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 – 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

* Jaroslava Maxová ( b. 1957 ) – mezzo-soprano opera singer

* 1882 – Oldrich Duras, Czech chess grandmaster ( d. 1957 )

The algorithm was developed in 1930 by Czech mathematician Vojtěch Jarník and later independently by computer scientist Robert C. Prim in 1957 and rediscovered by Edsger Dijkstra in 1959.

* Luboš Urban ( b. 1957 ) – Czech football player and manager

An Ilyushin Il-12 of Czech Airlines at Paris Orly Airport in 1957

František Kupka ( September 23, 1871 – June 24, 1957 ), ( also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka ), was a Czech painter and graphic artist.

Later, in 1957, the Czech mathematician Jaroslav Kurzweil discovered a new definition of this integral elegantly similar in nature to Riemann's original definition which he named the gauge integral ; the theory was developed by Ralph Henstock.

* Jaroslav Róna ( b. 1957 ), a Czech sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer

Oldřich Duras ( also Důras ; 30 October 1882, Pchery, Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 January 1957, Prague, then Czechoslovakia ) was a leading Czech chess master of the early 20th century.

* Ročník 21 (" Born in ' 21 ", 1957, Czech )

Josef Lada ( born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice-14 December 1957 in Prague, buried at Olšany Cemetery ) was a Czech painter and writer.

Josef Skupa ( 16 January 1892 Strakonice – 8 January 1957 Prague ) was a Czech puppeteer.

* Vojtěch Lindaur, pseudonym: Hugo Kočár ( born 1957, Plzeň ), Czech publicist, writer

Christo studied art at the Sofia Academy from 1953 to 1956, and went to Prague, Czechoslovakia ( now Czech Republic ) until 1957, when he left for the West by bribing a railway official and stowing away with several other individuals on board a train transporting medicine and medical supplies to Austria.

The plane was operated by Aeroflot ( from 1956 ) and Czech Airlines ČSA ( from 1957 ).

Ralph Benatzky ( 5 June 1884, ( Mährisch ) Budwitz ()), Moravia, Austrian Empire – 16 October 1957 ), born in Moravské Budějovice as Rudolf Josef František Benatzki, was an Austrian composer of Czech origin ( when Benatzky was born Bohemia was part of the Austrian empire, Benatzky mostly worked in Vienna ).

* Oldřich Duras or Důras ( 1882 – 1957 ), Czech chess International Grandmaster

The Čezeta was a motor scooter manufactured from 1957 to 1964 in what was then Czechoslovakia, ( now the Czech Republic ), by the Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice ( ČZ ) company, which manufactured motorcycles from 1935 to 1997.

* Vlastimil Klíma ( born 1957 ), Czech cryptographer