Historical figures in 1957
The atlas holds 95 people and 141 moments here, in 1957. The most recorded lives are Ngô Đình Diệm, Juan Manuel Fangio and Martin Luther King Jr.. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Kim Il Sung
in 1957
1 moment here
Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Kwame Nkrumah
in 1957
1 moment here
Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…
Lee Kuan Yew
in 1957
1 moment here
Singaporean barrister and statesman who co-founded the People’s Action Party and served as Singapore’s first prime minister from 1959 to 1990.…
Louis Armstrong
in 1957
1 moment here
American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Manmohan Singh
in 1957
2 moments here
Indian economist, academic, civil servant, finance minister and prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014.…
Mao Zedong
in 1957
1 moment here
Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…
Martin Luther King Jr.
in 1957
3 moments here
American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader who advanced racial equality through nonviolent protest.…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1957
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Momoko Kōchi
in 1957
1 moment here
Japanese film, stage, and television actress, born Momoko Ōkōchi. She became widely known for playing Emiko Yamane in Godzilla (1954), later worked…
Mwai Kibaki
in 1957
1 moment here
Kenyan economist and politician who served as Kenya’s third president from 2002 to 2013. This chronology records documented physical presence from…
Ngô Đình Diệm
in 1957
14 moments here
Ngô Đình Diệm was a Vietnamese civil servant, nationalist politician, prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and first president of the Republic of…
Niels Bohr
in 1957
1 moment here
Danish theoretical physicist whose work on atomic structure and quantum theory earned the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.…
Osama bin Laden
in 1957
2 moments here
Saudi-born founder and first emir of al-Qaeda. His documented movements include childhood and education in Saudi Arabia and England; militant…
Oscar Niemeyer
in 1957
1 moment here
Brazilian modernist architect whose career ranged from early work in Rio de Janeiro and New York to Brasília, Paris exile, and later international…
Osho
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian guru and founder of the Rajneesh movement, born Chandra Mohan Jain. His documented life moved between central and western India, the United…
Pablo Picasso
in 1957
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pelé
in 1957
1 moment here
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
Pervez Musharraf
in 1957
1 moment here
Pakistani military officer and politician who served as Pakistan’s chief executive after the 1999 coup and as president from 2001 to 2008.…
Pranab Mukherjee
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian politician and statesman who served as the 13th President of India from 25 July 2012 to 25 July 2017.…
Rajendra Prasad
in 1957
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, independence leader, journalist and statesman who became the first President of India, serving from 1950 to 1962.…
Richard Nixon
in 1957
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Ronald Reagan
in 1957
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Rosa Parks
in 1957
3 moments here
American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Saint-John Perse
in 1957
1 moment here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Moments
- 1957 Arrival for The Vikings filming Tony Curtis
- 1957 Grand marshal at Spring Green Centennial Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1957 Dedication of the Truman Library Harry S. Truman
- 1957 First Pugwash Conference Hideki Yukawa
- 1957 Arrival in Pyongyang Ho Chi Minh
- 1957 Stop in Beijing Ho Chi Minh
- 1957 Wuhan bridge-construction visit Ho Chi Minh
- 1957 National ethnic-work meeting Huang Xianfan
- 1957 Quarrymen performance and meeting Paul McCartney John Lennon
- 1957 Brazil debut at Maracanã Pelé
- 1957 Final Formula One victory Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1957 Official visit to Thailand Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Paints Las Meninas series at Cannes Pablo Picasso
- 1957 Relocation to Detroit Rosa Parks
- 1957 Proclamation of Malayan independence Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1957 Interview with Nikita Khrushchev Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1957 Soviet Union journey Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1957 Address to Australian Parliament Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Arrival in Canberra Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Melbourne visit Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Sydney visit Ngô Đình Diệm
- 1957 Friendly visit to China Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1957 Welcoming address at International PEN Congress Yasunari Kawabata
- 1957 Addressed the United Nations Elizabeth II
- 1957 Knesset bombing Golda Meir
- 1957 Visit to Tokyo Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1957 Hostess work in Hampton Rosa Parks
- 1957 UN Sixth Committee address Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- 1957 Death at San Ángel studio Diego Rivera
- 1957 Lectures and laboratory visit in Copenhagen Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1957 October Revolution celebrations Kim Il Sung
- 1957 World Vegetarian Congress inauguration Rajendra Prasad
- 1957 Posting to Northern Fleet fighter regiment Yuri Gagarin
- 1957 Create Dangerously lecture Albert Camus
- 1957 Lucia ceremony in Stockholm Albert Camus
- 1957 Nobel banquet speech Albert Camus
- 1957 Move to Caracas Gabriel García Márquez
- 1957 Toho branch-opening visit Momoko Kōchi
- 1957 Return to Detroit Rosa Parks
- 1957 Nobel Prize ceremony Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1957 Nobel Banquet speech Yang Chen-Ning