1959

Events

• January 1 - End of the Battle of Santa Clara. Fulgencio Batista is overthrown as dictator of Cuba by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, who assume control of the country.
• January 3 - Robert Byrd is elected to the United States Senate.
• March - The American Nazi Party is founded by George Lincoln Rockwell.
• June 5 - Lee Kuan Yew is named the first Prime Minister of Singapore.
• July 25 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, United States Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev engage in the "Kitchen Debate".
• July 31 - ETA is founded.
• November 2 - Beginning of the Rwandan Revolution.
• November 15 - The Clutter family murders take place in Holcomb, Kansas when all four members of the Clutter family are killed by Perry Edward Smith and Richard Hickock.
• Unknown - Fatah is founded by Yasser Arafat.

Births

Villain births

• January 20 - Joel Rifkin
• March 1 - Nick Griffin
• July 25 - Anatoly Onoprienko
• July 26 - Michael Bruce Ross
• August 1 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
• August 17 - David Koresh
• August 19 - Anthony Sowell
• August 21 - Shawn Nelson
• October 25 - Kieran Fleming
• October 29 - John Magufuli
• November 22 - Pamela Ann Fahy
• December 1 - Emmanuel Rukundo
• Unknown - Roy Whiting

Deaths

Villain deaths

• February 7 - Daniel François Malan
• June 23 - Fritz Kraemer
• June 25 - Charles Starkweather
• July 27 - Aleksandar Tsankov
• September 18 - Harvey Glatman
• October 9 - Shirō Ishii
• October 15 - Stepan Bandera
• December 28 - Ante Pavelić

Victim deaths

• November 15 - Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon Clutter