The year 1959 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during that year.
James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.
Michael O'Connell is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. Throughout his 25-year club career, he played for Young Islanders, winning seven South Kerry Championship titles during a golden age for the club; he also played for divisional side South Kerry, and enjoyed much success in the County Championship. At inter-county level, he captained Kerry to win the 1959 All-Ireland Championship; he later claimed a further three All-Ireland medals, as well as Munster Championship and National League successes.
North Shore United Association Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in the North Shore, Auckland. They compete in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier, where they last won the competition in 2019.
Al Cohn was an American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. He came to prominence in the band of clarinetist Woody Herman and was known for his longtime musical partnership with fellow saxophonist Zoot Sims.
Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie.
Willis Ben Bouchey was an American character actor who appeared in almost 150 films and television shows. He was born in Vernon, Michigan, but raised by his mother and stepfather in Washington state.
Wendell Marshall was an American jazz double-bassist.
The 813th Strategic Aerospace Division is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Fifteenth Air Force at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, where it was inactivated on 2 July 1966.
Francis M. Gerstle was an American actor, well known for his performances in a series of science-fiction films.
Edward J. Danziger (1909–1999) and Harry Lee Danziger (1913–2005) were American-born brothers who produced many British films and TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s.
Robert Ellis was an American child actor in the 1940s and 1950s, who was the last actor to play Henry Aldrich on the radio series The Aldrich Family.
Rosa Pisano, best known as Rosita Pisano was an Italian stage, film and television actress.
Paracoccus is a genus of true bugs belonging to the family Pseudococcidae.
