List of Famous people who died at 57

Archduchess Adelheid of Austria was a member of the Austrian imperial family, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Eva Galvache was a Spanish radio journalist.

Bikki Sunazawa (砂澤ビッキ) was a Japanese self-taught woodcarver, painter, and sculptor of Ainu origin. Sunazawa is respected for helping make the Ainu culture known to the world through his works performed in the Ainu manner. Sunazawa is also known for designing the Ainu flag in 1971. His son Oki, an Ainu Japanese musician, applies the same approach to music.

João Leithardt Neto, nicknamed Kita, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. He competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics with the Brazil national football team.

Andreas Kunze was a German actor and photographer.

(Heloise) Ruth First was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar. She was assassinated in Mozambique, where she was working in exile, by a parcel bomb built by South African police.

Polixeni Papapetrou was an Australian photographer noted for her themed photo series about people's identities. Photo series she has made include Elvis Presley fans, Marilyn Monroe impersonators, drag queens, wrestlers and bodybuilders and the recreation of photographs by Lewis Carroll using her daughter as a model.

Yevgeny Vladimirivich Kolobov was a Russian conductor.

Barbara Maria Blida, née Szwajnoch was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament (Sejm) for 16 years (1989–2005), including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose suicide in the midst of an investigation for corruption became front-page news in Poland as well as in a number of news outlets around the world.