* Brett Austin ( 1959 – 1990 ), New Zealand swimmer

British Medical Journal, Jan. 3, 1959, 1 ( 5113 ): 1 – 6.

* 1959 – Gail Shea, Canadian politician

* 1883 – Dally Messenger, Australian footballer ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Paul Gross, Canadian actor, director, and writer

* 1959 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver

* 1959 – Downtown Julie Brown, English television host and actress

* 1959 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor

* 1959 – András Petöcz, Hungarian author

* 1959 – Jeanette Winterson, English novelist

* 1959 – Rajendra Singh Indian water conservationist

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Kurtis Blow, American rapper and producer

* 1959 – Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor

* 1959 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer

* 1959 – Toni Servillo, Italian actor and director

* 1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor

* 1959 – Michael Bradley, Irish bass player and radio host ( The Undertones )

* 1959 – Bruce French, English cricketer

* 1959 – Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player

* 1959 – Victoria Jackson, American comedian, actress, and singer

* 1959 – Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress ( Apollonia 6 )

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

The Penn State product led the team to a 7-5 record in 1959, and one year later, he turned in one of the greatest statistical seasons at his position in NFL history.

In 1959, a team led by Harry Ihrig built a 15 kW fuel cell tractor for Allis-Chalmers which was demonstrated across the US at state fairs.

After first being promoted to Serie A for one season in 1957 – 58, in 1959 the team merged with another city rival ( called Hellas ) and commemorated its beginnings by changing its name to Hellas Verona AC.

While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.

Following the Colts first NFL championship, the team once again posted a 9 – 3 record during the 1959 season and would defeat the Giants once again in the NFL Championship Game to claim their second title in back to back fashion.

* 1959 – Elijah Jerry " Pumpsie " Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate.

It was not until 1959 that the word " Senators " first appeared on team shirts.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

In 1959 the team continued their studies and claimed that they were able to produce an isotope that decayed predominantly by emission of an 8. 3 MeV alpha particle, with a half-life of 3 s with an associated 30 % spontaneous fission branch.

The Dubna team are therefore officially recognised as the discoverers of nobelium although it is possible that it was detected at Berkeley in 1959.

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, an original member of the American Football League ; later, the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL – NFL merger.

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

James became a leading member of the Carry On films team, originally to replace Ted Ray who had appeared in Carry On Teacher in 1959.

The team had posted an NFL-worst 1 – 10 – 1 record in 1958 before legendary head coach Vince Lombardi was hired in January 1959.

When Pumpsie Green became the first black player on the Boston Red Sox in 1959 — the last major league team to integrate its team — Williams openly welcomed Green.

Barcelona, with a team coached by Helenio Herrera and featuring Luis Suárez, won the title in 1959 and 1960.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

He played on seven Ryder Cup teams: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, and 1959, and captained the team in 1951, 1959, and 1969.

The GE-600 line of computers was developed by a team led by John Couleur out of work they had done for the military MISTRAM project in 1959.

A circular club badge was adopted in 1959 and featured a lion rampant, an old-style football and the club's motto Ready, which was shortened from Aye Ready ( meaning Always Ready in Scots ), all surrounded by the team name, Rangers Football Club.