1957

**1957** (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

## Events

- The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
- The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China
- March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
- March 25 – Treaty of Rome
- October 4 - Sputnik launched.
- November 13 – Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice
- November 16 – Ed Gein is arrested for killing Bernice Worden and several human corpses are found at his farm in Wisconsin

## Births

- January 6 – Nancy Lopez, golfer
- January 7 – Nicholson Baker, novelist
- January 7 – Katie Couric, television host
- January 7 – Julian Solis, world champion boxer
- January 11 – Robert Earl Keen, musician, singer
- January 15 – Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
- January 15 – Julian Sands, actor
- January 19 – Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer
- January 22 – Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
- January 23 – Earl Falconer, bassist
- January 23 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
- March 10 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi militant and terrorist, former leader of al-Qaeda (1988–2011)
- March 26 - Hibatullah Akhundzada, Afghan Islamic scholar and religious leader, leader of the Taliban (2016–present) and Supreme Leader of Afghanistan (2021–present)
- March 26 - Heikki Miettinen, Finnish ice hockey player (d. 2024)
- April 1 - Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
- June 16 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
- June 29 - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen politician, former President of Turkmenistan (2007–2022)
- July 5 - Lavie Astruc, Israeli politician and writer of Romanian origin
- July 26 – Nana Visitor
- September 2 - Steve Porcaro, American keyboardist (Toto)
- September 22 - Nick Cave, Australian singer
- October 21 - Steve Lukather, American guitarist (Toto)
- October 23 - Paul Kagame, Rwandan politician and former soldier, President of Rwanda (2000–present)
- October 26 - Julie Dawn Cole, British actress
- November 1 - Peter Ostrum, American actor
- December 21 - Ray Romano, American sports writer and actor from Everybody Loves Raymond
- December 27 - Rostislav-Amir Jirka, Czech politician and Member of Parliament European

## Deaths

- January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
- January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- January 16 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
- February 8 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1903)
- February 9 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)
- February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
- February 18 – Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
- February 25 – George "Bugs" Moran, Chicago gangster
- March 11 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
- March 16 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 17 – Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
- March 25 – Max Ophüls, director, writer
- March 29 – Joyce Cary, writer
- July 15 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor
- August 7 - Oliver Norvell Hardy, American comic-entertainer
- September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
- October 8 – Ali La Pointe, Algerian revolutionary (b. 1930)

## Movies released

- _An Affair to Remember_
- _Aparajito_
- _The Bridge on the River Kwai_
- _The Delinquents_
- _A Farewell to Arms_
- _Friendly Persuasion_
- _Giant_
- _Hercules_
- _I Was a Teenage Werewolf_
- _Island in the Sun_
- _Jailhouse Rock_
- _Jamboree_
- _La Grande strada azzurra_
- _Le Notti di Cabiria_
- _Loving You_
- _Nights of Cabiria_
- _Oklahoma!_
- _Old Yeller_
- _Pal Joey_
- _Peyton Place_
- _Quatermass 2_
- _Sayonara_
- _Seven Wonders of the World_
- _The Seventh Seal_
- _The Sweet Smell of Success_
- _Teahouse of the August Moon_
- _The Ten Commandments_
- _The Three Faces of Eve_
- _Twelve Angry Men_
- _What's Opera, Doc?_
- _Young and Dangerous_

## New books

- _At Lady Molly's_ – Anthony Powell
- _Atlas Shrugged_ – Ayn Rand
- _Below the Salt_ – Thomas B. Costain
- _Blue Camellia_ – Frances Parkinson Keyes
- _By Love Possessed_ – James Gould Cozzens
- _The Cat in the Hat_ – Dr. Seuss
- _The Comforters_ – Muriel Spark
- _Compulsion_ – Meyer Levin
- _Doomsday Morning_ – C. L. Moore
- _Eagle's Nest_ – Anna Kavan
- _Eloise in Paris_ – Kay Thompson
- _From Russia With Love_ – Ian Fleming
- _The Guns of Navarone_ – Alistair MacLean
- _Justine_ – Lawrence Durrell
- _Kids Say the Darndest Things!_ – Art Linkletter
- _La Loi_ – Roger Vailland
- _Long Day's Journey Into Night_ – Eugene O'Neill
- _On the Beach_ – Nevil Shute
- _On the Road_ – Jack Kerouac
- _Rascals in Paradise_ – James A. Michener
- _The Scapegoat_ – Daphne du Maurier
- _Some Came Running_ – James Jones
- _Sugar Street_ – Naguib Mahfouz
- _Voltaire in Love_ – Nancy Mitford
- _The Wapshot Chronicle_ – John Cheever
- _Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing_ – Robert Paul Smith

## Hit songs

- "All shook Up" – Elvis Presley
- "An Affair To Remember" – Nat King Cole
- "Almost In Your Arms (Love Theme From _Houseboat_) – Sophia Loren
- "April Love" – Pat Boone
- "Around The World" – Nat King Cole
- "Bernadine" – Pat Boone
- "Black Slacks" – Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones
- "Blue Starr" – Kay Starr
- "Blueberry Hill" – Fats Domino
- "Butterfly" – Andy Williams
- "Bye Bye Love" – Everly Brothers
- "Chances Are" – Johnny Mathis
- "Come Go With Me" – Dell-Vikings, one of the first integrated groups
- "Crazy Street" – Matys Brothers (some sources say 1958)
- "Dark Moon" – Gale Storm
- "Deep Purple" – Billy Ward & The Dominoes
- "Diana" – Paul Anka
- "Everyday" – Buddy Holly
- "Fascination" – Nat King Cole
- "Fascination" – Jane Morgan & The Troubadors
- "Forbidden Fruit" – Anita Ellis
- "Four Walls" – Jim Reeves
- "Great Balls Of Fire" – Jerry Lee Lewis
- "The Greater Sin" – Frankie Laine
- "Gunfight At the OK Corral" – Frankie Laine
- "Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby" – The Tune Weavers
- "Hey, Schoolgirl" – Tom and Jerry
- "Honeycomb" – Jimmie Rodgers
- "Hoot Owl" – Guy Mitchell
- "How High The Moon" – Pat Suzuki
- "I'm Sorry" – The Platters
- "I'm Walkin" – Fats Domino
- "I'm Walking The Floor Over You" – Georgia Gibbs
- "It's Not For Me To Say" – Johnny Mathis
- "Jailhouse Rock" – Elvis Presley
- "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" – Jimmie Rodgers
- "Last Train to San Fernando" – Johnny Duncan (huge hit in the UK)
- "Little Darlin' " – Diamonds, a parody cover of a rhythm and blues hit
- "The Lonesome Road" – Frankie Laine
- "Look Homeward, Angel" – Johnnie Ray
- "Love Is Strange" – Mickey & Sylvia
- "Love Letters In The Sand" – Pat Boone
- "Loving You" – Elvis Presley
- "Lucille" – Little Richard
- "Maman, la plus belle du monde" – Dalida
- "My Special Angel" – Bobby Helms
- "Not Fade Away" – Buddy Holly
- "Oh Boy" – Buddy Holly
- "Old Cape Cod" – Patti Page
- "Party Doll" – Buddy Knox
- "Peggy Sue" – Buddy Holly
- "Pink Champagne" – The Tyrones
- "Quand on n'a que l'amour" – Dalida
- "Queen Of The Senior Prom" – The Mills Brothers
- "Remember You're Mine" – Pat Boone
- "Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues" – Brenda Lee
- "Rock And Roll Music" – Chuck Berry
- "Round and Round" – Perry Como
- "Rumble" -- Link Wray, early feedback, only instrumental ever banned
- "Searchin' " – The Coasters
- "Shangri-La" – The Four Coins
- "Silent Lips" – Georgia Gibbs
- "So Rare" – Jimmy Dorsey
- "Stardust" – Nat King Cole
- "Sugar Moon" – Pat Boone
- "Sugartime" – McGuire Sisters
- "Tammy" – The Ames Brothers
- "Tammy" – Debbie Reynolds
- "Teddy Bear" – Elvis Presley
- "That'll Be The Day" – Buddy Holly
- "3:10 To Yuma" – Frankie Laine
- "Too Young To Have A Broken Heart" – Gayla Peevey
- "Treat Me Nice" – Elvis Presley
- "The Twelfth Of Never" – Johnny Mathis
- "Up Above My Head" – Johnnie Ray and Frankie Laine
- "Wake Up Little Susie" – The Everly Brothers
- "Walkin' After Midnight" – Patsy Cline
- "When I Fall In Love" – Nat King Cole
- "Who Needs You" – The Four Lads
- "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"-Jerry Lewis
- "Witchcraft" – Frank Sinatra
- "Wonderful! Wonderful!" – Johnny Mathis
- "Why Baby, Why" – Pat Boone
- "You Know How It Is" – Frankie Laine
- "You Send Me" – Sam Cooke
- "Young Blood" – The Coasters, a two-sided hit with "Searchin"'
- "Young Love" – Tab Hunter