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|footer=From top left, clockwise: [[Fidel Castro]] takes over Cuba; Tsarong Dazang Dramdul and several Tibetan monks captured by the PLA during the [[1959 Tibetan uprising]]; The [[MOSFET]] (MOS transistor) is invented by [[Mohamed Atalla]] and [[Dawon Kahng]] at [[Bell Labs]].; Site of [[Australopithecus boisei]] discovery in [[Tanzania]].; Surface weather analysis of [[Typhoon Vera]]; [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Nikita Khrushchev]] at the American National Exhibition; [[The Day the Music Died]]: The wreckage of the Bonanza at the crash site that killed [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]], and [[The Big Bopper]]; Damage to the Congolese Public Market in Léopoldville from the [[Léopoldville riots]]. }}


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==Events==
Years: [[1954]] [[1955]] [[1956]] [[1957]] [[1958]] - '''1959''' - [[1960]] [[1961]] [[1962]] [[1963]] [[1964]]
[[File:World affairs map, 1959.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Map of the world in 1959, highlighting the main world affairs of the year]]


===January===
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[[File:Luis Korda 02.jpg|right|thumb|upright|[[January 8]]: [[Fidel Castro]] arrives in [[Havana]]]]
'''Events'''
{{Main|January 1959}}
* [[January 1]] - [[Cuba]]: [[Fulgencio Batista]] overthrown by [[Fidel Castro]].
* [[January 1]] – [[Cuba]]: [[Fulgencio Batista]] flees [[Havana]] when the forces of [[Fidel Castro]] advance.<ref>{{cite book|title=Handbook on the Cuban Armed Forces|publisher=DIA|year=1979|page=1}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] - [[CBS Radio]] cuts four soap operas: ''[[Backstage Wife]]'' ''[[Our Gal Sunday]]'', ''[[Road of Life]]'', and ''[[This is Nora Drake]]''.
* [[January 2]] – Soviet lunar probe [[Luna 1]] is the first human-made object to attain [[escape velocity]] from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's [[Moon]], where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first [[spacecraft]] to go into [[heliocentric orbit]].
* [[January 3]] - [[Alaska]] is admitted to the United States as the 49th state.
* [[January 3]]
* [[January 7]] - The [[United States]] recognizes the new [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fidel Castro]]
** [[Alaska]] is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
* [[February 6]] - At [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished.
** The southernmost island of the [[Maldives]] [[archipelago]], [[Addu Atoll]], declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the [[United Suvadive Republic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Suvadive Revolt – Addu 1959|url=http://www.maldivesroyalfamily.com/suvadive/maldives_suvadive_OShea.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040812181513/http://www.maldivesroyalfamily.com/suvadive/maldives_suvadive_OShea.shtml|archive-date=2004-08-12|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] - [[Fidel Castro]] becomes Premier of [[Cuba]] after President [[Fulgencio Batista]] was overthrown on [[January 1]].
* [[January 4]]
* [[February 19]] - The [[United Kingdom]] grants [[Cyprus]] its independence.
* [[February 22]] - [[Lee Petty]] wins the first [[Daytona 500]].
** In [[Cuba]], rebel troops led by [[Che Guevara]] and [[Camilo Cienfuegos]] enter the city of [[Havana]].
** [[Léopoldville riots]]: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the [[ABAKO]] Party in [[Kinshasa|Léopoldville]] in the [[Belgian Congo]].
* [[March 9]] - The [[Barbie]] doll debuts
* [[March 17]] - The [[Dalai Lama]] flees [[Tibet]] and travels to [[India]].
* [[January 6]] – The [[International Maritime Organization]] is inaugurated.
* [[January 7]] – The United States recognizes the new [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fidel Castro]].
* [[March 18]] - American President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs bill allowing for [[Hawaii]]an statehood.
* [[January 8]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]] is inaugurated as the first president of the [[French Fifth Republic]].
* [[March]] - [[China]] annexes [[Tibet]].
* [[January 9]] – The [[Vega de Tera disaster]] in Spain, a flood caused by a dam collapse, nearly destroys the town of [[Ribadelago]] and kills 144 residents.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/01/10/espana/915922818_850215.html |title=40 años de la tragedia de Ribadelago, en la que murieron 144 personas |language=es |first=José |last=Lera |date=10 January 1999 |location=Zamora |access-date=12 September 2018 |newspaper=[[El País]] |publisher=[[PRISA]]}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] - the first (and only) delivery of [[Missile Mail]]
* [[January 10]] – The [[Soviet government]] recognizes the new Castro government of Cuba.
* [[September 15]] - Russian probe [[Luna 2]] sends back first photos of the far side of [[Earth]]'s [[Luna|Moon]].
* [[January 11]] – The [[Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques]] is founded in [[Monaco]].
* [[January 12]] – The [[Motown]] record label is founded as Tamla by [[Berry Gordy]] in [[Detroit]].
* [[January 15]] – The [[Soviet Union]] conducts its [[Soviet Census (1959)|first census]] after [[World War II]].
* [[January 21]] – The [[European Court of Human Rights]] is established.
* [[January 22]] – [[Knox Mine disaster]]: Water breaches the River Slope Mine in [[Port Griffith, Pennsylvania|Port Griffith]], near [[Pittston, Pennsylvania]], United States; 12 miners are killed.
* [[January 25]]
** [[American Airlines]] begins the first U.S. domestic jet service with a [[Boeing 707]] [[airliner]] flight between [[New York City|New York]] and [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Today in History|newspaper=Washington Post Express|date=25 January 2012|page=26}}</ref>
** [[Pope John XXIII]] announces that the [[Second Vatican Council]] will be convened in Rome.
* [[January 30]] – Danish passenger/cargo ship {{MS|Hans Hedtoft}}, returning to [[Copenhagen]] after its maiden voyage to [[Greenland]], strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.<ref>{{cite news|title=Three Rescue Vessels Reach Ship-Iceberg Collision Scene|location=Oakland|newspaper=Tribune|date=1959-01-31|page=1}}</ref>


===February===
*[[TAT-2]] cable goes into operation.
{{Main|February 1959}}
*The [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] is opened.
[[file:Vanguard 2 satellite sketch.png|170px|right|thumb|[[February 17]]: Technical drawing of [[Vanguard 2]]]]
* [[February 2]] – Nine ski hikers mysteriously perish in the northern [[Ural Mountains]] in the [[Dyatlov Pass incident]] and are all found dead a few weeks later.
* [[February 3]]
** A chartered plane transporting musicians [[Buddy Holly]], [[Ritchie Valens]] and [[The Big Bopper]] with pilot [[Roger Peterson (pilot)|Roger Peterson]] goes down in foggy conditions near [[Clear Lake, Iowa]], killing all four on board. The tragedy is later termed "[[The Day the Music Died]]", popularized in [[Don McLean]]'s [[1971]] song "[[American Pie (song)|American Pie]]".
** [[American Airlines Flight 320]], a [[Lockheed L-188 Electra]] from Chicago crashes into the [[East River]] on approach to New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
* [[February 6]] – At [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]], the first successful test firing of a [[Titan intercontinental ballistic missile]] is accomplished.
* [[February 9]] – [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and [[Francoist Spain|Spain]] set trade relations (not diplomatic ones).
* [[February 13]] – [[TAT-2]], [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s second [[transatlantic telephone cable]] goes into operation between [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] and France.
* [[February 16]] – [[Fidel Castro]] becomes Premier of [[Cuba]].
* [[February 17]] – [[Vanguard 2]], the first [[weather satellite]], is launched to measure [[cloud cover]] for the [[United States Navy]].
* [[February 18]]
** [[Jesús Sosa Blanco]], a colonel in the Cuban army of [[Fulgencio Batista]], is executed in [[Cuba]] after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.
** Women in [[Kingdom of Nepal|Nepal]] vote for the first time.
* [[February 19]] – First of the [[London and Zürich Agreements]] under which the United Kingdom agrees to grant independence to [[Cyprus]].
* [[February 20]] – The [[Politics of Canada|Canadian Government]] cancels the [[Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow]] [[interceptor aircraft]] project.


===March===
'''Art, Culture & Fashion'''
{{Main|March 1959}}
* [[1959 in film]]
**''[[Ben-Hur]]''
* [[March 1]]
** The {{USS|Tuscaloosa|CA-37|6}}, {{USS|New Orleans|CA-32|6}}, {{USS|Tennessee|BB-43|6}} and {{USS|West Virginia|BB-48|6}} are stricken from the United States [[Naval Vessel Register]].
**''[[The Diary of Anne Frank]]''
** [[Archbishop#Eastern Christianity|Archbishop]] [[Makarios III|Makarios]] returns to [[Cyprus]] from exile.
**''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''
* [[March 3]] – Lunar probe [[Pioneer 4]] becomes the first American object to escape dominance by Earth's gravity.
**[[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[North by Northwest]]'', starring [[Cary Grant]] and [[Eva Marie Saint]]
* [[March 9]] – [[Mattel]]'s [[Barbie]] doll debuts in the United States.
* [[1959 in literature]]
* [[March 10]] – The [[1959 Tibetan uprising|Tibetan uprising]] erupts in [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] when Chinese officials attempt to arrest the [[Dalai Lama]].
**''[[Starship Troopers]]'' by [[Robert Heinlein]]:
* [[March 11]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1959]], staged in [[Cannes]], is won for the [[Netherlands]] by "[['n Beetje]]" sung by [[Teddy Scholten]] (music by Dick Schallies, lyrics by Willy van Hemert).
**''[[The Tin Drum]]'' by [[Gunter Grass]]:
* [[March 17]] – [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama]] escapes [[Tibet]] and arrives in [[India]].
* [[1959 in music]]
* [[March 18]] – U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Hawaii Admission Act]], granting statehood to [[Hawaii]].
**[[February 3]] - News of the [[February 2]] plane crash that killed [[Buddy Holly]], [[Richie Valens]] and [[The Big Bopper]] becomes widely known. This date becomes known as "[[The Day The Music Died]]".
* [[March 19]] – The other two southern islands of the [[Maldives]], [[Huvadhu Atoll]] and [[Fuvahmulah]], join [[Addu Atoll]] in forming the [[United Suvadive Republic]] (abolished September [[1963]]).
* [[1959 in sports]]
* [[March 28]] – The [[Kashag]], the government of [[Tibet]], is abolished by an order signed by Chinese premier [[Zhou Enlai]]. The [[Dalai Lama]] is replaced in China by the Panchen Lama.
**[[March 3]] - The [[San Francisco Giants]] officially name their new stadium [[Candlestick Park]].
* [[March 31]] – The [[14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]] is granted asylum in [[India]].
* [[1959 in television]]
**[[Fall]] – Scandals involving rigged network quiz shows create havoc within the television industry.
**[[Rod Serling]]'s ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' debuts
**''Bonanza'' debuts, starring [[Lorne Greene]].


===April===
'''Births'''
{{Main|April 1959}}
* [[January 6]] - [[Kathy Sledge]], singer
* [[April 6]] – The [[31st Academy Awards]] ceremony is held in Hollywood. Musical film ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' receives a record 9 Oscars.
* [[January 16]] - [[Sade]], singer
* [[April 8]] – The [[Inter-American Development Bank]] (IADB) is established.
* [[January 21]] - [[Cecil B. DeMille]], director
* [[April 9]] – [[NASA]] announces its selection of seven [[Aviator#Military|military pilots]] to become the first U.S. [[astronaut]]s, later known as the '[[Mercury Seven]]'.
* [[January 22]] - [[Linda Blair]], actress
* [[April 10]] – Crown Prince [[Akihito]] of Japan marries [[Empress Michiko|Shōda Michiko]], the first commoner to marry into the [[Imperial House of Japan]].
* [[February 4]] - [[Lawrence Taylor]], [[American football]] star
* [[April 25]] – The [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] linking the [[Great Lakes]] and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.
* [[February 11]] - [[Corinne Shigemoto]], US judo coach
* [[April 27]] – [[National People's Congress]] elects [[Liu Shaoqi]] as [[President of the People's Republic of China|Chairman of the People's Republic of China]], as a successor of [[Mao Zedong]].
* [[February 16]] - [[John McEnroe]], [[tennis]] player
* [[February 22]] - [[Kyle MacLachlan]], actor
* [[March 6]] - [[Tom Arnold]], actor, comedian
* [[March 8]] - [[Aidan Quinn]], actor
* [[March 16]] - [[Flavor Flav]], [[rap music]]ian
* [[March 17]] - [[Danny Ainge]], [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
* [[March 18]] - [[Luc Besson]], producer, writer, director
* [[March 22]] - [[Matthew Modine]], actor
* [[May 3]] - [[Ben Elton]], British comedian and author
* [[July 11]] - [[Suzanne Vega]], US singer
* [[October 15]] - [[Sarah Ferguson]], Duchess of York
* [[November 14]] - [[Paul McGann]], [[UK|British]] actor
* [[November 25]] - [[Charles Kennedy]], British politician


===May===
'''Deaths'''
[[File:Miss Baker in her bio-pack.jpg|170px|thumb|[[May 28]]: [[Miss Baker]] awaits launch.]]
* [[January 22]] - [[Mike Hawthorn]], racing champion
{{Main|May 1959}}
* [[February 2]] - rock and roll performers [[Buddy Holly]], [[Richie Valens]] and [[The Big Bopper]], in a plane crash outside Mason City, [[Iowa]]. The news isn't widely know until the next day.
* May – In the United Kingdom:
* [[February 28]] - [[Maxwell Anderson]], playwright, film writer
** [[Tariff|Import tariffs]] are lifted.
* [[March 3]] - [[Lou Costello]], actor, comedian
** The first [[Ten Tors]] event is held on [[Dartmoor]].
* [[March 26]] - [[Raymond Chandler]], American novelist.
* [[May 2]] – [[1959 FA Cup Final]]: Nottingham Forest defeat Luton Town 2–1 at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]].
* [[July 15]] - [[Billie Holiday]], [[jazz]] and [[blues]] singer
* [[May 18]] – The [[National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire]] is launched in [[Conakry, Guinea]].
* [[August 15]] - [[Blind Willie McTell]], [[blues]] singer
* [[May 21]] – ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable]]'', starring [[Ethel Merman]] in her last new musical, opens on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and runs for 702 performances.
* [[August 28]] - [[Bohuslav Martinu]], composer
* [[May 23]] – In [[Laos]] the [[Laotian Civil War]] begins between the [[Kingdom of Laos]] and communist rebels, the [[Pathet Lao]].
* [[October 14]] - [[Errol Flynn]], American actor.
* [[May 24]] – British Empire Day is renamed [[Commonwealth Day]].
* [[November 17]] - [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer.
* [[May 28]] – [[PGM-19 Jupiter#Biological flights|Jupiter AM-18]] rocket launches two primates, [[Miss Baker]] and Miss Able, into space from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] in the United States along with living microorganisms and plant seeds. Successful recovery makes them the first living beings to return safely to Earth after space flight.


===June===
'''Science'''
{{Main|June 1959}}
*The [[neutrino]] is first experimentally detected, by [[Clyde Cowan|Cowan]] and [[Fred Reines|Reines]].
* [[June 3]]
** [[Singapore]] becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with [[Lee Kuan Yew]] as Prime Minister.
** [[Real Madrid C.F.|Real Madrid]] beat [[Stade Reims]] 2–0 at [[Neckarstadion]], [[Stuttgart]] and win the [[1958–59 European Cup]] (Association football).
* [[June 5]] – A new government of the [[Singapore|State of Singapore]] is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former ministers are re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
* [[June 8]] – The [[USS Barbero (SS-317)|USS ''Barbero'']] and [[United States Postal Service]] attempt the delivery of mail via [[Missile Mail]].
* [[June 9]] – The [[USS George Washington (SSBN-598)|USS ''George Washington'']] is launched as the first submarine to carry [[ballistic missile]]s.
* [[June 14]] – A 3-front invasion of the [[Dominican Republic]] by exile forces backed by [[Fidel Castro]] and [[Venezuela]] attempts to overthrow [[Rafael Trujillo]].
* [[June 18]] – The film ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]'', based on the best-selling novel, is released. [[Audrey Hepburn]] stars as the title character; she later says that this is her favorite film role. The film is a [[box-office]] hit, and is nominated for several [[Academy Awards|Oscars]].
* [[June 23]]
** [[Seán Lemass]] becomes the third [[Taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]].
** Convicted [[Manhattan Project]] spy [[Klaus Fuchs]] is released after nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to [[Dresden]], [[East Germany]] where he resumes a scientific career.
* [[June 26]] – [[Elizabeth II]] (as [[Monarchy of Canada|monarch of Canada]]) and United States President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] open the [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]].
* [[June 30]] – [[1959 Okinawa F-100 crash]]: Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when a U.S. Air Force North American [[F-100 Super Sabre]] jet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the Japanese island of [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]]. The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.<ref>"21 Die as Jet Hits School on Okinawa", ''Oakland Tribune'', June 30, 1959, p1</ref>


===July===
'''[[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prizes]]'''
[[File:Kitchen debate.jpg|upright=1.35|170px|thumb|[[July 24]]: Soviet Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and USA Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] engage in the [[Kitchen Debate]]]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Emilio Gino Segre|Emilio Gino Segrè]], - [[Owen Chamberlain]]
{{Main|July 1959}}
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Jaroslav Heyrovsky]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Albert II of Belgium|Prince Albert of Belgium]] marries Italian [[Don (honorific)|Donna]] [[Queen Paola of Belgium|Paola Ruffo di Calabria]].
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine]] - [[Severo Ochoa]], [[Arthur Kornberg]]
* [[July 4]] – With the admission of Alaska as the 49th [[U.S. state]] earlier in the year, the 49-star [[flag of the United States]] debuts in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Salvatore Quasimodo]]
* [[July 7]] – At 14:28 UT [[Venus]] [[occultation|occults]] the star [[Regulus]]. The rare event (which will next occur on October 1, 2044) is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - [[Philip J. Noel-Baker]]
* [[July 9]] – Wing Commander [[Michael Beetham]] flying a British [[Royal Air Force]] [[Vickers Valiant]] sets a record of 11 hours 27 minutes for a non-stop [[London]]-[[Cape Town]] flight.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rafweb.org/Records.htm|title=Records set by the RAF|publisher=Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation|access-date=June 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812152044/http://www.rafweb.org/Records.htm|archive-date=August 12, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – Groups of [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] and [[Communism|communist]] militias rebel in [[Kirkuk|Kirkuk, Iraq]] against the central government.<ref>{{cite news|title=Iraq revolt is Still Reported Raging|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|location=St. Petersburg, FL|date=July 21, 1959|page=A1|access-date=June 27, 2012|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N9MNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FncDAAAAIBAJ|archive-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128195352/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N9MNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FncDAAAAIBAJ|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 17]] – The first skull of ''[[Australopithecus]]'' is discovered by [[Louis Leakey]] and his wife [[Mary Leakey|Mary]] in the [[Olduvai Gorge]] of [[Tanzania]].
* [[July 22]] – A [[Kumamoto University]] medical research group studying [[Minamata disease]] concludes that it is caused by [[mercury (element)|mercury]].
* [[July 24]] – At the opening of the [[American National Exhibition]] in Moscow, [[United States Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Premier of the Soviet Union|USSR Premier]] [[Nikita Khrushchev]] engage in the "[[Kitchen Debate]]".
* [[July 25]] – The British [[SR.N1]] [[hovercraft]] crosses the [[English Channel]] from [[Calais]] to [[Dover]] in just over 2 hours, on the 50th anniversary of [[Louis Blériot]]'s first crossing by [[heavier-than-air]] craft.

===August===
[[File:Thor-Able III Explorer 6.jpg|170px|thumb|right|upright|[[August 7]]: Launch of [[Explorer 6]]]]
{{Main|August 1959}}
* [[August 4]] – [[Martial law]] is declared in [[Laos]].
* [[August 7]]
** [[Explorer program]]: The United States launches [[Explorer 6]] from the Atlantic Missile Range in [[Cape Canaveral]], [[Florida]].
** The [[Roseburg, Oregon#Roseburg Blast|Roseburg Blast]] in Oregon, caused when a truck carrying explosives catches fire, kills 14 and causes $12&nbsp;million worth of damage.
* [[August 8]] – A flood in [[Taiwan]] kills 2,000.
* [[August 14]] – [[Explorer 6]] sends the first picture of Earth from orbit.
* [[August 15]] – [[Cyprus]] gains independence.
* [[August 17]] – In the United States:
** The [[1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake]] in southwest Montana kills 28.
** [[Miles Davis]]' influential [[jazz]] album ''[[Kind of Blue]]'' is released.
* [[August 19]] – The [[Central Treaty Organization]] (CENTO) is established.
* [[August 21]] – [[Hawaii]] is admitted as the 50th and last [[U.S. state]].
* [[August 26]] – The original [[Mini]] car, designed by Sir [[Alec Issigonis]], is launched in England.
* [[August 30]] – [[1959 South Vietnamese legislative election]]: South Vietnamese opposition figure [[Phan Quang Dan]] is elected to the National Assembly despite [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|soldiers]] being bussed in to vote for President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]]'s candidate.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Last Confucian: Vietnam, South-East Asia, and the West | first=Denis |last=Warner| year=1964 |location=Sydney |publisher=Angus and Robertson |pages=112–114}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] – The [[Workers' Stadium]] sports venue in [[Beijing]] ([[China]]) is officially opened.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stadiumguide.com/beijing-workers-stadium/|title=Beijing Workers Stadium|website=The Stadium Guide|access-date=August 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theatrebeijing.com/pop_concert_venues/workers_stadium/|title=Beijing Workers Stadium|website=Theatre Beijing|access-date=August 17, 2018}}</ref>

===September===
{{Storm path|Vera 1959 track.png|170px|right|caption=[[September 26]]: [[Typhoon Vera]] storm path|alt=Track of a tropical cyclone as represented by colored dots; each dot represents the storm's position and intensity at 6-hour intervals.}}
{{Main|September 1959}}
* [[September 14]] – Soviet spacecraft ''[[Luna 2]]'' becomes the first human-made object to crash on the [[Moon]].
* [[September 15]]–[[September 28|28]] – [[Premier of the Soviet Union|USSR Premier]] [[Nikita Khrushchev]] and his wife tour the United States, at the invitation of U.S. President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].
* [[September 16]] – The [[Xerox 914]], the first plain paper copier, is introduced to the public.
* [[September 17]] – The [[hypersonic]] [[North American X-15]] research aircraft, piloted by [[Scott Crossfield]], makes its first powered flight at [[Edwards Air Force Base]], California.
* [[September 23]] – The {{MS|Princess of Tasmania}}, Australia's first passenger [[roll-on/roll-off]] [[Diesel engine|diesel]] ferry, makes her maiden voyage across the [[Bass Strait]].
* [[September 26]]
**[[Typhoon Vera]] hits central [[Honshū]], Japan, as a {{convert|160|mph|kph}} Category 5 storm, killing an estimated 5,098, injuring another 38,921, and leaving 1,533,000 homeless. Most of the victims and damage are centered in the [[Nagoya]] area.
** First large unit action of the [[Vietnam War]] takes place, when two companies of the [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|ARVN]]'s [[23rd Division (South Vietnam)|23rd Division]] are ambushed by a well-organized [[Viet Cong]] force of several hundred, identified as the "2nd Liberation Battalion".
* [[September 30]] – [[Soviet Union]] leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] meets [[Mao Zedong]] in Beijing.

===October===
[[File:Solomon-R-Guggenheim-Museum-Levels.jpg|170px|right|thumb|[[October 21]]: Atrium of the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]].]]
{{Main|October 1959}}
* [[October 1]] – The [[10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China]] is celebrated with pomp across the country.
* [[October 7]] – The Soviet probe [[Luna 3]] sends back the first ever images of the [[far side of the Moon]].
* [[October 12]] – At the national [[Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana]] Congress in [[Peru]], a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the party; they later form [[APRA Rebelde]].
* [[October 13]] – The United States launches research satellite [[Explorer 7]].
* [[October 21]] – The [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] of modern art (designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], who died on April 9) opens to the public in New York City.
* [[October 29]] – First appearance of [[Astérix]] the Gaul, in a French comic magazine.<ref>{{cite web|work=BDoubliées|title=Les BD oubliées D'Astérix|url=http://bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/series1/asterix.htm|language=fr|access-date=2013-10-03}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – Riots break out in the [[Belgian Congo]].

===November===
{{Main|November 1959}}
* [[November 1]] – In [[Rwanda]], [[Hutu]] politician [[Dominique Mbonyumutwa]] is beaten up by [[Tutsi]] forces, leading to a period of violence known as the [[wind of destruction]].
* [[November 2]] – At a ceremony near [[Toddington, Bedfordshire|Toddington]], British [[Secretary of State for Transport|Minister of Transport]] [[Ernest Marples]] opens the first section of the [[M1 motorway|M1 Motorway]], between [[Watford]] and [[Crick, Northamptonshire|Crick]], along with two [[Spur route|spur]] motorways, the [[M45 motorway|M45]] and [[M10 motorway (Great Britain)|M10]]. Three decades of large scale motorway construction follow, leading to the rapid expansion of the UK [[List of motorways in the United Kingdom|motorway network]].
* [[November 15]] – The brutal [[Clutter family murders]] are committed in [[Holcomb, Kansas]], inspiring [[Truman Capote]]'s ''[[In Cold Blood]]'' (1966).
* [[November 18]] – Religious epic film ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'', starring [[Charlton Heston]], which will be by far the highest-grossing film of the year and will go on to win a record 12 Academy Awards, premieres at New York City's Loews Theater in [[Ultra Panavision 70]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ben-Hur (1959)|work=[[The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures]]|publisher=[[American Film Institute]]|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52827-BEN-HUR|access-date=2024-12-25}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – The [[Declaration of the Rights of the Child]] is adopted by the [[United Nations]].
* November – The [[MOSFET]] (metal–oxide–semiconductor [[field-effect transistor]]), also known as the MOS [[transistor]], is invented by [[Mohamed Atalla]] and [[Dawon Kahng]] at [[Bell Labs]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/metal-oxide-semiconductor-mos-transistor-demonstrated/|title=1960 – Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Transistor Demonstrated|journal=The Silicon Engine|publisher=[[Computer History Museum]]}}</ref><ref name="Bassett22">{{cite book |last=Bassett |first=Ross Knox |title=To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies and the Rise of MOS Technology |date=2007 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=9780801886393 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UUbB3d2UnaAC&pg=PA22}}</ref> It revolutionizes the [[electronics industry]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chan |first1=Yi-Jen |title=Studies of InAIAs/InGaAs and GaInP/GaAs heterostructure FET's for high speed applications |date=1992 |publisher=[[University of Michigan]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sV4eAQAAMAAJ |page=1 |quote=The Si MOSFET has revolutionized the electronics industry and as a result impacts our daily lives in almost every conceivable way.}}</ref> becomes the fundamental building block of the [[Information Age]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Wong |first=Kit Po |title=Electrical Engineering|volume=II |date=2009 |publisher=[[Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems|EOLSS Publications]] |isbn=9781905839780 |page=7}}</ref> and goes on to become the most widely manufactured device in history.<ref>{{cite web |title=13 Sextillion & Counting: The Long & Winding Road to the Most Frequently Manufactured Human Artifact in History |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/13-sextillion-counting-the-long-winding-road-to-the-most-frequently-manufactured-human-artifact-in-history/ |date=2018-03-02|publisher=Computer History Museum|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Baker |first=R. Jacob |title=CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation |date=2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1118038239 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxYhNrOKuJQC&pg=PA7}}</ref>

===December===
{{Main|December 1959}}
* [[December 1]] – [[Cold War]]: [[Antarctic Treaty System|Antarctic Treaty]] – 12 countries, including the United States and the [[Soviet Union]], sign a landmark treaty that sets aside [[Antarctica]] as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the [[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 [[Fréjus]], killing 412.
* [[December 8]] – The life-boat ''[[RNLB Mona (ON 775)|Mona]]'', based at [[Broughty Ferry]] in Scotland, capsizes during a rescue attempt with the loss of 8 lives.
* [[December 11]] – [[Charles Robberts Swart]] is appointed the 11th [[Governor-General of the Union of South Africa]].
* [[December 14]] – [[Makarios III]] is selected as the first [[president of Cyprus]].

===Date unknown===
* [[The Supremes]] girl group is founded as The Primettes in [[Detroit]].
* Nylon [[pantyhose]], or sheer tights, are first sold on the open market as 'Panti-Legs' by [[Glen Raven, Inc.|Glen Raven Knitting Mills]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|last= Gant|first=Margaret Elizabeth|title=The Raven's Story|publisher=Glen Raven, Inc.|year=1979|location=Glen Raven, NC|isbn=0-9603138-0-X}}</ref>
* The first known human with [[HIV]] dies in the [[Belgian Congo|Congo]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=An African HIV-1 sequence from 1959 and implications for the origin of the epidemic|pages=594–597|doi=10.1038/35400|pmid=9468138|first1=T.|last2=Zhu|first2=Tuofu|last3=Korber|first3=Bette T.|last4=Nahmias|first4=Andre J.|last5= Hooper|first5=Edward|last6=Sharp|first6=Paul M.|journal=Nature|volume=391|issue=6667|year=1998|last1=Zhu|bibcode=1998Natur.391..594Z|s2cid=4416837|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* The current (as of 2024) design of the Japanese [[10 yen coin]] is put into circulation.
* The [[Caspian tiger]] becomes extinct in [[Iran]].
* The [[Henney Kilowatt]] goes on sale in the United States, becoming the first production [[electric car]] in almost three decades, but only 47 models will be sold in its 2-year production run.
* [[Car tailfin]] design reaches its apex in the United States with such as the [[Cadillac Eldorado]], [[Chevrolet Impala#Second generation (1959–1960)|Chevrolet Impala second generation model]], [[Dodge Coronet#1959 Dodge Silver Challenger|Dodge Silver Challenger]] and [[Imperial (automobile)#Second generation (1957–1966)|Imperial Crown Sedan]].
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==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}
[[File:Rigoberta Menchu.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rigoberta Menchú]]]]
[[File:Linda Blair 2018 cropped.jpeg|thumb|100px|[[Linda Blair]]]]
[[File:Retrato oficial del Presidente Mauricio Macri.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mauricio Macri]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W1220-0015, Joachim Kunz.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joachim Kunz]]]]
[[File:John McEnroe Roland Garros 2012.JPG|thumb|100px|[[John McEnroe]]]]
[[File:Վազգեն Սարգսյան.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vazgen Sargsyan]]]]
[[File:Fumio Kishida met with Jens Stoltenberg at the sidelines of 2022 Madrid Summit (1) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jens Stoltenberg]]]]
[[File:Laura 4.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Laura Chinchilla]]]]
[[File:Mensaje_de_fin_de_a%C3%B1o_del_Presidente_Alberto_Fern%C3%A1ndez_(cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alberto Fernández]]]]
[[File:David Hyde Pierce VF Shankbone 2010.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Hyde Pierce]]]]
[[File:Emma Thompson 2022.jpg|thumb|100px|Dame [[Emma Thompson]]]]
[[File:AV0A6306 Sean Bean.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sean Bean]]]]
<!--[[File:Robert Smith (musician) crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]]]]-->
[[File:Pedro R. Pierluisi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pedro Pierluisi]]]]
[[File:Stephen Harper by Remy Steinegger Infobox.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stephen Harper]]]]
[[File:Hugh Laurie, from a bit of Fry & Laurie, http---en.wikipedia.org-wiki-Hugh laurie (9450843901) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hugh Laurie]]]]
[[File:Клаус Йоханнис (52539721210).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Klaus Iohannis]]]]
[[File:Christian Wulff crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Christian Wulff]]]]
[[File:Suzanne Vega 13. Inselleuchten 03 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Suzanne Vega]]]]
[[File:Dinner for His Majesty King Tupou VI of the Kingdom of Tonga and Her Majesty Queen Nanasipau’u 04.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tupou VI]]]]
[[File:Governor NewMexico.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Susana Martinez]]]]
[[File:Governor Tours the House of Cards Set (8769358329) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kevin Spacey]]]]
[[File:Sanjay Dutt at Mumbai Airport, 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sanjay Dutt]]]]
[[File:Rosanna Arquette - Monte-Carlo Television Festival.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Rosanna Arquette]]]]
[[File:Gustavo Cerati.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gustavo Cerati]]]]
[[File:Magic Johnson at SXSW 2022 (51958828669) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Magic Johnson]]]]
[[File:Morten Harket FFM13 001.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Morten Harket]]]]
[[File:Actress, Elizabeth Pena at the 2009 East Classic Theater Fundraiser.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elizabeth Peña]]]]
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<!--[[File:Sarah, Duchess of York, Gahanga Cricket Stadium 1 (October 2017) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sarah, Duchess of York]]]]-->
[[File:Mauricio Funes (Brasilia, May 2008).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mauricio Funes]]]]
[[File:Ken Watanabe 2007 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ken Watanabe]]]]
[[File:Evo Morales Ayma (cropped 3).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Evo Morales]]]]
[[File:John Magufuli 2015.png|thumb|100px|[[John Magufuli]]]]
[[File:20130710-ByanAdamsLucca-0019 (9273168286).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bryan Adams]]]]
[[File:Sean Young LF.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Sean Young]]]]
<!--[[File:Satoru Iwata - Game Developers Conference 2011 - Day 2 (3) (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Satoru Iwata]]]]-->
[[File:Florence Griffith Joyner2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Florence Griffith Joyner]]]]
<!--[[File:Tracy Ullman by John Mathew Smith.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tracey Ullman]]]]-->

===January===
* [[January 1]] – [[Azali Assoumani]], [[President of the Comoros]]
* [[January 4]] – [[Vanity (singer)|Vanity]], Canadian singer and actress (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLYDAAAAMBAJ|title=Vanity 6 Lives Out Daring Fantasies on Stage|publisher=[[Johnson Publishing Company]]|magazine=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]]|date=January 24, 1983|access-date=February 18, 2016}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Rigoberta Menchú]], Guatemalan recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/|title= UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020|work= [[United Press International]] | date= 9 January 2020|access-date=15 January 2020 |archive-date= 15 January 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200115192229/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Chris Van Hollen]], US Senator
* [[January 16]] – [[Sade (singer)|Sade]], Nigerian-English singer<ref>{{cite book|editor=Graham Betts|title=Complete UK Hit Albums 1956-2005|publisher=Collins|year=2005|isbn=9780007205325|page=352}}</ref>
* [[January 17]]
** [[Susanna Hoffs]], American rock vocalist<ref>{{cite book|author=Joel Whitburn|title=Joel Whitburn presents Billboard top adult songs, 1961-2006: chart data compiled from Billboard's adult contemporary charts, 1961-2006, and adult top 40 charts, 1996-2006.|publisher=Record Research Incorporated|year=2007|isbn=9780898201697|page=20}}</ref>
** [[Momoe Yamaguchi]], Japanese singer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mobile2.itanzi.com/api2/a/1284532?for=rss&rss=|title = 60岁了，她依然是这世界最让人怀念的少女}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Linda Blair]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul T Hellmann|title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2006|isbn=9781135948597|page=642}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Kevin Magee (basketball)|Kevin Magee]], American basketball player (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/international/players/kevin-magee-1.html|title=Kevin Magee International Stats|website=Basketball-Reference.com}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] –
**[[Cris Collinsworth]], American professional football player and sports broadcaster
**[[Keith Olbermann]], American news anchor and sportscaster<ref>{{cite journal|title=Current Biography Yearbook|author=H.W. Wilson Company|journal=Current Biography Yearbook: Annual Cumulation|year=2009|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|issn=0084-9499|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vwZAAAAYAAJ|access-date=July 11, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 30]]
** [[Steve Augeri]], American singer
** [[Jody Watley]], African-American singer<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ibMzAQAAIAAJ&q=jody+watley+birthdate |title=Soul Music A-Z |first=Hugh |last=Gregory |date=July 2, 2010 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=9780306806438 |access-date=September 10, 2016}}</ref>

===February===
* [[February 5]] – [[Jennifer Granholm]], Canadian-American politician, 47th [[Governor of Michigan]] (2003–2011)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-29 |title=Jennifer Granholm (2021-2025) {{!}} Miller Center |url=https://millercenter.org/jennifer-granholm-2021-2025 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=millercenter.org |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 8]]
** [[Andrew Hoy]], Australian equestrian
** [[Mauricio Macri]], [[President of Argentina]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Biografía del Presidente Mauricio Macri |url=https://www.casarosada.gob.ar/el-presidente/biografia |website=Casa Rosada |language=es-es |access-date=20 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720135843/https://www.casarosada.gob.ar/el-presidente/biografia |archive-date=20 July 2018 }}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – [[Joachim Kunz]], East German Olympic weightlifter
* [[February 13]] [[Benur Pashayan]], Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler (d. [[2019]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Renée Fleming]], American soprano<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2019|isbn=9781641433167|page=130}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] – [[John McEnroe]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/players/john-mcenroe/m047/overview |title=John McEnroe |work=ATP World Tour |access-date=February 26, 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] – [[Jayne Atkinson]], English-born American film, theatre and television actress
* [[February 22]] – [[Kyle MacLachlan]], American actor
* [[February 23]] – [[Clayton Anderson]], American astronaut<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clayton Anderson |url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Esperia/Clayton_Anderson |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.esa.int |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 26]] – [[Rolando Blackman]], [[Panamanian Americans|Panamanian-American]] basketball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rolando Blackman Biography |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/player/bio/_/id/3640/rolando-blackman |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref>

===March===
* [[March 4]] – [[Irina Strakhova]], Russian race walker
* [[March 5]] – [[Vazgen Sargsyan]], 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. [[1999]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Tom Arnold (actor)|Tom Arnold]], American actor and comedian
* [[March 7]] – [[Donna Murphy]], American actress and singer
* [[March 8]] – [[Aidan Quinn]], Irish-American actor
* [[March 9]] – [[Takaaki Kajita]], Japanese nuclear physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/kajita-facts.html | title=Takaaki Kajita – Facts | publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]] | date=6 October 2015 | access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Dejan Stojanović]], Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist and businessman
* [[March 13]] – [[Kathy Hilton]], American socialite and philanthropist<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6pd84XvouoQC&dq=Jerry,+Oppenheimer.+House+Hilton.+%22On+March+13,+1959%22&pg=PT73 |last1=Oppenheimer |first1=Jerry|title=House of Hilton|publisher=[[Crown Publishing]] |date=2006 |isbn=9780307351951}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] – [[Tamara Tunie]], American actress
* [[March 15]] – [[Eliot Teltscher]], American tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atptour.com/en/players/eliot-teltscher/t012/overview|title=Eliot Teltscher &#124; Overview &#124; ATP Tour &#124; Tennis|website=ATP Tour}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] – [[Jens Stoltenberg]], 27th [[Prime Minister of Norway]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/who_is_who_49999.htm |title=NATO Biography for Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General |date=18 May 2017 |publisher=NATO Publications |access-date=18 May 2017 |archive-date=6 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606072958/http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/who_is_who_49999.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[March 18]]
** [[Luc Besson]], French film producer, writer and director<ref>{{cite book|title=Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=9780415189743|page=58}}</ref>
** [[Irene Cara]], American singer and actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff {{!}} Obituaries |title=Irene Cara, Oscar-winning singer and actress who sang the feel-good theme songs to Fame and Flashdance – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/11/29/irene-cara-oscar-winning-singer-actress-who-sang-theme-songs/ |access-date=12 December 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129160751/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/11/29/irene-cara-oscar-winning-singer-actress-who-sang-theme-songs/ |archive-date=29 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Nobuo Uematsu]], Japanese composer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/profile/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517055159/http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/profile/index.html |archive-date=May 17, 2008 |title=N's profile |publisher=Square Enix USA |access-date=June 1, 2008}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[Matthew Modine]], American actor
* [[March 28]] – [[Laura Chinchilla]], 49th [[president of Costa Rica]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_central_y_caribe/costa_rica/laura_chinchilla_miranda|title=Biography|website=CIDOB Foundation|language=es|access-date=February 26, 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Andrew Bailey (banker)|Andrew Bailey]], [[executive director]] [[banking]] and chief cashier at the [[Bank of England]]

===April===
* [[April 2]]
** [[Alberto Fernández]], President of Argentina
** [[Badou Ezzaki]], Moroccan football player and manager
* [[April 3]] – [[David Hyde Pierce]], American actor<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2019|isbn=9781641433167|page=207}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – [[Rejoice Timire]], Zimbabwean activist and politician (d. 2021)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-11 |title=Senator Rejoice Timire Dies |url=https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/zimbabwe/senator-rejoice-timire-dies/ |access-date=2023-11-18 |website=[[The Zimbabwe Mail]]}}</ref>
* [[April 15]]
** [[Adriano Ruchini]], Italian businessman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.convegnonazionaleinnovazione.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Premiati_motivazioni_2011.pdf |title=Industry and services |editor=convegnonazionaleinnovazione.it |access-date=9 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131171140/http://www.convegnonazionaleinnovazione.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Premiati_motivazioni_2011.pdf |archive-date=31 January 2012 }}</ref>
** [[Emma Thompson]], English actress<ref>{{cite news |title=Emma Thompson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/70692/Emma-Thompson/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016063025/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/70692/Emma-Thompson/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2013 |author=Rebecca Flint Marx |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2013 |access-date=12 October 2013}}</ref>
** [[Debra Livingston]], American Lawyer
* [[April 16]] – [[Alison Ramsay]], Scottish field hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2583 |title=Alison Ramsay MBE at the British Olympic Committee |access-date=16 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830160740/http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=2583 |archive-date=30 August 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[April 17]] – [[Sean Bean]], British actor<ref>{{cite book|title=Film Review: Special|publisher=Visual Imagination Limited|year=2005|page=96}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]], lead vocalist of [[The Cure]]<ref>Apter, Jeff, ''Never Enough: The Story of The Cure'', (2009) Omnibus Press, pp. 3–4; {{ISBN|978-1-84772-739-8}}</ref>
* [[April 22]] – [[Ryan Stiles]], American-Canadian comedian<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2023: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2022|isbn=9781636710693|page=235}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – [[Paula Yates]], British television presenter (d. [[2000]])<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1355814/Paula-Yates.html "Paula Yates"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227150927/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1355814/Paula-Yates.html |date=27 February 2016 }}. ''The Telegraph'' (18 September 2000). Retrieved 3 October 2020.</ref>
* [[April 26]] – [[Pedro Pierluisi]], Governor of Puerto Rico
* [[April 27]] – [[Sheena Easton]], Scottish singer<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2019|isbn=9781641433167|page=245}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Stephen Harper]], 22nd [[Prime Minister of Canada]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Prime Ministers of Canada Gr. 4-8.|publisher=On The Mark Press|year=2006|isbn=1-55035-721-2|page=67}}</ref>

===May===
* [[May 1]] – [[Yasmina Reza]], French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120662778|title=Notice de personne|language=fr|website=BNF|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 3]]
** [[Uma Bharti]], Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh<ref>{{cite book|author=Rajamani, R. C|title=Portraits of India's Parliamentarians for the New Millennium: Lok Sabha|publisher=Gyan Publishing House|year=2000|isbn=9788121206921|page=307}}</ref>
** [[Ben Elton]], British comedian and writer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ben Elton|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/ben_elton/|access-date=2020-11-13|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>
* [[May 9]]
** [[Christian Bach]], Argentine-Mexican actress and producer of [[telenovela]]s (d. [[2019]])
** [[János Áder]], [[President of Hungary]]<ref>{{cite book|editor=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2014: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2017|isbn=9781349596430|page=587}}</ref>
* [[May 10]]
** [[Victoria Rowell]], American actress
** [[Cindy Hyde-Smith]], US Senator
* [[May 12]] – [[Ving Rhames]], African-American actor
* [[May 14]] – [[Patrick Bruel]], French singer
* [[May 17]] – [[Marcelo Loffreda]], Argentine rugby player and coach
* [[May 20]] – [[Israel Kamakawiwoʻole]], Hawaiian singer (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kekoa Enomoto |first1=Catherine |first2=Gregg K. |last2=Kakesako |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/1997/06/26/news/story1.html |title= 'IZ' Will Always Be |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=June 26, 1997}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Loretta Lynch]], American politician, 83rd [[United States Attorney General]]
* [[May 22]] – [[Morrissey]], British singer<ref>{{cite book |last=Simpson |first=Mark |title=Saint Morrissey |location=London |publisher=SAF Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=0-946719-65-9|page=32}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Pelle Lindbergh]], Swedish-born hockey player (d. [[1985]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Donna Strickland]], Canadian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics<ref>{{cite web |date=6 October 2018 |title=Donna Strickland – Facts – 2018 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/strickland/facts/ |publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]]|access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref>
* [[May 29]]
** [[Rupert Everett]], British actor<ref>{{cite web | title= Everett, Rupert (1959-) Biography | website=BFI Screenonline | date=29 May 1959 | url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/865655/index.html | access-date=17 September 2022| author=Brian McFarlane }}</ref>
** [[Gretchen (singer)|Gretchen]], Brazilian singer and media personality<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ferreira |first=Caroline |title=Gretchen faz 65 anos e compartilha reflexão: "Cheia de energia" |url=https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/entretenimento/gretchen-faz-65-anos-e-compartilha-reflexao-cheia-de-energia/#:~:text=Gretchen,%20tamb%C3%A9m%20conhecida%20como%20a,quarta-feira%20(29). |access-date=2024-10-10 |publisher=CNN Brasil |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

===June===
* [[June 7]] – [[Mike Pence]], American politician and former [[Vice President of the United States]].
* [[June 9]] – [[Paul Graham (television producer)|Paul Graham]], Canadian television producer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2025/wm/static/67662/paul_graham|title=Paul Graham: IIHF Media Award|date= May 25, 2025|website=[[International Ice Hockey Federation]]|access-date=May 28, 2025}}</ref>
* [[June 10]]
** [[Carlo Ancelotti]], Italian football player and manager
** [[Eliot Spitzer]], American politician and [[List of Governors of New York|governor of New York]]
* [[June 11]] – [[Hugh Laurie]], British actor, comedian and musician<ref>{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|publisher=Bernan Press|year=2019|isbn=9781641433167|page=318}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] – [[Klaus Iohannis]], [[President of Romania]]<ref>{{cite book|editor=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2014: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2017|isbn=9781349596430|page=997}}</ref>
* [[June 13]] - [[Jim Irsay]], American businessman and former owner of the [[Indianapolis Colts]] (d. [[2025]]
* [[June 17]] – [[Ulrike Richter]], German swimmer
* [[June 19]]
** [[Anne Hidalgo]], French politician, Mayor of [[Paris]] (2014–present)
** [[Christian Wulff]], [[Federal President of Germany]]<ref>{{cite book|editor=B. Turner|title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2014: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|year=2017|isbn=9781349596430|page=516}}</ref>
* [[June 21]]
** [[Guerrinha]], Brazilian basketball coach and basketball player
** [[Marcella Detroit]], American soprano vocalist, guitarist and songwriter
** [[Louis Febre]], Mexican composer
* [[June 22]] – [[Wayne Federman]], American comedian, actor and author
* [[June 27]]
** [[Khadja Nin]], Burundian singer and musician
** [[Pétur Pétursson]], Icelandic footballer
* [[June 29]] – [[Gina Alajar]], Filipino film and television actress and television director
* [[June 30]] – [[Vincent D'Onofrio]], American actor

===July===
* [[July 1]]
** [[Mohamed Lemine Ould Guig]], Mauritanian academic and political figure
** [[Giovanni D'Aleo]], Italian long-distance runner
* [[July 4]] – [[Victoria Abril]], Spanish actress and singer
* [[July 5]]
** [[María Concepción Navarrete]], Mexican politician
** [[Marc Cohn]], American singer-songwriter
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Richard Dacoury]], French basketball player
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Barbara Krause]], German swimmer
* [[July 8]]
** [[Pauline Quirke]], English actress
** [[Mikhail Zingarevich]], Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist
* [[July 9]]
** [[Jim Kerr]], Scottish rock singer ([[Simple Minds]])
** [[Kevin Nash]], American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTfWE28MKsAC&q=kevin+nash+July+9,+1959+wrestling|title=Wrestling's Greatest Heroes and Villains|access-date=January 14, 2022|isbn=9780823934928|last1=Hofstede|first1=David|date=1999|publisher=ECW Press }}</ref>
* [[July 11]]
** [[Richie Sambora]], American musician
** [[Suzanne Vega]], American singer
* [[July 12]]
** King [[Tupou VI]] of Tonga<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Monarch |url=https://www.consulatekot.eu/the-monarch |access-date=1 March 2023 |website=Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206101826/https://www.consulatekot.eu/the-monarch |url-status=dead }}</ref>
** [[Charlie Murphy (actor)|Charlie Murphy]], African-American actor and comedian (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 14]]
** [[Susana Martinez]], American politician, Governor of New Mexico
** [[Lynn Bertholet]], Swiss bank executive
* [[July 15]] – [[Vincent Lindon]], French actor and filmmaker
* [[July 19]] – [[Juan J. Campanella]], Argentinian filmmaker
* [[July 20]] – [[Giovanna Amati]], Italian racing driver
* [[July 24]] – [[Markus Graf]], Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and executive<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iihf.com/en/events/2024/wm/static/60902/markus_graf_(sui)|title=Markus Graf (SUI)|date=25 May 2024|website=International Ice Hockey Federation|access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – [[Fyodor Cherenkov]], Russian footballer and manager (d. [[2014]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Kevin Spacey]], American actor
* [[July 29]]
** [[Sanjay Dutt]], Indian actor
** [[Ruud Janssen]], Dutch artist
* [[July 30]] − [[Abdullah of Pahang]], sixteenth [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] of Malaysia

===August===
* [[August 3]]
** [[John C. McGinley]], American actor
** [[Koichi Tanaka]], Japanese scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041210202653/http://www1.shimadzu.com/about/nobel/index.html Nobel Prize Announcement] (Shimadzu Corporation)</ref>
*[[August 5]] - [[Pete Burns]], English singer, songwriter and television personality (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Rajendra Singh (environmentalist)|Rajendra Singh]], Indian [[water conservationist]], [[Magsaysay Award]] (2001)
* [[August 7]] – [[Koenraad Elst]], Belgian Indologist
* [[August 10]] – [[Rosanna Arquette]], American actress
* [[August 11]] – [[Gustavo Cerati]], Argentinian singer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/arts/international/gustavo-cerati-a-star-of-south-americas-pop-scene-dies-at-55.html|title=Gustavo Cerati, a Star of South America's Pop Scene, Dies at 55|date=September 8, 2014|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 28, 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 14]]
** [[Marcia Gay Harden]], American actress
** [[Magic Johnson]], African-American basketball player
** [[Bill Hagerty]], US Senator
* [[August 15]] – [[Scott Altman]], American astronaut
* [[August 17]]
** [[Jonathan Franzen]], American author
** [[David Koresh]], American spiritualist, leader of the [[Branch Davidian]] religious cult (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Guglielmo Trinci]], retired Italian professional baseball player{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
** [[Sönke Wortmann]], German film director
* [[August 26]] – [[Stan Van Gundy]], American basketball coach and TV commentator<ref name="bbr">{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/vangust99c.html |title=Stan Van Gundy |work=basketball-reference.com |access-date=May 4, 2014}}</ref>
* [[August 27]]
** [[Juan Fernando Cobo]], Colombian artist
**[[Daniela Romo]], Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess<ref>{{cite web|website=Historia-Biografia.com|access-date=August 24, 2019|title=Daniela Romo|author=Camila Diaz|date=December 18, 2018|url=https://historia-biografia.com/daniela-romo/}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] – [[Arthur Holden]], Canadian actor and writer
* [[August 29]]
** [[Rebecca De Mornay]], American actress
** [[Chris Hadfield]], Canadian retired astronaut
* [[August 30]] – [[Mark Jackson (Australian footballer)|Mark Jackson]], [[Australian rules football]]er and actor
* [[August 31]] – [[Tony DeFranco]], Canadian singer

===September===
* [[September 2]] – [[Guy Laliberté]], Canadian [[Cirque du Soleil]] founder
* [[September 4]]
** [[Kevin Harrington (actor)|Kevin Harrington]], Australian actor
** [[Armin Kogler]], Austrian ski jumper
* [[September 6]] – [[Gaetano Varcasia]], Italian voice actor and theatre director (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 7]]
** [[Pierre Nanterme]], French business executive (d. [[2019]])
** [[Drew Weissman]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite news|first=James|last=Gallagher|title=Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66983060|date=2023-10-02|accessdate=2023-10-02}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] – [[Daler Nazarov]], Tajik composer, singer and actor
* [[September 11]] – [[John Hawkes (actor)|John Hawkes]], American actor
* [[September 12]] – [[Sigmar Gabriel]], German politician
* [[September 13]]
** [[Kathy Johnson]], American artistic gymnast
** [[Chris Hansen]], American journalist<ref>{{Citation|title=Chris Hansen Social Blade|url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCgKTJAN-IrVyX-jIJ5INEhA|access-date=July 1, 2020}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] – [[Morten Harket]], Norwegian rock singer ([[A-ha]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Peter Keleghan]], Canadian actor
* [[September 17]] – [[Olivia Lozano]], Venezuelan politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olivia Lozano |url=https://poderopediave.org/persona/olivia-lozano/ |access-date=10 April 2021 |website=Poderopedia}}</ref>
* [[September 18]]
** [[Ian Bridge]], Canadian soccer player
** [[Sérgio Britto]], Brazilian singer and keyboardist
* [[September 21]] – [[Dave Coulier]], American comedian
* [[September 23]]
** [[Jason Alexander]], American actor and comedian
** [[Elizabeth Peña]], American actress (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Dantes Tsitsi]], Nauruan politician
* [[September 29]] – [[Jon Fosse]], Norwegian Nynorsk novelist, dramatist and poet, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in literature]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Glynn|title=Jon Fosse: 'Innovative' Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67016421|publisher=BBC News|date=2023-10-05|accessdate=2023-10-06}}</ref>
* [[September 30]]
**[[Ana Denicola]], Uruguayan scientist<ref>{{cite web|title=Ana Denicola|url=http://www.ianas.org/index.php/members/78-ianas/491-ana-denicola|website=ianas.org|publisher=Inter-American Network of Academics of Sciences|access-date=17 November 2017|archive-date=17 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117123016/http://www.ianas.org/index.php/members/78-ianas/491-ana-denicola|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Ettore Messina]], Italian basketball coach

===October===
* [[October 1]] – [[Youssou N'Dour]], Senegalese singer
* [[October 2]] – [[Lena Hades]], Russian artist
* [[October 3]] – [[Fred Couples]], American golfer
* [[October 4]] – [[Chris Lowe]], British musician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/history/195910 |title=Pet Shop Boys Official Site, History Section |publisher=Petshopboys.co.uk |access-date=28 October 2010 |archive-date=May 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517230408/http://petshopboys.co.uk/history/195910 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[October 7]] – [[Simon Cowell]], English music producer and television talent show judge
* [[October 8]]
** [[Erik Gundersen]], Danish motorcycle racer
** [[Carlos I. Noriega]], Peruvian-American colonel and astronaut
* [[October 9]] – [[Boris Nemtsov]], Russian politician (murdered [[2015]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Kirsty MacColl]], British singer-songwriter (d. [[2000]])
** [[Julia Sweeney]], American actress and comedian<ref name=FamilySearch-USPR-2007>{{cite web|title=Julia Trust Sweeney United States Public Records|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QJJ1-WQK2|website=[[FamilySearch]]|access-date=21 February 2015}}</ref>
* [[October 13]] – [[Marie Osmond]], American singer
* [[October 15]]
** [[Emeril Lagasse]], American chef and restaurant owner<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007131813/http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-10-07 |title=Emeril Lagasse Biography |publisher=A&E Television Networks |access-date=2007-07-05}}</ref>
** [[Sarah, Duchess of York]], British royal spouse
* [[October 17]] – [[Francisco Flores Pérez]], President of El Salvador (d. [[2016]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Mauricio Funes]], 44th [[President of El Salvador]] (d. [[2025]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Ken Watanabe]], Japanese actor
* [[October 22]] – [[Arto Salminen]], Finnish writer (d. [[2005]])
* [[October 23]]
** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], American singer and parodist
** [[Sam Raimi]], American producer, writer and director
* [[October 24]] – [[Michelle Lujan Grisham]], American politician, governor and representative from [[New Mexico]]
* [[October 25]] – [[Chrissy Amphlett]], Australian rock singer (d. [[2013]])
* [[October 26]]
** [[Evo Morales]], [[President of Bolivia]]
** [[Dimitris Tsiodras]], Greek politician
* [[October 27]] – [[Rick Carlisle]], American basketball coach
* [[October 29]] – [[John Magufuli]], 5th [[President of Tanzania]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Neal Stephenson]], American writer

===November===
* [[November 2]] – [[Saïd Aouita]], Moroccan athlete
* [[November 5]] – [[Bryan Adams]], Canadian singer and photographer
* [[November 10]]
** [[Mackenzie Phillips]], American actress
** [[Mike McCarthy]], American football coach
* [[November 11]]
** [[Parithi Ilamvazhuthi]], Indian politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Christian Schwarzenegger]], Swiss legal scientist and professor
* [[November 14]]
** [[Deta Hedman]], Jamaican-born English darts player
** [[Paul McGann]], British actor
* [[November 19]] – [[Allison Janney]], American actress
* [[November 20]] – [[Sean Young]], American actress
* [[November 23]]
** [[Dominique Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1982]])
** [[Maxwell Caulfield]], British actor
* [[November 25]] – [[Charles Kennedy]], British politician (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Kennedy obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/02/charles-kennedy |website=The Guardian |access-date=31 May 2021|date=2015-06-02}}</ref>
*[[November 26]] – [[Sergey Golovkin]], Russian serial killer and rapist (d. 1996)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.serial-killers.ru/karts/golovkin.htm |title=Slaughter-House. Серийные убийцы. Биография Сергея Головкина |access-date=April 20, 2024 |archive-date=March 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306221149/http://www.serial-killers.ru/karts/golovkin.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[November 27]] – [[Viktoria Mullova]], Russian violinist
* [[November 28]] – [[Judd Nelson]], American actor
* [[November 29]]
** [[Rahm Emanuel]], American politician
** [[Platon Lebedev]], Russian executive
** [[Neal Broten]], American professional ice hockey player<ref>{{Ice hockey stats|legends=10170}}</ref>
* [[November 30]]
** [[Cherie Currie]], singer, musician, actress, and artist
** [[Marie Currie]], singer, songwriter, actress, and artist
** [[Sylvia Hanika]], German tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Sylvia Hanika |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/80012/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>

===December===
* [[December 1]] – [[Wally Lewis]], Australian rugby league player
* [[December 3]] – [[Kathy Jordan]], American tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Kathy Jordan |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/100019/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] – [[Christa Luding-Rothenburger]], German speed skater
* [[December 5]] – [[Yoshitomo Nara]], Japanese artist
* [[December 6]] – [[Satoru Iwata]], Japanese president of Nintendo (d. [[2015]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Li Gui-min]], Taiwanese politician
* [[December 13]] – [[Johnny Whitaker]], American actor
* [[December 14]] – [[Evan Ziporyn]], American composer
* [[December 15]] – [[Betsy Arakawa]], American classical pianist
* [[December 17]] – [[Gregg Araki]], American director
* [[December 19]] – [[Waise Lee]], Hong Kong actor
* [[December 20]] – [[Stephen Chan Chi Wan]], general manager of [[TVB]]
* [[December 21]] – [[Florence Griffith Joyner]], American athlete (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Bernd Schuster]], German footballer and manager
* [[December 24]] – [[Lee Daniels]], American director and producer<ref name=tvg>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/lee-daniels/281281|title=Lee Daniels biography|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=March 17, 2014}}</ref>
* [[December 25]] – [[Michael P. Anderson]], American astronaut (d. [[2003]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Glenna Cabello]], Venezuelan political scientist
* [[December 28]] – [[Ana Torroja]], Spanish singer
* [[December 29]]
** [[Marco Antonio Solís]], Mexican singer
** [[Patricia Clarkson]], American actress
* [[December 30]] – [[Tracey Ullman]], British-American comedian and actress
* [[December 31]]
** [[Val Kilmer]], American actor (d. [[2025]])
** [[Baron Waqa]], Nauruan politician and composer, 14th [[President of Nauru]]

===Full date unknown===
*[[Paul Zgheib]], Lebanese photographer<ref>{{cite web |title=Espace Artistique Polyvalent |url=http://www.espacesd.com/hpaulzgheib.htm |publisher=SD Space Concept & Design |access-date=17 June 2024 |date=13 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113134445/http://www.espacesd.com/hpaulzgheib.htm |archive-date=November 13, 2006 }}</ref>
*[[Bernard Lavigne]], French Judge

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Demille - c1920.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Cecil B. DeMille]]]]
* [[January 9]] – [[Giuseppe Bottai]], Italian Fascist journalist and politician (b. [[1895]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Colin Gregory]], Australian tennis player (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Eivind Berggrav]], Norwegian [[Lutheran]] bishop and reverend (b. [[1884]])
** [[G. D. H. Cole]], English political theorist, economist and historian (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite news |title=G. D. H. Cole |work=The Times |location=London |date=15 January 1959 }}</ref>
* [[January 21]]
** [[Cecil B. DeMille]], American film director (b. [[1881]])
** [[Frances Gertrude McGill]], Canadian [[forensic pathologist]] (b. [[1882]])
** [[Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Elisabeth Moore]], American tennis champion (b. [[1876]])
** [[Mike Hawthorn]], English racing driver (b. [[1929]])

===February===
[[File:The Big Bopper.jpg|thumb|100px|[[The Big Bopper]]]]
[[File:Buddy Holly cropped.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Buddy Holly]]]]
<!--[[File:DFMalanPortret.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Daniel François Malan]]]]-->
[[File:Baby Dodds (Gottlieb 02051).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Baby Dodds]]]]
<!--[[File:Beatrix Jones Farrand cabinet card est 1890s-1910s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Beatrix Farrand]]]]-->
* [[February 3]] – [[The Day the Music Died|Killed in the crash of a private plane]]:
** [[The Big Bopper]] (J.P. Richardson), American rock singer (b. [[1930]])
** [[Buddy Holly]], American rock singer (b. [[1936]])
** [[Ritchie Valens]], American rock singer (b. [[1941]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Una O'Connor (actress)|Una O'Connor]], Irish actress (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 7]] – [[D. F. Malan]], South African politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] (b. [[1874]])<ref name="hartfordcourantobit">{{cite news|title=D. F. Malan, S. African Racist, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/370706726/?terms=%22D.%2BF.%2BMalan%22|access-date=18 February 2018|work=Hartford Courant|date=8 February 1959|page=5|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Marshall Teague (racing driver)|Marshall Teague]], American race car driver (b. [[1921]])
* [[February 12]] – [[George Antheil]], American composer (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Baby Dodds]], American jazz musician (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Gago Coutinho]], Portuguese aviation pioneer (b. 1869)
* [[February 22]] – [[Helen Parrish]], American actress (b. [[1924|1923]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Pierre Frieden]], Luxembourgish politician and writer, 18th [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski]], Soviet architect, diplomat and journalist (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife]], eldest grandchild of King [[Edward VII]] (b. [[1891]])
** [[Kōtoku Satō]], Japanese general (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Maxwell Anderson]], American screenwriter (b. [[1888]])
** [[Beatrix Farrand]], American gardener and architect (b. [[1872]])

===March===
[[File:Lou Costello in Africa Screams.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lou Costello]]]]
[[File:52 HatoyamaI.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ichirō Hatoyama]]]]
<!--[[File:Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi Seated.png|thumb|100px|[[Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi]]]]-->
* [[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]] – [[Maxie Long]], American athlete (b. [[1878]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Guido Brignone]], Italian actor (b. [[1886]])
** [[Fred Stone]], American actor (b. [[1873]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Ichirō Hatoyama]], Japanese politician, 36th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[March 15]]
** [[Shalva Dadiani]], Soviet novelist (b. [[1874]])
** [[Lester Young]], American jazz saxophonist (b. [[1909]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Galaktion Tabidze]], Georgian poet (b. [[1891]])<ref>[[Rayfield, Donald]] (2000), ''[[The Literature of Georgia: A History]]'', pp.&nbsp;251–4. [[Routledge]], {{ISBN|0-7007-1163-5}}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Umberto Barbaro]], Italian critic (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Dominick Trcka]], Czechoslovak [[Roman Catholic]] priest and blessed (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi]], Sudanese political figure and religious leader, Imam of the [[Ansar (Sudan)|Ansar]] and 1st [[Prime Minister of Sudan]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Raymond Chandler]], American-born novelist (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Lyubov Golanchikova]], Soviet pilot (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Barthélemy Boganda]], 1st [[Prime Minister of the Central African Republic]] (b. [[1910]])

===April===
[[File:Frank Lloyd Wright portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Nicholas Charnetsky]], Soviet [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] priest, bishop, martyr and blessed (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 8]] – [[Jonathan Zenneck]], German physicist and electrical engineer (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?webpage=ST&record=dens364|title=Cuxhaven – Jonathan Zenneck|website=statues.vanderkrogt.net}}</ref>
* [[April 9]] – [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], American architect (b. [[1867]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Irving Cummings]], American actor (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 28]] – [[María Guggiari Echeverría]], Paraguayan [[Roman Catholic]] religious professed and venerable (b. [[1925]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer)|Sir Kenneth Anderson]], British general (b. [[1891]])

===May===
[[File:Senator John Foster Dulles (R-NY).jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Foster Dulles]]]]
* [[May 5]]
** [[Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente|Georges Grente]], French [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1872]])
** [[Carlos Saavedra Lamas]], Argentine politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[May 8]]
** [[Renato Caccioppoli]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1904]])
** [[Ibrahim of Johor]], Malaysian sultan (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Marcella Albani]], Italian actress (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American-born jazz saxophonist (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 17]] – [[George Albert Smith (film pioneer)|George Albert Smith]], English film pioneer (b. [[1864]])
* [[May 18]]
** [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]], Antarctic explorer (b. [[1886]])
** [[Enrique Guaita]], Argentinian footballer (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Alfred Schütz]], Austrian sociologist (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Foster Dulles]], 52nd [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Ed Walsh]], American baseball player (b. [[1881]])

===June===
[[File:Windaus.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]]]
[[File:Hitoshi Ashida.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hitoshi Ashida]]]]
<!--[[File:Boris Vian - WIKI retouched.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Vian]]]]-->
<!--[[File:Elias von Parma Postkarte 1910.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elias, Duke of Parma]]]]-->
* [[June 1]] – [[Sax Rohmer]], English author (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Charles Vidor]], American director (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Pietro Canonica]], Italian sculptor (b. [[1869]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Adolf Windaus]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1876]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Seán Lester]], Irish diplomat (b. [[1888]])<ref>[http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/851 Sean Lester (1888 – 1959): Journalist and international civil servant]</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[Jerónimo Méndez]], Chilean politician, acting [[Presidents of Chile|President of the Republic]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Kazimierz Bein]], Polish ophthalmologist (b. [[1872]])
* [[June 16]] – [[George Reeves]], American television actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 18]]
** [[Ethel Barrymore]], American stage and screen actress (b. [[1879]])
** [[Vincenzo Cardarelli]], Italian poet (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 20]]
** [[Hitoshi Ashida]], Japanese politician, 34th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1887]])
** [[Ian Clunies Ross|Sir Ian Clunies Ross]], Australian scientist (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clunies-ross-sir-william-ian-9770 Sir William Ian Clunies Ross (1899–1959)]</ref>
* [[June 22]] – [[Bruce Harlan]], American Olympic diver (b. [[1926]])
* [[June 23]]
** [[Cesare Maria De Vecchi]], Italian soldier (b. [[1884]])
** [[Boris Vian]], French writer, poet, singer and musician (b. [[1920]])
* [[June 27]]
** [[Elias, Duke of Parma]] (b. [[1880]])
** [[Giovanni Pastrone]], Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 30]] – [[José Vasconcelos]], Mexican politician, writer and philosopher (b. [[1882]])

===July===
[[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billie Holiday]]]]
[[File:Fleet Admiral Leahy.tif|thumb|100px|[[William D. Leahy]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Sergei Chetverikov]], Russian biologist (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Johan Bojer]], Norwegian novelist and dramatist (b. [[1872]])
* [[July 6]] – [[George Grosz]], German artist (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 7]]
** [[Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa]], Spanish painter (b. [[1871]])
** [[Ernest Newman]], English music critic (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783271900/ernest-newman/|title=Ernest Newman|date=May 14, 2020 }}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Grock]], Swiss clown (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Ernest Bloch]], Swiss-born American composer (b. [[1880]])
** [[Agostino Gemelli]], Italian [[Franciscan]] friar and reverend (b. [[1878]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Billie Holiday]], American singer (b. [[1915]])<ref>{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''New York Times'', July 18,|1959|p=15}} |last1=''New York Times'' (''The'') |author-link1=The New York Times |date=July 18, 1959 |title=Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44 – Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence |work=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/18/80594441.html |url-access=subscription |edition=Late City |volume=108 |issue=37065 |page=15 |access-date=November 25, 2013 |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – [[William D. Leahy]], American admiral (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 25]]
** [[Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog]], Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of [[Israel]] (b. [[1888]])
** King [[Mutara III of Rwanda]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Aleksandar Tsankov]], 21st [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 30]] – [[María Natividad Venegas de la Torre]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1868]])

===August===
[[File:W Halsey.jpg|thumb|100px|[[William Halsey Jr.]]]]
* [[August 4]] – [[Ioan Bălan]], Romanian [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] prelate (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Preston Sturges]], American film director and writer (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Albert Namatjira]], Australian Aboriginal artist (b. [[1902]])
** [[Luigi Sturzo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and politician (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Emil František Burian]], Czechoslovak poet (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 16]]
** [[William Halsey Jr.]], American US Navy Fleet admiral (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c9cjAAAAIBAJ&pg=7080%2C3200658 |work=Milwaukee Journal |agency=Associated Press |title=Admiral Halsey dies; beat Japanese fleet |date=August 17, 1959 |page=4, part 1 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
** [[Wanda Landowska]], Polish harpsichordist (b. [[1879]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Blind Willie McTell]], American Piedmont blues singer and guitarist (b. [[1901]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Jacob Epstein|Sir Jacob Epstein]], American-born British sculptor (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Raphael Lemkin]], Polish lawyer (b. [[1900]])
** [[Bohuslav Martinů]], Czech composer (b. [[1890]])

===September===
[[File:Edmund Gwenn 1953.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edmund Gwenn]]]]
[[File:Official_Photographic_Portrait_of_S.W.R.D.Bandaranayaka_(1899-1959).jpg|thumb|100px|[[S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike]]]]
* [[September 6]]
** [[Edmund Gwenn]], English actor (b. [[1877]])
** [[Kay Kendall]], English actress (b. [[1927]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Maurice Duplessis]], [[Premier of Quebec]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Ramón Fonst]], Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
* [[September 11]] – [[Paul Douglas (actor)|Paul Douglas]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Wayne Morris (American actor)|Wayne Morris]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Adolf Ziegler]], German painter (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Nikandr Chibisov]], Russian commander (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 22]]
** [[Josef Matthias Hauer]], Austrian composer and music theorist (b. [[1883]])
** [[Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside]], British field marshal (b. [[1880]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Wolfgang Paalen]], German-Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor and art philosopher (b. [[1905]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Helen Broderick]], American actress (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 26]] – [[S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Ceylon]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 28]]
** [[Rudolf Caracciola]], German racing driver (b. [[1901]])
** [[Vinnie Richards]], American tennis player (b. [[1903]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Taylor Holmes]], American actor (b. [[1878]])

===October===
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* [[October 1]] – [[Enrico De Nicola]], Italian jurist, politician and journalist, 1st [[President of Italy]] (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Sakiko Kanase]], Japanese hostess, model, and teacher (b. [[1935]])
* [[October 6]] – [[Bernard Berenson]], American art historian (b. [[1865]])
* [[October 7]] – [[Mario Lanza]], American tenor (b. [[1921]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Shirō Ishii]], Japanese microbiologist and lieutenant general of [[Unit 731]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Errol Flynn]], Australian actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Stepan Bandera]], Ukrainian nationalist leader (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]], 29th [[Prime Minister of Iran]] (b. [[1869]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Werner Krauss]], German actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Joseph Cahill]], Australian politician (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Camilo Cienfuegos]], Cuban revolutionary (b. [[1932]])
* [[October 29]] – King [[Sisavang Vong]] of [[Laos]] (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.info/on-this-day/1959-sisavang-vong-king-of-laos-who-had-around-15-wives-and-50-children/|title=1959: Sisavang Vong: King of Laos who had around 15 Wives and 50 Children|date=October 28, 2019}}</ref>

===November===
[[File:Jose P. Laurel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jose P. Laurel]]]]
[[File:CTR Wilson.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]]]]
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* [[November 1]] – [[Zhang Jinghui]], Chinese general and politician, [[Prime Minister of Manchukuo]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Federico Tedeschini]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal and eminence (b. [[1873]])
* [[November 4]]
** [[George of Drama]], Greek [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] priest, elder and saint (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://www.monastiriaka.gr/en/blog/saint-george-karslides-of-drama Saint George Karslides of Drama]</ref>
** [[Friedrich Waismann]], Austrian mathematician, physicist and philosopher (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 6]]
** [[José P. Laurel]], Filipino politician and judge, 3rd [[President of the Philippines]] (b. [[1891]])
** [[Ivan Leonidov]], Russian architect (b. [[1902]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Victor McLaglen]], English actor and boxer (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Lupino Lane]], British actor (b. [[1892]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]], Scottish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Alfonso López Pumarejo]], 2-time [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]], American boxer and actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Molla Mallory]], American tennis champion (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 24]]
** [[Stepan Erzia]], Russian sculptor (b. [[1876]])
** [[Ion Gigurtu]], 42nd Prime Minister of Romania (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Gérard Philipe]], French actor (b. [[1922]])

===December===
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[[File:Ante Pavelić StAF W 134 Nr. 026020 Bild 1 (5-92156-1).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ante Pavelić]]]]
* [[December 3]] – [[Juozapas Skvireckas]], Soviet [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] archbishop and reverend (b. [[1873]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Hubert Marischka]], Austrian film director (b. [[1882]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899)|Charlie Hall]], English actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Prince Kuni Asaakira]] (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Jim Bottomley]], American baseball player (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Stanley Spencer]], British painter (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Andrés Martínez Trueba]], 31st [[President of Uruguay]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-born dancer and actress (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax]], British politician (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Ante Pavelić|Ante Pavelic]], Croatian fascist leader and WWII war criminal (b. [[1889]])

===Unknown===
* [[Al-Abbas ibn Ibrahim as-Samlali]], Moroccan historian (b. [[1877]])
* [[Elena Săcălici]], Romanian artistic gymnast (b. [[1935]])

==Nobel Prizes==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Emilio Gino Segrè]], [[Owen Chamberlain]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Severo Ochoa]], [[Arthur Kornberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Salvatore Quasimodo]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Philip Noel-Baker]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
{{Portal|1950s}}
{{Reflist}}
{{Events by month links}}
{{Authority control}}

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This article is about the year 1959. For other uses, see 1959 (disambiguation).
From top left, clockwise: Fidel Castro takes over Cuba; Tsarong Dazang Dramdul and several Tibetan monks captured by the PLA during the 1959 Tibetan uprising; The MOSFET (MOS transistor) is invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs.; Site of Australopithecus boisei discovery in Tanzania.; Surface weather analysis of Typhoon Vera; Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition; The Day the Music Died: The wreckage of the Bonanza at the crash site that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper; Damage to the Congolese Public Market in Léopoldville from the Léopoldville riots.
Years
Millennium
2nd millennium
Centuries
Decades
Years
1959 by topic
Subject
By country
Lists of leaders
Birth and death categories
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Works category
1959 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1959
MCMLIX
Ab urbe condita2712
Armenian calendar1408
ԹՎ ՌՆԸ
Assyrian calendar6709
Baháʼí calendar115–116
Balinese saka calendar1880–1881
Bengali calendar1365–1366
Berber calendar2909
British Regnal year7 Eliz. 2 – 8 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2503
Burmese calendar1321
Byzantine calendar7467–7468
Chinese calendar戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4656 or 4449
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4657 or 4450
Coptic calendar1675–1676
Discordian calendar3125
Ethiopian calendar1951–1952
Hebrew calendar5719–5720
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2015–2016
 - Shaka Samvat1880–1881
 - Kali Yuga5059–5060
Holocene calendar11959
Igbo calendar959–960
Iranian calendar1337–1338
Islamic calendar1378–1379
Japanese calendarShōwa 34
(昭和３４年)
Javanese calendar1890–1891
Juche calendar48
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4292
Minguo calendarROC 48
民國48年
Nanakshahi calendar491
Thai solar calendar2502
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
2085 or 1704 or 932
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
2086 or 1705 or 933
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1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.

Events

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Map of the world in 1959, highlighting the main world affairs of the year

January

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January 8: Fidel Castro arrives in Havana
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February

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Main article: February 1959
February 17: Technical drawing of Vanguard 2

March

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Main article: March 1959

April

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Main article: April 1959

May

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May 28: Miss Baker awaits launch.
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June

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July

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July 24: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and USA Vice President Richard Nixon engage in the Kitchen Debate
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August

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August 7: Launch of Explorer 6
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September

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Track of a tropical cyclone as represented by colored dots; each dot represents the storm's position and intensity at 6-hour intervals.
September 26: Typhoon Vera storm path
Map key
Saffir–Simpson scale
  Tropical depression (≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h)
  Tropical storm (39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h)
  Category 1 (74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h)
  Category 2 (96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h)
  Category 3 (111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h)
  Category 4 (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h)
  Category 5 (≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h)
  Unknown
Storm type
triangle Extratropical cyclone, remnant low, tropical disturbance, or monsoon depression
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October

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October 21: Atrium of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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November

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Main article: November 1959

December

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Main article: December 1959

Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
Rigoberta Menchú
Linda Blair
Mauricio Macri
Joachim Kunz
John McEnroe
Vazgen Sargsyan
Jens Stoltenberg
Laura Chinchilla
Alberto Fernández
David Hyde Pierce
Dame Emma Thompson
Sean Bean
Pedro Pierluisi
Stephen Harper
Hugh Laurie
Klaus Iohannis
Christian Wulff
Suzanne Vega
Tupou VI
Susana Martinez
Kevin Spacey
Sanjay Dutt
Rosanna Arquette
Gustavo Cerati
Magic Johnson
Morten Harket
Elizabeth Peña
Mauricio Funes
Ken Watanabe
Evo Morales
John Magufuli
Bryan Adams
Sean Young
Florence Griffith Joyner

January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Full date unknown

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Deaths

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January

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Cecil B. DeMille

February

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The Big Bopper
Buddy Holly
Baby Dodds

March

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Lou Costello
Ichirō Hatoyama

April

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Frank Lloyd Wright

May

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John Foster Dulles

June

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Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Hitoshi Ashida

July

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Billie Holiday
William D. Leahy

August

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William Halsey Jr.

September

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Edmund Gwenn
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

October

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Errol Flynn
George Marshall

November

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Jose P. Laurel
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

December

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Ante Pavelić

Unknown

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Nobel Prizes

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Notes

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