* 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 )

In November 1959, James H. Ottaway Sr., the founder of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., bought the Times-Herald and the Port Jervis Union-Gazette from Ralph Ingersoll, who had owned the papers since 1951.

* 1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player

Another explanation is that at a recording session in 1959 produced by Coxsone Dodd, double bassist Cluett Johnson instructed guitarist Ranglin to " play like ska, ska, ska ", although Ranglin has denied this, stating " Clue couldn't tell me what to play!

Some, such as Inkeles ( 1959 ), Johnson ( 1965 ) and Gibbs ( 1968 ), have claimed that Durkheim's only intent was to explain suicide sociologically within a holistic perspective, emphasizing that " he intended his theory to explain variation among social environments in the incidence of suicide, not the suicides of particular individuals.

Matthau was married twice ; first to Grace Geraldine Johnson from 1948 to 1958, and then from 1959 until his death in 2000 to Carol Marcus.

He went on to play multiple characters, but primarily the lookout Able Seaman ' Fatso ' Johnson and Lieutenant-Commander Stanton, in The Navy Lark, a navy based sitcom on the BBC Light Programme, which ran from 1959 to 1977, with Barker featuring in some 300 episodes.

The Johnson heirs property adjoining the school was purchased for $ 6, 000 in 1959 and old home on that lot was razed for playground space.

Johnson had started the development in 1959, and in 1968 was unsuccessful in having the area annexed to Gladstone.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

The organization, which is based in the United States, was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1961 by four lawyers ( Paul Bernard, Gerrit P. Groen, Henry Luke Banks, and Elmer Johnson ) who had met at a convention of the American Bar Association in 1959 to pray together.

Another of his enduring works is The Failure of the New Economics ( 1959 ), a detailed, chapter-by-chapter critique of John Maynard Keynes's highly influential General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, about which he paraphrased a quote attributed to Samuel Johnson, that he was " unable to find in it a single doctrine that is both true and original.

* William Paul Johnson ( born 1959 ), U. S. federal judge

* Howard W. Johnson, 1959 – 1966

In 1959, Howard Deering Johnson, who had founded and managed the company since 1925, turned the reins over to his son, then 26-year-old Howard Brennan Johnson.

On January 21, 1959, " Come To Me " by Marv Johnson was issued as Tamla 101.

Jean Johnson introduced Korats to the US in 1959.

* Karl Lark-Horovitz, Vivian Annabelle Johnson, Methods of experimental physics: Solid state physics, Academic Press, 1959 ISBN 0-12-475946-7.

* Either Way ( 1959 – 60 ) with Cecil Colier, Bill Crow, Gus Johnson, and Mose Allison

* Earvin " Magic " Johnson ( born 1959 ), American basketball player and businessman

President Adolfo López Mateos with future President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson and former President Harry S. Truman, in 1959.

He recorded a number of songs in 1958 and 1959, including " Heebie Jeebies ", with band members such as Plas Johnson on tenor sax and Jewel Grant on baritone, Rene Hall on guitar, Gerald Wilson on trumpet, Ernie Freeman or Williams himself on piano, and Earl Palmer on drums.

* Thomas Francis Johnson ( 1909 – 1988 ), U. S. Representative from Maryland, 1959 – 1963

The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and signed to Colpix Records, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss.

* Charlie Johnson ( bandleader ) ( 1891 – 1959 ), jazz musician and pianist