1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Events of 1959 [edit] January See also January 1959
[edit] February See also February 1959
See also March 1959
See also April 1959
See also May 1959
See also June 1959
See also July 1959
[edit] August See also August 1959
[edit] September See also September 1959
[edit] October See also October 1959
[edit] November See also November 1959
[edit] December See also December 1959 - December 1 – Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).
- December 2 – Malpasset Dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus, killing 412.
- December 8 – The Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt, with the loss of 8 lives.
- December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.
- December 14 – Makarios III is selected the first president of Cyprus.
[edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
- January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor
- January 6 – Andrew Johnson, English artist.
- January 9
- January 12 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter & Roxette guitarist
- January 16 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
- January 17
- January 21
- January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster (Countdown)
- January 31 – Kelly Moore, American race car driver
- February 2 – Jari Tervo, Finnish author
- February 3 – UliUli Fifita, Professional Wrestler aka(Haku/Meng)
- February 4
- February 6 – Ken Nelson, English record producer
- February 10 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
- February 14 – Renée Fleming, American soprano
- February 16 – John McEnroe, American tennis player
- February 22
- February 26 – Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
[edit] March–April - March 1 – Nick Griffin, British politician
- March 4
- March 6 – Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- March 8 – Aidan Quinn, Irish/American actor
- March 9 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist and talk show host
- March 10 – Mike Wallace, American race car driver
- March 15 – Harold Baines, American baseball player
- March 16 – Flavor Flav, American rapper
- March 16 – Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- March 17
- March 18
- March 20
- March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
- March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 23 – Catherine Keener, American actress
- March 29 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
- April 2 – Badou Zaki, Morrocan football player and manager
- April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- April 10 – Brian Setzer, American rock guitarist and singer
- April 11 – Ana María Polo, Cuban-born judge and television personality
- April 15
- April 16 – Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
- April 17 – Sean Bean, British actor
- April 20 – Clint Howard, American actor and producer
- April 21 – Robert Smith, British rock musician (The Cure)
- April 22
- April 24 – Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
- April 25 – Tony Phillips, American baseball player
- April 27 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
- April 30 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician and present Prime Minister (2006– )
[edit] May–June - May 2 – Alan Best, Canadian animation director and producer
- May 3
- May 5
- May 10 – Victoria Rowell, American actress
- May 14 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
- May 17
- May 19 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim (d. 1994)
- May 20 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
- May 21 – Brian Lenihan, Irish politician
- May 22 – Morrissey, British singer
- May 24 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-born hockey player (d. 1985)
- May 27 – Katherine Lanpher, American journalist
- June 8 – Bernard White, Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director
- June 8 – Scott W. Roberts, American popularizer of astronomy
- June 9 – Miles O'Brien, American television news anchor, pilot
- June 10 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician and former governor of New York
- June 11
- June 14 – Marcus Miller, American bassist
- June 22
- June 26 – Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian
- June 28 – John Shelley, British illustrator
- June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
[edit] July–August - July 3 – Julie Burchill, British journalist
- July 6 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
- July 7 – Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
- July 9
- July 11
- July 16 – Gary Anderson, American football player
- July 17 – Margaret Becker, American Christian singer
- July 18 – Mel Purcell, American tennis player
- July 26
- July 27 – Hugh Green, American football player
- July 29
- August 3 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- August 4 – Robbin Crosby, American rock guitarist (Ratt) (d. 2002)
- August 5 – Pete Burns, British singer (Dead or Alive)
- August 8 – Christoph Theinert, German cellist and composer
- August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 11
- August 13 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor and disc jockey
- August 14 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- August 15 – Scott Altman, American astronaut
- August 17
- August 21 – Jim McMahon, American football player
- August 25 – Sönke Wortmann, German film director
- August 27 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
- August 29
- August 30 – Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
- August 31 – Tony DeFranco, Canadian singer
[edit] September–October - September 1 – Kenny Mayne, American sportscaster
- September 2 – Guy Laliberté, Canadian Cirque du soleil founder
- September 4 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
- September 8
- September 14 – Morten Harket, Norwegian rock singer (a-ha)
- September 17 – Charles Lawson, Irish actor
- September 18 – Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and keyboardist
- September 21
- September 28 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- September 29 – Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer
- September 30 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
- October 1 – Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
- October 1 – Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, author, poet
- October 3
- October 4 – Chris Lowe, British musician
- October 7
- October 9 – Michael Pare, American actor
- October 10 – Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
- October 13 – Marie Osmond, American singer
- October 15 – Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
- October 15 – Emeril Lagasse, American chef and restaurant owner
- October 17 – Richard Roeper, American film critic
- October 21 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- October 23 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist
- October 25 – Christina Amphlett, Australian rock singer
- October 26 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- October 27 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- October 31 – Neal Stephenson, American writer
[edit] November–December - November 2 – Said Aouita, Moroccan athlete
- November 5 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and photographer
- November 7 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
- November 8 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish football player and top scorer
- November 9 – Tony Slattery, British comedian and actor
- November 10
- November 14 – Paul McGann, British actor
- November 17 – William R. Moses, American actor
- November 18 – Jimmy Quinn, Irish footballer and football manager
- November 19 – Allison Janney, American actress
- November 23 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
- November 25 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
- November 27 – Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist
- November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor
- November 29
- November 30 – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
- December 1 – Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician
- December 1 – Wally Lewis, Australian sport identity
- December 6 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese president of Nintendo
- December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
- December 19 – Waise Lee, Hong Kong actor
- December 20 – Stephen Chan Chi Wan, general manager of TVB
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-born author
- December 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998)
- December 21 – Martin Meenan, Irish schoolteacher and playwright
- December 22 – Bernd Schuster, German footballer and manager
- December 24 – Keith Deller, English darts player
- December 27 – Gerina Dunwich, American author
- December 30 – Tracey Ullman, English/American comedian and actress
- December 31
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–March - January 2 – William D. Francis, Australian botanist (b. 1889)
- January 3 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and translator (b. 1887)
- January 21
- January 22 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
- January 28 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- February 1 – Frank Shannon, American actor (b. 1874)
- February 3 – Killed in the crash of a private plane:
- February 3 – Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1891)
- February 4 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
- February 7 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- February 11 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
- February 12 – George Antheil, American composer (b. 1900)
- February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
- February 15 – Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- February 18 – Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer (b. 1869)
- February 20 – Laurence Housman, English playwright and writer (b. 1865)
- February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress (b. 1924)
- February 23 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet (b. 1898)
- February 26 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, eldest grandchild of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1891)
- February 28 – Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
- March 1 – Mack Gordon, American composer and lyricist (b. 1904)
- March 2 – Eric Blore, English actor (b. 1887)
- March 3 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- March 4 – Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- March 6 – Fred Stone, American actor (b. 1873)
- March 15 – Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1909)
- March 21 – Edwin Balmer, American science fiction and mystery writer (b. 1883)
- March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- March 27 – Grant Withers, American actor (b. 1905)
- March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
[edit] April–June - April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- April 12 – James Gleason, American actor (b. 1882)
- April 18 – Irving Cummings, American actor (b. 1888)
- May 5 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- May 14 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- May 16 – Elisha Scott, Irish footballer (b. 1894)
- May 18
- May 24 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
- May 30 – Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Argentinian journalist (b. 1898)
- June 4 – Charles Vidor, American director (b. 1900)
- June 8 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (b. 1869)
- June 9 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- June 16 – George Reeves, American TV actor (b. 1914)
- June 18 – Ethel Barrymore, American stage & screen actress (b. 1879)
- June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, Prime Minister of Japan 1948 (b. 1887)
- June 23 – Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. 1920)
- June 25 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
[edit] July–September - July 6 – George Grosz, German artist (b. 1893)
- July 11 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
- July 15 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- July 25 – King Mutara III of Rwanda (b. c. 1912)
- August 5 – Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
- August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and writer (b. 1898)
- August 15 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
- August 16
- August 19
- August 28 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
- September 1 – Jack Norworth, American singer and songwriter (b. 1879)
- September 6
- September 7 – Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Québec (b. 1890)
- September 11 – Paul Douglas, American actor (b. 1907)
- September 13 – Gilbert Adrian, American costume designer (b. 1903)
- September 14 – Wayne Morris, American actor (b. 1914)
- September 17 – Jack Llewelyn Davies, one of the 'Lost Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1894)
- September 25
- September 28
- September 30 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (b. 1878)
[edit] October–December - October 6 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
- October 7 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 14 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- October 16 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- October 18 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- October 19 – Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1871)* October 22 – Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
- October 20 – Werner Krauss, German actor (b. 1884)
- October 28 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- November 1 – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, Tamil film actor and producer (b. 1909)
- November 2 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
- November 7 – Victor McLaglen, English actor (b. 1886)
- November 10 – Lupino Lane, British actor (b. 1892)
- November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- November 21 – Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909)
- November 22 – Molla Mallory, American tennis champion (b. 1884)
- November 24 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league player (b. 1883)
- November 25 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b. 1922)
- December 4 – Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director (b. 1882)
- December 14 – Edna Wallace Hopper, stage actress (b. 1872)
- December 22 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
- December 24 – Edmund Goulding, American director (b. 1891)
- December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader during World War II (b. 1889)
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