* 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 )

* Year collections: Rather than being satisfied with a single specimen of a type, a great many collectors collect type by year ; for example, one Memorial Lincoln Cent for every year from 1959 ( the year it was first minted ) to present.

Frank Lloyd Wright ( born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959 ) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1, 000 structures and completed 500 works.

The American Nazi Party, founded by George Lincoln Rockwell in 1959, achieved high-profile coverage in the press through their public demonstrations.

After the Lincoln line's very large 1958, 1959 and 1960 models proved unpopular, McNamara pushed for smaller versions, such as the 1961 Lincoln Continental — now an icon among 1960s automobiles.

The monument was created in 1959 to mark the high point of the Lincoln Highway and it originally stood about half a mile west and higher along U. S. RT.

* 1959 color movie of the Lincoln Highway made by the Iowa State Highway Commission ( ISHC ), now the Iowa DOT ( 16 min ).

* George Peter Alexander Healy ( 1959 ), Abraham Lincoln portrait

* A Lincoln Treasury ( contains Lonesome Train: A Musical Legend ) ( 1959, Decca DL 9065 )

From 1959 ( the sesquicentennial of Lincoln's birth ) to 2008, the reverse featured the Lincoln Memorial.

In 1959 Philadelphia businessman Marvin Leonard " Babe " Chivian ( born 24 August 1925 ; died January 1972 ), " a body-and-fender man ," and real estate speculator, offered Burke a red Lincoln Continental convertible if Burke would agree to a management contract with him.

Subsequent commissions included MIT's Kresge Auditorium ( 1954 ), Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed ( 1959 ), Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall ( 1962 ), the Cultural Center of the Philippines ( 1969 ) and Baltimore's Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall ( 1978 ).

In 1959, the Kancamagus Highway opened, connecting Conway with Lincoln.

In 1888, the link to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln was broken and soon it was purchased by the Mercers ' Company, serving as premises for the Mercers ' School until 1959.

2010 saw the introduction of the Lincoln Cent with the new Union Shield reverse which replaced the familiar Lincoln Memorial reverse used from 1959 to 2008.

Gillian Joanna Merron ( born 12 April 1959 ) was a British Labour Party politician, who was also the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010.

It was built in the 1930s, But Henry Avenue Was extended in 1959 from Roxborough Ave to Andorra, includes several concrete arch bridges One Which crosses over the Wissahickon Creek & Lincoln Drive where it crosses into East Falls.

The name reappeared in 1959, on a special limousine-like version of the Lincoln Continental Mark IV ; it was available only in black and was identifiable by a unique padded vinyl top, a rarity at that time.

After 1959, the Town Car name went dormant for 10 years, reemerging as an interior option package for the 1969 Lincoln Continental.

The Lincoln Cosmopolitan Capri from 1950 to 1951 ; the Lincoln Capri from 1952 to 1959 ; the Mercury Comet Capri in 1966 – 1967 ; and three different generations of Mercury Capris from 1970 to 1994.

1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Town Car

Furthermore, the 1959 – 60 Continental Limousine and Town Car ( which had the same wheelbase as other Continentals but the same rear seat legroom as Lincoln due to the absence of the " breezeway " window ) are the heaviest American sedans without an extended wheelbase built since WW II, and the 1958 Continental convertible is the longest American convertible produced with the exception of the ( extremely rare ) 1934-37 Cadillac V-16 convertibles.