page_title: 1959
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1959 / Births / March
caption_attribution_description: EastEnders actor Steve McFadden at the 2011 British Soap Awards.
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: March 1 – Nick Griffin, British politician
  March 4
  Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
  Irina Strakhova, Russian race walker
  March 5
  Mike Byster, American mathematician, mental calculator and math educator
  Vazgen Sargsyan, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
  March 6
  Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
  Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Filipino businessman
  Lars Larson, American conservative talk show host
  March 7 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
  March 8
  Lester Holt, American television journalist and news anchor
  Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
  March 9
  Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist and talk show host
  Takaaki Kajita, Japanese nuclear physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
  March 10 – Mike Wallace, American race car driver
  March 11
  Nina Hartley, American pornographic actress and director
  Margus Oopkaup, Estonian actor
  Dejan Stojanović, Serbian-American poet, writer, essayist and businessman
  March 13
  Kathy Hilton, American actress and philanthropist
  Bruce Byron, English actor
  March 15
  Harold Baines, American baseball player
  Fabio Lanzoni, Italian fashion model and actor
  March 16
  Flavor Flav, American rapper
  Gary Basaraba, Canadian-American actor
  Jens Stoltenberg, 27th Prime Minister of Norway
  March 17
  Danny Ainge, American basketball player, coach and baseball player
  Ken Lo, Hong Kong actor and member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
  March 18
  Luc Besson, French film producer, writer and director
  Irene Cara, American singer
  March 20
  Mary Roach, American author
  Steve Borden, American wrestler
  Richard Drummie, English guitarist and composer (Go West)
  Steve McFadden, British actor
  March 21 – Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
  March 22 – Matthew Modine, American actor
  March 23
  Kazue Ikura, Japanese voice actress
  Catherine Keener, American actress
  March 27 – Jun'ichi Sugawara, Japanese voice actor
  March 28 – Laura Chinchilla, 49th President of Costa Rica
  March 29
  Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
  Perry Farrell, American singer-songwriter and musician; lead singer of Jane's Addiction
  March 30
  Andrew Bailey, Executive Director Banking and Chief Cashier at the Bank of England
  Maggie Baird, American actress
  March 31 – Markus Hediger, Swiss writer and translator
caption: Steve McFadden
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