* 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 – Billy Campbell, American actor

* 1959 – Billy Kimball, American screenwriter

Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

* 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

* Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), d. Billy Wilder

* May 31 – Billy Mayerl, English pianist and composer ( d. 1959 )

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

The phrase " naff off " was used euphemistically in place of " fuck off " along with the intensifier " naffing " in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse ( 1959 ).

In 1959, Basie's band recorded a " greatest hits " double album The Count Basie Story ( Frank Foster, arranger ) and " Basie and Eckstine, Inc .": album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones ( as arranger ) and the Count Basie Orchestra.

With Billy Eckstine on the album Basie-Eckstine Inc., in 1959.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

It was among the first Hollywood films to challenge the Hays Code, along with Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ).

* Billy Cannon, All-American football player, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

* Billy Cannon, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner

* Billy Ard ( born 1959 ), former New York Giants football player.

Under the leadership of mayor William Bright " Billy " Cloud ( 1870 – 1959 ), Sunnyside initiated a project to pave its dirt streets on June 5, 1917.

They signed a new recording contract with Capitol Records ( for whom Patty had become a featured soloist ) and released a dozen singles through 1959, some rock-and-roll flavored and not very well received, and three hi-fi albums, including a vibrant LP of songs from the dancing 1920s with Billy May's orchestra.

In 1959, Billy Davis and Berry Gordy's sisters Gwen and Anna started Anna Records.

Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) was released without a certificate of approval due to its themes and became a box office smash and, as a result, further weakened the authority of the Code.

* McLoughlin, William G. Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham 1959.

* 1959: Billy Taylor: Billy Taylor with Four Flutes ( Riverside )

* Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) as Billy Gordon