Table of Contents
558 relations: A-ha, Academy Awards, Addu Atoll, Adolf Windaus, Adolf Ziegler, Agostino Gemelli, Aidan Quinn, Aircraft, Airliner, Alaska, Albert II of Belgium, Albert Namatjira, Albert Scott Crossfield, Alberto Fernández, Alec Issigonis, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Alfred Schütz, Allison Janney, American Airlines, American Airlines Flight 320, American Pie (song), American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, Ana Torroja, Andrew Hoy, Antarctic Treaty System, Ante Pavelić, APRA Rebelde, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Archipelago, Arms control, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Arthur Kornberg, Asterix, Astronaut, Audrey Hepburn, Australian rules football, Australopithecus, Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, Azali Assoumani, Baby Dodds, Ballistic missile, Bank of England, Barbie, Barthélemy Boganda, Bass Strait, BBC News, Beatrix Farrand, Belgian Congo, Bell Labs, Ben Elton, ... Expand index (508 more) »
A-ha
A-ha (often stylised as a-ha) is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982.
See 1959 and A-ha
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
Addu Atoll
Addu Atoll, also known as Seenu Atoll, is the southernmost atoll of the Maldives.
Adolf Windaus
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (25 December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins.
Adolf Ziegler
Adolf Ziegler (16 October 1892 – 11 September 1959) was a German painter and politician.
Agostino Gemelli
Agostino Gemelli (18 January 1878 – 15 July 1959) was an Italian Franciscan friar, physician and psychologist, who was also the founder and first Rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) of Milan.
Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor.
Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
Airliner
An airliner is a type of airplane for transporting passengers and air cargo.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
See 1959 and Alaska
Albert II of Belgium
Albert II (born 6 June 1934) is a member of the Belgian royal family who reigned as King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 until his abdication on 21 July 2013.
See 1959 and Albert II of Belgium
Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira (born Elea Namatjira; 28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists.
Albert Scott Crossfield
Albert Scott Crossfield (October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006) was an American naval officer and test pilot.
See 1959 and Albert Scott Crossfield
Alberto Fernández
Alberto Ángel Fernández (born 2 April 1959) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, and academic who is the President of the Justicialist Party since 2021.
See 1959 and Alberto Fernández
Alec Issigonis
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Greek: σερ Άλεκ, Αλέξανδρος Αρνόλδος Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης) (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer.
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfonso López Pumarejo (31 January 1886 – 20 November 1959) was a Colombian political figure, who twice served as President of Colombia, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party.
See 1959 and Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfred Schütz
Alfred Schutz (born Alfred Schütz,; 1899–1959) was an Austrian philosopher and social phenomenologist whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions.
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress.
American Airlines
American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
See 1959 and American Airlines
American Airlines Flight 320
American Airlines Flight 320 was a scheduled flight between Chicago Midway Airport and New York City's LaGuardia Airport.
See 1959 and American Airlines Flight 320
American Pie (song)
"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean.
See 1959 and American Pie (song)
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
The Peruvian Aprista Party (Partido Aprista Peruano, PAP) is a Peruvian political party and a member of the Socialist International.
See 1959 and American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
Ana Torroja
Ana Torroja Fungairiño, 3rd Marchioness of Torroja (born 28 December 1959 in Madrid), is a Spanish singer.
Andrew Hoy
Andrew James Hoy, (born 8 February 1959) is an Australian equestrian rider.
Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
See 1959 and Antarctic Treaty System
Ante Pavelić
Ante Pavelić (14 July 1889 – 28 December 1959) was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945.
APRA Rebelde
APRA Rebelde was a splinter group of the Peruvian APRA.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica.
See 1959 and Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Arms control
Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN;; Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.
See 1959 and Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University.
Asterix
Asterix (Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois, "Asterix the Gaul") (also known as Asterix and Obelix in some adaptations or The Adventures of Asterix) is a comic book series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors (including the titular hero Asterix) who adventure around the world and fight the odds of the Roman Republic, with the aid of a magic potion, during the era of Julius Caesar, in an ahistorical telling of the time after the Gallic Wars.
See 1959 and Asterix
Astronaut
An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον, meaning 'star', and ναύτης, meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Kathleen Hepburn (née Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress.
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground.
See 1959 and Australian rules football
Australopithecus
Australopithecus is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene.
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada.
See 1959 and Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani (غزالي عثماني; born 1 January 1959) is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as the President of the Comoros from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2016, except for a brief period in 2019.
Baby Dodds
Warren "Baby" Dodds (December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ballistic missile
A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.
See 1959 and Ballistic missile
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based.
Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll created by American businesswoman Ruth Handler, manufactured by American toy and entertainment company Mattel and introduced on March 9, 1959.
See 1959 and Barbie
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda (– 29 March 1959) was a Central African politician and independence activist.
See 1959 and Barthélemy Boganda
Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet).
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beatrix Farrand
Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand (née Jones; June 19, 1872 – February 28, 1959) was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect.
Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo (Congo belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960 and became the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director.
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.
Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.
See 1959 and Blind Willie McTell
Boeing 707
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music.
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov (9 October 195927 February 2015) was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin.
Boris Vian
Boris Vian (10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels.
Boughera El Ouafi
Ahmed Boughèra El Ouafi (أحمد بوقرة الوافي; 15 October 1898 – 18 October 1959) was a French athlete who won the 1928 Olympic Marathon.
See 1959 and Boughera El Ouafi
Box office
A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.
Branch Davidians
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic cult or doomsday cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden.
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry (Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Tatha; Scots: Brochtie) is a suburb of Dundee, Scotland.
Bryan Adams
Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer.
Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.
C. R. Swart
Charles Robberts Swart (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first state president of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967.
Cadillac Eldorado
The Cadillac Eldorado is a luxury car manufactured and marketed by Cadillac from 1952 until 2002 over twelve generations.
See 1959 and Cadillac Eldorado
Calais
Calais (traditionally) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture.
See 1959 and Calais
Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán (6 February 1932 – 28 October 1959) was a Cuban revolutionary.
See 1959 and Camilo Cienfuegos
Cannes
Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.
See 1959 and Cannes
Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral (Cabo Cañaveral) is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, in the United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast.
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
See 1959 and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida.
See 1959 and Cape Canaveral, Florida
Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
Car tailfin
The tailfin era of automobile styling encompassed the 1950s and 1960s, peaking between 1955 and 1961.
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Carl Dean Switzer (August 8, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American singer, child actor, dog breeder, and guide.
See 1959 and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Carlo Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti (born 10 June 1959) is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Real Madrid.
Carlos I. Noriega
Carlos Ismael Noriega (born 8 October 1959) is a Peruvian-American NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
See 1959 and Carlos I. Noriega
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 – May 5, 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
See 1959 and Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Caspian tiger
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region in western China.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American filmmaker and actor.
Central Treaty Organization
The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), formerly known as the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) and also known as the Baghdad Pact, was a military alliance of the Cold War.
See 1959 and Central Treaty Organization
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 to restore democracy in France.
See 1959 and Charles de Gaulle
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.
See 1959 and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor (born Károly Vidor; July 27, 1900June 4, 1959) was a Hungarian film director.
Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899)
Charlie Hall (also credited Charley Hall; 19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959) was an English film actor.
See 1959 and Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899)
Charlie Murphy (actor)
Charles Quinton Murphy (July 12, 1959 – April 12, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
See 1959 and Charlie Murphy (actor)
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1959 and China
Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer.
Chris Lowe
Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 October 1959) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.
Chrissy Amphlett
Christine Joy Amphlett (25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the frontwoman of the rock band Divinyls.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Christa Luding-Rothenburger (Rothenburger, born 4 December 1959) is a former speed skater and track cyclist.
See 1959 and Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Christian Wulff
Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff (born 1959) is a retired German politician and lawyer who served as President of Germany from 2010 to 2012.
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world.
Clear Lake, Iowa
Clear Lake is a city in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.
Cloud cover
Cloud cover (also known as cloudiness, cloudage, or cloud amount) refers to the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds on average when observed from a particular location.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Commonwealth Day
Commonwealth Day is the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations, held on the second Monday in March.
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.
See 1959 and Computer History Museum
Conakry
Conakry (Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea.
See 1959 and Conakry
Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Crick, Northamptonshire
Crick is a village in West Northamptonshire in England.
See 1959 and Crick, Northamptonshire
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
See 1959 and Cyprus
D. F. Malan
Daniël François Malan (22 May 1874 – 7 February 1959) was a South African politician who served as the fourth prime minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954.
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama is a title given by Altan Khan in 1578 AD at Yanghua Monastery to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Dartmoor
Dartmoor is an upland area in southern Devon, South West England.
Dave Coulier
David Alan Coulier (born September 21, 1959) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, podcaster, and television host.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce (born David Pierce; April 3, 1959) is an American actor.
See 1959 and David Hyde Pierce
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
See 1959 and Dominican Republic
Dominique Dunne
Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.
Dominique Mbonyumutwa
Dominique Mbonyumutwa (January 1921 – 26 July 1986) was a Rwandan politician who served as the interim first President of Rwanda for a period of nine months in 1961, during a transitional phase between the overthrow of the Rwandan monarchy in the Rwandan Revolution and the country's independence.
See 1959 and Dominique Mbonyumutwa
Don (honorific)
The term Don (literally 'Lord') abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines.
Don McLean
Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her work in musical theater.
Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England.
See 1959 and Dover
Dresden
Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.
See 1959 and Dresden
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
See 1959 and Dwight D. Eisenhower
East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
See 1959 and Eastern Orthodox Church
Ed Walsh
Edward Augustine Walsh (May 14, 1881 – May 26, 1959) was an American pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball, nicknamed "Big Ed".
Edmund Gwenn
Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor.
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, (6 May 1880 – 22 September 1959) was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first year of the Second World War.
See 1959 and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
See 1959 and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California.
See 1959 and Edwards Air Force Base
Eivind Berggrav
Eivind Josef Berggrav (25 October 1884 – 14 January 1959) was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop.
El País
() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.
See 1959 and El País
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Emma Thompson
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and writer.
Empress Michiko
is a member of the Imperial House of Japan.
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias.
See 1959 and Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems
English Channel
The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.
Enrico De Nicola
Enrico De Nicola, (9 November 1877 – 1 October 1959) was an Italian jurist, journalist, politician, statesman, and provisional head of state of republican Italy from 1946 to 1948.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore Sr.
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer.
Ernest Marples
Alfred Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, (9 December 1907 – 6 July 1978) was a British Conservative politician who served as Postmaster General (1957–1959) and Minister of Transport (1959–1964).
Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman (30 November 1868 – 7 July 1959) was an English music critic and musicologist.
Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Escape velocity
In celestial mechanics, escape velocity or escape speed is the minimum speed needed for an object to escape from contact with or orbit of a primary body, assuming.
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.
Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann; January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
See 1959 and European Court of Human Rights
Eurovision Song Contest 1959
The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on Wednesday 11 March 1959 at the i in Cannes, France, and hosted by French television presenter Jacqueline Joubert.
See 1959 and Eurovision Song Contest 1959
Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz.
Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.
Executive director
Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, non-profit organization, government agency or international organization.
See 1959 and Executive director
Explorer 6
Explorer 6, or S-2, was a NASA satellite, launched on 7 August 1959, at 14:24:20 GMT.
Explorer 7
Explorer 7 was a NASA satellite launched on 13 October 1959, at 15:30:04 GMT, by a Juno II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) to an orbit of and inclination of 50.27°.
Explorers Program
The Explorers program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space.
See 1959 and Explorers Program
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.
Far side of the Moon
The far side of the Moon is the lunar hemisphere that always faces away from Earth, opposite to the near side, because of synchronous rotation in the Moon's orbit.
See 1959 and Far side of the Moon
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Flag of the United States
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
See 1959 and Flag of the United States
Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Delorez Griffith Joyner (born Florence Delorez Griffith; December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998), also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded.
See 1959 and Florence Griffith Joyner
Forensic pathology
Forensic pathology is pathology that focuses on determining the cause of death by examining a corpse.
See 1959 and Forensic pathology
Franciscans
The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.
Francisco Flores Pérez
Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez (17 October 1959 – 30 January 2016) was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from 1 June 1999 to 1 June 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
See 1959 and Francisco Flores Pérez
Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator.
See 1959 and Frank Lloyd Wright
Fréjus
Fréjus is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.
See 1959 and Fréjus
Fred Couples
Frederick Steven Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions.
French Fifth Republic
The Fifth Republic (Cinquième République) is France's current republican system of government.
See 1959 and French Fifth Republic
Friedrich Waismann
Friedrich Waismann (21 March 18964 November 1959) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
See 1959 and Friedrich Waismann
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
See 1959 and Fulgencio Batista
Fuvahmulah
Fuvahmulah (Dhivehi: ފުވައްމުލައް) is an island (atoll) in the Maldives.
G. D. H. Cole
George Douglas Howard Cole (25 September 1889 – 14 January 1959) was an English political theorist, economist, and historian.
Gago Coutinho
Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC (17 February 1869 – 18 February 1959), generally known simply as Gago Coutinho, was a Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviator.
Gérard Philipe
Gérard Philipe (born Gérard Albert Philip, 4 December 1922 – 25 November 1959) was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959.
George Albert Smith (filmmaker)
George Albert Smith (4 January 1864 – 17 May 1959) was an English stage hypnotist, psychic, magic lantern lecturer, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, inventor and a key member of the loose association of early film pioneers dubbed the Brighton School by French film historian Georges Sadoul.
See 1959 and George Albert Smith (filmmaker)
George Antheil
George Johann Carl Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959) was an American army officer and statesman.
See 1959 and George C. Marshall
George Grosz
George Grosz (born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.
George Reeves
George Reeves (born George Keefer Brewer; January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor.
Gigi (1958 film)
Gigi is a 1958 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and processed using Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Eastmancolor film process Metrocolor.
Gilda Gray
Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska; October 24, 1901 – December 22, 1959) was a Polish-American dancer and actress who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.
Giovanna Amati
Giovanna Amati (born 20 July 1959) is an Italian former professional racing driver.
Giuseppe Bottai
Giuseppe Bottai (3 September 1895 – 9 January 1959) was an Italian journalist and member of the National Fascist Party of Benito Mussolini.
Glen Raven, Inc.
Glen Raven, Inc. is a fabric manufacturing and marketing company.
Governor of Michigan
The governor of Michigan is the head of government, and chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan.
See 1959 and Governor of Michigan
Governor-General of South Africa
The governor-general of the Union of South Africa (Goewerneur-generaal van Unie van Suid-Afrika; Goeverneur-generaal van de Unie van Zuid-Afrika) was the highest state official in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 May 1961.
See 1959 and Governor-General of South Africa
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Gregg Araki
Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker.
Gustavo Cerati
Gustavo Adrián Cerati (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, who gained international recognition for being the leader, vocalist, composer and guitarist of the rock band Soda Stereo.
Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian billionaire businessman, and poker player.
Gypsy (musical)
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
See 1959 and Havana
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
See 1959 and Hawaii
Hawaii Admission Act
The Admission Act, formally An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union is a statute enacted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower which dissolved the Territory of Hawaii and established the State of Hawaii as the 50th state to be admitted into the Union.
See 1959 and Hawaii Admission Act
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".
See 1959 and Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heliocentric orbit
A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near the surface of the Sun.
See 1959 and Heliocentric orbit
Hitoshi Ashida
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1948.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
See 1959 and HIV
Holcomb, Kansas
Holcomb is a city in Finney County, Kansas, United States.
Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
See 1959 and Honshu
Hovercraft
A hovercraft (hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces.
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician.
Hutu
The Hutu, also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region.
See 1959 and Hutu
Huvadhu Atoll
Huvadhu, Suvadive, Suvaidu or Suvadiva is the atoll with the most islands in the world.
Hypersonic speed
In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that exceeds five times the speed of sound, often stated as starting at speeds of Mach 5 and above.
Ibrahim of Johor
Sultan Sir Ibrahim Al-Masyhur ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Al-Khalil Ibrahim Shah (Jawi: سلطان سر إبراهيمالمشهور ابن المرحومسلطان أبو بكر الخليل إبراهيمشاه; 17 September 1873 – 8 May 1959) was a Malaysian sultan and the 2nd modern Sultan of Johor and 22nd Sultan of Johor overall.
Ichirō Hatoyama
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
See 1959 and India
Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.
See 1959 and Inter-American Development Bank
Interceptor aircraft
An interceptor aircraft, or simply interceptor, is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically for the defensive interception role against an attacking enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft.
See 1959 and Interceptor aircraft
International Maritime Organization
The International Maritime Organization (IMO; Organisation maritime internationale; Organización Marítima Internacional) is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating maritime transport.
See 1959 and International Maritime Organization
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
See 1959 and Iran
Irene Cara
Irene Cara Escalera (March 18, 1959 – November 25, 2022) was an American singer and actress who rose to prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame", which reached No.
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (May 20, 1959June 26, 1997), also called Braddah IZ or just simply IZ, was a Native Hawaiian musician and singer.
See 1959 and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Italy competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
See 1959 and Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jaroslav Heyrovský (December 20, 1890 – March 27, 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor.
See 1959 and Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor and comedian.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
See 1959 and Jazz
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician.
See 1959 and Jennifer Granholm
Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg, OMC (born 16 March 1959) is a Norwegian politician who has been serving as the 13th secretary general of NATO since 2014.
Jesús Sosa Blanco
Jesús Sosa Blanco (December 25, 1907 – February 18, 1959) was a colonel in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista.
See 1959 and Jesús Sosa Blanco
Jet (magazine)
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.
Jim Bottomley
James Leroy Bottomley (April 23, 1900 – December 11, 1959) was an American professional baseball player, scout and manager.
Jody Watley
Jody Vanessa Watley (born January 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter and producer whose music crosses genres including pop, R&B, jazz, dance and electronic soul.
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer (6 March 1872 – 3 July 1959) was a popular Norwegian novelist and dramatist.
John C. McGinley
John Christopher McGinley (born August 3, 1959) is an American actor.
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959.
See 1959 and John Foster Dulles
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player known for his shot-making and volleying skills, his rivalries with Björn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and his confrontational on-court behavior, which frequently landed him in trouble with umpires and tennis authorities.
Johnny Whitaker
John Orson Whitaker, Jr. (born December 13, 1959) is an American actor notable for several film and television performances during his childhood.
Johnson Publishing Company
Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. (JPC) was an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by African-American businessman John H. Johnson.
See 1959 and Johnson Publishing Company
Jon Fosse
Jon Olav Fosse (born 29 September 1959) is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.
Jonathan Zenneck
Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (15 April 1871 – 8 April 1959) was a German physicist and electrical engineer who contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art.
José Vasconcelos
José Vasconcelos Calderón (28 February 1882 – 30 June 1959), called the "cultural caudillo" of the Mexican Revolution, was an important Mexican writer, philosopher, and politician.
Jose P. Laurel
José Paciano Laurel y García (March 9, 1891 – November 6, 1959) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the President of the Japanese-occupied Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state during World War II, from 1943 to 1945.
Josef Matthias Hauer
Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist.
See 1959 and Josef Matthias Hauer
Joseph Cahill
John Joseph Cahill (21 January 189122 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1959.
Judd Nelson
Judd Asher Nelson (born November 28, 1959) is an American actor.
Julia Sweeney
Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress and comedian.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
See 1959 and July 2
Kathy Hilton
Kathleen Elizabeth Hilton (Avanzino; born March 13, 1959) is an American socialite, fashion designer, actress, and television personality.
Kay Kendall
Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy (21 May 1927 – 6 September 1959) was an English actress and comedienne.
Kazimierz Bein
Kazimierz Bein (1872 – 15 June 1959), often referred to by his pseudonym Kabe, was a Polish ophthalmologist, the founder and sometime director of the Warsaw Ophthalmic Institute (Warszawski Instytut Oftalmiczny).
Keith Olbermann
Keith Theodore Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer.
Ken Watanabe
is a Japanese actor.
Kevin Harrington (actor)
Kevin Harrington (born 4 September 1959) is an Australian stage, television and film actor and comedian who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama SeaChange in the 1990s and as David Bishop on the soap opera Neighbours.
See 1959 and Kevin Harrington (actor)
Kevin Nash
Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American retired professional wrestler, podcaster and actor, currently signed to WWE under a legends contract.
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor.
Khadja Nin
Khadja Nin (born 27 June 1959) is a Burundian singer and musician.
Kind of Blue
Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.
King of Malaysia
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, unofficially known as the king of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia.
Kingdom of Laos
The Kingdom of Laos was the form of government in Laos from 1947 to 1975.
Kingdom of Nepal
The Kingdom of Nepal (नेपाल अधिराज्य) was a Hindu kingdom in South Asia, formed in 1768 by the expansion of the Gorkha Kingdom, which lasted until 2008 when the kingdom became the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk (كركوك; translit;; Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad.
See 1959 and Kirkuk
Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate (translit) was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev, at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959.
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Klaus Iohannis
Klaus Werner Iohannis (also spelled Johannis; born 13 June 1959), sometimes referred to by his initials KWI in the Romanian press, is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as president of Romania since 2014.
Knox Mine disaster
The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 22, 1959, at the River Slope Mine in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania.
See 1959 and Knox Mine disaster
Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (born 7 August 1959) is a Flemish author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudo-historical by mainstream scholarship.
Koichi Tanaka
is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in NMR spectroscopy).
Kumamoto University
, abbreviated to Kumadai (熊大), is a Japanese national university located in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture in the Kyushu region of Japan.
See 1959 and Kumamoto University
Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
See 1959 and Kurds
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan (McLachlan, February 22, 1959) is an American actor best known for his Emmy nominated and Golden Globe winning role as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks (1990–1991; 2017) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
See 1959 and Laos
Laotian Civil War
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975.
See 1959 and Laotian Civil War
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew; 16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, and Secretary-General of the People's Action Party from 1954 to 1992.
Lena Hades
Lena Alekseevna Hades (Лена Алексеевна Хейдиз; born October 2, 1959) is a Russian artist, writer and art theorist.
Lester Young
Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) is an American actress and activist.
List of governors of New York
The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York, the head of the executive branch of New York's state government, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
See 1959 and List of governors of New York
List of heads of government of Sudan
This article lists the heads of government of Sudan, from the establishment of the office of Chief Minister in 1952 until the present day.
See 1959 and List of heads of government of Sudan
List of heads of government of the Central African Republic
This article lists the heads of government of the Central African Republic.
See 1959 and List of heads of government of the Central African Republic
List of heads of state of the Comoros
This article lists the heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975.
See 1959 and List of heads of state of the Comoros
List of motorways in the United Kingdom
This list of motorways in the United Kingdom is a complete list of motorways in the United Kingdom.
See 1959 and List of motorways in the United Kingdom
List of prime ministers of Luxembourg
The prime minister of Luxembourg (Premierminister vu Lëtzebuerg; Premier ministre luxembourgeois; Premierminister von Luxemburg) is the head of government of Luxembourg.
See 1959 and List of prime ministers of Luxembourg
Lockheed L-188 Electra
The Lockheed L-188 Electra is an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed.
See 1959 and Lockheed L-188 Electra
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
See 1959 and London
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Lou Costello
Louis Francis Cristillo (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959), better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer.
Louis Blériot
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (also,; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer.
Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (7 August 1903 – 1 October 1972) was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey.
Luc Besson
Luc Paul Maurice Besson (born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker.
Luigi Sturzo
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and prominent politician.
Luna 1
Luna 1, also known as Mechta (Мечта, lit.: Dream), E-1 No.4 and First Lunar Rover, was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of Earth's Moon, the first spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit, and the first to be placed in heliocentric orbit.
See 1959 and Luna 1
Luna 2
Luna 2 (Луна 2), originally named the Second Soviet Cosmic Rocket and nicknamed Lunik 2 in contemporaneous media, was the sixth of the Soviet Union's Luna programme spacecraft launched to the Moon, E-1 No.7.
See 1959 and Luna 2
Luna 3
Luna 3, or E-2A No.1 (Луна 3), was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme.
See 1959 and Luna 3
M1 motorway
The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.
M10 motorway (Great Britain)
The M10 was a motorway in Hertfordshire, England, running for approximately 3 miles (4.5 km) southeast from the M1 motorway at junction 7 near Hemel Hempstead to the A414 North Orbital Road at Park Street Roundabout, just south of St Albans.
See 1959 and M10 motorway (Great Britain)
M45 motorway
The M45 is a motorway in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, England and is long.
Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler; June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was an American lyricist for the stage and film.
Mackenzie Phillips
Laura Mackenzie Phillips (born November 10, 1959) is an American actress.
See 1959 and Mackenzie Phillips
Magic Johnson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player.
Makarios III
Makarios III (Μακάριος Γ΄; born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos; 13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Greek Cypriot archbishop, primate, statesman and politician, who served as the first President of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977.
Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945.
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.
See 1959 and Manhattan Project
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Marc Cohn
Marc Craig Cohn (born July 5, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Marcella Detroit
Marcella Levy (born June 21, 1952), known professionally as Marcy Levy and (later in her career) Marcella Detroit, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress.
See 1959 and Marcia Gay Harden
Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) is an American singer, actress, television personality, author and businesswoman.
Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor and actor.
Mark Jackson (Australian footballer)
Mark Alexander Jackson (born 30 August 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club, St Kilda Football Club and Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and for the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
See 1959 and Mark Jackson (Australian footballer)
Marshall Teague (racing driver)
Marshall Pleasant Teague (February 22, 1921 – February 11, 1959) was an American race car driver nicknamed by NASCAR fans as the "King of the Beach" for his performances at the Daytona Beach Road Course.
See 1959 and Marshall Teague (racing driver)
Martial law
Martial law is the replacement of civilian government by military rule and the suspension of civilian legal processes for military powers.
Mary Leakey
Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans.
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in Los Angeles by Harold Matson and the husband-and-wife duo of Ruth and Elliot Handler in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California.
See 1959 and Mattel
Matthew Modine
Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor.
Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, (April 20, 1890 – September 7, 1959), byname "Le Chef" ("The Boss"), was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec.
See 1959 and Maurice Duplessis
Max Baer (boxer)
Maximilian Adelbert Baer (February 11, 1909 – November 21, 1959) was an American professional boxer and the world heavyweight champion from June 14, 1934, to June 13, 1935.
Maxie Long
Maxwell Washburn Long (October 16, 1878 – March 4, 1959) was an American athlete, winner of 400 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Maxwell Anderson
James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist, and lyricist.
Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield (born Maxwell P.J. Newby; 23 November 1959) is a British-American actor.
See 1959 and Maxwell Caulfield
Mercury Seven
The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury.
MHPArena
Neckarstadion, officially known as MHPArena for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and home to Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart.
Michael P. Anderson
Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut.
See 1959 and Michael P. Anderson
Mike Hawthorn
John Michael Hawthorn (10 April 1929 – 22 January 1959) was a British racing driver.
Mike McCarthy
Michael John McCarthy (born November 10, 1963) is an American football coach who is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Minamata disease
Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning.
Mini
The Mini (developed as ADO15) is a small, two-door, four-seat car produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors, from 1959 until 2000.
See 1959 and Mini
Molla Mallory
Anna Margrethe "Molla" Bjurstedt Mallory (née Bjurstedt; 6 March 1884 – 22 November 1959) was a Norwegian-American tennis player.
Momoe Yamaguchi
, known by her maiden name, is a Japanese former singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980.
Monaco
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea.
See 1959 and Monaco
Monarchy of Canada
The monarchy of Canada is Canada's form of government embodied by the Canadian sovereign and head of state.
See 1959 and Monarchy of Canada
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
See 1959 and Moon
MOSFET
W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
See 1959 and MOSFET
Mutara III Rudahigwa
Mutara III Rudahigwa (March 1911 – 25 July 1959) was King (umwami) of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959.
See 1959 and Mutara III Rudahigwa
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city proper with a population of 2.3million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11million.
See 1959 and Nagoya
National Liberation Committee of Ivory Coast
The National Liberation Committee of Ivory Coast (Comité National de Libération de la Côte d'Ivoire, CNLCI) was an Ivorian opposition group, with its political origins in the Party of the African Rally (PRA).
See 1959 and National Liberation Committee of Ivory Coast
Naval Vessel Register
The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is the official inventory of ships and service craft in custody of or titled by the United States Navy.
See 1959 and Naval Vessel Register
Neal Broten
Neal LaMoy Broten (born November 29, 1959) is an American former professional ice hockey player.
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngô Đình Diệm (or;; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 South Vietnamese coup.
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
See 1959 and Nikita Khrushchev
Nobel Foundation
The Nobel Foundation (Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes.
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
See 1959 and Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
See 1959 and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobuo Uematsu
is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix.
North American F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation.
See 1959 and North American F-100 Super Sabre
North American X-15
The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.
See 1959 and North American X-15
Occultation
An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.
Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.
See 1959 and Okinawa Prefecture
Olduvai Gorge
The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evolution.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
Owen Willans Richardson
Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS (26 April 1879 – 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
See 1959 and Owen Willans Richardson
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
See 1959 and Panama
Pantyhose
Pantyhose, sometimes also called sheer tights, are close-fitting legwear covering the wearer's body from the waist to the toes.
Paranthropus boisei
Paranthropus boisei is a species of australopithecine from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.5 to 1.15 million years ago.
See 1959 and Paranthropus boisei
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
See 1959 and Paris
Pathet Lao
The Pathet Lao (translation), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century.
Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress.
See 1959 and Patricia Clarkson
Patrick Bruel
Patrick Benguigui (born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player.
Paul Douglas (actor)
Paul Douglas Fleischer (April 11, 1907 − September 11, 1959), known professionally as Paul Douglas, was an American actor.
See 1959 and Paul Douglas (actor)
Paul McGann
Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor.
Paula Yates
Paula Elizabeth Yates (24 April 1959 – 17 September 2000) was a British television presenter and writer.
Pauline Quirke
Pauline Perpetua Sheen (better known by her stage name Pauline Quirke) is an English actress.
Pelle Lindbergh
Göran Per-Eric "Pelle" Lindbergh (24 May 1959 – 11 November 1985) was a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender who played five seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
See 1959 and Peru
Peter Keleghan
Peter Keleghan (born September 16, 1959) is a Canadian actor and writer, perhaps best known for portraying Ben Bellow in the comedy series 18 to Life, Clark Claxton Sr.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament.
See 1959 and Philip Noel-Baker
Pioneer 4
Pioneer 4 was an American spin-stabilized uncrewed spacecraft launched as part of the Pioneer program on a lunar flyby trajectory and into a heliocentric orbit making it the first probe of the United States to escape from the Earth's gravity.
Pittston, Pennsylvania
Pittston is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States.
See 1959 and Pittston, Pennsylvania
Platon Lebedev
Platon Leonidovich Lebedev (Russian: Плато́н Леони́дович Ле́бедев; born 29 November 1956) is a Russian businessman and former CEO of Group Menatep.
Politics of Canada
The politics of Canada functions within a framework of parliamentary democracy and a federal system of parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions.
See 1959 and Politics of Canada
Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (Ioannes XXIII; Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963.
Premier of Quebec
The premier of Quebec (premier ministre du Québec (masculine) or première ministre du Québec (feminine)) is the head of government of the Canadian province of Quebec.
See 1959 and Premier of Quebec
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina (Presidente de Argentina; officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation Presidente de la Nación Argentina.) is both head of state and head of government of Argentina.
See 1959 and President of Argentina
President of Bolivia
The president of Bolivia (Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
See 1959 and President of Bolivia
President of Colombia
The President of Colombia (President of the Republic) is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Colombia.
See 1959 and President of Colombia
President of Costa Rica
The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica.
See 1959 and President of Costa Rica
President of Cyprus
The president of Cyprus, officially the president of the Republic of Cyprus, is the head of state and the head of government of Cyprus, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Cypriot National Guard.
See 1959 and President of Cyprus
President of El Salvador
The president of El Salvador (presidente de El Salvador), officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador (Presidente de la República de El Salvador), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador.
See 1959 and President of El Salvador
President of Germany
The president of Germany, officially titled the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundespräsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland),The official title within Germany is Bundespräsident, with der Bundesrepublik Deutschland being added in international correspondence; the official English title is President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the head of state of Germany.
See 1959 and President of Germany
President of Hungary
The President of Hungary, officially the President of the RepublicUnder the Basic Law, adopted in 2011, the official name of the state is simply Hungary; Before, the state was called the Republic of Hungary.
See 1959 and President of Hungary
President of Nauru
The president of Nauru is elected by Parliament from among its members, and is both the head of state and the head of government of Nauru.
See 1959 and President of Nauru
President of Romania
The president of Romania (Președintele României) is the head of state of Romania.
See 1959 and President of Romania
President of Tanzania
The president of the United Republic of Tanzania (Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania) is the head of state and head of government of Tanzania.
See 1959 and President of Tanzania
President of the Philippines
The president of the Philippines (pangulo ng Pilipinas, sometimes referred to as presidente ng Pilipinas) is the head of state, head of government and chief executive of the Philippines.
See 1959 and President of the Philippines
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Prime Minister of Bulgaria
The prime minister of Bulgaria (Ministar-predsedatel) is the head of government of Bulgaria.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Iran
The prime minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of Iran
Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government and the highest political position of Japan.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of Japan
Prime Minister of Norway
The prime minister of Norway (statsminister, which directly translates to "minister of state") is the head of government and chief executive of Norway.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of Norway
Prime Minister of South Africa
The prime minister of South Africa (Eerste Minister van Suid-Afrika) was the head of government in South Africa between 1910 and 1984.
See 1959 and Prime Minister of South Africa
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff; 17 May 1891 – 26 February 1959), born Lady Alexandra Duff and known as Princess Arthur of Connaught after her marriage, was the eldest surviving grandchild of Edward VII and also the first cousin of George VI.
See 1959 and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
Queen Paola of Belgium
Paola Ruffo di Calabria (born 11 September 1937) is a member of the Belgian royal family who was Queen of the Belgians during the reign of her husband, King Albert II, from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013.
See 1959 and Queen Paola of Belgium
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe, was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961.
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan.
Ramon Magsaysay Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award (Filipino: Gawad Ramon Magsaysay) is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in governance, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society.
See 1959 and Ramon Magsaysay Award
Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin (Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention.
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay (born Rebecca Jane Pearch; August 29, 1959) is an American actress.
See 1959 and Rebecca De Mornay
Regulus
Regulus is the brightest object in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
See 1959 and Regulus
Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
See 1959 and Republic of Ireland
Richard Dacoury
Richard Dacoury (born 6 July 1959 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) is a former French professional basketball player.
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
Richie Sambora
Richard Stephen Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013.
Rick Carlisle
Richard Preston Carlisle (born October 27, 1959) is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born January 9, 1959) is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Ritchie Valens
Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Robert Smith (musician)
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, an alternative rock band formed in 1978.
See 1959 and Robert Smith (musician)
Rocket mail
Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile.
Rolando Blackman
Rolando Antonio Blackman (born February 26, 1959) is a Panamanian-American former professional basketball player.
Roll-on/roll-off
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lisa Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is an American actress.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Rudolf Caracciola
Otto Wilhelm Rudolf Caracciola (30 January 1901 – 28 September 1959) was a German racing driver.
See 1959 and Rudolf Caracciola
Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is a British actor.
Ruud Janssen
Ruud Janssen (born 29 July 1959 in Tilburg) is a Dutch Fluxus and mail artist currently living in Breda in the Netherlands.
Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
See 1959 and Rwanda
Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22, 1959) is an American-Canadian actor, comedian, and producer whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination.
See 1959 and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Saïd Aouita
Saïd Aouita (سعيد عويطة; born November 2, 1959) is a former Moroccan track and field athlete.
Sade (singer)
Helen Folasade Adu (Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a Nigerian-born British singer, known as the lead vocalist of her band Sade.
Sam Raimi
Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor, playback singer and film producer who works in Hindi cinema in addition to a few Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi films.
Sarah, Duchess of York
Sarah, Duchess of York (born Sarah Margaret Ferguson; 15 October 1959), also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, philanthropist, television personality, and member of the extended British royal family.
See 1959 and Sarah, Duchess of York
Satoru Iwata
was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer.
Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist.
Sönke Wortmann
Sönke Wortmann (25 August 1959 in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German film director and producer.
Scott Altman
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut.
Sean Bean
Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean; 17 April 1959) is an English actor.
Sean Young
Mary Sean Young (born November 20, 1959) is an American actress.
Seán Lemass
Seán Francis Lemass (born John Francis Lemass; 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1959 to 1966.
Seán Lester
Seán Lester (28 September 1888 – 13 June 1959) was an Irish diplomat who was the last secretary-general of the League of Nations from 31 August 1940 to 18 April 1946.
Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.
See 1959 and Second Vatican Council
Secretary of State for Transport
The secretary of state for transport, also referred to as the transport secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with overall responsibility for the policies of the Department for Transport.
See 1959 and Secretary of State for Transport
Sergei Chetverikov
Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov (Серге́й Серге́евич Четверико́в; 6 May 1880 – 2 July 1959) was a Russian biologist and one of the early contributors to the development of the field of genetics.
See 1959 and Sergei Chetverikov
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Sheena Easton
Sheena Shirley Easton (born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish singer and actress who achieved recognition in an episode of the reality television series The Big Time: Pop Singer, which recorded her attempts to gain a record deal and her eventual signing with the EMI label.
Shirō Ishii
Surgeon General was a Japanese microbiologist and army medical officer who was the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Joseph Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
Sigmar Gabriel
Sigmar Hartmut Gabriel (born 12 September 1959) is a German politician who was the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2018 and the vice-chancellor of Germany from 2013 to 2018.
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur, and record executive.
Simple Minds
Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1977.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Sisavang Vong
King Sisavangvong (ພຣະບາທສົມເດັຈພຣະເຈົ້າມະຫາຊີວິຕສີສວ່າງວົງສ໌; born Prince Khao 14 July 1885 – 29 October 1959), known by his courtesy name Sisavangvong, was the last ruler of the Lao Kingdom of Luang Prabang and the founding king of the Kingdom of Laos.
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (commonly abbreviated as SFRY or SFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to as Socialist Yugoslavia or simply Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe.
See 1959 and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
See 1959 and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
Spur route
A spur route is a short road forming a branch from a longer, more important road such as a freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway.
St. Lawrence Seaway
The St.
See 1959 and St. Lawrence Seaway
Stan Van Gundy
Stanley Alan Van Gundy (born August 26, 1959) is an American former basketball coach who is a television commentator for NBA on TNT and College Basketball on CBS.
Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.
Stepan Bandera
Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра,; Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B. Bandera was born in Austria-Hungary, in Galicia, into the family of a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and grew up in Poland.
Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015.
Steve Augeri
Steve Augeri (born January 30, 1959) is an American rock singer best known for his work as the lead singer of Journey from 1998 to 2006.
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Nadine Vega (Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music.
Sylvia Hanika
Sylvia Hanika (born 30 November 1959) is a former professional tennis player from Germany.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1959 and Taiwan
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie (born March 14, 1959) is an American film, stage, and television actress, director, and producer.
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Taoiseach
The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland.
Tariff
A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods.
See 1959 and Tariff
TAT-2
TAT-2 was AT&T Corporation's second transatlantic telephone cable.
See 1959 and TAT-2
Teddy Scholten
Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten (11 May 1926 – 8 April 2010) was a Dutch singer and television presenter.
Ten Tors
Ten Tors is an annual weekend hike in early May, on Dartmoor, southwest England.
The Big Bopper
Jiles Perry "J.P." Richardson Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959), better known by his stage name The Big Bopper, was an American musician and disc jockey.
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex.
The Day the Music Died
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Cedar Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.
See 1959 and The Day the Music Died
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See 1959 and The New York Times
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
See 1959 and Tibet
Titan (rocket family)
Titan was a family of United States expendable rockets used between 1959 and 2005.
See 1959 and Titan (rocket family)
Toddington, Bedfordshire
Toddington is a large village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire, England.
See 1959 and Toddington, Bedfordshire
Tom Arnold (actor)
Thomas Duane Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.
See 1959 and Tom Arnold (actor)
Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman; 30 December 1959) is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, producer, and director.
Transatlantic communications cable
A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.
See 1959 and Transatlantic communications cable
Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
Tupou VI
Tupou VI (ʻAho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; born 12 July 1959) is King of Tonga.
Tutsi
The Tutsi, also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region.
See 1959 and Tutsi
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
TVB
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong.
See 1959 and TVB
Uma Bharti
Uma Bharti (born 3 May 1959) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Una O'Connor (actress)
Una O'Connor (born Agnes Teresa McGlade, 23 October 1880 – 4 February 1959) was an Irish-born American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film and in television.
See 1959 and Una O'Connor (actress)
Unit 731
, short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment and the Ishii Unit, was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
See 1959 and United Press International
United States Attorney General
The United States attorney general (AG) is the head of the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government of the United States.
See 1959 and United States Attorney General
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.
See 1959 and United States Postal Service
United States Secretary of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.
See 1959 and United States Secretary of State
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
See 1959 and University of Michigan
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains (p), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range in Eurasia that runs north–south mostly through the Russian Federation, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.
USS Barbero
USS Barbero (SS/SSA/SSG-317) was a of the United States Navy, named for a family of fishes commonly called surgeon fish.
USS George Washington (SSBN-598)
USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the United States's first operational ballistic missile submarine.
See 1959 and USS George Washington (SSBN-598)
Val Kilmer
Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.
Vanguard 2
Vanguard 2 (or Vanguard 2E before launch) is an Earth-orbiting satellite launched 17 February 1959 at 15:55:02 GMT, aboard a Vanguard SLV-4 rocket as part of the United States Navy's Project Vanguard.
Vanity (singer)
Denise Katherine Matthews (January 4, 1959 – February 15, 2016), known professionally as Vanity, was a Canadian singer, model, and actress.
Vazgen Sargsyan
Vazgen Zaveni Sargsyan (Վազգեն Զավենի Սարգսյան,; 5 March 1959 – 27 October 1999) was an Armenian military commander and politician.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
See 1959 and Venus
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
See 1959 and Vice President of the United States
Vickers Valiant
The Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber" strategic deterrent force.
Victor McLaglen
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer.
Victoria Abril
Victoria Mérida Rojas (born 4 July 1959), better known as Victoria Abril, is a Spanish film actress and singer based in France.
Victoria Rowell
Victoria Lynn Rowell (born May 10, 1959) is an American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Viet Cong
The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Yurievna Mullova (vʲɪˈktorʲɪɪ̯ə ˈmuɫəvə; born 27 November 1959) is a Russian-born British violinist.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Philip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker.
See 1959 and Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon (born 15 July 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker.
Vincent Richards
Vincent Richards (March 20, 1903 – September 28, 1959) was an American tennis player.
Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12, 1959) is an American actor.
Wally Lewis
Walter James Lewis AM (born 1 December 1959) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s and 1990s.
Wanda Landowska
Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
Water conservation
Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand.
See 1959 and Water conservation
Watford
Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, northwest of Central London, on the banks of the River Colne.
See 1959 and Watford
Weather satellite
A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.
See 1959 and Weather satellite
Wembley Stadium (1923)
The original Wembley Stadium (originally known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley, London, best known for hosting important football matches.
See 1959 and Wembley Stadium (1923)
William D. Leahy
William Daniel Leahy (6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was an American naval officer.
William Halsey Jr.
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II.
See 1959 and William Halsey Jr.
Wolfgang Paalen
Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xerox 914
The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier.
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (יצחק הלוי הרצוג; 3 December 1888 – 25 July 1959), also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936.
See 1959 and Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog
Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour (Yuusu Nduur; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour; born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician.
Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976) was a Chinese statesman, diplomat, and revolutionary who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from September 1954 until his death in January 1976.
1867
There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska.
See 1959 and 1867
1872
In Japan, this leap year runs with only 354 days as the country dropped 12 days in the month of December.
See 1959 and 1872
1892
In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated.
See 1959 and 1892
1900
As of March 1 (O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 (O.S. February 15), 2100.
See 1959 and 1900
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this) and the start of Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland.
See 1959 and 1905
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
See 1959 and 1911
1915
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
See 1959 and 1915
1926
In Turkey, the year technically contained only 352 days.
See 1959 and 1926
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression.
See 1959 and 1929
1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
See 1959 and 1941
1971
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
See 1959 and 1971
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
See 1959 and 1985
1993
1993 was designated as.
See 1959 and 1993
1998
1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.
See 1959 and 1998
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
See 1959 and 1999
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year.
See 1959 and 2000
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
See 1959 and 2003
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.
See 1959 and 2005
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four different digits (a span of 26 years).
See 1959 and 2013
2014
2014 was designated as.
See 1959 and 2014
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as.
See 1959 and 2015
2016
2016 was designated as.
See 1959 and 2016
2017
2017 was designated as International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.
See 1959 and 2017
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
See 1959 and 2019
2021
Similar to the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple COVID-19 variants.
See 1959 and 2021
2022
The year saw the removal of nearly all COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of international borders in most countries, while the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines continued.
See 1959 and 2022
References
Also known as 1959 (year), 1959 AD, 1959 CE, 1959 Nobel Prize laureates, 1959 Nobel Prize winners, 1959 births, 1959 deaths, 1959 events, AD 1959, April 1959 deaths, August 1959 deaths, Births in 1959, Deaths in 1959, Deaths in April 1959, Deaths in August 1959, Deaths in December 1959, Deaths in February 1959, Deaths in January 1959, Deaths in July 1959, Deaths in June 1959, Deaths in March 1959, Deaths in May 1959, Deaths in November 1959, Deaths in October 1959, Deaths in September 1959, December 1959 deaths, Events in 1959, February 1959 deaths, January 1959 deaths, July 1959 deaths, June 1959 deaths, MCMLIX, March 1959 deaths, May 1959 deaths, Nobel Prize laureates in 1959, Nobel Prize winners in 1959, November 1959 deaths, October 1959 deaths, September 1959 deaths, Showa 34, Shōwa 34, Year 1959.
, Bernard Berenson, Billie Holiday, Blind Willie McTell, Boeing 707, Bohuslav Martinů, Boris Nemtsov, Boris Vian, Boughera El Ouafi, Box office, Branch Davidians, Broadway theatre, Broughty Ferry, Bryan Adams, Buddy Holly, C. R. Swart, Cadillac Eldorado, Calais, Camilo Cienfuegos, Cannes, Cape Canaveral, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, Cape Town, Car tailfin, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Carlo Ancelotti, Carlos I. Noriega, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Caspian tiger, Catholic Church, Cecil B. DeMille, Central Treaty Organization, Charles de Gaulle, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Charles Vidor, Charlie Hall (actor, born 1899), Charlie Murphy (actor), China, Chris Hadfield, Chris Lowe, Chrissy Amphlett, Christa Luding-Rothenburger, Christian Wulff, Cirque du Soleil, Clear Lake, Iowa, Cloud cover, Cold War, Commonwealth Day, Computer History Museum, Conakry, Copenhagen, Crick, Northamptonshire, Cyprus, D. F. Malan, Dalai Lama, Dartmoor, Dave Coulier, David Hyde Pierce, December 31, Diesel engine, Dominican Republic, Dominique Dunne, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Don (honorific), Don McLean, Donna Murphy, Dover, Dresden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, East Germany, East River, Eastern Orthodox Church, Ed Walsh, Edmund Gwenn, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Edward VII, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Edwards Air Force Base, Eivind Berggrav, El País, Emilio Segrè, Emma Thompson, Empress Michiko, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, English Channel, Enrico De Nicola, Eric Blore, Ernest Bloch, Ernest Marples, Ernest Newman, Errol Flynn, Escape velocity, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Merman, European Court of Human Rights, Eurovision Song Contest 1959, Evan Ziporyn, Evo Morales, Executive director, Explorer 6, Explorer 7, Explorers Program, FamilySearch, Far side of the Moon, February 14, Fidel Castro, Flag of the United States, Florence Griffith Joyner, Forensic pathology, Franciscans, Francisco Flores Pérez, Francoist Spain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fréjus, Fred Couples, French Fifth Republic, Friedrich Waismann, Fulgencio Batista, Fuvahmulah, G. D. H. Cole, Gago Coutinho, Gérard Philipe, George Albert Smith (filmmaker), George Antheil, George C. Marshall, George Grosz, George Reeves, Gigi (1958 film), Gilda Gray, Giovanna Amati, Giuseppe Bottai, Glen Raven, Inc., Governor of Michigan, Governor-General of South Africa, Great Lakes, Greenland, Gregg Araki, Gustavo Cerati, Guy Laliberté, Gypsy (musical), Havana, Hawaii, Hawaii Admission Act, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Heliocentric orbit, Hitoshi Ashida, HIV, Holcomb, Kansas, Honshu, Hovercraft, Hugh Laurie, Hutu, Huvadhu Atoll, Hypersonic speed, Ibrahim of Johor, Ichirō Hatoyama, In Cold Blood, India, Information Age, Inter-American Development Bank, Interceptor aircraft, International Maritime Organization, Iran, Irene Cara, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics, Jacob Epstein, January 1, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Jason Alexander, Jazz, Jennifer Granholm, Jens Stoltenberg, Jesús Sosa Blanco, Jet (magazine), Jim Bottomley, Jody Watley, Johan Bojer, John C. McGinley, John Foster Dulles, John McEnroe, Johnny Whitaker, Johnson Publishing Company, Jon Fosse, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Zenneck, José Vasconcelos, Jose P. Laurel, Josef Matthias Hauer, Joseph Cahill, Judd Nelson, Julia Sweeney, July 2, Kathy Hilton, Kay Kendall, Kazimierz Bein, Keith Olbermann, Ken Watanabe, Kevin Harrington (actor), Kevin Nash, Kevin Spacey, Khadja Nin, Kind of Blue, King of Malaysia, Kingdom of Laos, Kingdom of Nepal, Kinshasa, Kirkuk, Kitchen Debate, Klaus Fuchs, Klaus Iohannis, Knox Mine disaster, Koenraad Elst, Koichi Tanaka, Kumamoto University, Kurds, Kyle MacLachlan, Laos, Laotian Civil War, Lee Kuan Yew, Lena Hades, Lester Young, Linda Blair, List of governors of New York, List of heads of government of Sudan, List of heads of government of the Central African Republic, List of heads of state of the Comoros, List of motorways in the United Kingdom, List of prime ministers of Luxembourg, Lockheed L-188 Electra, London, Los Angeles, Lou Costello, Louis Blériot, Louis Leakey, Luc Besson, Luigi Sturzo, Luna 1, Luna 2, Luna 3, M1 motorway, M10 motorway (Great Britain), M45 motorway, Mack Gordon, Mackenzie Phillips, Magic Johnson, Makarios III, Maldives, Manchukuo, Manhattan Project, Mao Zedong, Marc Cohn, Marcella Detroit, Marcia Gay Harden, Marie Osmond, Mario Lanza, Mark Jackson (Australian footballer), Marshall Teague (racing driver), Martial law, Mary Leakey, Mattel, Matthew Modine, Maurice Duplessis, Max Baer (boxer), Maxie Long, Maxwell Anderson, Maxwell Caulfield, Mercury Seven, MHPArena, Michael P. Anderson, Mike Hawthorn, Mike McCarthy, Miles Davis, Minamata disease, Mini, Molla Mallory, Momoe Yamaguchi, Monaco, Monarchy of Canada, Moon, MOSFET, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Nagoya, National Liberation Committee of Ivory Coast, Naval Vessel Register, Neal Broten, Neal Stephenson, Netherlands, New York City, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Khrushchev, Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobuo Uematsu, North American F-100 Super Sabre, North American X-15, Occultation, Okinawa Prefecture, Olduvai Gorge, Owen Chamberlain, Owen Willans Richardson, Panama, Pantyhose, Paranthropus boisei, Paris, Pathet Lao, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick Bruel, Paul Douglas (actor), Paul McGann, Paula Yates, Pauline Quirke, Pelle Lindbergh, Peru, Peter Keleghan, Philadelphia, Philip Noel-Baker, Pioneer 4, Pittston, Pennsylvania, Platon Lebedev, Politics of Canada, Pope John XXIII, Premier of Quebec, President of Argentina, President of Bolivia, President of Colombia, President of Costa Rica, President of Cyprus, President of El Salvador, President of Germany, President of Hungary, President of Nauru, President of Romania, President of Tanzania, President of the Philippines, Preston Sturges, Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister of Iran, Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister of Norway, Prime Minister of South Africa, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Queen Paola of Belgium, Rafael Trujillo, Rahm Emanuel, Ramon Magsaysay Award, Raphael Lemkin, Raymond Chandler, Real Madrid CF, Rebecca De Mornay, Regulus, Renée Fleming, Republic of Ireland, Richard Dacoury, Richard Nixon, Richie Sambora, Rick Carlisle, Rigoberta Menchú, Ritchie Valens, Robert Smith (musician), Rocket mail, Rolando Blackman, Roll-on/roll-off, Rosanna Arquette, Routledge, Royal Air Force, Rudolf Caracciola, Rupert Everett, Ruud Janssen, Rwanda, Ryan Stiles, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Saïd Aouita, Sade (singer), Sam Raimi, Sanjay Dutt, Sarah, Duchess of York, Satoru Iwata, Sax Rohmer, Sönke Wortmann, Scott Altman, Sean Bean, Sean Young, Seán Lemass, Seán Lester, Second Vatican Council, Secretary of State for Transport, Sergei Chetverikov, Severo Ochoa, Sheena Easton, Shirō Ishii, Sidney Bechet, Sigmar Gabriel, Simon Cowell, Simple Minds, Singapore, Sisavang Vong, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Soviet Union, Spacecraft, Spur route, St. Lawrence Seaway, Stan Van Gundy, Stanley Spencer, Stepan Bandera, Stephen Harper, Steve Augeri, Stuttgart, Susanna Hoffs, Suzanne Vega, Sylvia Hanika, Taiwan, Tamara Tunie, Tanzania, Taoiseach, Tariff, TAT-2, Teddy Scholten, Ten Tors, The Big Bopper, The Cure, The Day the Music Died, The New York Times, Tibet, Titan (rocket family), Toddington, Bedfordshire, Tom Arnold (actor), Tracey Ullman, Transatlantic communications cable, Transistor, Truman Capote, Tupou VI, Tutsi, TV Guide, TVB, Uma Bharti, Una O'Connor (actress), Unit 731, United Nations, United Press International, United States Attorney General, United States Postal Service, United States Secretary of State, University of Michigan, Ural Mountains, USS Barbero, USS George Washington (SSBN-598), Val Kilmer, Vanguard 2, Vanity (singer), Vazgen Sargsyan, Venezuela, Venus, Vice President of the United States, Vickers Valiant, Victor McLaglen, Victoria Abril, Victoria Rowell, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Viktoria Mullova, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vincent Lindon, Vincent Richards, Ving Rhames, Wally Lewis, Wanda Landowska, Water conservation, Watford, Weather satellite, Wembley Stadium (1923), William D. Leahy, William Halsey Jr., Wolfgang Paalen, World War II, Xerox 914, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Youssou N'Dour, Zhou Enlai, 1867, 1872, 1892, 1900, 1905, 1911, 1915, 1926, 1929, 1941, 1971, 1985, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022.