Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Party Doll" by Buddy Knox
In the UK:
"Young Love" by Tab Hunter
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Famous people born on the 3rd of April: |
1245 - King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1924 - Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1924 - Doris Day, American actress
1930 - Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 |
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Albert Camus
1913-1960
for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times
France
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1957 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai
directed by David Lean
with Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson) and Sessue Hayakawa (Saito)
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Designed in 1957 |
The Wall clock, model 2237
by George Nelson |
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