* 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 )

* 1899 – Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister ( d. 1959 )

Hans Hofmann, " The Gate ", 1959 – 1960, collection: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 )-Epic film directed by King Vidor, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida

His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) and Barney's Version ( 1997 ); his 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.

This became The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952, and the foundation moved the collection into its first permanent museum building, in New York City, in 1959.

Set in sharp contrast to typically rectangular Manhattan buildings that surround it, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum building opened in October 1959.

In 1959 she co-starred with Frank Sinatra in Never So Few and with Yul Brynner in Solomon and Sheba.

Simon Solomon Schlesinger ( Jerusalem, 1959 ).

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 )

Some of the most important Yiddish playwrights of the first era included: Jacob Gordin ( 1853 – 1909 ), known for plays such as The Yiddish King Lear and for his translations and adaptations of Tolstoy, Solomon Libin ( 1872 – 1955 ), David Pinski ( 1872 – 1959 ), and Leon Kobrin ( 1872 – 1946 ).

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 )

On the other hand, several American epic-scale superproductions or blockbusters were shot also in Spain, produced either by Samuel Bronston, King of Kings ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), 55 Days at Peking ( 1963 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), Circus World ( 1964 )), or by others ( The Pride and the Passion ( 1957 ), Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 )).

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City opened October 21, 1959.

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 ) – King David

Talduwe Ratugama Rallage Weris Singho better known as Talduwe Somarama ( 1915 – 1962 ) shot and killed Solomon Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka ( then called Ceylon ) in 1959.

* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 ) — Pharaoh ( Siamun )