1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the

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, the 1957th year of the

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(CE) and ''

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'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the

1950s The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the " '50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its re ...

decade.

Events

January

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...

– The

Saarland The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...

joins

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

. * January 3 –

Hamilton Watch Company The Hamilton Watch Company is a Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches based in Bienne, Switzerland. Founded in 1892 as an American firm, the Hamilton Watch Company ended American manufacture in 1969. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, th ...

introduces the first electric

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. *

January 5 Events Pre-1600 *1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 * 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...

– South African player Russell Endean becomes the first

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to be dismissed for having ''

handled the ball Handled the ball was formerly one of the methods of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket, but was integrated into the Law on obstructing the field when the Laws of Cricket were rewritten in 2017. It dictated that either batsman can be g ...

'', in

Test cricket Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last f ...

. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern ...

. *

January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...

– The African Convention is founded in

Dakar Dakar ( ; ; wo, Ndakaaru) (from :wo:daqaar, daqaar ''tamarind''), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Senegal, largest city of Senegal. The city of Dakar proper has a population of 1,030,594, whereas the population of the Dakar ...

. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''

Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese '' jidaigeki'' film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'' from Medieval Scotland to feudal ...

'',

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

's reworking of '' Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 **

Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...

is privately sworn in for a second term, as President of the United States. **

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

withdraws from the

Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (now usually ) (, , cop, Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia. It is between the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Red Sea to the south, and is ...

(captured from

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

on October 29,

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...

). *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of Tren ...

– The

Ibirapuera Ibirapuera Park ( pt, Parque Ibirapuera) is an urban park in São Paulo. It comprises 158 hectares between Av. República do Líbano, Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, and Av. IV Centenário, and is the most visited park in South America, with 14.4 million ...

Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

February

* February 2 – President

Iskander Mirza Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza ( bn, ইস্কান্দার আলী মির্জা; ur, ; 13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969), , was a Pakistani Bengali general officer and civil servant who was the first President of Pakista ...

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

lays the foundation-stone of the

Guddu Barrage Guddu Barrage ( ur, )is a barrage on the Indus River near Kashmore in the Sindh province of Pakistan. President Iskander Mirza laid the foundation-stone of Guddu Barrage on 2 February 1957. The barrage was completed in 1962 at a cost of 474.8 ...

across the Indus River, near

Sukkur Sukkur (; ) is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh along the western bank of the Indus River, directly across from the historic city of Rohri. Sukkur is the third largest city in Sindh after Karachi and Hyderabad, and 14th largest city ...

. * February 4 ** France prohibits U.N. involvement in

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. ** The first

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submarine, , logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional ''

Nautilus The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina. It comprises six living species in ...

'' described in Jules Verne's

1870 Events January–March * January 1 ** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England. ** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed. * January 3 – Construction of the ...

novel ''

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (french: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre- ...

''. It is decommissioned on

March 3 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. * 1575 & ...

, 1980. ** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in

Bishop, Virginia Bishop is an unincorporated community located in McDowell County, West Virginia, and Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. Bishop lies on the Virginia-West Virginia state line at the intersection of West Virginia Route 16 West Virginia R ...

, United States, kills 37 men. * February 6 – The

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

announces that Swedish envoy

Raoul Wallenberg Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg (4 August 1912 – disappeared 17 January 1945)He is presumed to have died in 1947, although the circumstances of his death are not clear and this date has been disputed. Some reports claim he was alive years later. 31 J ...

had died in a Soviet prison ("possibly of a

heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which ma ...

"), on

July 17 Events Pre-1600 * 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world. *1048 – Damasu ...

, 1947. *

February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...

– The Confederation of African Football is founded, at a meeting in

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

. * February 15 –

Andrei Gromyko Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (russian: Андрей Андреевич Громыко; be, Андрэй Андрэевіч Грамыка; – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet communist politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as ...

becomes foreign minister of the

. *

February 16 Events Pre-1600 *1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. *1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...

– Ingmar Bergman's film ''

The Seventh Seal ''The Seventh Seal'' ( sv, Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) and a game of ch ...

'' opens at cinemas in Sweden. * February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in

Warrenton, Missouri Warrenton is a city in Warren County, Missouri, United States. The population was 7,880 according to the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County. Warrenton is an exurb of St. Louis, and is located in the St. Louis Metropolitan Statis ...

, United States, kills 72 people. *

February 18 Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. *1268 & ...

Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...

n rebel leader

Dedan Kimathi Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (31 October 1920 – 18 February 1957), born ''Kimathi wa Waciuri'' in what was then British Kenya, was the senior military and spiritual leader of the Mau Mau Uprising. Widely regarded as a revolutionary leader, he led th ...

is executed by the British colonial government. ** The last person to be executed in New Zealand,

Walter James Bolton Walter James Bolton (13 August 1888 – 18 February 1957) was a New Zealand farmer who was found guilty of poisoning his wife. He is known as the last person to be executed in New Zealand before the abolition of capital punishment. Bolton was bo ...

, is

hanged Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. Hanging as method of execution is unknown, as method of suicide from 1325. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' states that hanging i ...

Mount Eden Prison Mount Eden Prisons consists of two separate facilities in the Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Mount Eden — the Mount Eden Prison and the Mount Eden Corrections Facility. History The original Mount Eden prison was a military stockade built i ...

for poisoning his wife. * February 23 – The founding congress of the

Senegalese Popular Bloc The Senegalese Popular Bloc (in French: ''Bloc Populaire Sénégalais'' (BPS)) was the result of the merger of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS) of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese Democratic Union (UDS), Casamancian Autonomous Movement ( ...

opens in

March

March 1 Events Pre-1600 *509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...

U Nu Nu ( my, ဦးနု; ; 25 May 1907 – 14 February 1995), commonly known as U Nu also known by the honorific name Thakin Nu, was a leading Burmese statesman and nationalist politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Burma under the pr ...

becomes Prime Minister of

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. **

Arturo Lezama Arturo Lezama Bagez (1899–1964) was a Uruguayan political figure. Background Lezama was a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party which ruled the country for lengthy periods, and was President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1951 and 19 ...

becomes President of the National Council of Government of

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

. ** Sud Aviation forms, from a merger between

SNCASE SNCASE (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est'') or Sud-Est was a French aircraft manufacturer. The company was formed on February 1, 1937, by the nationalization and merger of Lioré et Olivier, Pote ...

(Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and

SNCASO SNCASO (abbreviated from ''Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest'', or commonly, ''Sud-Ouest'') was a French aircraft manufacturer. Created during 1936 as one of seven nationalised aeronautical manufacturing companies, ...

(Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest). *

– ''

Net als toen "Net als toen" (; "Just like then") is a love song written in Dutch by Willy van Hemert, composed by Guus Jansen and performed by Corry Brokken in 1957 as the Netherlands' entry and runaway winner of the pan-European Eurovision Song Contest, whi ...

'', sung by

Corry Brokken Cornelia Maria "Corry" Brokken (3 December 1932 – 31 May 2016) was a Dutch singer, television presenter and jurist. In 1957, she won the second edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Net als toen", representing the Netherlands. ...

(music by Guus Jansen, lyrics by

Willy van Hemert Willy van Hemert (29 March 1912 – 26 June 1993) was a Dutch actor and theatre and television director, but is best known as a songwriter who penned two winning Dutch songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Van Hemert was born in Utre ...

), wins the

Eurovision Song Contest 1957 The Eurovision Song Contest 1957 was the second edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (HR) on behalf of ARD, the contest, originally known as the (English: Euro ...

(held at

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), for the Netherlands. *

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 & ...

** United Kingdom colonies

Gold Coast Gold Coast may refer to: Places Africa * Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana: ** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642) ** Dutch G ...

and

British Togoland British Togoland, officially the Mandate Territory of Togoland and later officially the Trust Territory of Togoland, was a territory in West Africa, under the administration of the United Kingdom, which subsequently entered into union with Ghan ...

become the independent nation of

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. **

Zodi Ikhia Zodi Ikhia (c. 1919 – February 16, 1996) was a Nigerian politician. Life and career Born around 1919 at Winditen, Ikhia came from a wealthy Tuareg family; his father was a prominent person from Taghagar. He received his primary education in Nia ...

founds the

Nigerien Democratic Front The Nigerien Democratic Front (french: Front démocratique nigérien, FDN) was a political party in Niger. It published the party journal ''L'Unité'' ('Unity'). History The party was founded by Zodi Ikhia and his followers on March 6, 1957, as ...

(FDN) in

Niger ) , official_languages = , languages_type = National languagesMarch 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...

–

re-opens the Suez Canal. * March 14 – President Sukarno declares

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Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

. *

March 17 Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...

– 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash:

Philippine The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

President

Ramon Magsaysay Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a Filipino statesman who served as the seventh president of the Philippines, from December 30, 1953, until his death in an aircraft disaster on March 17, 1957. An automo ...

and 24 others are killed in a plane crash. *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. * 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. * 1600 – The Link ...

– The French news magazine '' L'Express'' reveals that the French army tortures

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n prisoners. * March 25 – The Treaty of Rome (''Patto di

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'') establishes the European Economic Community (EEC; predecessor of the

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) between Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. *

March 27 Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...

– The

29th Academy Awards For the 29th Academy Awards, the Best International Feature Film was introduced as a competitive category, instead of only a Special Achievement Award. The first winner in this new category was Federico Fellini's ''La Strada'' with Anthony Qu ...

Ceremony is held in Hollywood. ''

Around the World in 80 Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...

'' wins

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April

April April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. It is the first of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the second of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. April is commonly associated with ...

– IBM sells the first compiler for the Fortran scientific

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. *

April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Ko ...

– The first new

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s join the

Bundeswehr The ''Bundeswehr'' (, meaning literally: ''Federal Defence'') is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ''Bundeswehr'' is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part con ...

. * April 5 – The Communist Party of India wins the elections in

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

, making E. M. S. Namboodiripad its first chief minister. *

April 9 Events Pre-1600 * 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum. * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, su ...

–

reopens the Suez Canal to all shipping. *

April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...

– The United Kingdom announces that

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

will gain self-rule on January 1, 1958. *

April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...

** 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 Events Pre-1600 *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...

– Suspected English

serial killer A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more persons,A * * * * with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...

Dr. John Bodkin Adams is found not guilty of murder, at the Old Bailey. *

April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). *1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...

– 25 – The

1957 Fethiye earthquakes The first of the 1957 Fethiye earthquakes occurred on April 24, 1957, with the second and larger event about seven hours later on the following day. Both earthquakes had epicentres in the eastern Mediterranean between Rhodes and the coastal city ...

occur, on the Mediterranean coast of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. *

April 30 Events Pre-1600 *311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends. *1315 – Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois. *1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus hi ...

– An annular solar eclipse was a non-central annular solar eclipse, that does ''NOT'' have a northern path limit. This was the last of 57 umbral solar eclipses of Solar Saros 118.

May

May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...

– "

Die Stem van Suid-Afrika Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (, ), also known as "The Call of South Africa" or simply "Die Stem" (), is a former national anthem of South Africa. There are two versions of the song, one in English and the other in Afrikaans, which were in use earl ...

", written by

Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (13 August 1873 – 15 July 1932), who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of Afrikaans literature and cultural history. His poetry was ...

, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "

God Save the Queen "God Save the King" is the national and/or royal anthem of the United Kingdom, most of the Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies. The author of the tune is unknown and it may originate in plainchant, bu ...

", which is retained as a royal anthem. * May 8 – South Vietnamese President

Ngo Dinh Diem Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam (Republic o ...

begins a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor. *

May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...

. **

Operation Grapple Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the P ...

: At

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in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly. **

Stanley Matthews Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer who played as an outside right. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the British game, he is the only player to have been knighted while sti ...

plays his final international game, ending an

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record international career of almost 23 years. * May 16 –

Paul-Henri Spaak Paul-Henri Charles Spaak (; 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972) was an influential Belgian Socialist politician, diplomat and statesman. Along with Robert Schuman, Alcide De Gasperi and Konrad Adenauer he was a leader in the formation of the ...

becomes the new

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. * May 24 –

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riots erupt in

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. * May 30 – Real Madrid beats

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2–0 at

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium ( es, Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, ) is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain. With a current seating capacity of 81,044, it has been the home stadium of Real Madrid since its completion in 1947. It is the second-larg ...

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, to win the

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(football).

June

June 9 Events Pre-1600 *411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending th ...

–

Broad Peak Broad Peak ( ur, ) is a mountain in the Karakoram on the border of Pakistan and China, the twelfth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It was first ascended in June 1957 by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, ...

, on the China-Pakistan border, is first ascended. * June 21 –

John Diefenbaker John George Diefenbaker ( ; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an electi ...

becomes the 13th

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. *

June 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded. *1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England. * 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...

–

Hurricane Audrey Hurricane Audrey was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in U.S. history, killing at least 416 people in its devastation of the southwestern Louisiana coast in 1957. Along with Hurricane Alex in 2010, it was also the strongest June hur ...

demolishes

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, U.S., killing 400 people.

July

* July 1 ** The International Geophysical Year begins. ** The

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is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. **

Hugh Everett III Hugh Everett III (; November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation. In contrast to the then-dominant Cop ...

publishes the first scientifically founded

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. ** Production of the Citroën Traction Avant automobile, begun in

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maxi ...

, ceases. *

July 6 Events Pre-1600 * 371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility. * 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt ...

- At the age of fifteen on 6 July 1957,

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met

John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...

and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton. *

July 11 Events Pre-1600 * 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...

– His Highness Prince Karim

Aga Khan IV Shāh Karim al-Husayni (born 13 December 1936), known by the religious title Mawlānā Hazar Imam by his Ismaili followers and elsewhere as Aga Khan IV, is the 49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailis, a denomination within Shia Islam. He ha ...

becomes the 49th Imam of the

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah

Aga Khan III Sultan Muhammad Shah (2 November 187711 July 1957), commonly known by his religious title Aga Khan III, was the 48th Imam of the Nizariyya. He played an important role in British Indian politics. Born to Aga Khan II in Karachi, Aga Khan II ...

appoints Prince Karim in his will. *

July 14 Events Pre-1600 * 982 – King Otto II and his Frankish army are defeated by the Muslim army of al-Qasim at Cape Colonna, Southern Italy. * 1223 – Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II. * 142 ...

– Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the

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. *

July 16 Events Pre-1600 * 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar. * 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece. * 1 ...

–

United States Marine The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...

Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from

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to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record. *

July 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. * 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is ...

– The largely

autobiographical novel An autobiographical novel is a form of novel using autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements. The literary technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction. Bec ...

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold ''The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold'' is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in July 1957. It is Waugh's penultimate full-length work of fiction, which the author called his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account ...

'' by

Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires '' Decl ...

was published. *

July 25 Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...

–

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becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba as its first president. *

July 28 Events Pre-1600 *1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina. *1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...

** The

6th World Festival of Youth and Students The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students was held from 28 July to 5 August 1957 in Moscow, capital city of the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The festival attracted 34,000 people from 130 countries. This became possible after the po ...

, a high point of the Khrushchev Thaw, opens in Moscow. ** Heavy rains and mudslides at

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, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992. *

July 29 Events Pre-1600 * 587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. * 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. * 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo ...

– The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

August

August 4 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...

– Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the

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, clinching (with 4 wins this season) his record 5th

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, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century. *

August 31 Events Pre-1600 * 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. * 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year ...

– The Federation of Malaya gains independence from the United Kingdom, subsequently celebrated as

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

's National Day.

Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Sir Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad ( Jawi: ; 24 August 1895 – 1 April 1960) was the first Paramount Ruler or Yang di-Pertuan Agong of the Federation of Malaya, eighth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Seri Menanti and second Yang d ...

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of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the first

Yang di-Pertuan Agong The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The o ...

of Malaya. The country's new

Constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...

had come into force on August 27. The Alliance Party and its successor are the ruling coalition until 2018.

September

September 9 Events Pre-1600 * 337 – Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti. *1000 – Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. * 1141 – ...

– The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is enacted, establishing the

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. *

September 21 Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army and consolidates his power. * 1170 – The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders. * 1217 – Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian ...

Olav V Olav V (; born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was the King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was the only child of King Haakon VII of Norway and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Norw ...

becomes King of Norway, on the death of his father

Haakon VII Haakon VII (; born Prince Carl of Denmark; 3 August 187221 September 1957) was the King of Norway from November 1905 until his death in September 1957. Originally a Danish prince, he was born in Copenhagen as the son of the future Frederick ...

. ** The sailing ship ''

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'' sinks off the

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, in a hurricane. *

September 24 Events Pre-1600 *787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia. *1568 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near ...

– Camp Nou, home-stadium of

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, officially opens in

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. *

September 29 Events Pre-1600 *61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. * 1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, ...

– The

Kyshtym disaster The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nu ...

occurs, at the

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nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia.

October

October 1 Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadw ...

– The Africanized bee is accidentally released in

. *

October 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. *1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. *1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes t ...

Space Age The Space Age is a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events, beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 during 1957, and continuin ...

–

Sputnik program Sputnik (Спутник, Russian for "satellite"NOTE: The Russian word "sputnik" can have many meanings: "satellite", "travelling companion", "fellow traveller", etc. However, in astronomy, it means only "satellite".) is a spacecraft launched ...

: The

launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial

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to orbit the earth. ** The

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) pr ...

delta wing

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is unveiled. *

October 10 Events Pre-1600 * 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. * 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. *1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...

–

Windscale fire The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, and one of the worst in the world, ranked in severity at level 5 out of a possible 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The fire was in ...

: Fire at the

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on the north-west coast of England releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, including

iodine-131 Iodine-131 (131I, I-131) is an important radioisotope of iodine discovered by Glenn Seaborg and John Livingood in 1938 at the University of California, Berkeley. It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. It is associated with nu ...

. *

October 11 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of Engl ...

** The

Jodrell Bank Jodrell Bank Observatory () in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astro ...

radio telescope opens in Cheshire, England. ** The

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of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying

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) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer at the MIT Computation Center as part of Operation Moonwatch,

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. *

October 21 Events Pre-1600 *1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade. *1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of A ...

– Two trains collide at Yarımburgaz in

; 95 die. *

October 23 Events Pre-1600 *4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible. *42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Batt ...

–

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria t ...

begins its invasion of Ifni. *

October 27 Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. * 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. * 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. * 1553 – Condemned as ...

–

Celâl Bayar Mahmud Celâleddin "Celâl" Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third President of Turkey from 1950 to 1960; previously he was Prime Minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939. Bayar began his c ...

is re-elected

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November

November 1 Events Pre-1600 *365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. * 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freisin ...

– The

Mackinac Bridge The Mackinac Bridge ( ) is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac, connecting the Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the bridge (familiarly known as "Big Mac" and "Mighty Mac") is the worl ...

, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at this time, opens in the United States, to connect

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's two peninsulas. *

November 3 Events Pre-1600 * 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor. *1333 – The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Fl ...

–

: The

launches

Sputnik 2 Sputnik 2 (, russian: Спутник-2, ''Satellite 2''), or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 (PS-2, russian: Простейший Спутник 2, italic=yes, ''Simplest Satellite 2'') was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on 3 November 195 ...

, with the first

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to orbit the Earth (a dog named

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) on board; there is no technology available to return it to Earth. *

November 13 Events Pre-1600 * 1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. *1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotla ...

Gordon Gould Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. (Credit for the invention of the laser is disputed, since Charles Townes and ...

invents the

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. ** Flooding in the Po Valley of Italy leads to flooding also in

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. *

November 15 Events Pre-1600 * 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. * 1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Mo ...

1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash The 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash occurred on the Isle of Wight in England on 15 November. With 45 lives lost, at the time it was the second worst aircraft accident within the United Kingdom, then at the time the worst ever air disaster to ...

: A flying boat crash on the

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leaves 45 dead. **

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announces the end of an economic boycott of

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(although it does not reinstitute diplomatic relations). *

November 16 Events Pre-1600 * 951 – Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom. *1272 – Whi ...

– Adnan Menderes of the Democrat Party forms the new government of

(23rd government, last government formed by DP and Menderes). *

November 30 Events Pre-1600 * 978 – Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. 1601–1900 *1707 – Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the Br ...

–

n president Sukarno survives a grenade attack at the Cikini School in Jakarta, but six children are killed.

December

December 1 Events Pre-1600 * 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III. *1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France. * ...

– In

, Sukarno announces the nationalization of 246

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

businesses. *

December 4 Events Pre-1600 * 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne as sole king of the Frankish Kingdom. * 963 – The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 ...

– The

Lewisham rail crash On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains crashed in dense fog on the South Eastern Main Line near Lewisham in south-east London, causing the deaths of 90 people and injuring 173. An electric train to had stopped at a signal under the bri ...

in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead. *

December 5 Events Pre-1600 * 63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations. * 633 – Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by Isidore of Seville. * 1033 – The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multipl ...

– All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from

. *

December 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary. *1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. *1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba for gold (wh ...

– The first U.S. attempt to launch a

fails, when the

Vanguard rocket The Vanguard rocket was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 led the U.S., after the failure of Vanguard TV-3 ...

blows up on the

launch pad A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched. The term ''launch pad'' can be used to describe just the central launch platform ( mobile launcher platform), or the entir ...

. *

December 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet": King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköpi ...

– Canadian diplomat

Lester B. Pearson Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of ...

receives the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

, for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations. *

December 20 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian. * 1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England a ...

– The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.

Date unknown

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

admits that 800,000 "

class enemies The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a designation for the political or class opponents of the subgroup in power within a larger group. The term implies that by opposing the ruling subgroup, the "enemies" in question are ac ...

" had been summarily liquidated in China, between 1949 and 1954. *

Gruppe SPUR Gruppe SPUR was an artistic collaboration formed by the German painters Heimrad Prem, Helmut Sturm, and Hans-Peter Zimmer, and the sculptor Lothar Fischer in 1957. They published a journal of the same name ''Spur''. ''Spur'' was subject to pr ...

, an artistic collaboration, is founded in Germany. * Raja Fashions, a tailoring business is founded in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

. * The so-called 'mound of

Midas Midas (; grc-gre, Μίδας) was the name of a king in Phrygia with whom several myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ...

', the Great

Tumulus A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or ''kurgans'', and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones bu ...

near

Gordium Gordion ( Phrygian: ; el, Γόρδιον, translit=Górdion; tr, Gordion or ; la, Gordium) was the capital city of ancient Phrygia. It was located at the site of modern Yassıhüyük, about southwest of Ankara (capital of Turkey), in the ...

, is excavated. * Three new neo-

grotesque Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...

sans-serif

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands o ...

s are released:

Folio The term "folio" (), has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ma ...

(designed by Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum), Neue Haas Grotesk (designed by

Max Miedinger Max Miedinger (24 December 1910 – 8 March 1980) was a Swiss typeface designer, best known for creating the ''Neue Haas Grotesk'' typeface in 1957, renamed Helvetica in 1960. Marketed as a symbol of cutting-edge Swiss technology, Helvetica achie ...

) and

Univers Univers () is a large sans-serif typeface family designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by his employer Deberny & Peignot in 1957. Classified as a neo-grotesque sans-serif, one based on the model of nineteenth-century German typefaces such a ...

(designed by

Adrian Frutiger Adrian Johann Frutiger ( ; 24 May 1928 – 10 September 2015) was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digita ...

); all will be influential in the

International Typographic Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style that emerged in Russia, the Netherlands, and Germany in the 1920s and was further developed by designers in Switzerland during the 1950s. The Internati ...

of graphic design.

Births

January

Isabel Ordaz Isabel Ordaz Luengo (born 11 March 1957) is a Spanish actress. She has appeared in more than 50 films and television shows since 1982. She won the Silver St. George for Best Actress for her role in '' Chevrolet'' at the 20th Moscow Internation ...

, Spanish actress ** Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress * January 3 –

Bojan Križaj Bojan Križaj () (born 3 January 1957) is a Slovenian, back then Yugoslavian, former alpine skier. During his international career he competed for the then-existing Yugoslavia. He competed at three Winter Olympics. Career Križaj, born in Kra ...

, Slovenian alpine skier * January 4 –

Patty Loveless Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer. She began performing in her teenaged years before signing her first recording contract with MCA Records' Nashville division in 1985. While her first ...

, American country music singer *

–

Maartin Allcock Maartin Allcock (born Martin Allcock; 5 January 1957 – 16 September 2018) was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer. Biography Born in Middleton, Greater Manchester, Middleton, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), E ...

, English multi-instrumentalist and record producer (d.

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the Unit ...

) * January 6 –

Nancy Lopez Nancy Marie Lopez (born January 6, 1957) is an American former professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events, including three major championships. Amateur career Lopez won the New Mexico Women's ...

, American golfer * January 7 **

Katie Couric Katherine Anne Couric ( ; born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, ''Wake Up Call''. From 2013 to 2017, ...

, American television host **

Hannu Kamppuri Hannu Juhani Kamppuri (born 1 July 1957 in Helsinki, Finland) is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. Kamppuri was an accomplished SM-liiga goaltender, where he played from 1975 to 1990, and was one of the first Finnish goaltenders ...

, Finnish ice hockey goaltender **

Julian Solís Julian Solís (born 7 January 1957) is a former boxer from Puerto Rico. He was born in the San Juan area of Río Piedras, but because of the closeness of his birthplace to Caguas, he often trained at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas. His training base, h ...

, Puerto Rican former world bantamweight champion boxer * January 8 ** David Lang, American composer **

Dwight Clark Dwight Edward Clark (January 8, 1957 – June 4, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for nine seasons with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1979 He was a member of San ...

, American football player (d.

) * January 9 –

Bibie Bibie (pseudonym of Béatrice Adjorkor Anyankor, born on January 9, 1957, in Accra, Ghana) is a singer, famous for her 1985 hit "Tout doucement". Biography Her childhood was marked by many countries where her father, a Ghanaian diplomat, was se ...

, Ghanaian singer *

Bryan Robson Bryan Robson OBE (born 11 January 1957) is an English football manager and former player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club captain before moving to Manchester United in ...

, English footballer **

Claude Criquielion Claude Criquielion (11 January 1957 – 18 February 2015) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer who raced between 1979 and 1990. In 1984, Criquielion became the world road race champion in Barcelona, Spain on a gruelling course. ...

, Belgian bike racer (d. 2015) *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. * 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...

–

John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios ...

, American director, writer and animator * January 13 **

Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer. Biography Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won '' Seve ...

, American writer **

Daniel Scioli Daniel Osvaldo Scioli (, ; born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2015. From 2020 to 2022 he was Arge ...

, Argentine politician and sportsman * January 14 **

Anchee Min Anchee Min (; born January 14, 1957, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, ''Red Azalea'' and ''The Cooked Seed: A Memoir'', and six historical novels. Her ficti ...

, Chinese writer **

Wu Chengzhen Wu Chengzhen (; born 14 January 1957) is the first Chinese woman to be ordained as a '' fangzhang'' (abbess) in the history of Taoism. Early life Wu Yuanzhen () was born on 14 January 1957, in Xinzhou District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China as th ...

, Chinese Buddhist

abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Copt ...

* January 15 –

Mario Van Peebles Mario Van Peebles (born January 15, 1957) is an American film director and actor best known for directing and starring in ''New Jack City'' in 1991 and '' USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage'' in 2016. He is the son of actor and filmmaker Melvin Va ...

, African-American actor and director * January 16 –

Ricardo Darín Ricardo Alberto Darín (born 16 January 1957) is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, he is considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema. Considered one of the greatest and most acclaimed movie stars ...

, Argentinian actor *

January 17 Events Pre-1600 *38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...

–

Steve Harvey Broderick Stephen Harvey Sr. Also aired August 16, 2015. (born January 17, 1957) is an American television host, producer, actor, and comedian. He hosts '' The Steve Harvey Morning Show'', '' Family Feud'', ''Celebrity Family Feud,'' the Miss ...

, African-American comedian, television host, radio personality and actor * January 22 ** Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player (d.

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...

) **

Rene Requiestas Renato L. Requiestas (January 22, 1957 – July 24, 1993), professionally known as Rene Requiestas (), was a Filipino actor and comedian. Requiestas was one of the top Filipino comedians of the late 1980s up to the early 1990s. Requiestas was kno ...

, Filipino comedian (d.

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

) **

Godfrey Thoma Godfrey Awaire Thoma (born 22 January 1957) is a Nauruan politician and police officer. Member of Parliament Thoma started his first term in the parliament after being elected in 1995, ousting Theodore Moses after only three years. He had be ...

, Nauruan politician *

January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. *1264 & ...

– Caroline, Princess of Hanover *

–

Road Warrior Hawk Michael Hegstrand (January 26, 1957 – October 19, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as The Road Warriors (The Legion of Doom in WWF), with Road Warrior Animal. ...

, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) * January 27 **

Frank Miller Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on ''Daredevil'' and subsequen ...

, American comic book writer ** Janick Gers, British heavy metal guitarist *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

– Grażyna Miller, Polish poet * January 30 –

Payne Stewart William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999) was an American professional golfer who won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships, the last of which came just a few months before his death in an airplane acci ...

, American golfer (d.

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

)

February

John Turturro at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

* February 1 –

Dennis Brown Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lo ...

, Jamaican reggae singer (d.

) * February 2 –

Phil Barney Phil Barney (real name : Philippe Baranès, born February 2, 1957, in Annaba, Algeria) is a French singer-songwriter. He was particularly successful with his 1987 song "Un Enfant de toi". Biography In the 1980s, Phil Barney had several success o ...

, French singer * February 5 –

Jackie Woodburne Jacqueline Anne Woodburne (born 5 February 1956) is a Northern Irish-born Australian actress, who is notable for her roles in TV soap operas. Since 1994, Woodburne has played teacher Susan Kennedy in ''Neighbours''. She first became notable for ...

, Australian actress * February 6 **

Kathy Najimy Kathy Ann Najimy ( ; ar, كاثي ان نجيمي ; born February 6, 1957) is an American actress and activist. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Soapdish'' (1991), ''Sister Act'' (1992), '' Hocus Pocus'' (1993), '' Hope Floats'' ( ...

, American actress and comedian ** Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director, and writer (''

Hollywood Shuffle ''Hollywood Shuffle'' is a 1987 American satirical comedy film about the racial stereotypes of African Americans in film and television. The film tracks the attempts of Bobby Taylor to become a successful actor and the mental and external roadbl ...

'') *

February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. *1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...

–

Cindy Wilson Cynthia Leigh Wilson (born February 28, 1957) is an American musician and one of the vocalists, songwriters and founding members of new wave rock band the B-52's. She is noted for her distinctive contralto voice and also plays percussion during ...

, American rock singer (

The B-52's The B-52's, also styled as The B-52s, are an American new wave band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976. The original lineup consisted of Fred Schneider (vocals, percussion), Kate Pierson (vocals, keyboards, synth bass), Cindy Wilson (vocals, ...

) *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...

–

Gordon Strachan Gordon David Strachan ( born 9 February 1957) is a Scottish former football coach and player. He played for Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds United and Coventry City, as well as the Scotland national team. He has since managed Co ...

, Scottish footballer and manager * February 11 –

Mitchell Symons Mitchell Symons (born 11 February 1957) is a British journalist and writer. Born in London, he was educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE where he studied Law. Since leaving the BBC, where he was a researcher and director, he has worked as a ...

, British writer * February 14 –

Soile Isokoski Soile Marja Isokoski (born 14 February 1957) is a Finnish lyric soprano. She is an opera singer as well as a concert and lieder singer. Career Isokoski was born in Posio, Finland. She graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (a cantor ...

, Finnish lyric soprano * February 15 **

Nathaniel Bar-Jonah Nathaniel Benjamin Levi Bar-Jonah (born David Paul Brown; February 15, 1957 – April 13, 2008) was an American convicted child molester and suspected cannibalistic serial killer who was sentenced to 130 years in prison without the possibility o ...

, American criminal (d.

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

) **

Shahriar Mandanipour Shahriar Mandanipour ( fa, شهریار مندنی پور; also ''Shahriar Mondanipour''(February 15, 1957), Shiraz, Iran, is an Iranian writer, journalist and literary theorist. Mandanipour was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran. In 1975 he moved to ...

, Iranian writer *

–

LeVar Burton Levar Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host, best known for playing Geordi La Forge in '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994). He also played Kunta Kinte in the ABC miniseries ''R ...

, African-American actor * February 17 –

Loreena McKennitt Loreena Isobel Irene McKennitt, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her r ...

, Canadian singer, composer, harpist (''Mummers' Dance'') *

** Marita Koch, German athlete ** Vanna White, American game show presenter (''Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show), Wheel of Fortune'') * February 19 ** Falco (musician), Falco, Austrian rock musician (''Rock Me Amadeus'') (d. 1998) ** Ray Winstone, British actor * February 20 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach * February 23 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009) * February 25 – Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singaporean politician, 5th Senior Minister of Singapore * February 27 ** Danny Antonucci, Canadian creator of the Cartoon Network show ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' ** Ralph Cox, American professional ice hockey player ** Timothy Spall, English actor * February 28 ** Ian Smith (New Zealand cricketer), Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer ** John Turturro, American actor, writer and director

March

Qasem Soleimani with Zolfaghar Order (cropped)

Spike Lee at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

* March 4 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor * March 5 – Mark E. Smith, English singer (d.

) *

– Eddie Deezen, American actor, voice actor and comedian *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...

– Clive Burr, British heavy metal drummer (d. 2013) * March 9 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician * March 10 ** Matt Knudsen, American actor, comedian and writer ** Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born founder of al-Qaeda (d. 2011) ** Hans-Peter Friedrich, German politician * March 11 – Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (d. 2020) * March 12 – Marlon Jackson, African-American singer * March 13 – David Peaston, American singer (d. 2012) * March 15 ** Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese actor ** Park Overall, American film and television actress * March 18 – György Pazdera, Hungarian rock bassist (Pokolgép) * March 19 – Christopher Murray (actor), Christopher Murray, American actor *

** Vanessa Bell Calloway, African-American actress ** John Grogan, American journalist and non-fiction writer ** Spike Lee, African-American film director and actor ** Theresa Russell, American actress * March 23 ** Edna Molewa, South African politician (d.

) ** Teresa Ganzel, American comedian and actress ** Lucio Gutiérrez, 41st President of Ecuador ** Robbie James, Welsh footballer ** Amanda Plummer, American actress * March 24 – Jack Edwards (sportscaster), Jack Edwards, American play-by-play announcer * March 26 – Leeza Gibbons, American television personality *

– Stephen Dillane, English actor * March 28 – Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor * March 29 – Christopher Lambert, French-American actor * March 30 ** Shen Yi-ming, Taiwanese Air Force general officer (d. 2020) ** Paul Reiser, American comedian and actor ** Ian Shelton, Canadian astronomer who discovered SN 1987A * March 31 ** Marc McClure, American actor ** Terry Klassen, Canadian voice actor and voice director

April

** J. Karjalainen, Finnish rock musician ** Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019) * April 2 ** Mark Alburger, American composer ** Giuliana De Sio, Italian actress * April 4 ** Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexican drug lord ** Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director * April 5 – Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner * April 8 – Henry Cluney, Irish musician *

– Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011) * April 10 – Ülle Kaljuste, Estonian actress *

– Vince Gill, American singer and songwriter * April 14 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer *

** Afrika Bambaataa, American DJ and producer ** Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress * April 18 – Genie (feral child), Genie, American feral child * April 20 - Aviva Chomsky, history professor and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University * April 21 ** Jesse Orosco, American baseball player ** Herbert Wetterauer, German artist and author ** Faustin-Archange Touadéra, 8th President of the Central African Republic * April 22 – Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland * April 23 ** Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (d. 2014) ** Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer *

– Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-British Labour Party politician * April 25 ** Eric Bristow, English darts player (d.

) ** Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, 7th Prime Minister and 8th President of Burkina Faso * April 27 – Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian * April 28 – Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, Cuban-born experimental filmmaker * April 29 ** Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor ** Timothy Treadwell, American environmentalist and filmmaker (d. 2003)

May

* May 1 – Jo Jorgensen, American libertarian politician and academic * May 3 – Jo Brand, English comedian * May 5 – Richard E. Grant, English actor * May 10 – Sid Vicious (John Beverley), English punk rock bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979) * May 11 – Peter North (actor), Peter North, Canadian adult actor * May 13 – Carrie Lam, Hong Kong civil servant * May 14 – Daniela Dessì, Italian operatic soprano (d. 2016) *

** Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler ** Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister) * May 16 ** Joan Benoit, American Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner ** Bob Suter, American professional ice hockey player (d. 2014) * May 17 – Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish rock singer and songwriter (Leevi and the Leavings) (d. 2003) * May 18 ** Michael Cretu, Romanian–German new-age musician (Enigma (German band), Enigma) ** Frank Plasberg, German journalist and television presenter * May 20 – Yoshihiko Noda, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan * May 21 ** Rebecca Jones (Mexican actress), Rebecca Jones, Mexican actress ** Judge Reinhold, American actor ** Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress * May 22 ** Albert Boonstra, Dutch swimmer ** Shinji Morisue, Japanese gymnast ** Gary Sweet, Australian actor * May 23 – Jimmy McShane (aka Baltimora), Northern Irish singer and dancer (d. 1995) * May 24 ** John Harrington (ice hockey), John Harrington, American professional ice hockey player ** Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer ** John G. Rowland, American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician, Governor of Connecticut and felon * May 26 **Pontso Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician **Dan Roodt, South African author and politician * May 27 – Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion, English post-punk singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees) * May 28 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player * May 29 – Ted Levine, American actor * May 31 – Jim Craig (ice hockey), Jim Craig, American professional ice hockey player

June

* June 1 – Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director * June 3 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player * June 5 – Kim Tai-chung, Korean martial artist and former actor and Bruce Lee double (d. 2011) * June 7 – Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter * June 8 ** Scott Adams, American cartoonist (''Dilbert'') ** Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress * June 12 ** Timothy Busfield, American actor ** Gamal Al-Ghandour, Egyptian football referee ** Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer ** Tarek Shawki, Egyptian academic, 25th Ministry of Education (Egypt), Minister of Education and Technical Education in Egypt * June 15 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor * June 19 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003) * June 21 ** Michael Bowen (actor), Michael Bowen, American actor ** Luis Antonio Tagle, Filipino cardinal, Archbishop of Manila * June 23 – Frances McDormand, American actress * June 25 – William Goh, Archbishop of Singapore *

– Erik Hamrén, Swedish football player * June 28 ** Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player ** Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria * June 29 – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan * June 30 – Silvio Orlando, Italian actor

July

Stefan Löfven efter slutdebatten i SVT 2014 (cropped)

* July 1 ** Erdeniin Bat-Üül, Mongolian politician **

, Finnish ice hockey player * July 2 – Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler * July 3 ** Shan Goshorn, American Cherokee artist (d.

) ** Ken Ober, American actor and game show host (d. 2009) * July 4 ** Chulabhorn, Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand ** Jenny Seagrove, English actress ** M. Nasir, Singaporean-Malaysian poet, singer-songwriter, composer, producer, actor and film director ** Dmitry Nazarov, Soviet-Russian actor * July 5 – Doug Wilson (ice hockey), Doug Wilson, Canadian ice hockey *

– Chong Eng, Malaysian politician * July 7 – Mohd Puad Zarkashi, Malaysian politician * July 9 ** Paul Merton, English writer, actor, comedian, radio and television presenter ** Marc Almond, English singer ** Kelly McGillis, American actress * July 10 – Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist * July 12 ** Götz Alsmann, German television presenter, musician and singer ** Pino Quartullo, Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright ** Rick Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003) * July 13 ** Lília Cabral, Brazilian actress ** Tony Vega, Puerto Rican singer ** Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director *

– Shinobu Otake, Japanese actress * July 18 – Nick Faldo, British golfer * July 21 ** Jon Lovitz, American actor and comedian ** Stefan Löfven, 33rd Prime Minister of Sweden * July 23 – Theo van Gogh (film director), Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004) * July 24 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbek politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and 2nd President of Uzbekistan * July 26 ** Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor ** Nana Visitor, American actress * July 27 – Hansi Müller, German footballer *

** Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast ** Fumio Kishida, 100th Prime Minister of Japan

August

* August 2 – Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, Malaysian politician (d. 2011) *

** Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor ** John Wark, Scottish footballer * August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey * August 7 – Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast * August 9 – Melanie Griffith, American actress * August 10 – Juli Básti, Hungarian actress * August 11 – Richie Ramone, American rock drummer (Ramones) * August 14 – Peter Costello, Australian politician * August 15 – Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor * August 16 ** Tim Farriss, Australian rock guitarist (INXS) ** Laura Innes, American actress and director ** Phil Murphy, American politician * August 17 – Robin Cousins, British figure skater * August 18 ** Carole Bouquet, French actress ** Denis Leary, American comedian and actor ** Harald Schmidt, German actor, writer, columnist, comedian and television entertainer * August 19 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet * August 20 – Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player * August 22 – Steve Davis, British snooker player * August 24 – Stephen Fry, British comedian, author and actor * August 25 – Simon McBurney, British actor, writer and theatre director * August 26 ** Dr. Alban, Nigerian-born Swedish singer ** Uzo (filmmaker), Uzo, Nigerian-American film producer and director * August 27 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer * August 28 ** Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia ** Rick Rossovich, American actor ** Daniel Stern (actor), Daniel Stern, American actor ** Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist, philosopher * August 29 ** Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (d. 2001) ** Shirō Sagisu, Japanese composer * August 30 – Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player *

** Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) ** Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d.

)

September

* September 1 – Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born American singer * September 6 – José Sócrates, 117th Prime Minister of Portugal * September 7 ** Ewa Kasprzyk (athlete), Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish athlete ** John McInerney, British-German singer-songwriter (Bad Boys Blue) * September 8 – Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezuelan singer * September 11 – Preben Elkjær, Danish footballer * September 12 ** Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian ** Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer ** Rachel Ward, English-born actress ** Hans Zimmer, German composer * September 13 ** Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines ** Cesare Bocci, Italian actor ** Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer * September 16 – David McCreery, Irish footballer * September 18 – Mark Wells, American professional ice hockey player * September 19 ** Chris Roupas, Greek-American basketball player ** Mark Acheson, Canadian film, television and voice actor * September 20 – Sabine Christiansen, German journalist and television presenter *

** Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor ** Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia * September 22 ** Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor ** Mark Johnson (ice hockey), Mark Johnson, American professional ice hockey player and coach ** Dalia Reyes Barrios, Venezuelan art collector * September 25 – Michael Madsen, American actor * September 26 – Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and football manager * September 27 – Peter Sellars, American theatre director * September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician *

– Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian * September 30 – Fran Drescher, American actress

October

**Bill Fagerbakke, American actor **Aleksandr Tkachyov (gymnast), Aleksandr Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast * October 5 – Bernie Mac, African-American stand-up comedian and actor (d.

) * October 7 – Jayne Torvill, British ice dancer and Olympian * October 8 ** Ewan Stewart, Scottish actor ** Magdalena Cajías, Bolivian academic, historian, and politician. * October 9 – Herman Brusselmans, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright and columnist *

– Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese manga artist *

** Dawn French, British comedian ** Eric Keenleyside, Canadian actor * October 12 – Clémentine Célarié, French actress * October 15 – Stacy Peralta, American director and skateboarder * October 20 – Manuel Huerga, Spanish film director and screenwriter *

** Steve Lukather, American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer ** Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate * October 22 – Daniel Melingo, Argentine musician *

– Paul Kagame, 4th President of Rwanda * October 25 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress (Bart Simpson from 'The Simpsons') * October 26 ** Bob Golic, American football player ** Julie Dawn Cole, English actress *

– Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director **Jeff East, American actor * October 28 – Stephen Morris (musician), Stephen Morris, British drummer * October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor (Homer Simpson from 'The Simpsons') * October 30 ** Kevin Pollak, American actor ** Richard Jeni, American stand-up comedian and actor (d. 2007) * October 31 ** Brian Stokes Mitchell, American actor and singer ** Robert Pollard, American musician ** Shirley Phelps-Roper, American political and religious activist

November

– Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and martial artist * November 4 – Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia * November 5 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984) * November 6 ** Cam Clarke, American voice actor and singer ** Ciro Gomes, Brazilian lawyer and politician ** Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive ** Lori Singer, American actress and musician * November 7 – Christopher Knight (actor), Christopher Knight, American actor * November 10 – George Lowe, American voice actor and comedian * November 12 – Cécilia Attias, wife of French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy *

** Greg Abbott, American attorney and politician ** Roger Ingram, American jazz musician, author, educator, trumpet designer * November 14 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998) *

– Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist * November 18 – Olivia Heussler, Swiss photojournalist * November 19 ** Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000) ** Tom Virtue, American actor * November 20 ** John Eriksen, Danish footballer (d. 2002) ** Goodluck Jonathan, 14th President of Nigeria ** Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (d. 1985) * November 21 – Sophie Lorain, Canadian actress, director and producer * November 22 ** Don Newman (basketball), Don Newman, American basketball coach and player (d.

) ** Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto * November 23 – William Kaelin Jr., American cellular biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate * November 24 – Denise Crosby, American screen actress * November 26 ** Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (d.

) ** Matthias Reim, German singer-songwriter * November 27 ** Kenny 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 *

– Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian

December

** Tjahjo Kumolo, Indonesian politician (d.

) ** Deep Roy, Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer, and comedian ** Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011) * December 3 – Maxim Korobov, Russian businessman and politician *

– Eric S. Raymond, American open source software advocate *

** Thomas Brinkman, American politician ** Andrew Cuomo, American politician *December 7 – Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019) * December 9 ** Peter O'Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer ** Donny Osmond, American singer and actor (The Osmonds) ** José Luis Gil, Spanish actor and voice actor *

** Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012) ** José Mário Vaz, former List of Presidents of Guinea-Bissau, President of Guinea-Bissau ** Paul Hardcastle, English musician * December 12 – Sheila E., American percussionist, singer, author, and actress * December 13 – Steve Buscemi, American actor * December 15 – Laura Molina (artist), Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress * December 16 – Nikolaos Michaloliakos, Greek politician, founder and leader of Golden Dawn (political party), Golden Dawn, a Neo-Nazism, neo-nazi party * December 17 – Doug Parker (voice actor), Doug Parker, Canadian voice actor and voice director * December 19 ** Tracy Pew, Australian musician (d. 1986) ** Kevin McHale (basketball), Kevin McHale, American basketball player *

** Billy Bragg, British singer ** Joyce Hyser, American actress ** Anna Vissi, Greek singer * December 21 ** Tom Henke, American baseball player ** Ray Romano, American actor and comedian * December 24 – Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan * December 25 – Shane MacGowan, Irish singer and songwriter (The Pogues) * December 30 ** Matt Lauer, American newscaster ** Joanna Pacuła, Polish actress

Date unknown

*Emily Alemika, Nigerian Professor of Law *Genie (feral child), Genie, American feral child *Marie Mendras, political scientist

Deaths

January

* January 4 – Theodor Körner (Austrian president), Theodor Körner, Austrian statesman, 5th President of Austria (b. 1873) * January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) * January 13 – A. E. Coppard, English short story writer and poet (b. 1878) * January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899) * January 16 ** Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English army officer and colonial administrator (b. 1874) ** Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867) * January 20 – James Brendan Connolly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1868) *

** Helene 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 1 – Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal (b. 1890) * February 2 – Julia Morgan, American architect (b. 1872) * February 4 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter (b. 1904) *

** Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) ** John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (b. 1903) *

– Miklós Horthy, Austro-Hungarian admiral and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1868) *

– Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867) *

** Josef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and composer (b. 1876) ** John Sealy Townsend, Sir John Townsend, Irish mathematical physicist (b. 1868) *

, uxoricide, last person to be executed in New Zealand (b. 1888) **

, Kenyan rebel leader, executed (b. 1920) ** Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877) * February 19 – Märta Torén, Swedish actress (b. 1925) * February 20 – Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Turkish politician and academic (b. 1878) * February 23 – Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1922) * February 25 – Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893) * February 27 – Wiljo Tuompo, Finnish general (b. 1893)

March

* March 5 – William Cameron Menzies, American film production designer (b. 1896) *

– Alexander Godley, Sir Alexander Godley, British general (b. 1867) * March 7 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter (b. 1882) *

– János Esterházy, Hungarian politician in Czechoslovakia (b. 1901) * March 11 – Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888) * March 12 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877) * March 14 – Eugenio Castellotti, Italian racing driver (car crash) (b. 1930) * March 16 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876) *

** Seale Harris, American physician (b.

) **

, 7th President of the Philippines (killed in plane crash) (b. 1907) * March 26 ** Édouard Herriot, French politician, 66th Prime Minister of France (b. 1872) ** Max Ophüls, German film director and writer (b. 1902) * March 28 – Gheorghe Tătărescu, Romanian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1886) * March 29 ** Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888) ** María Josefa Segovia Morón, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable (b. 1891) * March 31 – Gene Lockhart, Canadian actor (b. 1891)

April

* April 3 – Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor (b. 1883) * April 4 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909) * April 5 – Alagappa Chettiar, Indian philanthropist (b. 1909) * April 6 – Pierina Morosini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and blessed (b. 1931) * April 8 ** Dorothy Sebastian, American actress (b. 1903) ** Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1880) * April 11 – William Skelly, American oil magnate (b. 1878) *

– Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917) * April 16 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1882) * April 21 – Boris Kozo-Polyansky, Soviet botanist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1890) * April 23 – Roy Campbell (poet), Roy Campbell, South African poet (b. 1901) *

– Elizabeth Hesselblad, Swedish nurse and Roman Catholic saint (b.

) * April 25 – Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1880) * April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903)

May

* May 1 ** Grant Mitchell (actor), Grant Mitchell, American actor (b. 1874) ** George Paish, Sir George Paish, English economist (b. 1867) *

– Joseph McCarthy, American senator (b. 1908) * May 4 – Katie Johnson (English actress), Katie Johnson, British actress (b. 1878) * May 7 ** Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877) ** Zenón Noriega Agüero, Peruvian general, interim President of Peru (b. 1900) * May 9 ** Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892) ** Heinrich Campendonk, German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. 1889) * May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (b. 1885) * May 13 ** Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886) ** Prince Makonnen, Ethiopian prince (b. 1923) ** Robert Alfred Theobald, American admiral (b. 1884) * May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Soviet artist (b. 1884) * May 16 ** John Brown (actor), John Brown, British actor (b. 1904) ** Eliot Ness, American Bureau of Prohibition, Prohibition agent (b. 1903) * May 17 – Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian composer (b. 1880) * May 20 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-British classical scholar and intellectual (b. 1866) * May 29 – James Whale, English film director (b. 1889) * May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)

June

* June 1 ** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader (b. 1897) ** Luisa Casati, Italian patron of the arts (b. 1881) * June 6 – Kulyash Baiseitova, Soviet composer (b. 1912) * June 12 ** Robert Alton, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1906) ** Mario Urteaga Alvarado, Peruvian painter (b. 1875) ** Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician (b. 1904) * June 13 – Irving Baxter, American athlete (b. 1876) * June 14 – María Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo, Filipino Roman Catholic nun and servant of God (b. 1884) * June 15 – Norina Matchabelli, Princess Norina Matchabelli, Italian perfumier (b. 1880) * June 17 ** Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873) ** Augusto Samuel Boyd, 20th President of Panama (b. 1879) * June 18 – Henry H. Goddard, American psychologist and eugenicist (b. 1866) * June 21 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) * June 23 – Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum (b. 1887) * June 24 – František Kupka, Czech painter and graphic artist (b. 1871) * June 26 ** Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878) ** Malcolm Lowry, English poet and novelist (b. 1909) *

** Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924) ** David Wallin, Swedish artist (b. 1876)

July

* July 3 ** Richard Mohaupt, German composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1904) ** Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1932) * July 4 – Maria Crocifissa Curcio, Italian Roman Catholic and Carmelite nun (b. 1877) * July 8 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879) * July 10 – Sholem Asch, Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist and essayist (b. 1880) *

–

, 48th Nizari Imam (b. 1877) * July 15 ** George Cleveland, Canadian actor (b. 1885) ** James M. Cox, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the 1920 United States presidential election, election of 1920 (b.

) ** Vasily Maklakov, Russian liberal politician and parliamentary orator (b. 1869) * July 23 – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (b. 1896) * July 24 ** Metodija Andonov-Čento, Macedonian statesman (b. 1902) ** Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playwright, actor and director (b. 1885) * July 26 – Carlos Castillo Armas, Guatemalan military officer and politician, 28th President of Guatemala (assassinated) (b. 1914) *

– Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator and author (b. 1876)

August

* August 3 – Devdas Gandhi, youngest son of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1900) *

– Washington Luís, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869) * August 5 – Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) * August 7 – Oliver Hardy, American actor (b. 1892) * August 11 – Rudolf Weigl, Polish biologist (b. 1883) * August 16 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) * August 19 – David Bomberg, British Vorticist painter (b. 1890) * August 20 – Julio Lozano Díaz, President of Honduras (b. 1885) * August 30 – Harold Gatty, Australian aviator (b. 1903)

September

* September 1 – Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921) (car crash) * September 2 – Bobby Myers (racing driver), Bobby Myers, American NASCAR driver (b. 1927) *

– Muhammad al-Muqri, grand vizier of Morocco (b. 1844) * September 15 – Lee Hill (actor), Lee Hill, American actor (b. 1894) * September 16 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864) * September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865) *

**Jimmy Callahan (actor), Jimmy Callahan, American actor (b. 1891) ** Norma Giménez, Argentine actress (b. 1930) ** Margaret Ashmore Sudduth, American educator, editor, temperance advocate (b. 1859) ** King Haakon VII of Norway (b. 1872) * September 22 – Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) * September 25 – Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1895) * September 28 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1888) *

– George Bagration of Mukhrani, Prince George Bagration, Georgian nobleman (b. 1884)

October

* October 3 ** Bernard Maybeck, American Arts and Crafts architect (b. 1862) ** Lőrinc Szabó, Hungarian poet (b. 1900) * October 9 – Hassiba Ben Bouali, Algerian militant (b. 1938) * October 19 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (b. 1892) * October 20 – Jack Buchanan, British actor (b. 1891) *

– Frederick Burton (actor), Frederick Burton, American actor (b. 1871) * October 24 ** Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905) ** Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African artist (b. 1886) * October 25 ** Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b. 1902) ** Lord Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878) * October 26 ** Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) ** Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883) *

– Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil and electrical engineer, aircraft designer and industrialist (b. 1886) * October 29 – Louis B. Mayer, American film studio mogul, former head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (b. 1885) * October 30 – José Patricio Guggiari, Paraguayan politician, 32nd President of Paraguay (b. 1884)

November

* November 2 ** William Haywood (architect), William Haywood, British architect (b. 1876) ** Ted Meredith, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891) *

** Charles Brabin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1882) **

, Soviet space dog (b. c. 1954) ** Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1897) * November 4 ** Joseph Canteloube, French composer and singer (b. 1879) ** Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b. 1897) ** Grigore Preoteasa, Romanian activist (b. 1915) * November 7 ** Dina Romano, Italian stage and film actress (b. 1888) ** Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter and printmaker (b. 1883) * November 11 – Masao Maruyama (Japanese Army officer), Masao Maruyama, Japanese general (b. 1889) *

– Antonín Zápotocký, 6th President and 15th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) *

– Andrzej Bursa, Polish poet (b. 1932) * November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress (b. 1890) * November 18 – Rudolf Diels, German Nazi civil servant and ''Gestapo'' chief (b. 1900) * November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) * November 25 ** Prince George of Greece and Denmark, high commissioner of the Cretan State (b. 1869) ** Raymond Griffith, American actor (b. 1895) ** William V. Pratt, American admiral (b. 1869) * November 26 ** Billy Bevan, Australian actor (b. 1887) ** Petros Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884) * November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897) *

– Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)

December

* December 2 – Harrison Ford (silent film actor), Harrison Ford, American silent film actor (b. 1884) *

– John Lavarack, Sir John Lavarack, Australian general, Governor of Queensland (b. 1885) *

** Claude Barnard, Australian politician and government minister (b. 1890) ** Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist (b. 1881) * December 8 **Petre Antonescu (general), Petre Antonescu, Romanian general (b. 1891) **Reginald Sheffield, English actor (b. 1901) *

– Maurice McLoughlin, American tennis champion (b. 1890) *

** James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of South Africa's Kruger National Park (b. 1867) ** Napoleon Zervas, Greek WW II Resistance leader (b. 1891) * December 11 – Musidora, French actress (b. 1889) * December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, Mexican actor (b. 1904) * December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1893) * December 21 – Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886) * December 24 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1894) * December 25 ** Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam (b. 1874) ** Charles Pathé, French film pioneer (b. 1863) * December 26 – Angelo Motta, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1890) * December 28 – Hilda Vaughn, American actress (b. 1898) * December 31 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Chen-Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Alexander R. Todd, Lord Alexander R. Todd * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Daniel Bovet * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Albert Camus * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Lester Bowles Pearson

References

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