Sports figures from Watching include Bobby Thomson, Billy Ard and Carl Banks.

** Billy Ray Cyrus ( born 1961 ), American musician and actor

Billy Whelan, one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958, was born locally on 1 April 1935.

* Billy Birmingham ( born 1953 ), Australian humorist

* Billy Slater ( born 1983 ), Australian rugby league player

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

Scotland international footballers Billy Bremner, John Colquhoun, Duncan Ferguson, and brothers Gary and Steven Caldwell were born in Stirling.

The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. ( 1953 – 2000 ), David ( born 1955 ), Billy ( 1957 – 94 ), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny ( born 1960 ).

* Billy Bass Nelson ( born 1951 ), bassist, founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic.

* Billy Singleton ( born 1968 ), British basketball player

William Stephen " Billy " Wright, named after his grandfather, was born in Wolverhampton, England on 7 July 1960 to David Wright and Sarah McKinley, Protestants from Northern Ireland.

Pat Garrett, the lawman famed for killing outlaw Billy the Kid, was born near the town of Cusseta in 1850.

* Billy " Crash " Craddock, country music legend, born and lives near Greensboro.

* Billy Davis, Jr. ( born 26 June 1938, St. Louis, Missouri )

Two-time Governor of Virginia, William " Extra Billy " Smith, was born at Marengo in 1797.

* Brit-rocker Billy Idol ( William Michael Albert Broad ), was born in Stanmore.

* Billy Ray Smith, Jr. ( born 1961 ), American football player

* Billy Smith ( second baseman ) ( born 1953 ), American infielder in Major League Baseball, 1975 – 79 ; 1981

* Billy Smith ( pitcher ) ( born 1954 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball, 1981

* Billy Smith ( baseball, born 1930 ), American minor league first baseman and manager and Major League coach and scout

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1882 ) ( 1882 –?

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1895 ) ( 1895 – 1951 ), English footballer with Huddersfield Town

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1900 ), English footballer with Hartlepool United, Huddersfield Town and Rochdale

* 1959 – Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician

* 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor

* 1959 – Billy Kimball, American screenwriter

Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

* 1959 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach

On November 16, 1959, Boston business executive Billy Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing American Football League ( AFL ).

* Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), d. Billy Wilder

* May 31 – Billy Mayerl, English pianist and composer ( d. 1959 )

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

The phrase " naff off " was used euphemistically in place of " fuck off " along with the intensifier " naffing " in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse ( 1959 ).

In 1959, Basie's band recorded a " greatest hits " double album The Count Basie Story ( Frank Foster, arranger ) and " Basie and Eckstine, Inc .": album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones ( as arranger ) and the Count Basie Orchestra.

With Billy Eckstine on the album Basie-Eckstine Inc., in 1959.

Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft.

It was among the first Hollywood films to challenge the Hays Code, along with Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ).

* Billy Cannon, All-American football player, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner and 2008 inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and one of the American Football League's most celebrated players.

* Billy Cannon, 1959 Heisman Trophy winner

Under the leadership of mayor William Bright " Billy " Cloud ( 1870 – 1959 ), Sunnyside initiated a project to pave its dirt streets on June 5, 1917.

They signed a new recording contract with Capitol Records ( for whom Patty had become a featured soloist ) and released a dozen singles through 1959, some rock-and-roll flavored and not very well received, and three hi-fi albums, including a vibrant LP of songs from the dancing 1920s with Billy May's orchestra.

In 1959, Billy Davis and Berry Gordy's sisters Gwen and Anna started Anna Records.

Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) was released without a certificate of approval due to its themes and became a box office smash and, as a result, further weakened the authority of the Code.

* McLoughlin, William G. Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham 1959.

* 1959: Billy Taylor: Billy Taylor with Four Flutes ( Riverside )

* Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) as Billy Gordon