1959 (
MCMLIX) was a
common year starting on
Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1959
January
See also January 1959
February
See also February 1959
March
See also March 1959
April
See also April 1959
May
See also May 1959
June
See also June 1959
July
See also July 1959
August
See also August 1959
September
See also September
1959
October
See also October 1959
November
See also November 1959
December
See also December 1959
- December 1 –
Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries,
including the United
States
and the Soviet Union
, sign a landmark treaty,
which sets aside Antarctica
as a scientific preserve and bans military activity
on that continent (the first arms control agreement established during the
Cold War).
- December 2 –
Malpasset
Dam
in southern France
collapses
and water flows over the town of Frejus
, killing
412.
- December 8 – The Mona, a lifeboat based at Broughty Ferry in
Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt, with the loss of 8
lives.
- December 13 – Three years after its
first telecast, MGM's
The Wizard of
Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it
gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television
outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.
- December 14 – Makarios III is selected the first president of Cyprus.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January–February
- January 1 – Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
- January 5 – Clancy Brown, American actor
- January 6 – Andrew Johnson, English artist.
- January 9
- January 12 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter &
Roxette guitarist
- January 16 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
- January 17
- January 21
- January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent
and sportscaster (Countdown)
- January 31 – Kelly Moore, American race car driver
- February 2 – Jari Tervo, Finnish author
- February 3 – UliUli Fifita, Professional Wrestler
aka(Haku/Meng)
- February 4
- February 6 – Ken Nelson, English
record producer
- February 10 – Dennis Gentry, American football player
- February 14 – Renée Fleming, American soprano
- February 16 – John McEnroe, American tennis player
- February 22
- February 26 –
Rolando Blackman, Panamanian
basketball player
March–April
- March 1 – Nick
Griffin, British politician
- March 4
- March 6 – Tom Arnold, American actor and
comedian
- March 8 – Aidan
Quinn, Irish/American actor
- March 9 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian
journalist and talk show host
- March 10 – Mike Wallace, American race car
driver
- March 15 – Harold Baines, American baseball player
- March 16 – Flavor Flav, American rapper
- March 16 – Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- March 17
- March 18
- March 20
- March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
- March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 23 – Catherine Keener, American actress
- March 29 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
- April 2 – Badou
Zaki, Morrocan football player and manager
- April 3 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- April 10 – Brian Setzer, American rock guitarist and
singer
- April 11 – Ana María Polo, Cuban-born judge and
television personality
- April 15
- April 16 – Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey
player
- April 17 – Sean
Bean, British actor
- April 20 – Clint Howard, American actor and producer
- April 21 – Robert Smith, British rock musician
(The Cure)
- April 22
- April 24 – Paula
Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
- April 25 – Tony Phillips, American baseball player
- April 27 – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
- April 30 – Stephen Harper, Canadian politician and
present Prime Minister (2006– )
May–June
- May 2 – Alan Best, Canadian animation director
and producer
- May 3
- May 5
- May 10 – Victoria Rowell, American actress
- May 14 – Patrick
Bruel, French singer
- May 17
- May 19 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife
of O.J. Simpson and murder victim (d. 1994)
- May 20 – Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer
(d. 1997)
- May 21 – Brian Lenihan, Irish politician
- May 22 – Morrissey, British singer
- May 24 – Pelle
Lindbergh, Swedish-born hockey player (d. 1985)
- May 27 – Katherine Lanpher, American
journalist
- June 8 – Bernard White, Sri Lankan-born
American actor, screenwriter and film director
- June 8 – Scott W. Roberts, American popularizer of
astronomy
- June 9 – Miles O'Brien, American
television news anchor, pilot
- June 10 – Eliot
Spitzer, American politician and former governor of New York
- June 11
- June 14 – Marcus Miller, American bassist
- June 22
- June 26 – Mark
McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian
- June 28 – John Shelley, British
illustrator
- June 30 – Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
July–August
- July 3 – Julie
Burchill, British journalist
- July 6 – Richard Dacoury, French basketball
player
- July 7 – Ben
Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
- July 9
- July 11
- July 16 – Gary
Anderson, American football player
- July 17 – Margaret Becker, American Christian
singer
- July 18 – Mel
Purcell, American tennis player
- July 26
- July 27 – Hugh Green, American football
player
- July 29
- August 3 – Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry
- August 4 – Robbin Crosby, American rock guitarist
(Ratt) (d. 2002)
- August 5 – Pete
Burns, British singer (Dead or
Alive)
- August 8 – Christoph Theinert, German cellist and
composer
- August 10 – Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 11
- August 13 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor and disc
jockey
- August 14 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- August 15 – Scott Altman, American astronaut
- August 17
- August 19 – Anthony Sowell, suspected serial killer and
convicted rapist
- August 21 – Jim
McMahon, American football player
- August 25 – Sönke Wortmann, German film
director
- August 27 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
- August 29
- August 30 – Mark
'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and
actor
- August 31 – Tony DeFranco, Canadian singer
September–October
- September 1 – Kenny Mayne, American sportscaster
- September 2 – Guy Laliberté, Canadian Cirque du soleil founder
- September 4 – Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
- September 8
- September 14 – Morten Harket, Norwegian rock singer (a-ha)
- September 17 – Charles Lawson, Irish actor
- September 18 – Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and
keyboardist
- September 21
- September 28 – Dantes Tsitsi, Nauruan politician
- September 29 – Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer
- September 30 – Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach
- October 1 – Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese singer
- October 1 – Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, author, poet
- October 3
- October 4 – Chris Lowe, British musician
- October 7
- October 9 – Michael Pare, American actor
- October 10 – Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter
(d. 2000)
- October 13 – Marie Osmond, American singer
- October 15 – Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
- October 15 – Emeril Lagasse, American chef and restaurant
owner
- October 17 – Richard Roeper, American film critic
- October 21 – Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- October 23 – "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist
- October 25 – Christina Amphlett, Australian rock
singer
- October 26 – Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- October 27 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- October 31 – Neal Stephenson, American writer
November–December
- November 2 – Said Aouita, Moroccan athlete
- November 5 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and
photographer
- November 7 – Billy Gillispie, American basketball
coach
- November 8 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish football player and
top scorer
- November 9 – Tony Slattery, British comedian and actor
- November 10
- November 14 – Paul McGann, British actor
- November 17 – William R. Moses, American actor
- November 18 – Jimmy Quinn, Irish
footballer and football manager
- November 19 – Allison Janney, American actress
- November 23 – Dominique Dunne, American actress (d.
1982)
- November 25 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
- November 27 – Viktoria Mullova, Russian violinist
- November 28 – Judd Nelson, American actor
- November 29
- November 30 – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and
journalist
- December 1 – Billy Childish, English painter, writer and
musician
- December 1 – Wally Lewis, Australian sport identity
- December 4 – Christa Luding, German speed skater
- December 6 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese president of
Nintendo
- December 13 – Johnny Whitaker, American actor
- December 19 – Waise Lee, Hong Kong actor
- December 20 – Stephen Chan Chi Wan, general manager
of TVB
- December 20 – Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-born author
- December 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American
athlete (d. 1998)
- December 21 – Martin Meenan, Irish schoolteacher and
playwright
- December 22 – Bernd Schuster, German footballer and
manager
- December 24 – Keith Deller, English darts player
- December 27 – Gerina Dunwich, American author
- December 30 – Tracey Ullman, English/American comedian and
actress
- December 31
Deaths
January–March
- January 2 – William D. Francis, Australian botanist (b. 1889)
- January 3 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and
translator (b. 1887)
- January 21
- January 22 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b.
1929)
- January 28 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b.
1899)
- February 1 – Frank Shannon, American actor (b. 1874)
- February 3 – Killed in the crash of a
private plane:
- February 3 – Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b.
1891)
- February 4 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
- February 7 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
- February 11 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver
(b. 1922)
- February 12 – George Antheil, American composer (b.
1900)
- February 14 – Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
- February 15 – Owen Willans Richardson, British
physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1879)
- February 18 – Gago Coutinho, Portuguese aviation pioneer (b.
1869)
- February 20 – Laurence Housman, English playwright and
writer (b. 1865)
- February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress (b. 1924)
- February 23 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet
(b. 1898)
- February 26 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess
of Fife, eldest grandchild of King Edward VII of the United
Kingdom (b. 1891)
- February 28 – Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b.
1888)
- March 1 – Mack
Gordon, American composer and lyricist (b. 1904)
- March 2 – Eric
Blore, English actor (b. 1887)
- March 3 – Lou
Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- March 4 – Maxey
Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- March 6 – Fred
Stone, American actor (b. 1873)
- March 15 – Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1909)
- March 21 – Edwin Balmer, American science fiction and
mystery writer (b. 1883)
- March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist
(b. 1888)
- March 27 – Grant Withers, American actor (b. 1905)
- March 29 – Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the
Central African Republic (b. 1910)
April–June
- April 9 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
(b. 1867)
- April 12 – James Gleason, American actor (b. 1882)
- April 18 – Irving Cummings, American actor (b. 1888)
- May 5 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine
politician, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- May 14 – Sidney
Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- May 16 – Elisha
Scott, Irish footballer (b. 1894)
- May 18
- May 24 – John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of
State (b. 1888)
- May 30 – Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz,
Argentinian journalist (b. 1898)
- June 4 – Charles
Vidor, American director (b. 1900)
- June 8 - Pietro Canonica, sculptor (b. 1869)
- June 9 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus,
German chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1876)
- June 16 – George Reeves, American TV actor (b. 1914)
- June 18 – Ethel Barrymore, American stage & screen
actress (b. 1879)
- June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, Prime Minister of Japan 1948
(b. 1887)
- June 23 – Boris
Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. 1920)
- June 25 – Charles Starkweather, American spree
killer (b. 1938)
July–September
- July 6 – George
Grosz, German artist (b. 1893)
- July 11 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer
(b. 1882)
- July 15 – Ernest
Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- July 17 – Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- July 25 – King Mutara III of Rwanda (b. c. 1912)
- August 5 – Edgar
Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
- August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and
writer (b. 1898)
- August 15 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b.
1901)
- August 16
- August 19
- August 28 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b.
1890)
- September 1 – Jack Norworth, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1879)
- September 6
- September 7 – Maurice Duplessis, Premier of Québec (b. 1890)
- September 11 – Paul Douglas, American actor (b.
1907)
- September 13 – Gilbert Adrian, American costume
designer (b. 1903)
- September 14 – Wayne Morris, American actor
(b. 1914)
- September 17 – Jack Llewelyn Davies, one of the 'Lost
Boys' for the Peter Pan book (b. 1894)
- September 25
- September 28
- September 30 – Taylor Holmes, American actor (b. 1878)
October–December
- October 6 – Bernard Berenson, American art historian
(b. 1865)
- October 7 – Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 14 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- October 16 – George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of
State, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- October 18 – Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b.
1898)
- October 19 – Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran (b.
1871)* October 22 –
Joseph Cahill, Australian politician
(b. 1891)
- October 20 – Werner Krauss, German actor (b. 1884)
- October 28 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b.
1932)
- November 1 – M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, Tamil
film actor and producer (b. 1909)
- November 2 – Michael Considine, Australian politician
(b. 1885)
- November 7 – Victor McLaglen, English actor (b. 1886)
- November 10 – Lupino Lane, British actor (b. 1892)
- November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson,
Scottish physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer
(b. 1887)
- November 21 – Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b.
1909)
- November 22 – Molla Mallory, American tennis champion (b.
1884)
- November 24 – Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league
player (b. 1883)
- November 25 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (b.
1922)
- December 4 – Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director
(b. 1882)
- December 14 – Edna Wallace Hopper, stage actress (b.
1872)
- December 22 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b.
1901)
- December 24 – Edmund Goulding, American director (b.
1891)
- December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader
during World War II (b. 1889)
Nobel Prizes
Academy Awards
Notes
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: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana
when the
forces of Fidel Castro
advance.
.
declares
independence.
is admitted
as the 49th U.S. state.
, 42 people are killed during food fights between
the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako Party.
.
: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston
City
, Pennsylvania
in Port Griffith
; 12 miners are killed.
.
.
, killing all 4 occupants on board, including pilot
Roger Peterson. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the
Music Died
", popularized in Don
McLean's 1972 song "American Pie".
, Florida
, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental
ballistic missile is accomplished.
and Spain
set trade relations (not diplomatic
ones)
.
vote for the
first time.
decides to grant Cyprus
its
independence.
.
occupation erupts in Lhasa
.
.
in New
York
.
.
statehood.
is dedicated and opens its gates.
announces
its selection of 7 military pilots to become the first U.S.
astronauts (see Mercury
Seven).
and the Atlantic Ocean
officially opens to shipping.
.
, Guinea
.
becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain
with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime
Minister.
, consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro, whose purpose is to overthrow
dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
Within a few days all but 4 are captured and executed. Trujillo is
killed less than 2 years later by men partly inspired by the deaths
of the 1959 revolutionaries.
.
, East
Germany
(where he resumes a scientific career).
.
marries Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
.
.
of Tanzania.
, U.S.
Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR
Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a
"kitchen debate."
from Calais
to
Dover
in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of
Louis Bleriot's first crossing by
heavier-than-air craft.
.
kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of
damage.
kills
2,000.
.
's prime
minister S.W.R.D.
Bandaranaike
is assassinated.
, killing
an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving
1,533,000. Most of the victims and damage are centered in
the Nagoya area.
probe Luna 3 sends
back the first ever photos of the far side of the Moon.
, a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the
party; they later form APRA
Rebelde.
, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum
is brutally murdered.
10 yen coin is put into
circulation.
football manager
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