List of Famous people who died in 1957

Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart
First Name Humphrey
Last Name Bogart
Born on December 25, 1899
Died on January 14, 1957 (aged 57)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.

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John von Neumann

Neumann János Lajos
First Name John
Last Name Neumann
Born on December 28, 1903
Died on February 8, 1957 (aged 53)
Born in Hungary

John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians". He integrated pure and applied sciences.

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Oliver Hardy

First Name Oliver
Last Name Hardy
Born on January 18, 1892
Died on August 7, 1957 (aged 65)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1955. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy
First Name Joseph
Last Name McCarthy
Born on November 14, 1908
Died on May 2, 1957 (aged 48)

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

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Pedro Infante

Pedro Infante Cruz
First Name Pedro
Last Name Infante
Born on November 18, 1917
Died on April 15, 1957 (aged 39)
Born in Mexico, Sinaloa

Pedro Infante Cruz was a popular Mexican actor and ranchera singer, whose career spanned over two decades, and whose fame and popularity also spread to other Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Guatemala and Peru, having appeared in multiple movies during the golden age of Mexican cinema.

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Boy in the Box

First Name Boy
Last Name Box
Born on November 30, 1949
Died on February 1, 1957 (aged 7)

The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unidentified murder victim, a 4-to 6-year-old boy, whose naked, battered body was found in a bassinet box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly called "America's Unknown Child." His identity has never been discovered, and the case remains open.

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Eliot Ness

First Name Eliot
Last Name Ness
Born on April 19, 1903
Died on May 16, 1957 (aged 54)

Eliot Ness was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables. His co-authorship of a popular autobiography, The Untouchables, which was released shortly after his death, launched several television and motion picture portrayals that established Ness's posthumous fame as an incorruptible crime fighter.

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Wilhelm Reich

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Reich
Born on March 24, 1897
Died on November 3, 1957 (aged 60)
Born in Ukraine, Lviv Oblast

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936), Reich became known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.

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Jack Gilbert Graham

First Name Jack
Last Name Graham
Born on January 23, 1932
Died on January 11, 1957 (aged 24)

John "Jack" Gilbert Graham was an American mass murderer who, on November 1, 1955, killed 44 people aboard United Airlines Flight 629 near Longmont, Colorado, using a dynamite time bomb. Graham planted the bomb in his mother's suitcase in an apparent move to murder his mother and claim $37,500 worth of life insurance money from policies he purchased in the airport terminal just before the flight departure. Graham was charged with and convicted of the murder of his mother. He was sentenced to death and was executed by the state of Colorado in January 1957.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

First Name Laura
Last Name Wilder
Born on February 7, 1867
Died on February 10, 1957 (aged 90)

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between 1932 and 1943, which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.

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