Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.

Ramstedt ( 1952 – 1957 ).

* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.

* 1957 – Jaroslava Maxova, Czech soprano and vocal coach

* 1957 – Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut

* 1957 – Greg Child, Australian mountaineer

* 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs )

* 1957 – Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky

* 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

* 1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer

* 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver ( d. 1957 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player

* 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician

* 1957 – Melanie Griffith, American actress

* 1884 – Harry Dean, English cricketer ( d. 1957 )

* 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter

* 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian theoretician and activist

* 1957 – Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and producer ( Garbage and Spooner )

* 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ).

* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer

* Yang Chen Ning – physicist, Nobel laureate ( Physics ) 1957

* Chen Ning Yang, Leading theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner of 1957.

* Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee ( Physics, 1957 )

* Tie Ning ( 鐵凝 ) ( 1957 —)

Tie Ning (, born 1957 ) is a Chinese author born in 1957 in Peking, China, with her ancestral hometown in Hebei Province.

The macroscopic quantum coherence ( Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order, ODLRO ) & Onsager ( 1957 ), C. N. Yang ( 1962 ) for laser light, and superfluidity, is related to first-order ( 1-body ) coherence / ODLRO, while superconductivity is related to second-order coherence / ODLRO.

Wu and her collaborators of parity non-conservation, Lee and Yang were awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics.

In recognition for their theoretical work, Lee and Yang were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957.

In 1957, Lee and Yang proved the concepts of broken symmetry and parity violation, for which they won the Nobel prize.

In August 1957, having rejected the suggested title of Yang di-Pertuan Besar in favour of Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Council of Rulers met to elect the first occupant of the throne.

Also part of the Commonwealth but an independent monarchy, Malaysia performs Trooping the Colours every first Saturday of June, the official birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the elected Malaysian King, in front of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Raja Permaisuri Agong, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Deputy Prime Minister, and other officials of the Government, and officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces, of which the King is the Commander-in-Chief as prescribed by the Malaysian Constitution of 1957 as amended.

On 3 August 1957, by eight votes to one, Sultan Alam Shah was elected Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong of independent Malaya.

Media reports highlighted the particularly warm reception which leaders of both countries received whenever they visited each other's domains, particularly in July 1988, when Sultan Iskandar's visit to Singapore marked the first official visit by any Yang di-Pertuan Agong since 1957.

In 1957, her husband was elected as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of independent Malaya ( later Malaysia ) and she became the first Raja Permaisuri Agong or Queen.

Meanwhile, at the Conference of Rulers in March 1957, Tunku Abdul Rahman expressed his desire to elect Sultan Ibrahim as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, but Sultan Ibrahim declined on grounds of his old age and desire to lead his final years in retirement.

Tsai Ming-liang () ( born October 27, 1957 ) is a Malaysian Chinese and one of the most celebrated " Second New Wave " film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang.

Yang, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957.

Lee Hsien Yang (, born 1957 ) is the second son of Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.