- For the song "1959" by The Sisters of Mercy, see album: Floodland.
Year
1959 (
MCMLIX) was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
- Contents (full)
- 1 Events of 1959
- : - Jan. . Feb. . March . April
- : - May . June . July . Aug.
- : - Sept. . Oct. . Nov. . Dec.
- : - Undated . Ongoing .
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
- 4 Nobel Prizes
- 5 See also - Notes - External links
Events of 1959
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
- January 6 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
- January 9
- Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Mark Martin, NASCAR driver
- January 16 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
- January 17 - Susanna Hoffs, Lead singer of The Bangles
- January 21 - Paulo Miklos, Brazilian singer and actor
- January 24 - Nastassja Kinski, German actress
- January 27 - Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster
- January 31 - Kelly Moore, American race car driver
- February 3 - Laurence Tolhurst, cofounder and former drummer/keyboardist of The Cure
- February 4 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player
- February 6 - Ken Nelson, English record producer
- February 10 - Dennis Gentry, American football player
- February 14 - Renee Fleming, American soprano
- February 16 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
- February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
- February 23 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
- February 26 - Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player
March-April
- March 4 - Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
- March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- March 8 - Aidan Quinn, Irish/American actor
- March 9
- Rodney A. Grant, American actor
- Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist and talk show host
- March 10 - Mike Wallace, American race car driver
- March 15 - Harold Baines, baseball player
- March 16
- Flavor Flav, American rapper
- Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- March 17 - Danny Ainge, American basketball player, coach, and baseball player
- March 18
- Luc Besson, French film producer, writer, and director
- Irene Cara, American singer
- March 20
- Steve Borden, American wrestler
- Steve McFadden, British actor
- March 21 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
- March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 29
- Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
- Perry Farrell, American musician
- April 2 - Badou Zaki, Morrocan football player and manager
- April 3 - David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- April 10 - Brian Setzer, American guitarist (Stray Cats)
- April 11 - Ana María Polo, Cuban-born judge and television personality
- April 15 - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
- April 16 - Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
- April 21 - Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
- April 22
- Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
- Ryan Stiles, American actor
- April 27 - Sheena Easton, Scottish singer
- April 29 - Louis Colaianni, American author
- April 30 - Stephen Harper, Canadian politician
May-June
- May 3
- Uma Bharati, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- Ben Elton, British comedian and writer
- May 5
- Ian McCulloch, English singer (Echo & the Bunnymen)
- Steve Stevens, American guitarist
- Peter Molyneux, British game programmer
- May 10 - Victoria Rowell, American actress
- May 14 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
- May 15 - Andrew Eldritch, British musician (The Sisters of Mercy)
- May 19 - Nicole Brown Simpson, Ex-wife of O.J. Simpson and murder victim
- May 20 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
- May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
- May 21 - Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish politician
- May 22 - Steven Morrissey, British singer
- May 24 - Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-born hockey player (d. 1985)
- May 29 - Adrian Paul, British actor
- June 8 - Bernard White, Sri Lankan-born American actor, screenwriter and film director, knowns for playing Rama Kandra in Matrix Revolutions
- June 11 - Hugh Laurie, British actor and comedian
- June 12 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
- June 14 - Marcus Miller, American bassist
- June 22
- Wayne Federman, American comedian, actor, and author
- Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer
- June 26 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian
- June 27 - Clint Boon, British musician (Inspiral Carpets)
- June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor
July-August
- July 3 - Julie Burchill, British journalist
- July 6 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
- July 7 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
- July 9 - Kevin Nash, American professional wrestler
- July 10 - Janet Julian, American actress
- July 11
- Richie Sambora, American musician
- Suzanne Vega, American singer
- July 13 - Richard Leman, British field hockey player
- July 16 - Gary Anderson, American football player
- July 26
- Rick Bragg, American writer
- Kevin Spacey, American actor
- July 27 - Hugh Green, American football player
- July 29
- Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- Ruud Janssen, Dutch artist
- August 1 - Joe Elliott, British singer (Def Leppard)
- August 2 - Apollonia Kotero, American actress and singer
- August 3 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- August 4 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (d. 2002)
- August 8 - Christoph Theinert, German cellist and composer
- August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 11 - Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer
- August 14 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- August 17
- Jonathan Franzen, American author
- Brad Wellman, American baseball player
- August 18 - June Angela, Asian-American actress, singer, and dancer
- August 21 - Jim McMahon, American football player
- August 27 - Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist
- August 29
- Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
- Stephen Wolfram, British scientist
- August 30 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
September-October
- September 2 - Guy Laliberté, Quebec Cirque du soleil founder
- September 4 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
- September 8 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer, singer, and actor
- September 14 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
- September 17 - Charles Lawson, Irish actor
- September 18
- Ian Arkwright, English footballer
- Sérgio Britto, Brazilian singer and keyboardist
- September 21 - Dave Coulier, American actor
- September 29 - Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer
- October 1 - Youssou N'Dour singer
- October 3
- Fred Couples, American golfer
- Greg Proops, American comedian
- Jack Wagner, American actor
- October 7
- Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
- Simon Cowell, English music producer and television talent show judge
- October 9 - Michael Pare, American actor
- October 10 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (d.2000)
- October 15
- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
- Emeril Lagasse, American chef and restaurant owner
- October 17
- Ron Drummond, American writer, editor, and music historian
- Richard Roeper, American film critic
- October 20 - Rozana Yusoff, Malaysian
- October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- October 22 - Todd Graff, American actor, writer, and director
- October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist
- October 25 - Christina Amphlett, Australian singer (Divinyls)
- October 26 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
- October 26 - Brian Bovell, British actor
- October 27 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- October 31 - Neal Stephenson, American writer
November-December
- November 5 - Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and photographer
- November 7 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
- November 8 - Selçuk Yula, Turkish football player and topscorer.
- November 10 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
- November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
- November 18 - Jimmy Quinn, Irish footballer and football manager
- November 23 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
- November 25 - Charles Kennedy, British politician
- November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
- November 29
- Kim Delaney, American actress
- Platon Lebedev, a Russian former CEO of Group Menatep, best known as the business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
- November 30 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
- December 20 - Sandra Cisneros, Mexican-born author
- December 21 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athlete (d. 1998)
- December 27 - Gerina Dunwich, American author
- December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor
- date unknown - Willie Doherty, Irish artist
Deaths
January-March
- January 2 - William D. Francis, Australian botanist (b. 1889)
- January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881)
- January 22 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
- February 1 - Frank Shannon, American actor (b. 1874)
- February 3 - Killed in a private plane crash:
- The Big Bopper, American singer (b. 1930)
- Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
- Richie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
- February 3 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1891)
- February 4 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
- February 11 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
- February 14 - Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
- February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- February 23 - Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet (b. 1898)
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
- March 3 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- March 4 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- March 29 - Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
April-June
- April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- May 5 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- May 16 - Elisha Scott, Irish footballer (b. 1894)
- May 18
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Antarctic explorer (b. 1886)
- Enrique Guaita, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
- May 24 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
- June 9 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- June 16 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
- June 18 - Ethel Barrymore, stage & screen actress (b. 1879)
- June 23 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician (b. 1920)
July - September
- July 11 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
- July 15 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- July 17 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- July 25 - Mutara III, king of Rwanda (b. c. 1912)
- August 5 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
- August 6 - Preston Sturges, American film director and writer (b. 1898)
- August 15 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
- August 16 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
- August 19
- Claude Grahame White, pioneer British aviator, (b. 1879)
- Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
- August 28 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
- September 7 - Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec (b. 1890)
- September 28 - Rudolf Caracciola, racing driver (b. 1901)
October-December
- October 6 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
- October 7 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- October 16 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- October 22 - Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
- November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- November 21 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909)
- December 22 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
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Floodland is the second album by The Sisters of Mercy, released in 1987. Composed and produced by Andrew Eldritch, it marked a change of direction from guitar-oriented rock towards synthesizer-based productions. The record peaked at number 9 in UK album charts.
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