1959

«	1959	»

The year 1959 (MCMLIX) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by twenty five years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

Panini Armada comic

During the construction of a casino in Las Vegas, the Land Military Mini-Con Team were uncovered and subsequently the Extra-Terrestrial Response Division attempted to use inhibitor clamps to control them. The Mini-Cons broke free and drove to nearby Stillwater, Nevada, delivering a message to Amos Hume before they were recaptured. Blast from the Past!

Non-Fiction

Births

January

• January 5 — Clancy Brown
• January 11 — Bob Harras
• January 18 — Héctor Lee

February

• February 13 — Yuriko Yamamoto

March

• March 10 — Akira Okeya
• March 22 — Lew Stringer

April

• April 10 — Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
• April 20 — Leonardo Araujo
• April 24 — Glenn Morshower

May

• May 11 — Kōjin Ōno
• May 19 — Jim Ward

July

• July 5 — Akari Hibino
• July 16 — Bob Joles
• July 25 — Hiroaki Harakawa
• July 28 — Ian Akin

August

• August 15 — Yōichi Kobiyama

October

• October 13 — Dan DiDio
• October 15 — Masako Katsuki
• October 18 — Jim Massara
• October 23 — "Weird Al" Yankovic

November

• November 6 — Nobuo Tobita
• November 11 — Fushigi Yamada
• November 21 — Naoko Watanabe
• November 24 — Akio Ōtsuka
• November 28 — Judd Nelson

December

• December 21 — Lindsay Dawson
• December 26 — Yoshikazu Hirano