* 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 )

Vandenberg launched the world's first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer I on 28 February 1959.

Until 1959, the Agena was also known as Discoverer Vehicle or Bell Hustler.

Ice Station Zebra also uses the accelerating Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union as the backdrop for the novel, and may have been directly inspired by news accounts from April 17, 1959, about a missing experimental Corona satellite capsule ( Discoverer ll ) that inadvertently landed near Spitsbergen on April 13 and may have been recovered by Soviet agents.

AFSCN was originally activated to support the CORONA / Discoverer program in 1959.

* Owen Chamberlain: Discoverer of the antiproton and Nobel Laureate in Physics for 1959.

Statistically, the most significant data have been collected from the sensors on 1958 Alpha ( Explorer 1 ), 1958 Delta 2 ( Sputnik 3 ), and 1959 Eta ( Vanguard 3 ).

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

In 1959 he scored a hat-trick as England demolished the US 8 – 1 ; and his second England hat-trick came in 1961 in an 8 – 0 thrashing of Mexico.

In 1959, the 1. 5-mile-long ( 2. 4 km ) road section carried approximately 75, 000 vehicles a day, but by the 1990s, this had grown to 190, 000 vehicles a day.

Colloid Science, Volume 1, Irreversible systems, Elsevier, 1959

Black and White # 1 ( 1959 ) is one of Alston's more " monumental " works.

In 1959 Alston estimated, in a letter to the Department of Public Works, that the conservation would cost $ 1, 500 but the funds were never acquired.

* Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode, 1959 )

By 1959 more than 1, 000 homes a year were being constructed.

* 1959: Sunday Showcase ( 1 episode, 1959 )

* 1959: Make Room for Daddy .... Ricky Ricardo ( 1 episode, 1959 )

* 1959: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse ( 1 episode, 1959 ) – Ballad for a Bad Man ( 1959 ) TV episode ( writer )

* 1959: Sunday Showcase ( 1 episode, 1959 )

* Playhouse 90-For Whom The Bell Tolls ( Parts 1 & 2 ) ( 1959 )

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

( 2 vol 1959 ), highly influential comparative history ; vol 1 online

* 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.