List of Famous people who died at 57

Lynne Randell

First Name Lynne
Last Name Randell
Born on December 14, 1949
Died on June 8, 2007 (aged 57)

Lynne Randell was an English Australian pop singer. For three years in the mid-1960s, she was Australia's most popular female performer and had hits with "Heart" and "Goin' Out of My Head" in 1966, and "Ciao Baby" in 1967. In 1967, Randell toured the United States with The Monkees and performed on-stage with support act Jimi Hendrix. She wrote for teen magazine, Go-Set, and television programme guide, TV Week. While on the US tour, Randell became addicted to methamphetamine, an addiction which she battled for most of her life.

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Lucy Helmore

First Name Lucy
Last Name Helmore
Died on July 23, 2018 (aged 48)

Lucy Margaret Mary Birley was a British model, photographer, and socialite.

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Scatman John

Jonathan Paul Larkin
First Name Scatman
Born on March 13, 1942
Died on December 3, 1999 (aged 57)

John Paul Larkin, known professionally as Scatman John was an American musician and singer who created a fusion of scat singing and dance music, best known for his 1995 hits "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" and "Scatman's World".

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Viktor Chanov

First Name Viktor
Born on July 21, 1959
Died on February 8, 2017 (aged 57)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Viktor Viktorovych Chanov was a Ukrainian football goalkeeper. Throughout the 1980s in the former USSR, Chanov played mainly for FC Dynamo Kyiv.

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José Afonso

José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos
First Name José
Last Name Afonso
Born on August 2, 1929
Died on February 23, 1987 (aged 57)
Born in Portugal

José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known professionally as José Afonso and also popularly known as Zeca Afonso or simply Zeca, was a Portuguese singer-songwriter. One of the most influential folk and protest musicians in the history of Portugal, he became an icon in Portugal due to the role of his music in the resistance against the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.

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Wes

Martin Kwedi Elock
Born on January 15, 1964
Died on June 25, 2021 (aged 57)

Wes Madiko, better known as Wes, was a Cameroonian musician. He is probably best known among Western audiences for "In Youpendi", a song from The Lion King II soundtrack, as well as work with Deep Forest and his own 1997 hit "Alane" produced by Michel Sanchez.

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Gavin Smith

First Name Gavin
Last Name Smith
Born on December 10, 1954
Died on May 1, 2012 (aged 57)
Height 198 cm | 6'6

Gavin Smith was an American college basketball star, actor, stuntman, and film studio executive, formerly a regional manager of distribution for 20th Century Fox. Prior to his eighteen years in that position he played basketball at UCLA, where he was part of the 1975 team that won that year's NCAA championship, the last for coach John Wooden. He later played at Hawaii, where he set the school's still-standing single-season scoring record of 23.4 points per game. He had a small role as a bartender in Cobb, the 1994 biopic of baseball player Ty Cobb.

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Maurice G. Dantec

Maurice Georges Dantec
First Name Maurice
Last Name Dantec
Born on June 13, 1959
Died on June 25, 2016 (aged 57)

Maurice Georges Dantec was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician.

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Tignous

Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac
Born on August 21, 1957
Died on January 7, 2015 (aged 57)

Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac, known by the pseudonym Tignous, was a French cartoonist. He was a long-time staff cartoonist for the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

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Bruno Kirby

First Name Bruno
Last Name Kirby
Born on April 28, 1949
Died on August 14, 2006 (aged 57)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Bruno Kirby was an American actor, singer, voice artist, and comedian. He was known for his roles in City Slickers, When Harry Met Sally..., Good Morning, Vietnam, The Godfather Part II, and Donnie Brasco. He voiced Reginald Stout in Stuart Little.

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