page_title: 1957
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1957 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrain of William Grove Skelly
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: April 3 – Ned Sparks, Canadian character actor (b. 1883)
  April 4 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
  April 5 – Alagappa Chettiar, Indian philanthropist (b. 1909)
  April 6 – Pierina Morosini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr and blessed (b. 1931)
  April 8
  Dorothy Sebastian, American actress (b. 1903)
  Pedro Segura y Sáenz, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop, archbishop and eminence (b. 1880)
  April 11 – William Skelly, American industrialist (b. 1878)
  April 15 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
  April 16 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1882)
  April 21 – Boris Kozo-Polyansky, Soviet botanist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1890)
  April 23 – Roy Campbell, South African poet (b. 1901)
  April 24 – Elizabeth Hesselblad, Swedish nurse and Roman Catholic saint (b. 1870)
  April 25 – Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1880)
  April 26 – Elinor Fair, American actress (b. 1903)
caption: William Skelly
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