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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Albert Anastasia
Criminal
26-Feb-1902 25-Oct-1957 Gambino crime boss
Sholem Asch
Author
1-Nov-1880 1-Aug-1957 Yiddish novelist
Artie Auerbach
Actor
17-May-1903 3-Oct-1957 Mr. Kitzel on The Jack Benny Program
Alfonso Bedoya
Actor
16-Apr-1904 15-Dec-1957 Doesn't need no stinking badges
Humphrey Bogart
Actor
25-Dec-1899 14-Jan-1957 Casablanca
Walther Bothe
Physicist
8-Jan-1891 8-Feb-1957 Coincidence method
Constantin Brancusi
Sculptor
19-Feb-1876 16-Mar-1957 Bird in Space
Jack Buchanan
Actor
2-Apr-1891 20-Oct-1957 The Band Wagon
William Marshall Bullitt
Attorney
4-Mar-1873 3-Oct-1957 US Solicitor General, 1912-13
Richard E. Byrd
Explorer
25-Oct-1888 11-Mar-1957 Arctic and Antarctic explorer
Joyce Cary
Novelist
6-Dec-1888 29-Mar-1957 The Horse's Mouth
Gordon Childe
Archaeologist
14-Apr-1892 19-Oct-1957 The Dawn of European Civilisation
George Cleveland
Actor
17-Sep-1885 15-Jul-1957 Gramps on Lassie
Grace Coolidge
First Lady
3-Jan-1879 8-Jul-1957 Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge
Gerty Cori
Scientist
15-Aug-1896 26-Oct-1957 Catalytic conversion of glycogen
James M. Cox
Politician
31-Mar-1870 15-Jul-1957 Newspaper magnate, twice Ohio Governor
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
21-Jan-1905 23-Oct-1957 The 1947 New Look
Alfred Döblin
Novelist
10-Aug-1878 26-Jun-1957 Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jimmy Dorsey
Musician
29-Feb-1904 12-Jun-1957 Popular bandleader and swing musician
William Eythe
Actor
7-Apr-1918 26-Jan-1957 The House on 92nd Street
Frank Fenton
Actor
9-Apr-1906 24-Jul-1957 Isle of Forgotten Sins
Herbert Fleishhacker
Business
2-Nov-1872 1957 San Francisco banking magnate
Frank Gannett
Business
15-Sep-1876 3-Dec-1957 Founder, Gannett publishing empire
Walter F. George
Politician
29-Jan-1878 4-Aug-1957 US Senator from Georgia, 1922-57
Henry F. Grady
Economist
12-Feb-1882 14-Sep-1957 First US Ambassador to India, 1947-48
Erle P. Halliburton
Business
22-Sep-1891 13-Oct-1957 Founder of Halliburton
Cary A. Hardee
Politician
13-Nov-1876 21-Nov-1957 Governor of Florida, 1921-25
Oliver Hardy
Actor
18-Jan-1892 7-Aug-1957 Laurel and Hardy
Francis Burton Harrison
Politician
18-Dec-1873 21-Nov-1957 Drug prohibition
Russell Hicks
Actor
4-Jun-1895 1-Jun-1957 American character actor
Josephine Hull
Actor
3-Jan-1886 12-Mar-1957 Harvey
Pedro Infante
Actor
18-Nov-1917 15-Apr-1957 Idolo de Guamúchil
Oscár Jászi
Sociologist
2-Mar-1875 13-Feb-1957 The Dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist
18-Feb-1883 26-Oct-1957 Zorba the Greek
Charles King
Actor
21-Feb-1895 7-May-1957 30s and 40s cinema henchman
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Author
23-Dec-1896 23-Jul-1957 Il gattopardo
Irving Langmuir
Chemist
31-Jan-1881 16-Aug-1957 Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
Valery Larbaud
Author
29-Aug-1881 2-Feb-1957 Poèmes par un riche amateur
Wyndham Lewis
Painter
18-Nov-1882 7-Mar-1957 Vorticist movement
Frederick Lindemann
Government
5-Apr-1886 3-Jul-1957 Churchill's scientific and war advisor
Gene Lockhart
Actor
18-Jul-1891 31-Mar-1957 Algiers
Robert H. Lowie
Anthropologist
12-Jun-1883 21-Sep-1957 American ethnologist
Malcolm Lowry
Novelist
28-Jul-1909 27-Jun-1957 Under the Volcano
Donald MacBride
Actor
23-Jun-1889 21-Jun-1957 High Sierra
Ramon Magsaysay
Head of State
31-Aug-1907 17-Mar-1957 7th President of the Philippines
Charles Marriott
Novelist
1869 13-Jul-1957 Art critic, Modern Art
Louis B. Mayer
Film/TV Producer
4-Jul-1885 29-Oct-1957 The final M in MGM
Joseph McCarthy
Politician
14-Nov-1908 2-May-1957 US Senator from Wisconsin, 1947-57
Gabriela Mistral
Poet
7-Apr-1889 10-Jan-1957 Desolación
Grant Mitchell
Actor
17-Jun-1874 1-May-1957 Father Is a Prince
Julia Morgan
Architect
20-Jan-1872 2-Feb-1957 Designed Hearst Castle
Christopher Morley
Novelist
5-May-1890 28-Mar-1957 The Haunted Bookshop
John Middleton Murry
Critic
6-Aug-1889 13-Mar-1957 The Story of D. H. Lawrence
Eliot Ness
Government
19-Apr-1903 16-May-1957 Treasury Agent, The Untouchables
Kay Nielsen
Artist
12-Mar-1886 21-Jun-1957 Danish Golden Age illustrator
Max Ophüls
Film Director
6-May-1902 25-Mar-1957 Letter from an Unknown Woman
Anne Parrish
Novelist
12-Nov-1888 5-Sep-1957 Loads of Love
Friedrich Paulus
Military
23-Sep-1890 1-Feb-1957 Surrendered to Russians at Stalingrad
Ezio Pinza
Singer
18-May-1892 9-May-1957 Operatic bass, NY Metropolitan Opera
Burton Rascoe
Critic
22-Oct-1892 19-Mar-1957 The New York Tribune
Wilhelm Reich
Scientist
24-Mar-1897 3-Nov-1957 Founder of Orgonomy
Dorothy Richardson
Novelist
17-May-1873 17-Jun-1957 Pilgrimage novel sequence
Diego Rivera
Painter
8-Dec-1886 24-Nov-1957 Mexican painter
Kenneth Roberts
Novelist
8-Dec-1885 21-Jul-1957 Northwest Passage
George Rublee
Government
7-Jul-1868 26-Apr-1957 Advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Henry Norris Russell
Astronomer
25-Oct-1877 18-Feb-1957 Giant stars and dwarfs
Dorothy L. Sayers
Novelist
13-Jun-1893 17-Dec-1957 Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels
Jean Sibelius
Composer
8-Dec-1865 20-Sep-1957 The Swan of Tuonela
Ned Sparks
Actor
19-Nov-1883 3-Apr-1957 Unsmiling character actor
Johannes Stark
Physicist
15-Apr-1874 21-Jun-1957 Discovered the Stark Effect
Erich von Stroheim
Actor
22-Sep-1885 12-May-1957 Swanson's servant in Sunset Blvd.
Norma Talmadge
Actor
26-May-1893 24-Dec-1957 Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Arturo Toscanini
Conductor
25-Mar-1867 16-Jan-1957 20th Century virtuoso conductor
John Townsend
Mathematician
7-Jun-1868 16-Feb-1957 Electron's charge
Judy Tyler
Actor
9-Oct-1933 4-Jul-1957 Jailhouse Rock
Henri Van De Velde
Architect
3-Apr-1863 15-Oct-1957 Art Nouveau architect
John von Neumann
Mathematician
28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Herman Welker
Politician
11-Dec-1906 30-Oct-1957 US Senator from Idaho, 1951-57
James Whale
Film Director
22-Jul-1889 29-May-1957 Frankenstein
Tim Whelan
Film Director
2-Nov-1892 12-Aug-1957 The Divorce of Lady X
Heinrich Wieland
Chemist
4-Jun-1877 5-Aug-1957 Studied acids of bile
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Novelist
7-Feb-1867 10-Feb-1957 Little House on the Prairie
Cora Witherspoon
Actor
5-Jan-1890 17-Nov-1957 The Bank Dick


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