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People Who Died in the Year 1957
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January
Humphrey Bogart
(actor) -- Dead. Esophageal cancer. Died January 14, 1957. Born December 25, 1899. Upper class kid who played crooks, detectives and won an Oscar for playing the captain of a small, leaky boat on a long tropical river (African Queen), married to Lauren Bacall for nearly 12 years. 
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Arturo Toscanini
(conductor) -- Dead. Died January 16, 1957. Born March 25, 1867. Longtime conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted the world premieres of Puccini's La Boheme and Barber's Adagio for Strings.
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February
John von Neumann
(genius) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 8, 1957. Born December 28, 1903. Leading scholar in many areas, including mathematics, physics, game theory and computer theory.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
(farmer/writer) -- Dead. Died February 10, 1957. Born February 7, 1867 . Started writing her "Little House" books after losing her money in the 1929 stock market crash.
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Oliver Hardy
(comic) -- Dead. Cerebral thrombosis. Died August 7, 1957. Born January 18, 1892. The talkative half of Laurel and Hardy
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