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| 1959 |
| | | Billy Wilder directs Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Saul Bellow publishes Henderson the Rain King, in which an American millionaire acquires a strange role in an African tribe | |
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| 1959 |
| | | On the retirement of de Valera, Sean Lemass succeeds him as leader of Fianna F´il and prime minister of Ireland | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Transkei becomes the first African homeland, or Bantustan, within South Africa | |
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| 1959 |
| | | ETA (Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna) is formed in Spain as a guerrilla organization to win Basque independence | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The first prototype of the Hovercraft, designed by British engineer Christopher Cockerell, crosses the English Channel | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno assumes dictatorial powers, operating an Indonesian policy officially known as Guided Democracy | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Hiroshima Mon Amour is French director Alain Resnais' first feature film, with screenplay by Marguerite Duras | |
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| 1959 |
| | | West Indian poet and playwright Derek Walcott founds the Trinidad Theatre Workshop | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Keith Waterhouse has a wide success with his second novel, Billy Liar | |
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