* 1959 – Rajendra Singh Indian water conservationist

* 1959 – Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian actor

Since the establishment of the Revolutionary Government of Cuba in 1959, the country has sent more than 52, 000 medical workers abroad to work in needy countries, including countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.

* 1959 – Boman Irani, Indian actor

* 1959 – Anil Kapoor, Indian actor

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ).

* 1959 – Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer

* 1959 – Uma Bharati, Indian politician

* 1959 – Srinivas, Indian singer

In August 1959, the People's Liberation Army took an Indian prisoner at Longju, which had an ambiguous position in the McMahon Line, and two months later in Aksai Chin, a clash led to the death of nine Indian frontier policemen.

Mostly funded by India after China's invasion of Tibet in 1959, the modernization program also included the construction of roads linking the Indian plains with central Bhutan.

He made a series of four highly rated Emmy Award-winning musical specials for television in 1958, 1959, 1960, and 1968, each featuring Barrie Chase, with whom Astaire enjoyed an Indian summer of dance creativity.

* Charles Jones ( cricketer ) ( 1902 – 1959 ), West Indian cricketer

The county was created on July 3, 1959, in anticipation of the termination of the Menominee Indian Reservation in 1961.

The cement plant was built in 1959 to supply Portland cement for the construction of Glen Canyon Dam and is owned by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.

The Village of Indian Head Park was incorporated on August 4, 1959.

* Aurobindo, Sri, The Foundation of Indian Culture, Pondicherry, 1959

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

His government was dismissed in 1959 by the Central Government, which invoked the controversial Article 356 of the Indian Constitution following what later became known as ' The Liberation Struggle '.

His Tamil film Nayagan along with Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) are the only Indian films to have appeared in Time magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Movies.

The Indian rupee was the official currency of Dubai and Qatar until 1959, when India created a new Gulf rupee ( also known as the " External rupee ") to hinder the smuggling of gold.

In 1959, he resigned from the Indian National Congress and founded the Swatantra Party, which stood against the Congress in the 1962, 1967 and 1972 elections.

On June 4, 1959, shortly after the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress, Rajaji, along with Murari Vaidya of the newly established Forum of Free Enterprise ( FFE ) and Minoo Masani, a classical liberal and critic of socialist Nehru, announced the formation of the new Swatantra Party at a meeting in Madras.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

* 1959 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith ; 12 miners are killed.

In 1959, construction began on the final link for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River water system, the California Aqueduct.

In 1959, the site of the Erlitou culture was found in Yanshi, south of the Yellow River near Luoyang.

Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, where the two sang two duets, " Virgin Mary Had One Son " and " We Are Crossing Jordan River ".

The large Irkutsk Reservoir was built on the Angara River between 1950 and 1959 in order to facilitate industrial development.

James River High School in Buchanan also opened in 1959.

The town of Holcomb was thrust into national headlines on November 15, 1959, when four members of the prominent Clutter family — Herbert, 48 ; his wife Bonnie, 45 ; daughter Nancy, 16 ; and son Kenyon, 15 — were found bound and shot to death in various rooms of their home, on the family's River Valley Farm on the outskirts of Holcomb.

* Douglas Fowler ( 1906 – 1980 ), Red River Parish Clerk of Court ( 1940 – 1952 ), mayor of Coushatta ( 1952 – 1954 ), and Commissioner of Elections ( 1959 – 1980 ).

* On the night of April 24, 1959, Mack Charles Parker, an African-American accused of rape, was abducted from the Pearl River County jail in Poplarville by a mob and shot to death.

On May 20, 1959, portions of Montvale were passed to River Vale, and on December 9 and December 14, 1965, territories were exchanged between Montvale and Upper Saddle River.

1959 saw the completion of Table Rock Dam on the White River, which created Table Rock Lake.

Marie, Michigan, to protect the Soo Locks ( one battalion ), Savannah River Site ( two ), and one 90mm and two Skysweeper battalions at Thule Air Base, Greenland ( all were removed by 1959 ).

In 1959 construction was completed on the new Rideau River campus, and Carleton moved to its current location.

The 1959 census recorded 1062 Izhorians ; in 1979 that number had fallen to 748, only 315 of them around the mouth of the Luga River and on the Soikinsky Peninsula.

Passenger service ended in November 1959, but the tracks remained in freight use until 1981 when a trestle over the Welland River became unsafe and the line was removed from service.

Elizabeth Figg was found dead on 17 June 1959, a full five years before the Jack the Stripper murders started, near the River Thames in Chiswick.

After training at the U. S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1959, Young was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland for three years.

Kununurra was built on land resumed from Ivanhoe Station pastoral lease before 1961, as the town for the Ord River Irrigation Area which started as the Ord River Project or Ord Scheme, with survey work starting in 1959.

At this site in 1959 drilling and blasting marked the start of construction of the Ord River Diversion Dam, which is anchored down onto the Bandicoot Bar.