page_title: 1957
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1957 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Русский: экзарх Стефан (Шоков)
context_page_description: 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: May 1 – Grant Mitchell, American actor (b. 1874)
  May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, American Senator (b. 1908)
  May 4 – Katie Johnson, British actress (b. 1878)
  May 7
  Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (b. 1877)
  Zenón Noriega Agüero, Peruvian general, interim President of Peru (b. 1900)
  May 9
  Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
  Heinrich Campendonk, German-Dutch painter and graphic designer (b. 1889)
  May 12
  Stefan I of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Orthodox prelate and metropolitan (b.  1878)
  Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director (b. 1885)
  May 13
  Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
  Prince Makonnen (b. 1923)
  Robert "Fuzzy" Theobald, American admiral (b. 1884)
  May 14 – Marie Vassilieff, Soviet artist (b. 1884)
  May 16
  John Brown, British actor (b. 1904)
  Eliot Ness, American policeman (b. 1903)
  May 17 – Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian composer (b. 1880)
  May 20 – Gilbert Murray, Australian-British classical scholar and intellectual (b. 1866)
  May 29 – James Whale, English film director (b. 1889)
  May 31 – Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
caption: Metropolitan Stefan I of Bulgaria
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