Famous people died in 1957 - page 2
Walther Bothe
Walther Bothe was a German nuclear physicist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nikos Kazantzakis
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek philosopher and writer
John von Neumann
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was a twentieth century Mexican muralist and painter.
Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius was an eminent Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods
Johnny Torrio
Johnny Torrio was an Italian-American gangster, who is widely acknowledged as the founder of organized crime in America
Alfred Doblin
Alfred Doblin was a physician cum novelist best known for the novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral was the pseudonym used by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator and feminist who became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Eliot Ness
Eliot Ness was an American prohibition agent who became famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley was a famous American journalist, essayist and poet