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

Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO PC ( November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957 ) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.

Ephrem the Syrian wrote a commentary on it, the Syriac original of which was rediscovered only in 1957, when a manuscript acquired by Sir Chester Beatty in 1957 ( now Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709, Dublin ) turned out to contain the text of Ephrem's commentary.

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Sir John Northcott, the first Australian-born person appointed as Governor ( 1946 – 1957 ). The governor is required by the Constitution Act, 1902.

Sir Eric Woodward, the first New South Wales-born person appointed as Governor ( 1957 – 65 )

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

* 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.

* Return to the Islands, Sir Arthur Grimble, John Murray & Co, London, 1957

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In 1957 a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London had been set up under Sir Edwin Herbert, and this reported in 1960, recommending the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local government.

* Lester Piggott – Never Say Die ( 1954 ), Crepello ( 1957 ), St. Paddy ( 1960 ), Sir Ivor ( 1968 ), Nijinsky ( 1970 ), Roberto ( 1972 ), Empery ( 1976 ), The Minstrel ( 1977 ), Teenoso ( 1983 )

Sir David Lean, CBE ( 25 March 190816 April 1991 ) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ),

* Sir Andries Stockenstrom, 1st Baronet, of Cape of Good Hope ( 1840 ), extinct 1957

Between 1957 and 1992 the long-serving MP for Beckenham was Sir Philip Goodhart, who was soon discovered by Mrs Thatcher to be a ' wet ' and consequently his career as a junior minister came to a quick end early in her premiership.

* Sir Gilbert Murray ( 1866 – 1957 ), classical scholar and diplomat

Sir Anthony and his wife Mary had four children: Alexandra Mary ( born 1955 ), Antonia Ruth and Joanna Cynthia ( twins, born 1957 ), and Edward Anthony Morys ( born 1960 ).

* Jean Alice ( 1882 – 1957 ), married Sir David Maughan ( 1873 – 1955 ) in 1909

The show has had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first airing on 24 April 1957, making it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history.

After delivering the British Academy's 1957 Raleigh Lecture on History about Sir Richard Grenville's place in English history he became a Fellow of the Academy ( FBA ) in 1958.

In 1957, Sir Hugh Casson and Neville Conder were asked by the university to prepare a masterplan on the site of the original 1900 buildings which were incomplete.

* The Passionate Lash or The Revenge of Sir Hilary Garner ( c. 1957 ) by Alan McClyde ( Pall Mall Press: Paris ) – Alan Mac Clyde was a popular house name used for erotic books from the 1920s to the 1970s.

* Sir Bernard Heinze ( Director 1957 – 66 )

* Sir Walter Monckton 1956 – 1957