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The year '''1959''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1959 ==
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[[Image:FidelGuerilla.JPG|thumb|135px|right| [[January 2]]: [[Fidel Castro|Castro]]'s guerilla troops]]
===January===
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*[[January 1]]
**<!--January 1-->[[Cultivar]]s of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in [[Latin]].
**<!--January 1-->[[Cuba]]: [[Fulgencio Batista]] flees [[Havana]] when forces of [[Fidel Castro]] advance.
* [[January 2]]
**<!--January 2-->[[CBS|CBS Radio]] cuts four soap operas: ''[[Backstage Wife]]'', ''[[Our Gal Sunday]]'', ''[[Road of Life]]'', and ''[[This is Nora Drake]]''.
**<!--January 2--> Castro's troops approach [[Havana]].
* [[January 3]]
**<!--January 3-->Island of [[Addu]] in the [[Maldives]] declares [[independence]].
**<!--January 3-->[[Alaska]] is admitted as the 49th [[U.S. state]].
* [[January 4]]
**<!--January 4-->In [[Cuba]], rebel troops led by [[Che Guevara]] and [[Camilo Cienfuegos]] enter the city of [[Havana]].
**<!--January 4-->In [[Léopoldville]] 42 people are killed during food fights between the police and participants of a meeting of the [[Abako]] party.
* [[January 6]] - [[Fidel Castro]] arrives in Havana.
* [[January 7]] - The [[United States]] recognizes the new [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fidel Castro]].
* [[January 8]] - [[Charles de Gaulle|Charles De Gaulle]] inaugurated as the first president of [[French Fifth Republic]].
* [[January 12]] - The [[Caves of Nerja]] were discovered in [[Spain]].
[[Image:Flag of Alaska.svg|thumb|54px|right| [[January 3|Jan.3]] [[Alaska]]]]
* [[January 13]] - [[Cuba]]n [[communist]]s execute 71 supporters of [[Fulgencio Batista]].
* [[January 22]] - [[Knox Mine Disaster]] - water breaches [[River Slope]] mine in [[Port Griffith, Pennsylvania]] - 12 miners dead.
* [[January 24]] - The formation of the [[Nu Tetarton]] chapter of [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] at [[Rutgers University]].
* [[January 25]] - [[Pope John XXIII]] announces that the [[Second Vatican Council]] will be convened in [[Rome]].
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===February===
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[[Image:HollyGrave850909.JPG|thumb|180px|right| [[February 3|Feb. 3]]: Crash kills musicians]]
* [[February 1]] - A [[Swiss women's suffrage referendum, 1959|referendum in Switzerland]] turns down [[female suffrage]].
* [[February 3]] - The chartered plane transporting musicians [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]] and the [[Big Bopper]] goes down in foggy conditions near [[Clear Lake, Iowa]], killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "[[The Day the Music Died]]" popularized in [[Don McLean]]'s song "[[American Pie]]".
* [[February 6]] - At [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished.
* [[February 13]] - *[[TAT-2]] cable goes into operation.
* [[February 16]]
**<!--February 16-->[[Fidel Castro]] becomes Premier of [[Cuba]].
**<!--February 16-->A [[blizzard]] causes a massive power outage in [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].
* [[February 17]] - USA launches the [[Vanguard II]] [[weather satellite]].
* [[February 18]]
**<!--February 18-->[[Jesús Sosa Blanco]], murderer of 108 people, executed in [[Cuba]].
**<!--February 18-->Women in [[Nepal]] vote for the first time.
* [[February 19]] - The [[United Kingdom]] grants [[Cyprus]] its independence.
* [[February 20]] - The [[Canadian Government]] cancels the [[CF-105 Arrow]] project.
* [[February 22]] - [[Lee Petty]] wins the first [[Daytona 500]].
* [[February 26]] - Author [[Walter Mene]] throws acid on a [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] painting in [[Munich]].
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===March===
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* [[March 1]]
**<!--March 1-->[[USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37)|USS Tuscaloosa]], [[USS New Orleans (CA-32)|USS New Orleans]], [[USS Tennessee (BB-43)|USS Tennessee]] and [[USS West Virginia (BB-48)|USS West Virginia]] struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]].
**<!--March 1-->[[Archbishop]] [[Makarios III|Makarios]] returns to [[Cyprus]] from exile.
* [[March 8]] - Last television appearance of [[The Marx Brothers]], in [[The Incredible Jewel Robbery]].
* [[March 9]] - The [[Barbie]] doll debuts.
* [[March 10]] - [[1959 Tibetan uprising|Tibetan uprising]] against ten years of [[China|Chinese]] occupation in [[Lhasa]].
* [[March 11]]
**<!--March 11-->''Een beetje'' by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins [[Eurovision Song Contest 1959]] for [[Netherlands]].
**<!--March 11-->''[[A Raisin in the Sun]]'' by [[Lorraine Hansberry]] opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in [[New York]].
* [[March 12]] - Production of the first solid gold "Glaussen [[Pennies]]".
* [[March 17]] - [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama|Tenzin Gyatso]], the 14th [[Dalai Lama]], flees [[Tibet]] and travels to [[India]].
* [[March 18]] - American President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs bill allowing for [[Hawaii]]an statehood.
* [[March 19]] - Two other islands join [[Addu]] in the [[United Suvadive Republic]] (abolished September [[1963]]), in the Maldives Islands.
* [[March 31]]
**<!--March 31-->[[Busch Gardens]] in [[Tampa, Florida]] is dedicated and opens its gates.
**<!--March 31-->[[Dalai Lama]] leaves [[Tibet]].
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* [[April 6]] - [[31st Academy Awards]] ceremony
* [[April 9]] - [[NASA]] announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see [[Mercury Seven]]).
* [[April 10]] - [[Emperor Akihito|Japanese prince Akihito]] married [[Empress Michiko of Japan|Shōda Michiko]].
* [[April 25]] - The [[St. Lawrence Seaway]] linking the North American [[Great Lakes (North America)|Great Lakes]] and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] officially opens to [[shipping]].
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===May===
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*May - First [[Ten Tors]] event held in [[Dartmoor]].
* late May / early June - [[import tariff]]s lifted in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[May 18]] - Launching of the [[National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire]] in [[Conakry]], [[Guinea]].
* [[May 24]] - British Empire Day is renamed [[Commonwealth Day]].
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===June===
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* [[June 3]] - [[Singapore]] becomes a self governing crown colony of Britain with [[Lee Kuan Yew]] as Prime Minister.
* [[June 5]] - A new government of the [[Singapore|State of Singapore]] is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former Ministers were re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
* [[June 8]] - The [[USS Barbero (SS-317)|USS ''Barbero'']] and [[United States Postal Service]] attempt the delivery of mail via [[Missile Mail]].
* [[June 9]] - The [[USS George Washington (SSBN-598)|USS ''George Washington'']] is launched as the first [[submarine]] to carry [[ballistic missile]]s.
* [[June 14]] - A three-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the [[Dominican Republic]] consisting of exiles aided by [[Fidel Castro]] whose purpose was to overthrow [[dictator]] [[Rafael Leonidas Trujillo]]. Within a few days all but four are captured and executed. Trujillo is killed less than two years later by men partly inspired by the deaths of the 1959 revolutionaries.
* [[June 18]] - The film ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]'', based on the best-selling novel, is released. [[Audrey Hepburn]] stars as the title character; she will later say that this is her favorite film role. The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars.
* [[June 23]]
**<!--June 23-->[[Sean Lemass]] becomes the third [[Taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].
**<!--June 23-->Convicted [[Manhattan Project]] spy [[Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in British prison and allowed to emigrate to [[Dresden]], [[East Germany]] (where he resumed a scientific career).
* [[June 26]]
**<!--June 26-->Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] and US President [[Dwight Eisenhower]] open the [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]].
**<!--June 26-->''[[Darby O'Gill and the Little People]]'', a film based on H.T. Kavanagh's short stories, is released in the U.S. by [[Walt Disney]], after world premiering in [[Ireland]].
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===July===
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* July - The medical research group studying [[Minamata disease]] comes to the conclusion that [[mercury (element)|mercury]] is the cause.
* [[July 1]] - The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway by Canada and the United States, officiated by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
* [[July 2]] - Royal wedding in [[Belgium]]: Prince Albert marries the Italian princess [[Paola Ruffo di Calabria]].
* [[July 4]] - With the admission of [[Alaska]] as the 49th [[U.S. state]] earlier in the year, the 49-star [[flag of the United States]] debuts in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
* [[July 7]] - 14:28 UT [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] occulted the star [[Regulus]]. The rare event which will next occur on [[October 1]], [[2044]] was used for determining the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.
* [[July 8]] - [[Charles Ovnand]] and [[Dale R. Buis]] become the first Americans killed in action in [[Vietnam]].
* [[July 15]] - [[Steel]] industry [[Strike action|strike]] in [[United States|USA]].
* [[July 17]] - The first skull of [[Australopithecus]] is discovered by [[Louis Leakey]] and his wife [[Mary Leakey]] in the [[Olduvai Gorge]], [[Tanzania]].
* [[July 24]] - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in [[Moscow]], US Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] and USSR Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] have a "[[kitchen debate]]."
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===August===
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* [[August 4]] - [[Martial law]] declared in [[Laos]].
* [[August 7]] - [[Explorer program]]: The [[United States]] launches [[Explorer 6]] from the Atlantic Missile Range in [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]].
* [[August 7]] - [[United States]] The [[Roseburg blast|Roseburg Oregon Blast]] kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damage.
* [[August 8]] - [[Flood]] in [[Taiwan]] leaves 2,000 dead.
* [[August 14]] - [[Explorer 6]] sends the first picture of Earth from space.
* [[August 15]] - [[Cyprus]] gains [[independence]].
* [[August 17]] -[[United States]] [[1959 Yellowstone earthquake|Hebgen Lake Earthquake]], Southwest Montana, Kills 28
* [[August 21]] - [[Hawaii]] is admitted as the 50th [[U.S. state]].
* [[August 24]] - [[Cyprus]] joins [[United Nations]].
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===September===
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* [[September 13]] - [[Luna 2]] crashes onto the [[Moon]] as the first man-made object on the moon.
* [[September 17]] - The first ''Navy Navigation Satellite System'' [[Transit (satellite)|Transit 1A]] was launched but failed to reach orbit.
* [[September 23]] - The [[Princess of Tasmania| M/S Princess of Tasmania]] [[Australia]]’s first [[passenger]] RO/RO [[diesel]] [[ferry]] makes maiden voyage across [[Bass Strait]].
* [[September 25]] - [[Ceylon]]'s prime minister [[Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike|SWRD Bandaranaike]] assassinated.
* [[September 26]] - Superpower [[Typhoon Vera (1959)|Typhoon Vera]] hit central [[Honshū]]. Japanese authority estimate killing at least 5,098, injuring another 38,921, 1,533,000 are homeless. Most of victim and damage at [[Nagoya]] erea, where occurred with storm surge.
[[Image:Luna 2.jpg|thumb|75px|left| [[September 13|Sept.13]]: [[Luna 2]].]]
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===October===
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* [[October 2]] - [[Rod Serling]]'s classic anthology series ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' premieres on [[CBS]].
* [[October 7]] - [[U.S.S.R.]] probe [[Luna 3]] sends back first ever photos of the [[far side of the Moon]].
* [[October 12]]
**<!--October 12-->At the national congress of [[APRA]] in [[Peru]] a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the party. They will later form [[APRA Rebelde]].
**<!--October 12-->Large scale diamond robbery in London.
* [[October 13]] - USA launches [[Explorer 7]].
* [[October 21]] - In [[New York City]], the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] opens to the public. It was designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].
* [[October 31]]
**<!--October 31-->Riots in the [[Belgian Congo]].
**<!--October 31-->[[Lee Harvey Oswald]] announces in [[Moscow]] that he will never return to the [[United States]].
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===November===
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* [[November 2]] - The first section of the [[M1 motorway]] was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18.
* [[November 8]] - Leeds City Tramways closes down.
* [[November 12]] - The [[Warner Bros.]] epic ''[[The Miracle (1959 film)|The Miracle]]'', very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime produced by [[Max Reinhardt]], is released. It is a critical and financial bomb.
* [[November 15]] - The [[In Cold Blood|Clutter family]] of [[Holcomb, Kansas]] is brutally murdered.
* [[November 18]] - [[MGM]]'s widescreen, multimillion dollar, [[Technicolor]] version of ''[[Ben-Hur]]'', starring [[Charlton Heston]], is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 [[Academy Awards]] - a record held until [[1998]], when 1997's ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' becomes the first film to equal the record.
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===December===
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* [[December 1]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Antarctic Treaty]] signed - 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]] (this was 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]]: 412 dead.
* [[December 13]] - Three years after its first telecast, [[MGM]]'s ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|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]] selected first [[president of Cyprus]].
===Undated===
*[[Pantyhose]] are introduced by [[Glen Raven Mills]].
*[[Workers World Party]] is founded by [[Sam Marcy]].
*The first known human with [[HIV]] dies in [[Belgian Congo|Congo]]. PMID 9468138
*The current (as of 2006) design of the [[Japan]]ese [[10 yen coin]] was put into circulation.
*The [[Caspian Tiger]] became extinct in Iran by this date.
===Ongoing===
* [[Algerian War]] (1954-62)
* [[First Sudanese Civil War]] (1955-72)
* [[Marshall Plan]]
* [[Mau Mau Uprising]] (1952-60)
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Azali Assoumani]], [[President of the Comoros]]
* [[January 5]] - [[Clancy Brown]], American actor
* [[January 9]]
**<!--January 9-->[[Rigoberta Menchú]], Guatemalan writer, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
**<!--January 9-->[[Mark Martin (NASCAR)|Mark Martin]], NASCAR driver
* [[January 16]] - [[Sade Adu|Sade]], Nigerian-born singer
* [[January 17]] - [[Susanna Hoffs]], Lead singer of The Bangles
* [[January 21]]
**[[Paulo Miklos]], Brazilian singer and actor
**[[Alex McLeish]], [[Birmingham City F.C.|Birmingham City]] and ex-[[Scotland]] manager
* [[January 24]] - [[Nastassja Kinski]], German actress
* [[January 27]] - [[Keith Olbermann]], American news correspondent and sportscaster
* [[January 31]] - [[Kelly Moore]], American race car driver
* [[February 3]] - [[Lol Tolhurst]], cofounder and former drummer/keyboardist of [[The Cure]]
* [[February 4]] - [[Lawrence Taylor]], American football player
* [[February 6]] - [[Ken Nelson]], English record producer
* [[February 10]] - [[Dennis Gentry]], American football player
* [[February 14]] - [[Renee Fleming]], American soprano
* [[February 16]] - [[John McEnroe]], American tennis player
* [[February 22]] - [[Kyle MacLachlan]], American actor
* [[February 26]] - [[Rolando Blackman]], [[Panama]]nian basketball player
===March-April===
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* [[March 4]] - [[Rick Ardon]], Australian news presenter
* [[March 6]] - [[Tom Arnold (actor)|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 (NASCAR)|Mike Wallace]], American race car driver
* [[March 15]] - [[Harold Baines]], baseball player
* [[March 16]]
**<!--March 16-->[[Flavor Flav]], American rapper
**<!--March 16-->[[Jens Stoltenberg]], [[Prime Minister of Norway]]
* [[March 17]] - [[Danny Ainge]], American basketball player, coach, and baseball player
* [[March 18]]
**<!--March 18-->[[Luc Besson]], French film producer, writer, and director
**<!--March 18-->[[Irene Cara]], American singer
* [[March 20]]
**<!--March 20-->[[Sting (wrestler)|Steve Borden]], American wrestler
**<!--March 20-->[[Steve McFadden]], British actor
* [[March 21]] - [[Nobuo Uematsu]], Japanese composer
* [[March 22]] - [[Matthew Modine]], American actor
* [[March 23]] - [[Catherine Keener]], American actress
* [[March 29]]
**<!--March 20-->[[Barry Blanchard]], Canadian mountaineer
**<!--March 20-->[[Perry Farrell]], American musician
* [[April 1]] - [[Denise Nickerson]], American actress
* [[April 2]] - [[Badou Zaki]], Morrocan football player and manager
* [[April 3]] - [[David Hyde Pierce]], American actor
* [[April 10]] - [[Brian Setzer]], American guitarist ([[Stray Cats]])
* [[April 11]] - [[Ana María Polo]], Cuban-born judge and television personality
* [[April 15]] - [[Fruit Chan]], Hong Kong film director
* [[April 16]] - [[Alison Ramsay]], Scottish field hockey player
* [[April 20]] - [[Clint Howard]], American actor and producer
* [[April 21]] - [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]], British musician ([[The Cure]])
* [[April 21]] - [[Jerry Only]] American musician Bassist ([[The Misfits]])
* [[April 22]]
**<!--April 22-->[[Catherine Mary Stewart]], Canadian actress
**<!--April 22-->[[Ryan Stiles]], American actor
**<!--April 22-->[[Terry Francona]], American baseball player and manager
* [[April 25]] - [[Tony Phillips]], American baseball player
* [[April 27]] - [[Sheena Easton]], Scottish singer
* [[April 30]] - [[Stephen Harper]], Canadian politician and present Prime Minister (2006- )
===May-June===
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* [[May 3]] - [[Uma Bharati]], Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
* [[May 3]] - [[Ben Elton]], British comedian and writer
* [[May 5]]
**<!--May 5-->[[Ian McCulloch (singer)|Ian McCulloch]], English singer ([[Echo & the Bunnymen]])
**<!--May 5-->[[Steve Stevens]], American guitarist
**<!--May 5-->[[Peter Molyneux]], British game programmer
**<!--May 5--> [[Brian Williams]], American news anchor
* [[May 10]] - [[Victoria Rowell]], American actress
* [[May 14]] - [[Patrick Bruel]], French singer
* [[May 15]] - [[Andrew Eldritch]], British musician ([[The Sisters of Mercy]])
* [[May 17]] - [[Marcelo Loffreda]], Argentine rugby player and coach
* [[May 17]] - [[Jim Nantz]], American sports announcer
* [[May 19]] - [[Nicole Brown Simpson]], ex-wife of [[O.J. Simpson]] and [[murder]] [[victim]] (d. [[1994]])
* [[May 20]] - [[Israel Kamakawiwo'ole]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[May 21]] - [[Brian Lenihan, Jnr]], Irish politician
* [[May 22]] - [[Morrissey|Steven Morrissey]], British singer
* [[May 24]] - [[Pelle Lindbergh]], Swedish-born hockey player (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 27]] - [[Katherine Lanpher]], American journalist
* [[May 29]] - [[Adrian Paul]], British actor
* [[June 8]] - [[Bernard White (actor)|Bernard White]], Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director
* [[June 11]] - [[Hugh Laurie]], British actor and comedian
* [[June 12]] - [[John Linnell]], American musician ([[They Might Be Giants]])
* [[June 14]] - [[Marcus Miller]], American bassist
* [[June 22]]
**<!--June 22-->[[Wayne Federman]], American comedian, actor, and author
**<!--June 22-->[[Ed Viesturs]], American mountaineer
* [[June 26]] - [[Mark McKinney]], Canadian actor and comedian
* [[June 27]] - [[Clint Boon]], British musician ([[Inspiral Carpets]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Vincent D'Onofrio]], American actor
===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]] - [[Kevin Nash]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 11]]
**<!--July 11-->[[Richie Sambora]], American musician
**<!--July 11-->[[Suzanne Vega]], American singer
* [[July 13]] - [[Richard Leman]], British field hockey player
* [[July 16]] - [[Gary Anderson]], American football player
* [[July 18]] - [[Mel Purcell]], American tennis player
**<!--July 26-->[[Rick Bragg]], American writer
**<!--July 26-->[[Kevin Spacey]], American actor
* [[July 27]] - [[Hugh Green]], American football player
* [[July 29]]
**<!--July 29-->[[Sanjay Dutt]], Indian actor
**<!--July 29-->[[Ruud Janssen]], Dutch artist
* [[August 1]] - [[Joe Elliott]], British singer ([[Def Leppard]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Apollonia Kotero]], American actress and singer
* [[August 3]] - [[Koichi Tanaka]], Japanese scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[August 4]] - [[Robbin Crosby]], American guitarist ([[Ratt]]) (d. [[2002]])
* [[August 8]] - [[Christoph Theinert]], German cellist and composer
* [[August 10]] - [[Rosanna Arquette]], American actress
* [[August 11]] - [[Gustavo Cerati]], Argentinian singer
**<!--August 11-->[[Yoshiaki Murakami]], Japanese investor
* [[August 13]] - [[Danny Bonaduce]], American actor
* [[August 14]] - [[Magic Johnson]], American basketball player
* [[August 15]] - [[Scott Altman]], American astronaut
* [[August 17]]
**<!--August 17-->[[Jonathan Franzen]], American author
**<!--August 17-->[[Brad Wellman]], American baseball player
* [[August 18]] - [[June Angela]], Asian-American actress, singer, and dancer
* [[August 21]] - [[Jim McMahon]], American football player
* [[August 25]] - [[Sönke Wortmann]], German film director
* [[August 27]] - [[Juan Fernando Cobo]], Colombian artist
* [[August 29]]
**<!--August 29-->[[Rebecca De Mornay]], American actress
**<!--August 29-->[[Stephen Wolfram]], British scientist
* [[August 30]] - [[Mark 'Jacko' Jackson]], Australian footballer and actor
===September-October===
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* [[September 2]] - [[Guy Laliberté]], Quebec [[Cirque du soleil]] founder
* [[September 4]] - [[Kevin Harrington]], Australian actor
* [[September 8]] - [[Daler Nazarov]], Tajik composer, singer, and actor
* [[September 14]] - [[Morten Harket]], Norwegian singer ([[a-ha]])
* [[September 17]] - [[Charles Lawson]], Irish actor
* [[September 18]] - [[Sérgio Britto]], Brazilian singer and keyboardist
* [[September 21]]
**<!--September 21-->[[Dave Coulier]], American actor
**<!--September 21-->[[Stan Van Gundy]], American basketball coach
* [[September 29]] - [[Benjamin Sehene]], Rwandan writer
* [[September 30]] - [[Ettore Messina]], Italian basketball coach
* [[October 1]] - [[Youssou N'Dour]] singer
* [[October 3]]
**<!--October 3-->[[Fred Couples]], American golfer
**<!--October 3-->[[Greg Proops]], American comedian
**<!--October 3-->[[Jack Wagner (actor)|Jack Wagner]], American actor
* [[October 4]] - [[Chris Lowe]], British musician
* [[October 7]]
**<!--October 7-->[[Lourdes Flores]], Peruvian politician
**<!--October 7-->[[Simon Cowell]], English music producer and television talent show judge
* [[October 9]] - [[Michael Pare]], American actor
* [[October 10]] - [[Kirsty MacColl]], British singer and songwriter (d.[[2000]])
* [[October 13]] - [[Marie Osmond]], American singer
* [[October 15]]
**<!--October 15-->[[Sarah Ferguson]], Duchess of York
**<!--October 15-->[[Emeril Lagasse]], American chef and restaurant owner
* [[October 17]] -
**<!--October 17-->[[Ron Drummond]], American writer, editor, and music historian
**<!--October 17-->[[Richard Roeper]], American film critic
* [[October 21]] - [[Ken Watanabe]], Japanese actor
* [[October 21]] - [[Tony Ganios]], American actor
* [[October 23]] - [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], American singer and parodist
* [[October 25]] - [[Christina Amphlett]], Australian singer ([[Divinyls]])
* [[October 26]] - [[Evo Morales]], [[President of Bolivia]]
* [[October 27]] - [[Rick Carlisle]], American basketball coach
* [[October 31]] - [[Neal Stephenson]], American writer
===November-December===
* [[November 5]] - [[Bryan Adams]], Canadian singer and photographer
* [[November 7]] - [[Billy Gillispie]], American basketball coach
* [[November 8]] - [[Selçuk Yula]], Turkish football player and topscorer.
* [[November 9]] - [[Tony Slattery]], British comedian and actor
* [[November 10]] - [[Linda Cohn]], American sports reporter
* [[November 14]] - [[Paul McGann]], British actor
* [[November 18]] - [[Jimmy Quinn (Northern Irish footballer)|Jimmy Quinn]], Irish footballer and football manager
* [[November 23]] - [[Dominique Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1982]])
* [[November 25]] - [[Charles Kennedy]], British politician
* [[November 28]] - [[Judd Nelson]], American actor
* [[November 29]]
**<!--November 29-->[[Kim Delaney]], American actress
**<!--November 29-->[[Platon Lebedev]], a Russian former CEO of Group Menatep, best known as the business partner of [[Mikhail Khodorkovsky]]
* [[November 30]] - [[Lorraine Kelly]], British presenter and journalist
* [[December 1]] - [[Rick Leventhal]], American broadcast journalist
* [[December 6]] - [[Satoru Iwata]], president of Nintendo
* [[December 20]] - [[Sandra Cisneros]], Mexican-born author
* [[December 21]] - [[Florence Griffith Joyner]], American athlete (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 24]] - [[Keith Deller]], English darts player
* [[December 27]] - [[Gerina Dunwich]], American author
* [[December 31]]
**<!--December 31-->[[Alfie Anido]], Flipino actor (d. [[1981]])
**<!--December 31-->[[Val Kilmer]], American actor
*''date unknown'' - [[Willie Doherty]], Irish artist
==Deaths==
=== January-March ===
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* [[January 2]] - [[William D. Francis]], Australian botanist (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 3]] - [[Edwin Muir]], Scottish poet, novelist and translator (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 21]] - [[Cecil B. DeMille]], American film director (b. [[1881]])
* [[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:
**[[The Big Bopper]], American singer (b. [[1930]])
**[[Buddy Holly]], American singer (b. [[1936]])
**[[Richie Valens]], American singer (b. [[1941]])
* [[February 3]] - [[Vincent Astor]], American philanthropist (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Una O'Connor]], Irish actress (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Marshall Teague]], American race car driver (b. [[1922]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz musician (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Owen Willans Richardson]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]])
* [[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 3]] - [[Lou Costello]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Maxey Long]], American athlete (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 26]] - [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 29]] - [[Barthélemy Boganda]], first [[President of the Central African Republic]] (b. [[1910]])
=== April-June ===
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* [[April 9]] - [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], American architect (b. [[1867]])
* [[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 18-->[[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]], Antarctic explorer (b. [[1886]])
**<!--May 18-->[[Enrique Guaita]], Argentinian footballer (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 24]] - [[John Foster Dulles]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz]], Argentinian journalist (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 9]] - [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1876]])
* [[June 16]] - [[George Reeves]], American actor, tv "Superman" (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Ethel Barrymore]], stage & screen actress (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 23]] - [[Boris Vian]], French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. [[1920]])
=== July - September ===
* [[July 11]] - [[Charlie Parker (cricketer)|Charlie Parker]], English cricketer (b. [[1882]])
* [[July 15]] - [[Ernest Bloch]], Swiss composer (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 17]] - [[Billie Holiday]], American singer (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 25]] - [[Mutara III of Rwanda|Mutara III]], king 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]] - [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish harpsichordist (b. [[1879]])
* [[August 19]]
**<!--August 19-->[[Claude Grahame White]], pioneer British aviator, (b. [[1879]])
**<!--August 19-->[[Jacob Epstein]], American-born sculptor (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 28]] - [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech composer (b. [[1890]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Maurice Duplessis]], [[Premier of Québec|premier]] of [[Québec]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[September 25]] - [[Solomon Bandaranaike]], prime minister of [[Ceylon]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 28]] - [[Rudolf Caracciola]], racing driver (b. [[1901]])
=== October-December ===
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* [[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 28]] - [[Camilo Cienfuegos]], Cuban revolutionary (b. [[1932]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]], Scottish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]], American boxer and actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[December 4]] - [[Hubert Marischka]], Austrian film director (b. [[1882]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-born dancer and actress (b. [[1901]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Emilio Gino Segrè]], [[Owen Chamberlain]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Severo Ochoa]], [[Arthur Kornberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Salvatore Quasimodo]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Philip Noel-Baker|Philip John Noel-Baker]]
==Academy Awards==
*Best Picture: ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]''
*Best Director: [[Vincente Minnelli]], ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]''
*Best Actor: [[David Niven]], ''[[Separate Tables]]''
*Best Supporting Actor: [[Burl Ives]], ''[[The Big Country]]''
*Best Actress: [[Susan Hayward]], ''[[I Want To Live!]]''
*Best Supporting Actress: [[Wendy Hiller]], ''[[Separate Tables]]''
*Best Original Story and Screenplay: [[Nedrick Young]] and [[Harold Jacob Smith]], ''[[The Defiant Ones]]''
*Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: [[Alan Jay Lerner]], ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]''
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1959-pictures.html 1959 Coin Pictures]
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