* 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 )

* 1880 – Winifred Brunton, British-South African painter ( d. 1959 )

Coburn married Winifred Natzka on June 30, 1959 in Los Angeles, California.

* Winifred Brunton ( 1880 – 1959 ), a painter from South Africa most famous for her haunting portraits of Egyptian pharaohs

* Winifred Brunton ( 1880 – 1959 ), South African painter

Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry ( 6 May 1880-29 January 1959 ) was an English-born painter and illustrator.

* Lady Winifred Lowry-Corry ( 18 August 1876 – 1959 ), who was unmarried

* 1959 – Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer

* 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.

In 1959 complete knock down assembly began in South Africa and Indonesia.

The double curvature concrete arch dam was constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $ 135, 000, 000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

* 1959 – Dave Richardson, South African cricketer

To counter this, the British attempted to unite the various states under its protection and, on 11 February 1959, six of the West Aden Protectorate states formed the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South to which nine other states were subsequently added.

She also received Tony Awards for South Pacific, and, in 1959, for The Sound of Music.

Ernest Frederick " Fritz " Hollings ( born January 1, 1922 ) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina ( 1959 – 1963 ) and the 77th Lieutenant Governor ( 1955 – 1959 ).

As governor of South Carolina from January 20, 1959 to January 15, 1963, Hollings worked to improve the state's educational system, helping to bring more industry and employment opportunities to the state.

In 1959, Septima Clarke, Bernice Robinson, and Esau Jenkins, with the help of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, began the first Citizenship Schools in South Carolina's Sea Islands.

In South Vietnam, after the Diệm regime enacted the 10 / 59 Decree in 1959, mobile special military courts dispatched to the countryside to intimidate the rural peoples used guillotines belonging to the former French colonial power to carry out death sentences on the spot.

* The Papers of John C. Calhoun Edited by Clyde N. Wilson ; 28 volumes, University of South Carolina Press, 1959 – 2003.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

After coming under pressure from within the country and the United States, Diệm agreed to hold legislative elections in August 1959 for South Vietnam.

Finally, in January 1959, under pressure from southern Viet Cong cadres who were being successfully targeted by Diệm's secret police, Hanoi's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing the use of armed insurgency in the South with supplies and troops from the North.

In 1959 the company's laid-off singers gave the first of many regional tours ( presented by state Arts Councils ) with Rossini's The Barber of Seville using reduced scenery and conducted from the piano by Georg Tintner ( Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland ).

On 23 October 1959, South Coast was renamed Gold Coast and on 16 May 1959 it was proclaimed as a City.

South Street in Dorking in about 1959