* 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 )

* 1886 – Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist ( d. 1959 )

* 1878 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Marcella Mesker, Dutch tennis player

Early Dutch television series were Morgen gebeurt het ( tomorrow it will happen ), broadcast from 1957 to 1959, about a group of Dutch space explorers and their adventures, De duivelsgrot ( the devil's cave ), broadcast from 1963 to 1964, about a scientist who finds the map of a cave that leads to the center of the earth and Treinreis naar de Toekomst ( train journey to the future ) about two young children who are taken to the future by robots who try to recreate humanity, but are unable to give the cloned humans a soul.

* 1901 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor ( d. 1959 )

Dijkstra's algorithm, conceived by Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra in 1956 and published in 1959, is a graph search algorithm that solves the single-source shortest path problem for a graph with nonnegative edge path costs, producing a shortest path tree.

In the Dutch general election of 1956 they increased their total, receiving thirteen seats, but were still kept out of government until the Dutch general election of 1959, which were held early because of cabinet crisis.

He said: " It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was later to call structuralism ", ( cited in Plan 2 / 1982, Amsterdam ), a reference to the architectural movement known as Dutch Structuralism.

Elections were held across Dutch New Guinea in 1959 and an elected New Guinea Council officially took office on 5 April 1961, to prepare for full independence by the end of that decade.

In May 1959, for example, American ufologist George Adamski received a letter from the lady head of the Dutch Unidentified Flying Objects Society informing him that she had been contacted by Queen Juliana's palace and " that the Queen would like to receive you.

The Amsterdam newspaper De Volkskrant, referred by the 1 June 1959 issue of Time Magazine, said: " The Dutch press could hardly be accused of concealing the facts last week.

In 1952 Mr Biesheuvel became general secretary of the Dutch Protestant Farmers and Market Gardeners Union ( CBTB ) and in 1959 chairman of that organisation.

When his Cabinet broke up in December 1958, he was appointed to the honorary position of Minister of State, the Dutch Labour Party appointed him a member of its Executive Council for life in 1959.

He again returned to the House of Representatives for two short periods, after the Dutch general election of 1956 and 1959.

As a result of his conviction, he had been disbarred in 1950, but re-admitted to the Dutch Bar in 1959.

The sugar beet traffic ceased in 1959, and the last commercial boat on the upper river was " Shellfen ", a Dutch barge converted to carry of diesel fuel, which supplied the remote pumping stations until 1974, when the last ones were converted to electricity.

Ruud Janssen ( b. Tilburg July 29, 1959 ) is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.

* Dona Maria Adelaide of Braganza ( 1912 – 2012 ), married in Vienna on November 13, 1945 Dutch Nicolaas Johannes Maria van Uden ( Venlo, March 5, 1921 – Lisbon, February 5, 1991 ), a Medical Doctor, son of Adrian van Uden ( Gerwen, May 7, 1893 – December 24, 1959 ) and wife Cornelia Antonia Baaijeens ( Gorinchem, September 7, 1897 – June 15, 1979 ), daughter of Nicolaas Baaijeens ( son of Johannes Baaijeens and wife ) and wife Helena Dam, and had issue

In 1959 and 1960 Dutch and German cover versions of the song became number one hits ( even evergreens ) in Belgium, Austria and Germany, brought by the Flemish country singer-guitarist and amusement park founder Bobbejaan Schoepen.

In 1959 the family went to the Netherlands, where he worked for the Dutch National Theater.

* Wim Hof ( born 1959 ), Dutch world-record holder for longest ice bath

He was a Senior Executive of the Royal Dutch / Shell Group from 1959 to 1984. the title is held by his nephew, the fifth Baron, who succeeded in 2007.