* 1959 – John C. McGinley, American actor

* 1959 – John Gormley, Irish politician

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Garbage collection was invented by John McCarthy around 1959 to solve problems in Lisp.

* 1959 – John Martin Scripps, English murderer ( d. 1996 )

* 2008 – John Drake, New Zealand rugby union footballer ( b. 1959 )

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

* 1959 – John McEnroe, American tennis player

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

The newly hailed " James Brown Band " debuted at the Apollo Theater on April 24, 1959, opening for Little Willie John.

* 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician ( They Might Be Giants )

* 1959 – John Carlson, American radio host

* 1959 – John Franklin, American actor

* 2000 – John Morris Rankin, Canadian musical entertainer ( b. 1959 )

On August 15, 1959, she married John Blume whom she had met while a student at New York University ; the wedding was held in the summer of her sophomore year of college.

" Following in 1959, John Beer described the complex nature of the poem: " Kubla Khan the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a poem so packed with meaning as to render detailed elucidation extremely difficult.

John Watson ( 1878 – 1959 ) coined the term " behaviorism.

* Serjeant Musgrave's Dance ( John Arden, 1959 )

Fluxus traces its beginnings to John Cage's 1957 to 1959 Experimental Composition classes at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

In 1959 he and John McCarthy founded what is now known as the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

* 1959 – John Morgan, English etiquette expert and author ( d. 2000 )

* The Outward Urge ( 1959 ) by John Wyndham.

* 1959 – John Berry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Cage taught a series of Experimental Composition classes, run between 1957 and 1959 at the New School for Social Research in New York City which explored notions of indeterminacy in art.

When Young visited Darmstadt in 1959, he encountered the music and writings of John Cage.

Kaprow ’ s piece 18 Happenings in 6 Parts ( 1959 ) is commonly cited as the first happening, although that distinction is sometimes given to a 1952 performance of Theater Piece No. 1 at Black Mountain College by John Cage, one of Kaprow's teachers in the mid-1950s.

* Two Plays: The Wide Open Cage and Jack Winter's Dream, 1959

He performed with John Cage, as well as with the ensembles of Harry Partch ( in a production of Partch's The Bewitched in 1959 ), Steve Reich, and Philip Glass ( the latter two in the late 1960s ).

Brecht studied with Cage between 1958 and 1959, during which time he invented, and then refined, the Event Score which would become a central feature of Fluxus.

In October 1959, fresh from studying with Cage, Brecht organised his first one-man show at the Reuben Gallery, New York.

Following the success of works such as the Piano Sonata ( 1959 ), performed at the Domaine musical, and works involving choice and chance, he spent a period in America during which he encountered avant-garde figures such as Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Rauschenberg.

Composer Franz Waxman composed an oratorio " Joshua " in 1959.

In October 1959, the United States sent a " Special Survey Team " composed of counterinsurgency experts to investigate Colombia's internal security situation.

From 1959, the Federal Council, elected by the parliament, is composed of members of the four major parties, the Protestant Free Democrats, the Catholic Christian Democrats, the left-wing Social Democrats and the right-wing People's Party, essentially creating a system without a sizeable parliamentary opposition ( see concordance system ), reflecting the powerful position of an opposition in a direct democracy.

From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party.

These years shaped his future life: he composed for his fellow students who performed everything he composed, he decided to become a college professor and in 1959 he married his first wife, a fellow student, Georganna Towne.

The first was composed in 1951, the second ( subtitled " Le Double ") in 1959.

249 — composed in 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1972 respectively — which are symphonic works for school and college wind bands.

His talent went beyond the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called " Toot Sweet " which had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as " It's Really Love ") since Anka composed Tom Jones ' biggest hit record " She's a Lady " and wrote the English lyrics to " My Way ", Frank Sinatra's signature song sung by many well known artists.

* Margaret Buechner composed a work for chorus and orchestra, " Liberty Bell ", that incorporates a 1959 recording of the actual bell made by Columbia Records.

He was employed by EMI from 1959 until 1962 arranging orchestral accompaniment for the company's singers, including Adam Faith ; he also composed songs ( along with Les Vandyke ) and scores for films in which Faith was featured.

In 1959 he composed the opera Aniara based on the poem by Harry Martinson.

* Norwegian Gospel Hall of Fame inductee Haldor Lillenas ( 19 November 1885 – 18 August 1959 ), was an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, author, song evangelist, poet, music publisher and prolific hymnwriter, who is estimated to have composed over 4, 000 hymns ;

* Gallo ciego, composed by Agustín Bardi, performed by Osvaldo Pugliese y su Orquesta, recorded in Buenos Aires in 1959.

The String Quartet he composed in 1959 after his return to Budapest marks this crucial turning point ; he refers to this piece as his Opus 1.

In 1959, Kaper composed most of the music for MGM's production on Green Mansions with Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins, after MGM had asked Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to write the score.

In 1959, at the behest of Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Chabuca Granda composed a new replacement for the first verse in the anthem, but this was never implemented:

El-Dabh would later become more famous for his work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where in 1959 he composed the influential piece Leiyla and the Poet ( Holmes 2008, 153 – 54 & 157 ).

In 2008, Hisaishi composed soundtracks for Academy Award-winning film Departures as well as for, a post-World War II war crimes trial drama which is based on the 1959 Tetsutaro Kato novel and film currently being remade and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa, starring Masahiro Nakai and Yukie Nakama.

On the other hand, Onat Kutlar's İshak (" Isaac ", 1959 ), composed of nine short stories which are written mainly from a child's point of view and are often surrealistic and mystical, represent a very early example of magic realism.

The RPF was composed of over 4000 soldiers, most the sons of Tutsi refugees who had fled ethnic purges in Rwanda between 1959 to 1963.

During the 1959 UNR Congress, he was the first politician to evoke a " reserved presidential domain ," composed chiefly of defence and diplomacy.

The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich.

In 1959 and 1966 staff astronomer Sidney van den Bergh composed a database of dwarf galaxies known as the David Dunlap Observatory Catalogue.