* 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 )

Andre Weitzenhoffer and Ernest R. Hilgard developed the Stanford Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility in 1959, consisting of 12 suggestion test items following a standardised hypnotic eye-fixation induction script, and this has become one of the most widely referenced research tools in the field of hypnosis.

* In the 1959 novel The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart, one Just Man of the Lamed-Vov is designated in each generation of the family of Levy.

Andre Deutch, 1959.

While sharing a studio with Stella, Andre developed a series of wooden " cut " sculptures ( such as Radial Arm Saw cut sculpture, 1959, and Maple Spindle Exercise, 1959 ).

* February 4-Gwili Andre, actress ( died 1959 )

* Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ) ( with the Andre Previn Trio )

* The Beast Master, a 1959 novel by Andre Norton

Gwili Andre ( 4 February 1908 – 5 February 1959 ) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films.

On 5 February 1959, Andre died in a fire at her Venice, California home.

Andre Bernard Tippett ( born December 27, 1959 ) is a former American college and professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League ( NFL ) for twelve seasons during the 1980s and 1990s.

Andre Dubus III ( born 1959 ) is an American novelist and writer of short stories.

* Andre Tippett ( born 1959 ), American footballer

* Andre Tippett ( born 1959 ), Hall of Fame former linebacker with the New England Patriots.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

* 1959 – John C. McGinley, American actor

* 1959 – Mike Gminski, American basketball player

* 1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Scott McKinsey, American director

* 1959 – Robert Casilla, American artist and illustrator

* 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

* 1959 – Frank Brickowski, American basketball player

* 1959 – Marcia Gay Harden, American actress

* 1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player

* 1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Scott Altman, American astronaut

* 1959 – Laura Innes, American actress

* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

* 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor ( d. 1959 )