* 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 )

Indeed, as early as 1959, even before independence, Mauritius informed the World Meteorological Organization that it considered Tromelin to be part of its territory.

He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), President of the Palestinian National Authority ( PNA ), and leader of the Fatah political party and former paramilitary group, which he founded in 1959.

He then served as Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization for the UN from July 1958 to January 1959.

Beginning in 1959, " the definition of a stillbirth was revised to conform, in substance, to the definition of fetal death recommended by the World Health Organization.

de los Santos served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1957 until 1959.

After retiring from Griffith in 1959, Hall consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Receipt Date: 31-DEC-55 4358283-Retrieved 2012-01-29 see also: < sup > 228 </ sup > Ac = ( Actinium 228 ) In 1959, he joined the staff of CERN ( European Organization for Nuclear Research ) in Geneva.

1959 – 11 March 1978 ) was a Palestinian militant who was a member of the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and participated in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel.

Ennals worked for The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) from 1951 to 1959.

Occasionally, KGB assassinated the enemies of the USSR abroad — principally Soviet Bloc defectors, either directly or by aiding Communist country secret services — The killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists members Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich in 1957 and 1959, as well as the unrelated slayings of emigre dissidents like Abdurahman Fatalibeyli ; the surreptitious ricin poisoning of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, shot with an umbrella-gun of KGB design, in 1978 ; The defection of assassins like Nikolai Khokhlov and Bohdan Stashynsky severely curtailed such activities however, and the KGB largely gave up assassinations abroad after Stashynsky's defection, although they continued assisting the Eastern European sister services in doing so.

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera () ( 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959 ) was a Ukrainian politician and one of the leaders of Ukrainian national movement in Western Ukraine ( Galicia ), who headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( OUN ).

In 1959 the Corps ' Work Services was transferred to the civilian War Department Works Organization ( later renamed Property Services Agency ( PSA )) and by 1965 the ( Specialist Teams Royal Engineers ( STRE )) were formed to plan and execute Works projects worldwide.

Manufactured by the American Special Automotive Research and Design Organization of Bergen, New Jersey between 1959 and 1960, the Asardo was an American sport coupe which featured an Alfa Romeo four-cylinder engine and four-speed gearbox.

Lisa McPherson ( February 10, 1959 – December 5, 1995 ) was a member of the Church of Scientology who died of a pulmonary embolism while under the care of the Flag Service Organization ( FSO ), a branch of the Church of Scientology.

Under future Surgeon General William H. Stewart, the Office of the Surgeon General ’ s Division of Public Health Methods staffed a number of investigatory and advisory bodies whose reports still inform policy decisionmaking, including the Secretary ’ s Consultants on Medical Research and Education ( Bayne-Jones report, 1958 ); the Surgeon General ’ s Consultant Group on Medical Education ( Bane report, 1959 ); the Surgeon General ’ s Report on Environmental Health Problems submitted to the House Appropriations Subcommittee ( 1959 ); and the Study Group on the Mission and Organization of the Public Health Service ( Hundley report, 1960 ).

With its inception in 1959, the Circle acted in conjunction with a similar government commission called the Plan Organization.

According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1959, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.

Among the positions Víctor Andrés Belaúnde occupied throughout his professional career were the following: Secretary of the File of Limits of the Ministry of External Relations of Peru, becoming Secretary in the Diplomatic Mission to Spain and Argentina, Consultant in the bordering negotiations with Brazil, Chargé d ' affaires in Germany ( 1914 ) and Bolivia ( 1945 ), Plenipotentiary Secretary in Uruguay in 1919, Colombia in 1934 and in Switzerland in 1936, President of the Peruvian delegation before the Society of Nations ( 1945 ), where he had the opportunity of subscribing the San Francisco Letter, which gave origin to the Organization of the United Nations, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations ( 1959 ), Rector pro tempore ( 1946 – 1947 ) and finally Rector of the Catholic University of Peru ( 1965 ).

His most significant publications before his two major books ( cited below ) include " Environment and Symptom Formation " ( 1946 ), “ Cultural Discontinuity and the Shadow of the Past ” ( 1948 ), “ The Principle of Limits with Special Reference to the Social Sciences ” ( 1950 ), “ Family Structure and Psychic Development ” ( 1951 ), “ Family Structure and the Transmission of Neurotic Behavior ” ( 1951 ), “ Child Rearing, Culture and the Natural World ” ( 1952 ), “ Culture, Education and Communications Theory ” ( 1954 ), “ American Culture and Mental Health ” ( 1956 ), “ Attitude Organization in Elementary School Classrooms ” ( 1957 ), “ The Problem of Spontaneity, Initiative and Creativity in Suburban Classrooms ” ( 1959 ), “ The Naturalistic Observations of Families of Psychotic Children ” ( 1961 ), “ Notes on the Alchemy of Mass Misrepresentation ” ( 1961 ), “ Values, Guilt, Suffering and Consequences ” ( 1963 ), “ American Schoolrooms: Learning the Nightmare ” ( 1963 ), “ On Regimentation ” ( 1964 ), “ My Life with the Families of Psychotic Children ” ( 1964 ), “ Sham ” ( 1966 ), “ Public Education and Public Anxiety ” ( 1967 ), and “ Attitude Organization in Elementary School Classrooms ” ( 1969 ).

* World Meteorological Organization Award ( 1959 )

Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyodan ( World Divine Light Organization ) is the name of an independent organization originally founded by Yoshikazu Okada in 1959 as " Yokoshi Tomo no Kai " ( L. H.