* 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 )

Later it was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1959 ), a ballet version performed by the Royal Ballet with music by Malcolm Arnold.

His song " Drinkin ' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee " maintained its popularity throughout the 1950s by various artists, including Malcolm Yelvington in 1954, Johnny Burnette in 1957, and Jerry Lee Lewis in 1959.

Notable British cars of this era included the 1959 Mini — designed by Alec Issigonis for the British Motor Corporation, and Malcolm Sayer's 1961 E-type Jaguar.

On the Sir Malcolm Sargent / Glyndebourne series, he recorded: 1958 Pinafore ( Sir Joseph Porter ); 1959 Iolanthe ( Lord Chancellor ); 1961 Pirates ( Major-General ); 1961 Trial ( The Learned Judge ); 1963 Patience ( Bunthorne ); and 1963 Ruddigore ( Robin Oakapple ).

* Malcolm Tulloch 1959 to 1962.

George Padmore ( 28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959 ), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author who left Trinidad in 1924 to study in the United States and from there moved to the Soviet Union, Germany, and France, before settling in London and, toward the end of his life, Accra, Ghana.

John Crowe Ransom ( right ) with Robie Macauley as he prepares to become editor of The Kenyon Review in 1959. In 1959 Robie Macauley succeeded Ransom as editor of The Kenyon Review, where he published fiction and poetry by John Barth, T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Richmond Lattimore, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O ' Connor, V. S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, J. F. Powers, Karl Shapiro, Jean Stafford, Christina Stead, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, as well as articles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Ellmann, Leslie Fiedler, Martin Green, and Raymond Williams.

* Malcolm, 1959 comic novel by James Purdy

Malcolm Jones III ( 1959 – 1996 ) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran.

In 1959, Malcolm became Episcopal Chaplain at Colorado State University.

John Malcolm Patterson ( born September 27, 1921 ) is a retired American politician who was the 44th Governor of the U. S. state of Alabama, having served a single term from 1959 to 1963.

She became Lady MacGregor of MacGregor when she married clan chief Sir Malcolm Gregor Charles MacGregor, 7th Baronet ( born 1959 ) in 2005.

Foster was succeeded in 1945 by Edward William O ' Flaherty Lynam, Superintendent of the Map Room at the British Library and the first of a long line of post-war presidents whose terms of office were restricted to a period of five years: Malcolm Letts ( 1950 – 54 ); Professor J. N. L. Baker ( 1955 – 59 ); Sir Alan Burns ( 1959 – 64 ); Sir Gilbert Laithwaite ( 1964 – 69 ); C. F. Beckingham ( 1969 – 72 ); Esmond S. de Beer ( 1972 – 78 ); Glyndwr Williams ( 1978 – 82 ); David Beers Quinn ( 1982 – 87 ); Sir Harold Smedley ( 1987 – 92 ); Professor Paul E. H. Hair ( 1992 – 97 ); Sarah Tyacke ( 1997 – 2002 ); Professor Roy Bridges ( 2002 – 08 ); Professor Will Ryan ( 2008 – 11 ); and Captain Mike Barritt ( 2011 -).

In fact, Hammer employed a number of other composers, including Franz Reizenstein ( The Mummy, 1959 ), Malcolm Williamson ( The Brides of Dracula, 1960 ) and Tristram Cary ( Quatermass and the Pit, 1967, and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, 1971 ).

* Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury ( 1959 )