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October 25, 1957

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Notable Births

Nancy Cartwright

1957Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress[†]

Nancy Jean Cartwright is an American actress, best known as the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on The Simpsons, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in the Field of Animation. Cartwright also voices other characters for the show, including Maggie Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and Nelson Muntz. She is also the voice of Chuckie Finster in the Nickelodeon series Rugrats and its spin-off All Grown Up!, succeeding Christine Cavanaugh.

1957Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer[†]

Enrique López Zarza is a Mexican former football forward and manager.

Robbie McIntosh

1957Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist[†]

Robbie McIntosh is an English guitarist. McIntosh is best known as a session guitarist and member of the Pretenders from 1982 until 1987. In 1988 he began doing session guitar work for Paul McCartney, joining his band full-time until early 1994. He continues to play sessions and has performed both with his own band and as a sideman with John Mayer.

Piet Wildschut

1957Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer[†]

Pieter "Piet" Wildschut is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a defender. He obtained 11 international caps for the Netherlands national team.

Notable Deaths

Albert Anastasia

1957Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)[†]

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, he eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He also controlled New York City's waterfront for most of his criminal career, mainly through dockworker unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became the boss of the family.

Lord Dunsany

1957Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (born 1878)[†]

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He published more than 90 books during his lifetime, and his output consisted of hundreds of short stories, plays, novels, and essays; further works were published posthumously. Having gained a name in the 1910s as a writer in the English-speaking world, he is best known today for the 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter, and his first book, The Gods of Pegāna, which depicts a fictional pantheon. Many critics feel his early work laid grounds for the fantasy genre.

Historical Context for October 25, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]