1959 in music

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Births

• January 6 - Kathy Sledge, Sister Sledge
• January 7 - Kathy Valentine, The Go-Go's
• January 8 - Paul Hester, Crowded House
• January 10 - Curt Kirkwood, Meat Puppets
• January 12 - Per Gessle, Roxette
• January 14 - Cas Smith, Madness
• January 14 - Geoff Tate, Queensrÿche
• January 17 - Susanna Hoffs, The Bangles
• January 28 - Dave Sharp, The Alarm
• January 29 - Johnny Spampinato, NRBQ
• January 30 - Jody Watley
• February 3 - Lol Tolhurst, The Cure
• February 7 - Brian Travers, UB40
• February 14 - Ice-T
• February 15 - Ali Campbell, UB40
• February 25 - Mike Peters, The Alarm
• March 16 - Flavor Flav, Public Enemy
• March 27 - Andrew Farriss, INXS
• March 29 - Perry Farrell, Jane's Addiction
• March 31 - Angus Young, AC/DC
• April 10 - Brian Setzer, The Stray Cats
• April 10 - Babyface
• April 21 - Michael Timmins, Cowboy Junkies
• April 21 - Robert Smith, The Cure
• April 27 - Sheena Easton
• May 3 - David Ball, Soft Cell
• May 4 - Randy Travis, country singer
• May 5 - Ian McCulloch, Echo & The Bunnymen
• May 20 - Susan Cowsill, The Cowsills, Continental Drifters
• June 1 - Alan Wilder, Depeche Mode
• June 12 - John Linnell, They Might Be Giants
• June 19 - Mark DeBarge, DeBarge
• June 22 - Alan Anton, Cowboy Junkies
• June 24 - Andy McCluskey, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• July 3 - Stephen Pearcy, Ratt
• July 5 - Marc Cohn
• July 9 - Marc Almond, Soft Cell
• July 11 - Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi
• July 11 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
• August 1 - Joe Elliott, Def Leppard
• August 9 - Kurtis Blow
• September 14 - Morten Harket, a-ha
• September 23 - Lita Ford
• October 4 - Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boys
• October 13 - Marie Osmond
• October 16 - Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet
• October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• November 1 - Eddie MacDonald, The Alarm
• November 5 - Bryan Adams
• November 27 - Charlie Burchill, Simple Minds
• November 29 - Steve Hindalong, The Choir, record producer
• December 4 - Bob Griffin, The BoDeans