| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
