August 1959.
Since August 1959 passed approximately Six Hundred and Ninety-Four months (693.8). 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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