* 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 )

* The Angry Red Planet ( or Invasion of Mars and Journey to Planet Four ), a 1959 science fiction film

De Sica appeared in the British television series The Four Just Men ( 1959 ).

Dell Comics published several Daffy Duck comic books, beginning in Four Color Comics # 457, # 536, and # 615 and then continuing as Daffy # 4-17 ( 1956 – 59 ), then as Daffy Duck # 18-30 ( 1959 – 62 ).

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

* The Four Seasons Restaurant, New York City, New York ( 1959 )

Albert Lea received national attention in 1959 after Local 6 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America went on strike against Wilson & Co. ( one of the Big Four meatpacking plants at the time ) over issues involving mandatory overtime requirements.

The Big Four Building, named in honour of the Stampede's benefactors, opened in 1959 to serve as the city's largest exhibition hall in the summer, and was converted into a 24-sheet curling facility each winter.

Four of his early novels were made into films: Snowbound ( 1948 ) from The Lonely Skier ( 1947 ), Hell Below Zero ( 1954 ) from The White South ( 1949 ), Campbell's Kingdom ( 1957 ) from the book of the same name ( 1952 ), and The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 ) also from the book of the same name ( 1956 ).

* Four for the Future ( 1959 )

In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called Frontier Justice, a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television.

The group changed its name to the Four Jays in September 1959. guitarist

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

In 1959 he was credited as exterior or second unit director on 23 episodes of the TV series The Four Just Men and four 30-minute episodes of the series Danger Man.

Curated by Langsner, Four Abstract Classicists opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1959.

Uncredited television appearances during this period include episodes of The Invisible Man ( 1958 ) and The Four Just Men ( 1959 ).

* 1959 Four members killed in an avalanche during a failed international women's expedition.

The Chipmunks first appeared in comic book form on Dell's Four Color Comics series, issue # 1042 ( cover-dated Dec. 1959 ).

* The Angry Red Planet ( aka Invasion of Mars, aka Journey to Planet Four )- 1959

Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.

* 1959 Variations for flute and piano, op. 8, Four Songs from the Japanese, op. 9, Sutter's Gold, op. 10

# Four Nocturnes ( accordion, 1959 )

Four Comets were delivered to the Irish Army in 1959 and a further four in 1960.

He appeared as one of The Four Just Men ( 1959 ) in the Sapphire Films TV series for ITV.

Hijikata's period as a public performer and choreographer extended from his performance of Kinjiki in 1959 to his famous solo work, Hijikata Tatsumi and Japanese People: Revolt of the Body ( inspired by preoccupations with the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus and the work of Hans Bellmer ) in 1968, and then to his solo dances within group choreography such as Twenty-seven Nights for Four Seasons in 1972.