Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1957

Robert Thoeren (1903–1957) was a German screenwriter and film actor. Thoeren was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After the First World War the German-speaking Thoeren emigrated to Germany where he became a theatre and film actor. Thoeren appeared in leading roles in several German-language films made by Paramount at the Joinville Studios in Paris.

Cora Witherspoon was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon’s career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play Olympia, or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women."

Zenón Noriega Agüero fue un militar y político peruano que ocupó interinamente la presidencia del Perú en 1948 y en 1950, como jefe de una Junta Militar de Gobierno, durante el Ochenio de Manuel Odría. Fue también vicepresidente, presidente del Consejo de Ministros y ministro de Guerra.

Hinnerk Scheper,, as 'Gerhard Hermann Heinrich Scheper; died 5 February 1957 in Berlin) was a German colour designer, mural painter, architectural colorist, non-fiction author, photographer, monument conservator, restorer, state curator and urban planner.

Arturo Toscanini fue un director de orquesta italiano, considerado por muchos de sus contemporáneos y por muchos críticos de la actualidad como el más grande director de orquesta de su época y del siglo XX. Era célebre por su brillante intensidad, su incansable perfeccionismo, su prodigioso oído y su memoria fotográfica, que le permitía corregir errores de los miembros de la orquesta que habían sido inadvertidos durante décadas por sus colegas.

Paul Wing was an assistant director at Paramount Pictures. He won Best Assistant DIrector during the 1935 Academy Awards in the short lived category for the film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer along with Clem Beauchamp. Wing was the assistant director on only two films owing to his service in the United States Army. During his service, Wing was in a prisoner camp that was portrayed in the film The Great Raid (2005).

Albert "Al" Charles Schaeffer was an American mathematician who worked on complex analysis.

Erich Stenger fue un fotoquímico, inventor, historiador y teórico de la fotografía alemán.