1957 deaths

Chinese painter (1864-1957)

American actress and film producer (1894–1957)

Prince of Greece and Denmark (1869-1957)

British-born American film director

Austrian mountaineer (1924-1957)

President of Brazil (1945-1946)

Austrian mathematician and writer (1882-1957)

German explorer (1877-1957)

German photographer, personal photographer of Adolf Hitler (1885-1957)

French ethnographer and folklorist (1873–1957)

Guatemalan President (1914-1957)

Estonian poet and translator (1864-1957)

Baltic German chemist (1863-1957)

athletics competitor

Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language (1880-1957)

Japanese diplomat and politician (1887–1957)

Mexican actor and singer (1917-1957)

Polish poet (1878-1957)

Polish musician (1876-1957)

English painter, writer and critic (1882-1957)

German lawyer and civil servant, first Gestapo chief and protege of Gestapo founder Hermann Göring (1900-1957)

German politician (NSDAP), MdR and journalist (1891–1957)

German gynaecologist and medical researcher (1881–1957)

Italian cyclist (1883–1957)

Swedish religious foundress (1870–1957)

American Prohibition agent (1903-1957)

French writer and French navy officer (1876-1957)

English priest and theologian (1888–1957)

Japanese admiral (1885–1957)

Croatian journalist, novelist, dramatist (1873–1957)

racecar driver (1928-1957)

American athletics competitor (1891–1957)

American architect and engineer (1872-1957)

Romanian politician (1886–1957)

Norwegian oceanographer (1888–1957)

Polish biologist, physician, and inventor (1883-1957)

American actress (1906–1957)

American actress (1932–1957)

Lebanese-American poet

American clarinetist, alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, brother of Tommy Dorsey (1904–1957)

Irish artist (1871-1957)

Jeanne Roques (23 February 1889 – 11 December 1957), known professionally as Musidora, was a French actress, film director, and writer. She is known for her acting in silent films, and rose to fame for roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires as Irma Vep and in Judex as Marie Verdier.

Turkish general and statesperson (1882–1957)

British Army general (1874-1957)

British Army general (1885–1957)

prominent Yugoslavian/Serbian Communist (1890–1957)

Soviet-Kazakh singer

English linguist, philosopher, writer (1889–1957)

Italian-American Costa Nostra mobster

American film production designer and art director (1896-1957)

American politician and Governor of Ohio (1870–1957)

Italian racecar driver

Italian-American mob boss (1882–1957)

Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician (1874-1957)

Persian poet (1887–1957)

actor (1891-1957)

British writer (1873–1957)

Italian aeronautical engineer (1886–1957)

Czech chess player (1882–1957)

Indian activist (1900–1957)