* 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 – 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 )

* 1877 – István Medgyaszay, Hungarian architect and writer ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor

* 1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician ( d. 1959 )

* 1879 – Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect ( d. 1959 )

The Romanian branch acquired the name Babeş ; a Hungarian university, Bolyai, was established in 1945, and the two were merged in 1959.

Alexander Fleming House ( 1959 ), originally a group of government office blocks and now a residential complex known as Metro Central Heights, is a prime example of the work of the Hungarian modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger.

File: 1597 Birds 60. png |< center > Hungarian stamp issued in 1959 </ center >

Beginning her career as an author in the 1920s, Lady Listowel produced a volume of short stories about Hungarian society, as well as other works including: This I Have Seen ( 1943 ), which was an account of her early life, " Crusader In The Secret War " ( 1952 ), an account of the activities of Jan Kowalewski during WW2, Manual of Modern Manners ( 1959 ) The Modern Hostess ( 1961 ), which attracted widespread attention, The Making of Tanganyika ( 1965 ) and Dusk on the Danube ( 1969 ).

* István Nagy ( born 1959 ), Hungarian runner

Eörs Szathmáry ( born 1959 ) is a Hungarian theoretical evolutionary biologist at the late Collegium Budapest ( Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

* Oszkár Abay-Nemes ( 1913 – 1959 ), Hungarian swimmer

By 1959, Hungarian Television had over 50, 000 subscribers.

It is named after the Hungarian mathematician Lipót Fejér ( 1880 – 1959 ).

There only successes came in the Mitropa Cup in 1959, when they beat MTK Hungária FC in the final 6 – 5 on aggregate, and in 1964 when they won the Hungarian Cup.

Péter Kiss ( born Celldömölk, 11 June 1959 ) is a Hungarian Socialist politician.

* MESKÖ, Zoltán ( 1883 – 1959 ) Hungarian National Socialist Party leader.

He made his first short film in 1959 as a student at the Hungarian Academy of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts, and his first feature film in 1964.

Vilmos Szabadi, sometimes referred to as Wilhelm Szabadi ( born 1959 ) is a Hungarian violinist.

In Hungarian Chess Championships, he either shared the title or won it outright a total of eight times ( 1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1975, and 1981 ).

In 1958 Kubala persuaded two fellow Hungarian refugees, Sándor Kocsis and Zoltán Czibor to join him at FC Barcelona and together with a young Luis Suárez and Evaristo, they formed the nucleus of the team that won a La Liga / Copa del Generalísimo double in 1959 and a La Liga / Fairs Cup double in 1960.

* János Koszta ( born 1959 ), Hungarian football player

Imre Schlosser-Lakatos ( 11 October 1889 – 19 July 1959 ) was a Hungarian footballer.

In 1955 they fell down to Division 2 and stayed there for 20 years ; during this time players like Hungarian Ference Marko represented the club at the same time as he lived at the refugee camp in Borgholm in 1957, in 1959 Sune " Mona-Lisa " Andersson, who won an Olympic medal in the 1948 Summer Olympics as a player, as manager, during this time Sten-Åke Johansson played for the club and became the top goalscorer for all time for the club, on 19 October 1975 Kalmar FF defeated Västra Frölunda and returned to Allsvenskan.

* Foreign Honorary Member of the National Academy of Sciences ( United States, 1959 ), American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( 1960 ), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( 1961 ); a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( 1962 ), GDR Academy of Sciences ( 1966 ), Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( 1970 ), Academy of Sciences in Heidelberg ( 1968 ), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( 1980 ), Indian Academy of Sciences ( 1983 ), Mongolian Academy of Sciences ( 1983 )