Curated playlist
1957 deaths
- Frederick S. BoasFrederick S. Boas gave Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy, a scholarly edition in 1901.
- Humphrey BogartHumphrey Bogart's ashes were buried with a small gold whistle from a bracelet he gave Lauren Bacall.
- Louis B. MayerLouis B. Mayer pushed a junk cart as a boy, then became America's highest-paid man.
- Devdas GandhiDevdas Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's youngest son, had to wait five years to marry Lakshmi. They wed in 1933.
- John von NeumannJohn von Neumann's father asked Theodore von Kármán to talk his son out of mathematics.
- Carlos Castillo ArmasCarlos Castillo Armas, Guatemala's president, was shot dead in his palace by a guard in 1957.
- Mamoru ShigemitsuMamoru Shigemitsu signed Japan's surrender on a cane and an artificial leg. A Shanghai bomb took his leg in 1932.
- Wilhelm ReichIn 1956, a United States court ordered six tons of Wilhelm Reich's books and papers burned.
- Richard E. ByrdRichard E. Byrd, an American naval officer, spent 13 minutes circling a patch of Arctic sky on the 9th of May 1926. Then he turned for home. By his own account, he had just reached the North Pole. The round trip took 15 hours and 57…
- Albert AnastasiaAlbert Anastasia was born Umberto Anastasio in Calabria, Italy, and died in a barber's chair in Manhattan on the 25th of October 1957. Along the way he collected the nicknames The Earthquake and The One-Man Army. Few figures in American…