List of Famous people who died at 57

Douglas Richards Kennedy was an American supporting actor originally from New York City who appeared in more than 190 films between 1935 and 1973.

Amos Lavi was an Israeli stage and film actor. He won three Ophir Awards for the roles he played in the films Sh'Chur, Nashim and Zirkus Palestina.

Peter Rice was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dublin, he grew up in 52 Castle Road, Dundalk in County Louth, and spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a year at Imperial College, London. Rice acted as Structural Engineer on three of the most important architectural works of the 20th century: the Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's Building and was renowned for his innate ability to act as both engineer and designer.

Meles Zenawi Asres was an Ethiopian politician who was President of Ethiopia and consecutively served as 2nd Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He was considered the founder of the ethnofederalism of modern Ethiopia, which is still controversial democratic system due to concerning ethnic conflict and human rights abuses.

Bruno Touschek was an Austrian physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders.

Esther Vilenska was a Lithuanian Jewish Israeli communist politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965.

Ofira Resnikov Navon was the wife of Yitzhak Navon, the fifth President of Israel.