* 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 – 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 )

* Gerhard Berger ( born 1959 ), Austrian Grand Prix racing driver

Gerhard Berger ( born 27 August 1959 ) is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver, who previously owned 50 % of the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team until he sold his share back to energy drink owner Dietrich Mateschitz in November 2008.

In 1965, German artist Gerhard Richter painted Herr Heyde, based on a photo of Heyde's 1959 arrest.

A native of Wellington, Shropshire, Rogers studied at King's College, Cambridge ( he was a choral scholar ) from 1953 – 1956, in Rome in 1957, in Milan from 1958 – 1959, and with Gerhard Hüsch at the Munich Hochschule für Musik ( 1959 – 1961 ).

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

* Alfred Schütz ( 1899 – 1959 ) developed a phenomenology of the social world on the basis of everyday experience that has influenced major sociologists such as Harold Garfinkel, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann.

From January 1959 to December 1963, Berger was secretary general of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua ( UMI ) and editor of the Interlingua magazine Currero.

" Guided by the structural-functional approach and drawing on the ideas of Tönnies, Durkheim, and Weber, understands modernity as the emergence of a mass society ( Kornhauser, 1959 ; Nisbet, 1969 ; Berger, Berger, & Kellner, 1974 ; Pearson, 1993 ).

In 1948 Berger moved into the academic world, taking a faculty position at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, which he held until 1959.

Alfred Schütz ( 13 April 1899, Vienna-20 May 1959, New York City ) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is " gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the century ".

Additional credits include The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Marjorie Morningstar ( 1958 ), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 Austrian film Das Mirakel.

* Andreas Mailath-Pokorny ( 1959 -), Austrian politician ( SPÖ )

The German MG 42 / 59 that was introduced in 1959 with the Bundeswehr to replace the U. S. machine-guns, served as the basis, which was similar to the Austrian 7. 62 mm MG 42.

Bruno Kreisky ( January 22, 1911 – July 29, 1990 ) was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983.

* 1959 – Austrian expedition led by Fritz Moravec makes the first attempt on the northeast ridge.

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

( Austrian television advertising first started in 1959.

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin ( 10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959 ) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator and occasional writer.

The Austrian Oriental Society, founded in 1959 to foster cultural relations with the Near East, is formally named ' Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall ' in recognition of Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall's accomplishments.

There was also an unfortunate politicisation of the U-Bahn issue: in the 1954 and 1959 city council elections, the conservative Austrian People's Party championed construction of a U-Bahn, but the more powerful Social Democratic Party of Austria campaigned for putting housing first.

Friedrich Waismann ( 21 March 1896 – 4 November 1959 ) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.

Since 1959, the race has been broadcast on Austrian television.

The football team enjoyed success as Austrian national champions in 1922, 1958 and 1959.

Joseph Kalmer ( August 17, 1898, Nehrybce ( Nahrybka, today Poland )-July 9, 1959, Vienna ) was an Austrian writer, poet and translator.

Kiryat Mattersdorf was founded in 1959 by the Mattersdorfer Rav, Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld, whose ancestors had served as Rav of the Austrian town of Mattersdorf for centuries, starting with his great-great-grandfather, the Chasam Sofer, in 1798.

* 1959: the ÖH establishes the Austrian Student Aid Foundation ( also: home4students )