* 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 )

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* Steve Canyon ( 1959 ), Second Spanish girl ( as Mary Moore )

Paranthropus boisei was discovered by Mary Leakey on July 17, 1959, at the FLK Bed I site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania ( specimen OH 5 ).

The first hominid skull in Olduvai Gorge was discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959, and named Zinj or Nutcracker Man, the first example of Paranthropus boisei, and is thought to be over 1. 8 million years old.

* Magic with Mary Martin ( 1959 )

In 1959, Mary Barstow Rockwell died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

In 1959, his wife Mary died unexpectedly, and Rockwell took time off from his work to grieve.

Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, where the two sang two duets, " Virgin Mary Had One Son " and " We Are Crossing Jordan River ".

Under Diệm, the Catholic Church enjoyed special exemptions in property acquisition, and in 1959, Diệm dedicated his country to the Virgin Mary.

* The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 )

* The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 )

* The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 )

Four of his early novels were made into films: Snowbound ( 1948 ) from The Lonely Skier ( 1947 ), Hell Below Zero ( 1954 ) from The White South ( 1949 ), Campbell's Kingdom ( 1957 ) from the book of the same name ( 1952 ), and The Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 ) also from the book of the same name ( 1956 ).

* Coriolanus, with Laurence Olivier as Coriolanus, Edith Evans, Vanessa Redgrave, Albert Finney and Mary Ure, directed by Peter Hall ( 1959 )

Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp, it opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, garnering much praise and numerous awards.

Youngest daughter Caroline was married at the restored Church of St. Mary at Castlemartin Estate on 1 June 1991, while eldest child Susan O ' Reilly married investment banker Tarik C. Wildman ( 1959 -) on 14 August 1993 before an Episcopal dean at the same church.

They have three daughters, Mary Alma Stone ( born 1953 ), Teresa " Tere " Carrubba ( born 1954 ), and Kathleen " Katie " Fiala ( born 1959 ), and currently live in Solvang, California.

Under Diệm, the Catholic Church enjoyed special exemptions in property acquisition ; and, in 1959, Diệm dedicated his country to the Virgin Mary.

* Wreck of the Mary Deare ( 1959 )

In his book, Queen Mary ( London, 1959 ), the Queen's official biography, James Pope-Hennessy reports that the Queen's Aunt Augusta was not fond of the new science of photography, fearing it would intrude deeply into the private lives of Royal personages ; at pp. 101-105 he offers a masterly sketch of this formidable lady.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mary Hayley Bell, the setting was moved from Lancashire to small town Louisiana in 1959.

* Whistle Down the Wind ( novel ), a 1959 novella by Mary Hayley Bell

It was at the FLK ( Frida Leakey Korongo site named after Louis ' first wife ) in 1959 that Mary found remains of the robust australopithecine Zinjanthropus boisei ( now known as Paranthropus boisei ).

Holland America Line produced some noted ships, from the 36, 000 gross ton of 1937 ( besides the RMS Queen Mary, the only 1930s-built liner to make a profit ) and the of 1959, one of the first North Atlantic ships equipped for two-class transatlantic crossing and one-class luxury cruising.