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- April 9 - NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see Mercury Seven ).
- April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright , arguably the most influential American architect of the 20th century, dies from an abdominal obstruction.
- April 10 - Japanese Prince Akihito married Shōda Michiko .
- April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to Shipping .
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The following are references to year 1959 in fiction: (unknown).
- January 1 - Azali Assoumani , President Of The Comoros
- January 6 - Kathy Sledge , American singer
- January 9 - Rigoberta Menchú , Guatemalan writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- January 9 - Mark Martin , NASCAR driver
- January 10 - Simon Sunatori , Canadian inventor
- January 16 - Sade , Nigerian-born singer
- January 17 - Susanna Hoffs , Lead singer of The Bangles
- January 21 - Paulo Miklos , Brazilian singer and actor
- January 24 - Nastassja Kinski , German actress
- January 27 - Keith Olbermann , American news correspondent and sportscaster
- January 31 - Kelly Moore , American race car driver
- March 4 - Rick Ardon , Australian news presenter
- March 6 - Tom Arnold , American actor and comedian
- March 8 - Aidan Quinn , Irish/American actor
- March 9 - Rodney A. Grant , American actor
- March 9 - Giovanni Di Lorenzo , German-Italian journalist and talk show host
- March 10 - Mike Wallace , American race car driver
- March 15 - Harold Baines , baseball player
- March 16 - Flavor Flav , American rapper
- March 16 - Jens Stoltenberg , Prime Minister Of Norway
- March 17 - Danny Ainge , American basketball player, coach, and baseball player
- March 18 - Luc Besson , French film producer, writer, and director
- March 18 - Irene Cara , American singer
- March 20 - Steve Borden , American wrestler
- March 20 - Steve McFadden , British actor
- March 21 - Nobuo Uematsu , Japanese composer
- March 22 - Matthew Modine , American actor
- March 29 - Barry Blanchard , Canadian mountaineer
- March 29 - Perry Farrell , American musician
- April 2 - Badou Zaki , Morrocan football player and manager
- April 3 - David Hyde Pierce , American actor
- April 10 - Brian Setzer , American guitarist ( Stray Cats )
- April 11 - Ana María Polo , Cuban-born judge and television personality
- April 15 - Fruit Chan , Hong Kong film director
- April 16 - Alison Ramsay , Scottish field hockey player
- April 21 - Robert Smith , British musician ( The Cure )
- April 22 - Catherine Mary Stewart , Canadian actress
- April 22 - Ryan Stiles , American actor
- April 27 - Sheena Easton , Scottish singer
- April 29 - Louis Colaianni , American author
- April 30 - Stephen Harper , Canadian politician
- May 3 - Uma Bharati , Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- May 3 - Ben Elton , British comedian and writer
- May 5 - Ian McCulloch , English singer ( Echo & The Bunnymen )
- May 5 - Steve Stevens , American guitarist
- May 5 - Peter Molyneux , British game programmer
- May 10 - Victoria Rowell , American actress
- May 14 - Patrick Bruel , French singer
- May 15 - Andrew Eldritch , British musician ( The Sisters Of Mercy )
- May 19 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and Murder Victim
- May 20 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole , American singer (d. 1997 )
- May 20 - Bronson Pinchot , American actor
- May 22 - Steven Morrissey , British singer
- May 24 - Pelle Lindbergh , Swedish-born hockey player (d. 1985 )
- May 29 - Adrian Paul , British actor
- June 8 - Bernard White , Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director, knowns for playing Rama Kandra in Matrix Revolutions
- June 11 - Hugh Laurie , British actor and comedian
- June 12 - John Linnell , American musician ( They Might Be Giants )
- June 14 - Marcus Miller , American bassist
- June 22 - Wayne Federman , American comedian, actor, and author
- June 22 - Ed Viesturs , American mountaineer
- June 26 - Mark McKinney , Canadian actor and comedian
- June 27 - Clint Boon , British musician ( Inspiral Carpets )
- June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio , American actor
- July 3 - Julie Burchill , British journalist
- July 6 - Richard Dacoury , French basketball player
- July 7 - Ben Linder , American engineer (d. 1987 )
- July 9 - Kevin Nash , American professional wrestler
- July 10 - Janet Julian , American actress
- July 11 - Richie Sambora , American musician
- July 11 - Suzanne Vega , American singer
- July 13 - Richard Leman , British field hockey player
- July 16 - Gary Anderson , American football player
- July 26 - Rick Bragg , American writer
- July 26 - Kevin Spacey , American actor
- July 27 - Hugh Green , American football player
- July 29 - Sanjay Dutt , Indian actor
- July 29 - Ruud Janssen , Dutch artist
- August 1 - Joe Elliott , British singer ( Def Leppard )
- August 2 - Apollonia Kotero , American actress and singer
- August 3 - Koichi Tanaka , Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- August 4 - Robbin Crosby , American guitarist ( Ratt ) (d. 2002 )
- August 8 - Christoph Theinert , German cellist and composer
- August 10 - Rosanna Arquette , American actress
- August 11 - Gustavo Cerati , Argentinian singer
- August 14 - Magic Johnson , American basketball player
- August 17 - Jonathan Franzen , American author
- August 17 - Brad Wellman , American baseball player
- August 18 - June Angela , Asian-American actress, singer, and dancer
- August 21 - Jim McMahon , American football player
- August 21 - Lance Arenson , American Clock Maker
- August 27 - Juan Fernando Cobo , Colombian artist
- August 28 - Michael Kasic , American underwater sound recordist
- August 29 - Rebecca De Mornay , American actress
- August 29 - Stephen Wolfram , British scientist
- August 30 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson , Australian footballer and actor
- September 2 - Guy Laliberté , Quebec Cirque Du Soleil founder
- September 4 - Kevin Harrington , Australian actor
- September 8 - Daler Nazarov , Tajik composer, singer, and actor
- September 14 - Morten Harket , Norwegian singer ( A-ha )
- September 17 - Charles Lawson , Irish actor
- September 18 - Ian Arkwright , English footballer
- September 18 - Sérgio Britto , Brazilian singer and keyboardist
- September 21 - Dave Coulier , American actor
- September 29 - Benjamin Sehene , Rwandan writer
- October 3 - Fred Couples , American golfer
- October 3 - Greg Proops , American comedian
- October 3 - Jack Wagner , American actor
- October 7 - Lourdes Flores , Peruvian politician
- October 7 - Simon Cowell , English music producer and television talent show judge
- October 9 - Michael Pare , American actor
- October 10 - Kirsty MacColl , British singer and songwriter (d. 2000 )
- October 15 - Sarah Ferguson , Duchess of York
- October 15 - Emeril Lagasse , American chef and restaurant owner
- October 17 - Ron Drummond , American writer, editor, and music historian
- October 17 - Richard Roeper , American film critic
- October 21 - Ken Watanabe , Japanese actor
- October 22 - Todd Graff , American actor, writer, and director
- October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic , American singer and parodist
- October 25 - Christina Amphlett , Australian singer ( Divinyls )
- October 26 - Evo Morales , President Of Bolivia
- October 26 - Brian Bovell , British actor
- October 27 - Rick Carlisle , American basketball coach
- October 31 - Neal Stephenson , American writer
- November 5 - Bryan Adams , Canadian singer and photographer
- November 7 - Billy Gillispie , American basketball coach
- November 8 - Selçuk Yula , Turkish football player and topscorer.
- November 10 - Linda Cohn , American sports reporter
- November 14 - Paul McGann , British actor
- November 18 - Jimmy Quinn , Irish footballer and football manager
- November 23 - Dominique Dunne , American actress (d. 1982 )
- November 25 - Charles Kennedy , British politician
- November 28 - Judd Nelson , American actor
- November 29 - Kim Delaney , American actress
- November 29 - Platon Lebedev , a Russian former CEO of Group Menatep, best known as the business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
- November 30 - Lorraine Kelly , British presenter and journalist
- December 20 - Sandra Cisneros , Mexican-born author
- December 21 - Florence Griffith Joyner , American athlete (d. 1998 )
- December 27 - Gerina Dunwich , American author
- December 31 - Val Kilmer , American actor
- January 2 - William D. Francis , Australian botanist (b. 1889 )
- January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille , American film director (b. 1881 )
- January 22 - Mike Hawthorn , English race car driver (b. 1929 )
- February 1 - Frank Shannon , American actor (b. 1874 )
- February 3 - Killed in a private plane crash:
- --- The Big Bopper , American singer (b. 1930 )
- --- Buddy Holly , American singer (b. 1936 )
- --- Richie Valens , American singer (b. 1941 )
- February 3 - Vincent Astor , American philanthropist (b. 1891 )
- February 4 - Una O'Connor , Irish actress (b. 1880 )
- February 11 - Marshall Teague , American race car driver (b. 1922 )
- February 14 - Baby Dodds , American jazz musician (b. 1898 )
- February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879 )
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson , American screenwriter (b. 1888 )
- March 3 - Lou Costello , American actor and comedian (b. 1906 )
- March 4 - Maxey Long , American athlete (b. 1878 )
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler , American-born novelist (b. 1888 )
- March 29 - Barthélemy Boganda , first President Of The Central African Republic (b. 1910 )
- April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright , American architect (b. 1867 )
- May 5 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas , Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878 )
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet , American musician (b. 1897 )
- May 16 - Elisha Scott , Irish footballer (b. 1894 )
- May 24 - John Foster Dulles , United States Secretary Of State (b. 1888 )
- June 9 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876 )
- June 16 - George Reeves , American actor (b. 1914 )
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore , stage & screen actress (b. 1879 )
- June 23 - Boris Vian , French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. 1920 )
- July 11 - Charlie Parker , English cricketer (b. 1882 )
- July 15 - Ernest Bloch , Swiss composer (b. 1880 )
- July 17 - Billie Holiday , American singer (b. 1915 )
- August 5 - Edgar Guest , English poet (b. 1881 )
- August 6 - Preston Sturges , American film director and writer (b. 1898 )
- August 15 - Blind Willie McTell , American singer (b. 1901 )
- August 16 - Wanda Landowska , Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879 )
- August 19 - Claude Grahame White , pioneer british aviator, (b. 1879 )
- August 19 - Jacob Epstein , American-born sculptor (b. 1880 )
- August 28 - Bohuslav Martinů , Czech composer (b. 1890 )
- September 7 - Maurice Duplessis , Premier of Québec (b. 1890 )
- October 6 - Bernard Berenson , American art historian (b. 1865 )
- October 7 - Mario Lanza , American tenor (b. 1921 )
- October 14 - Errol Flynn , Australian actor (b. 1909 )
- October 16 - George C. Marshall , United States Secretary Of State , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880 )
- October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi , Algerian athlete (b. 1898 )
- October 22 - Joseph Cahill , Australian politician (b. 1891 )
- November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869 )
- November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (b. 1887 )
- November 21 - Max Baer , American boxer and actor (b. 1909 )
- December 22 - Gilda Gray , Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901 )
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