* 1901 – John Van Druten, English playwright and director ( d. 1957 )

* William Marchant ( 1923 – 1995 ), playwright and screenwriter, best known for writing the play that served as the basis for the 1957 Walter Lang movie, The Desk Set.

* Billy Van Zandt ( born 1957 ), actor / playwright.

David Henry Hwang (; born August 11, 1957 ) is an American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U. S.

She was also an actress, author, and playwright whose 1957 memoir was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.

* David Henry Hwang, US American playwright ( b. 1957 )

Paloma Pedrero ( born 3 July 1957 ) in Madrid, is a Spanish actress, theatre director and playwright.

Robert Lepage, ( born December 12, 1957 in Québec City ) is a playwright, actor, film director, and stage director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.

Alexandre-Pierre Georges " Sacha " Guitry ( 21 February 188524 July 1957 ) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.

" When it broke the record for the longest run of a play in the West End in September 1957, Christie received a mildly grudging telegram from fellow playwright Noël Coward: " Much as it pains me I really must congratulate you ..." In 2011 ( by which time The Mousetrap had been running for almost 59 years ) this long-lost document was found by a Cotswold furniture maker who was renovating a bureau purchased by a client from the Christie estate.

Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).

John William Van Druten ( 1 June 190119 December 1957 ) was an English playwright and theatre director, known professionally as John Van Druten.

Camil Petrescu (; April 22, 1894 – May 14, 1957 ; born and died in Bucharest ) was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet.

Eugene " Gene " Lockhart ( July 18, 1891 – March 31, 1957 ) was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright.

Jean Marc Dalpé ( born 21 February 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario ) is a Canadian playwright and poet.

Peng Chun Chang also P. C. Chang () ( 1892 – 1957 ) was a Chinese professor, philosopher and playwright.

* Peng Chun Chang ( 1892 – 1957 ), Chinese professor, philosopher, and playwright who played a pivotal role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Erwin Riess ( born March 13, 1957 ) is a disabled playwright and dramatist was born in Vienna, Austria.

The legend was adapted into a Cantonese opera by playwright Tang Ti-sheng, and was first shown in the Lee Theatre on 7 June, 1957.

Ellen McLaughlin ( born November 9, 1957 ) is an American playwright and actor for stage and film.

* February 21, Sacha Guitry, French actor, director, screenwriter and playwright ( d. 1957 )

Please Don't Eat the Daisies ( New York: Doubleday, 1957 ) is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys.

As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.

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

* 1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer

BCS theory, proposed by John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer ( BCS ) in 1957, is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since its discovery in 1911.

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

The idea of MWI originated in Everett's Princeton Ph. D. thesis " The Theory of the Universal Wavefunction ", developed under his thesis advisor John Archibald Wheeler, a shorter summary of which was published in 1957 entitled " Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics " ( Wheeler contributed the title " relative state "; Everett originally called his approach the " Correlation Interpretation ", where " correlation " refers to quantum entanglement ).

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1957 – John Turturro, American actor

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

The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr .' s Islands of Space in Astounding Science Fiction.

* John M. Ford ( 1957 – 2006 ), American science fiction writer and poet ; achieved iconic status in genre community as columnist and personality known under pen name " Dr. Mike "

* John Young ( soccer player ) ( born 1957 ), retired Scottish football ( soccer ) midfielder

* John Young ( Dean of St George's Cathedral ) ( born 1914 ), Georgetown, Guyana, 1948 – 1957

In 1957, John Bardeen, in collaboration with Leon Cooper and his doctoral student John Robert Schrieffer, proposed the standard theory of superconductivity known as the BCS theory ( named for their initials ).

* 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.

* 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

* John William Brown ( 1913 – 1993 ), Ohio governor for eleven days in 1957 ( R )

* John Brown ( actor ) ( 1904 – 1957 ), English radio and film actor

* John E. Brown ( 1879 – 1957 ), founder of John Brown University