* 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 )

Steiger was married five times: actress Sally Gracie ( 1952 – 1958 ), actress Claire Bloom ( 1959 – 1969 ), Sherry Nelson ( 1973 – 1979 ), Paula Ellis ( 1986 – 1997 ) and actress Joan Benedict Steiger ( married 2000 until his death ).

Paula Elizabeth Yates ( 24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000 ) was a British television presenter and writer, best known for her work on two television programmes, The Tube and The Big Breakfast.

Paula Poundstone ( born December 29, 1959 ) is an American stand-up comedian.

Judy ( Judith ) mozes was born in Ramat Gan to Paula and Noah Mozes, owners of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, third daughter after Gilad Mozes, who was killed in a car accident in the year 1959 and Arnon Mozes, the current newspaper publisher.

Hortência Maria de Fátima Marcari ( born September 23, 1959 in Potirendaba, São Paulo, Brazil ) is a former basketball player who is often considered to be one of the greatest women's basketball players in Brazil, alongside with Paula, and regarded by specialists as one of the world's greatest women's basketball players of all time.

Ivan Yates ( born 23 October 1959 ) is an Irish businessman, broadcaster and former politician.

Under Yates ' leadership between 1935 and 1959, Republic made 956 feature films and 849 serial chapters, many of which are classics enjoyed today on television and DVD by a whole new generation of appreciative fans.

* 1992 – Nigel Preston, English drummer ( The Cult ) ( b. 1959 )

* 1959 – Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down ' n ' Outz )

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

* Adrian Sanders ( born 1959 ), English Liberal Democrat politician

* Adrian Paul ( born 1959 ), English actor

* 1959 – Amanda Redman, English actress

* 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor ( d. 1959 )

* 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician

* 1959 – Sean Bean, English actor

* 1959 – Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author

* 1959 – Mark Price, English drummer ( All About Eve and Del Amitri )

* 1959 – Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Glove )

Between 1958 and 1959, the English language edition spent 26 weeks at the top of The New York Times bestseller list.

* 1959 – Lee Chapman, English footballer

* 1959 – Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician

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

* 1959 – Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer

* 1883 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( d. 1959 )

* 1959 – Ali Campbell, English singer and songwriter ( UB40 )