GM eliminated the hardtop wagon from its lineup in 1959, and AMC and Ford exited the field beginning with their 1960 and 1961 vehicles, leaving Chrysler and Dodge with the body style through the 1964 model year.

After the merger of Nash and Hudson, the new company, American Motors ( AMC ) reintroduced the two-door wagon in the " new " Rambler American line in 1959 with only a few modifications from the original version.

A letter to shareholders in 1959 claimed that the introduction of new compact cars by AMC's large domestic competitors ( for the 1960 model year ) " signals the end of big-car domination in the U. S ." and that AMC predicts small-car sales in the U. S. may reach 3 million units by 1963.

On April 1, 1959, AMC and Sonotone Corporation announced a joint research effort to consider producing an electric car that was to be powered by a " self-charging " battery.

In 1959, he was hired to work as a model and to do commercial work for General Motors and Chrysler.

The team had posted an NFL-worst 1 – 10 – 1 record in 1958 before legendary head coach Vince Lombardi was hired in January 1959.

King was succeeded by his former assistants, with Bill Perry taking responsibility for Sunday strips in 1951 and Dick Moores, first hired in 1956, becoming sole writer and artist for the daily strip in 1959.

Ferrari hired five new drivers, Tony Brooks, Jean Behra, Phil Hill, Dan Gurney, and occasionally Cliff Allison, for the 1959 Formula One season.

After being graduated as a medical doctor in 1959, he was hired by the University of Chile medical school to form part of a pioneering studies center in medical anthropology ( CEAM ) founded by Franz Hoffman.

Several naval officers served as volunteer chairs of the Museum until 1959 when Niels Jannasch was hired as the Museum's founding director, serving until 1985.

Robinson began his television career in 1959, when he was hired for a news job at WTOV-TV in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Sportswriter Al Stump ( Robert Wuhl ) is hired in 1959 as ghostwriter of an authorized autobiography of the great Tyrus Raymond " Ty " Cobb, one of the best baseball players of all time.

Soon after, he was one of the first four assistants hired in Lombardi's first week with the Packers in early February 1959.

After Lee MacPhail was hired as the general manager in 1959, Richards served strictly as the Orioles ' field manager.

Despite this, he was hired first by Robert Wise for The Day the Earth Stood Still and then by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 Academy Award winning version of Ben-Hur.

The son of a grocer, he received his BA from Hanover College in 1955, his MA from Stanford University in 1956 and his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1959, after which Cornell hired him.

In 1959, Archie Comics hired Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ( of Captain America fame ) to create new superheroes under their Archie Adventure Series line.

After he graduated in 1951 he stayed on as a freshman coach till 1955 and as a varsity assistant coach until he was hired by Duke University in 1959.

In 1959, he was hired as the head professional at Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs, California, where he served for over a decade, and finally took a club job in the Houston area.

The Montreal Canadiens saw potential in Pollock and quickly hired him to be the successor to Frank J. Selke, serving as Personnel Director from 1959 to 1963, In 1963, Selke retired and Sam took over his job as general manager of the Habs.

Also in 1959, she was hired by 20th Century Fox Studios as a choreographer for Seven Thieves ( 1960 ).

His screenwriting career began to emerge from the blacklist when director Sidney Lumet hired him to write the screenplay for the 1959 Sophia Loren movie That Kind of Woman.

* 1959 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer

* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films

* 1959 – Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer and designer

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.

* 1959 – Jervis Johnson, English game designer

* 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator, designed the Fallingwater ( d. 1959 )

Maya Ying Lin ( born October 5, 1959 ) is an American architectural designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art.

* February 28 – Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer ( d. 1959 )

She was married to MGM costume designer Adrian from August 14, 1939 to his death on September 13, 1959.

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.

Alice Rawsthorn writes that there was speculation at the time that Marcel Boussac, the owner of the House of Dior and a powerful press baron, had put pressure on the government not to conscript Saint Laurent in 1958 and 1959 but reversed course and asked that the designer be conscripted after the disastrous 1960 season so that he could be replaced.

* Ann Demeulemeester, fashion designer ( b. 1959 )

Another good friend was Marvin Israel, an artist, graphic designer, and art director whom Arbus met in 1959.

* Gilbert Adrian ( 1903 – 1959 ), costume designer

* Michael Kors ( born 1959 ), American fashion designer

* Rand Miller ( born 1959 ), American video game designer

Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS ( 18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988 ) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation ( BMC ) in 1959.

* Andrew Wilson ( garden designer ) ( born 1959 ), British garden designer, lecturer and writer

Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth ( 28 February 1900 – 25 July 1959 ) was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer.

Wolf Hirth died in 1959 but it was not until 1964 that Martin Schempp found a new designer: Klaus Holighaus who had just graduated from Darmstadt Technical University, where he was a member of its Akaflieg.

* William King ( author ) ( born 1959 ), British author and games designer, also known as Bill King