August 1959.
Since August 1959 passed approximately Seven Hundred and Seventeen months (716.8). This August started with Saturday (31. week) and ended with Monday (36. week). This August had 31 days and 5 Sundays. On bottom of the page you can find calendar for August 1959.
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Events occurred in August 1959
We found 83 events occured in August month in 1959.
• 1959. August 1 (Category: Births), Joe Elliott, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, and Down 'n' Outz)
• 1959. August 1 (Category: Births), Yoshihide Ōtomo, Japanese musician and composer (Ground Zero and Filament)
• 1959. August 2 (Category: Births), Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress (Apollonia 6)
• 1959. August 2 (Category: Births), Victoria Jackson, American comedian, actress, and singer
• 1959. August 3 (Category: Births), John C. McGinley, American actor
• 1959. August 3 (Category: Births), Koichi Tanaka, Japanese engineer and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959. August 3 (Category: Births), Martin Atkins, English drummer (Public Image Ltd, Ministry, and Killing Joke)
• 1959. August 3 (Category: Births), Mike Gminski, American basketball player
• 1959. August 3 (Category: Events), Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
• 1959. August 4 (Category: Births), John Gormley, Irish politician
• 1959. August 4 (Category: Births), Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002)
• 1959. August 4 (Category: Deaths), József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
• 1959. August 5 (Category: Births), Pat Smear, American guitarist (Germs, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Adolescents)
• 1959. August 5 (Category: Births), Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter, and author (Dead or Alive)
• 1959. August 5 (Category: Deaths), Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
• 1959. August 6 (Category: Births), Rajendra Singh Indian water conservationist
• 1959. August 6 (Category: Deaths), Preston Sturges, American playwright, screenwriter, and director (b. 1898)
• 1959. August 7 (Category: Births), Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1959. August 7 (Category: Births), Koenraad Elst, Belgian writer and orientalist
• 1959. August 7 (Category: Events), Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1959. August 7 (Category: Events), The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.
• 1959. August 9 (Category: Births), Kurtis Blow, American rapper and producer
• 1959. August 9 (Category: Births), Michael Kors, American fashion designer
• 1959. August 9 (Category: Births), Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
• 1959. August 9 (Category: Births), Toni Servillo, Italian actor and director
• 1959. August 10 (Category: Births), Florent Vollant, Canadian singer-songwriter (Kashtin)
• 1959. August 10 (Category: Births), Mark Price, English drummer (All About Eve and Del Amitri)
• 1959. August 10 (Category: Births), Rosanna Arquette, American actress
• 1959. August 11 (Category: Births), Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Soda Stereo)
• 1959. August 11 (Category: Births), Joe Jackson, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author
• 1959. August 11 (Category: Births), László Szlávics, Jr., Hungarian sculptor
• 1959. August 11 (Category: Births), Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor
• 1959. August 11 (Category: Events), Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
• 1959. August 12 (Category: Births), Amanda Redman, English actress
• 1959. August 12 (Category: Deaths), Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player (b. 1877)
• 1959. August 13 (Category: Births), Bruce French, English cricketer
• 1959. August 13 (Category: Births), Danny Bonaduce, American actor
• 1959. August 13 (Category: Births), Michael Bradley, Irish bass player and radio host (The Undertones)
• 1959. August 13 (Category: Births), Tom Niedenfuer, American baseball player
• 1959. August 14 (Category: Births), Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
• 1959. August 14 (Category: Births), Magic Johnson, American basketball player
• 1959. August 14 (Category: Births), Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
• 1959. August 14 (Category: Events), Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
• 1959. August 15 (Category: Births), Scott Altman, American astronaut
• 1959. August 16 (Category: Births), Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist
• 1959. August 16 (Category: Deaths), Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
• 1959. August 16 (Category: Deaths), William Halsey, Jr., American navy admiral (b. 1882)
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Births), Chika Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Births), David Koresh, American cult leader (d. 1993)
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Births), Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Births), Jonathan Franzen, American author
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Events), Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.
• 1959. August 17 (Category: Events), Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
• 1959. August 18 (Category: Births), Tom Prichard, American wrestler
• 1959. August 19 (Category: Births), Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
• 1959. August 19 (Category: Births), Susan Cummings, Monegasque-American heiress and murderer
• 1959. August 19 (Category: Deaths), Blind Willie McTell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1901)
• 1959. August 19 (Category: Deaths), Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1959. August 21 (Category: Births), Jim McMahon, American football player
• 1959. August 21 (Category: Events), President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day
• 1959. August 22 (Category: Births), Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
• 1959. August 22 (Category: Births), Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter
• 1959. August 22 (Category: Births), Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician
• 1959. August 23 (Category: Births), George Kalovelonis, Greek tennis player
• 1959. August 24 (Category: Births), Adrian Kuiper, South African cricketer
• 1959. August 25 (Category: Births), Ruth Ann Swenson, American soprano
• 1959. August 25 (Category: Births), Steve Levy, American politician
• 1959. August 26 (Category: Births), Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach
• 1959. August 27 (Category: Births), András Petöcz, Hungarian author
• 1959. August 27 (Category: Births), Downtown Julie Brown, English television host and actress
• 1959. August 27 (Category: Births), Gerhard Berger, Austrian race car driver
• 1959. August 27 (Category: Births), Jeanette Winterson, English novelist
• 1959. August 27 (Category: Births), Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor
• 1959. August 28 (Category: Births), Brian Thompson, American actor
• 1959. August 28 (Category: Deaths), Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian actor
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Eddi Reader, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fairground Attraction)
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Stephen Wolfram, English physicist and mathematician
• 1959. August 29 (Category: Births), Timothy Shriver, American businessman and activist
• 1959. August 30 (Category: Births), Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
• 1959. August 31 (Category: Births), Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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