* 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 )

* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

** Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U. S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

Darby O ' Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O ' Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.

Upon his return to New York in 1959, Lomax produced a concert, Folksong ' 59, in Carnegie Hall, featuring Arkansas singer Jimmy Driftwood ; the Selah Jubilee Singers and Drexel Singers ( gospel groups ); Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim ( blues ); Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys ( bluegrass ); Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger ( urban folk revival ); and The Cadillacs ( a rock and roll group ).

Then from September 14, 1958, to June 1959, CBS carried The Jimmy Dean Show on weekday and Saturday afternoons.

* Jimmy Hitchcock ( 1911 – 1959 ), American football and baseball player

The character made forty appearances in the Superman family of titles — Action Comics, Superman, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics, Secret Society of Super Villains, and DC Comics Presents — from 1959 to 1984, prior to a reboot of the DC Universe as a result of the limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12 ( April 1985-March 1986 ).

A couple of hits followed later in the decade ; " Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye ", a # 10 hit in 1959, was her final appearance in the charts.

*" Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye " ( 1959 )-UK number 10

In February 1959, Jimmy Doolittle became Chairman of the Board of Space Technology Laboratories ( STL ), the division which continued to support the Air Force ICBM efforts.

The cool influence stretches into such later developments as bossa nova, modal jazz ( especially in the form of Davis's Kind of Blue ( 1959 )), and even free jazz ( in the form of Jimmy Giuffre's 1961-1962 trio ).

* 1959: Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster ( with Ben Webster ( t. sax ), Jimmy Rowles ( p ), Leroy Vinnegar ( b ), Mel Lewis ( d ).

He served as Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, as a member of the United States Senate from 1959 to 1980, and as Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981.

The 1959 adaptation of Dancers in Mourning also featured John Ruddock as Oates, Denis Quilley as Jimmy Sutane, Michael Gough as Squire Mercer and Noel Howlett as " Uncle " William Faraday.

* 1959 – " High Hopes " ( music by Jimmy Van Heusen ) introduced by Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges in the film A Hole in the Head.

In 1962, at the suggestion of songwriter Ronald Mack, the group added Sylvia Peterson, who at age 14 had sung with Little Jimmy & the Tops, sharing lead vocals with Jimmy on " Say You Love Me ," the B-side of the Tops ' 1959 local hit " Puppy Love.

The team of the 1950s revolved around the midfield duo of Jimmy Adamson and Jimmy McIlroy ( a new stand was named after the latter in the 1990s ) and these two were key to the championship-winning team of 1959 – 1960 managed by Potts ( who now gives his name to the road which Turf Moor occupies ).

Some of West Coast jazz was experimental, avant-garde music several years before the more mainstream avant-garde playing of Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman ( Manne also recorded with Coleman in 1959 ); a good deal of Manne's work with Jimmy Giuffre was of this kind.

* Jimmy Mitchell ( 1958 – 1959 )

* Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Songbook ( 1959, Verve )

* 1959: Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre ( Verve )