1959
From Tolkien Gateway
January
- 10 - Screenwriter Fran Walsh is born.
April
- 17 - Sean Bean, who would play Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, is born.
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- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien retires from the Merton professorship at Oxford.
- ? - Author Douglas A. Anderson is born.
- ? - Science fiction scholar Michael Martinez is born.
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