* 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 – 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 – Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician

* 1959 – Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer

* 1959 – Stephen Pearcy, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist ( Ratt, Arcade, Vertex, and Vicious Delite )

* 1959 – Stephen Roche, Irish cyclist

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.

Stephen Wolfram ( born 29 August 1959 ) is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.

* Stephen Wolfram ( born 1959 ), British computer scientist and entrepreneur

* Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, 1959.

Astaire played the role of Julian Osborne in the 1959 movie On the Beach and was nominated a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur.

* Stephen M. Sweeney ( born 1959 ), current President of the New Jersey Senate and the Gloucester County, union boss and Financial Secretary / Treasurer, Ironworkers Union Local 399 Board of Chosen Freeholders.

He singles out Oliver Reynolds ( born 1957 ), Gwyneth Lewis ( born 1959 ), and Stephen Knight ( born 1960 ) as having fulfilled " their early promise ".

The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time.

* Stephen Leek ( born 1959 ), Australian composer, conductor, educator and publisher

As a broadcaster, Price was the original " No. 1 " in charge of the crew of HMS Troutbridge in the first series of the long-running radio comedy series The Navy Lark in 1959, but unable to continue the role in the second series because of other work commitments, he was replaced by Stephen Murray.

* Stephen Harper ( born 1959 ), Canadian Prime Minister

* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.

Kristol was affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom ; he wrote in Commentary magazine from 1947 to 1952, under the editor Elliot Cohen ( not to be confused with Elliot A. Cohen the writer of today's magazine ); co-founder ( with Stephen Spender ) of the British-based Encounter from 1953 to 1958 ; editor of The Reporter from 1959 to 1960 ; executive vice-president of the publishing house Basic Books from 1961 to 1969 ; Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University from 1969 to 1987 ; and co-founder and co-editor ( first with Daniel Bell and then Nathan Glazer ) of The Public Interest from 1965 to 2002.

However, it is essentially the same as algorithms previously published by Bernard Roy in 1959 and also by Stephen Warshall in 1962 for finding the transitive closure of a graph.

Famous alumni include Paul Wolfowitz ( Features Editor, 1959 – 1960 ; Editorial Assistant, 1960 – 1961 ) and Stephen Carter ( Editor-in-Chief, 1971 – 1972 ).

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* Davis Elkins ( 1876 – 1959 ), American industrialist, son of Stephen Benton Elkins

Stephen Hepburn ( born 6 December 1959 ) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Jarrow since 1997.

* Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester ( 1874 – 1959 )