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Events from the year 1957 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
[edit] Publications
[edit] Births
- 6 January - Michael Foale, astronaut
- 15 January - Patrick Dixon, business guru and author
- 24 January - Adrian Edmondson, comedian
- 9 February - Gordon Strachan, footballer and manager
- 12 March - Steve Harris, bassist (Iron Maiden)
- 17 March - Mal Donaghy, footballer
- 1 April - David Gower, cricket player and commentator
- 17 April - Nick Hornby, novelist
- 29 April - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
- 3 May - Jo Brand, comedian
- 10 May - Sid Vicious, bassist (Sex Pistols) (died 1979)
- 27 May - Siouxsie Sioux, singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- 9 July
- 11 July - Peter Murphy, singer (Bauhaus)
- 17 July - Fern Britton, television presenter
- 17 August - Robin Cousins, figure skater
- 20 August - Simon Donaldson, mathematician
- 22 August - Steve Davis, snooker player
- 24 August - Stephen Fry, comedian, author and actor
- 31 August - Glenn Tilbrook, Squeeze singer songwriter
- 12 September - Rachel Ward, actress
- 7 October - Jayne Torvill, ice skater
- 11 October - Dawn French, comedian
- 13 November - Stephen Baxter, science fiction author
- 30 November - Colin Mochrie, comedian
- 8 December - Phil Collen, singer and guitarist (Def Leppard)
- 20 December - Billy Bragg, singer
[edit] Deaths
- January - Harry Gordon, popular entertainer (born 1893)
- 9 February - John Axon, railwayman (born 1900)
- 16 February - Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, statesman after whom Belisha beacons are named (born 1893)
- 7 March - Wyndham Lewis, painter and author (born 1882, Canada)
- 21 March - Charles Kay Ogden, linguist, philosopher and writer (born 1889)
- 21 April - John Graham Kerr, embryologist and politician (born 1869)
- 17 June - Dorothy Richardson, feminist writer (born 1873)
- 27 June - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (born 1909)
- 19 August - David Bomberg, painter (born 1890)
- 20 August - Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer and admiral (born 1880)
- 1 September - Dennis Brain, French horn player (born 1921)
- 4 November - William Haywood, architect (born 1876)
- 9 December - Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first bishop of Egypt and Sudan (born 1863)
- 13 December - Michael Sadleir, novelist (born 1888)
- 21 December - Eric Coates, composer (born 1886)
[edit] References
- ^ ""Sir Anthony Eden resigns", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Macmillan becomes Prime Minister", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ a b c d e (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ ""Ghana celebrates independence", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""BBC fools the nation", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ Pamela Cullen, "Stranger in Blood: The case files on Doctor John Bodkin Adams", 2006
- ^ ""Cheers as petrol rationing ended", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ "Britain drops its first H-bomb", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Smoking 'causes lung cancer'", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Bus dispute turns violent", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Malaya celebrates independence", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Homosexuality 'should not be a crime'", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Inquiry publishes cause of nuclear fire", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Lewisham rail crash dead honoured", BBC News". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
- ^ ""Foot-and-mouth shuts down abattoir", BBC On This Day". Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
[edit] See also
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