* 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 )

* 1959 – Martin Atkins, English drummer ( Public Image Ltd, Ministry, and Killing Joke )

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* 1957 – 1959 Aston Martin DB Mark III

* Aston Martin DBR1 ( 1956 – 1959 )

* Aston Martin DBR4 ( 1959 )

* 1959 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer ( d. 1996 )

* Martin, Ralph P. 1959.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

* 1959 – Martin Brundle, English race car driver

Another example, as Martin Scorsese has noted on television, is in the 1959 Ben-Hur.

Martin opened on Broadway in The Sound of Music as Maria on November 16, 1959, and stayed in the show until October 1961.

* Magic with Mary Martin ( 1959 )

He joined the Bristol Old Vic and was there for two years 1959 – 1961, time he described as ' the bedrock of his career ', followed by much other stage work: as Brecht's Arturo Ui, The Strange Case of Martin Richter, Disabled, The Heretic, The Caretaker and Semi-Detached ( in New York ).

Mao is most likely descended from the German game Mau Mau, or from Eleusis, which was published in Martin Gardner's column in the Scientific American in June 1959.

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson.

The use of the term in reference to surfing can be traced back to the 1959 film Gidget, in which " The Big Kahuna ", played by Cliff Robertson, ( Martin Milner in the TV episode ), was the leader of a group of surfers.

The term " pheromone " was introduced by Peter Karlson and Martin Lüscher in 1959, based on the Greek word pherein ( to transport ) and hormone ( to stimulate ).

The Rescue Squad was organized in 1959 and was the first one in Martin County.

Brown and the Band were also the house band for The Steve Allen Show ( 1959 – 1961 ) and the Dean Martin Variety Show ( 1965 – 1972 ).

Had daughters Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie ( m. 1959 – 1970 ).

Martin was acclaimed for his performance as Dude in Rio Bravo ( 1959 ), directed by Howard Hawks and also starring John Wayne and singer Ricky Nelson.

Eric Hilliard Nelson ( May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985 ), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor, starring alongside his family in the long-running television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ( 1952-1966 ), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks ' Western feature film Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).