page_title: 1959
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1959 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Clancy Brown at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: January 1 – Azali Assoumani, President of the Comoros
  January 2 – Joe Bevilacqua, American producer, director, writer, actor
  January 4 - Vanity, Canadian singer and actress (d. 2016)
  January 5
  Clancy Brown, American actor and voice actor
  Fariz RM, Indonesian musician and audio-visual artist
  January 6
  Andy Dog Johnson, English artist (d. 2016)
  Adnan Abu Hassan, Malaysian composer and musician (d. 2016)
  January 7
  Karl Kesel, American comics writer
  Kathy Valentine, American guitarist and songwriter
  January 9
  Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  Mark Martin, American NASCAR driver
  January 10
  Larry McReynolds, American Fox Sports commentator
  Rocky Lockridge, American boxer (d. 2019)
  January 12 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Roxette)
  January 15 – Greg Dowling, Australian rugby league player
  January 16 – Sade, Nigerian-English singer
  January 17
  Susanna Hoffs, American rock vocalist
  Rand Miller, American video game designer
  Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer
  January 21
  José Uribe, Dominican Major League Baseball player (d. 2006)
  Alex McLeish, Nottingham Forest player
  Paulo Miklos, Brazilian singer and actor
  January 22 – Linda Blair, American actress
  January 24 – Vic Reeves, English comedian
  January 26 – Bob Lazar, American physicist and conspiracy theorist
  January 27 – Keith Olbermann, American news anchor and sportscaster
  January 29 – Mike Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player
  January 30 – Jody Watley, African-American singer
  January 31
  Kelly Lynch, American model and actress
  Kelly Moore, American race car driver
caption: Clancy Brown
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