* 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 )

* 1959 – George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player

* 1959 – Nikos Stavropoulos, Greek basketball player

* 1959 – Yiannos Papantoniou, Greek politician

* 1959 – Diamanto Manolakou, Greek politician

As delivered in 1959, Snow's Rede Lectures specifically condemned the British educational system, as having since the Victorian period over-rewarded the humanities ( especially Latin and Greek ) at the expense of scientific education.

The term " pheromone " was introduced by Peter Karlson and Martin Lüscher in 1959, based on the Greek word pherein ( to transport ) and hormone ( to stimulate ).

In 1959 he received a master's degree in philosophy and Greek.

In 1959 he announced a five-year plan ( 1960 – 64 ) for the Greek economy, emphasizing improvement of agricultural and industrial production, heavy investment on infrastructure and the promotion of tourism.

On March 1, 1959 the archbishop returned to Cyprus to an unprecedented reception in Nicosia, where almost two-thirds of the adult Greek Cypriot population turned out to welcome him.

The Scythian tomb discovered in 1959 where archaeologists unearthed fragments of a papyrus in Greek, the first document of this kind in Romania ; the incineration tombs ( the necropolis of the Callatis citadel, dating back to the 4th-2nd centuries BC ); the ruins of the Callatis citadel ( 6th century BC ); the Turkish Mangalia Mosque ( 16th century ); the Archaeology Museum which shelters a rich collection of amphorae and sculptures from the Hellenistic epoch, fragments of stone sarcophagi ; Mangalia Marina, etc.

* Greek Portraits, Latomus, Volume I, 1955, Volume II, 1959, Volume III, 1960, Volume IV, 1962, Volume V, 1964.

* A Handbook of Greek Art, Phaidon, 1959, 6th edition, 1969.

The classified, underground facility, named " Project Greek Island ", was built at the same time as the West Virginia Wing, an above-ground addition to the hotel, from 1959 to 1962.

* The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, edited by M. I. Finley, The Viking Press, NY, NY, 1959.

Yurchikhin was born in Batumi, Georgian SSR ( now Adjara the autonomous republic of Georgia ) on 3 January 1959 to Pontic Greek parents Nikolai Fyodorovich Yurchikhin and Mikrula Sofoklevna Yurchikhina ( both now reside in Sindos, Greece ).

Examples include the Dodecanese union set ( twenty-three values released between 1947 and 1951 ), the Marshall Plan set ( six values, 1951 ), the National products set ( seven values, 1953 ), the ancient art series ( 1954 – 55, 1958 – 60 ), the ancient coins series ( 1959, 1963 ), the tourist publicity set ( seventeen values, 1961 ), the King Paul set ( ten values, 1964 ), the labors of Hercules set ( eleven values, 1970 ), the national costumes series ( 1972 – 74 ), the Homer's epics set ( fifteen values, 1983 ), the capitals of prefectures series ( 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 ), the Greek dances set ( 2002 ) and the Greek islands series ( 2004, 2006 ).

* Ancient Greece-Subjects commemorated include Pythagoras ( 1955 ), ancient Greek theatre ( 1959 ), Minoan art ( 1961 ), Greek mythology ( 1972 – 74 ), Alexander the Great ( 1977 ), Aristotle ( 1978 ), Aristarchus of Samos ( 1980 ), the Elgin marbles ( 1984 ), the Muses ( 1991 ) and ancient Greek technology such as the Antikythera mechanism ( 2006 ).

The awards, founded by Wallace A. Ross in 1959, are named for the Greek goddess Clio, the mythological Muse known as " the proclaimer, glorifier and celebrator of history, great deeds and accomplishments.

The Institute of Modern Greek Studies was established in 1959 with the support of Manolis Triantafilidis ' bursary.

* Iakovos, Archbishop of America, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America from 1959 to 1996

Architecturally significant buildings in the area include the Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church ( by J. J. Stevenson, 1898 ), Alexander ' Greek ' Thomson's Sixty Steps ( 1872 ), and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St. Charles Parish Church ( 1959 ), noted for its hyperbolic paraboloid concrete roof and Stations of the Cross sculptures by Benno Schotz.