Collen, singer/guitarist (Def Leppard)
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December 9 - Donny Osmond, singer
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December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan, actor (Armageddon, The Green Mile)
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December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, The Sopranos)
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December 13 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
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December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
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December 21 - Tom Henke, baseball relief pitcher
- December 21 - Ray Romano, actor, comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)
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December 30 - Matt Lauer, NBC newscaster
Unknown date
Deaths
January-March
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January 10 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
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January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
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January 16 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
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February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1903)
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February 9 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)
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February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
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February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
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February 25 - George "Bugs" Moran, Chicago gangster
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March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
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March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor
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March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
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March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
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March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
April-June
July-September
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July 4 – Judy Tyler, actress
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July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playright, actor and director
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July 28 - Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
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August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor
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August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
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September 1 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
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September 20 - Jean Sibelius, composer
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September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway
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September 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral in World War II
October-December
Religious leaders
Last updated: 10-16-2005 20:59:25
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