Famous people and celebrities who died in June 1957

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in June 1957. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• June 1 Russell Hicks
• June 2 Gaetano Quagliariello
• June 12 Jimmy Dorsey

  Jimmy Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and big band leader. He is known for his significant contribution to jazz and swing music in the 1930s and 1940s, both as a soloist and as the leader of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. [bio]

• June 12 Peggy Hopkins Joyce
• June 12 Alfredo Coppola
• June 13 Irving Baxter

  American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876).

• June 17 J. R. Williams

  Canadian-american cartoonist (b. 1888).

• June 17 Dorothy Richardson

  English journalist and author (d. 1957).

• June 17 Frank Scalice
• June 17 Wedgewood Nowell
• June 17 Esmé Percy
• June 20 Fortunato Longo
• June 21 Johannes Stark

  German physicist and academic, nobel prize laureate (b. 1874).

• June 21 Claude Farrère

  French prolific author.

• June 24 Raffaele Caporali
• June 26 Alfred Döblin

  German essayist and novelist.

• June 27 Hermann Buhl

  Legendary Austrian mountaineer who was the first to summit Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas, a groundbreaking achievement in alpine climbing...

• June 27 Malcolm Lowry

  Malcolm Lowry was a renowned Canadian novelist and poet, best known for his masterpiece 'Under the Volcano', a complex modernist novel...

• June 27 Giuseppe De Lorenzo
• June 27 Vittorio Lombardi
• June 27 Pasquale Improta
• June 27 Mamoru Shigemitsu
• June 28 Charles Seltman