1959 in Luxembourg

Incumbents

Events

January – March

• 1 February – Elections are held to the Chamber of Deputies. The Christian Social People's Party loses 5 seats, while the Democratic Party gains five.
• 23 February – Prime Minister Pierre Frieden dies in Zürich, twenty-two days after winning re-election.
• 2 March – Pierre Werner becomes Prime Minister, seven days after the death of his Christian Social People's Party colleague Pierre Frieden. He forms a new government in coalition with the Democratic Party, with Eugène Schaus in the new office as Deputy Prime Minister.
• 11 March – Luxembourg misses the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time: the only time before the country's withdrawal from the contest since 1993.

April – June

• 7 June – Charly Gaul wins the 1959 Giro d'Italia.

July – September

• 4 August – Nicolas Margue is appointed to the Council of State.^[1]

October – December

• 30 December – Paul Wilwertz is re-appointed to the Council of State, having previously been a member from 1945 to 1954.^[1]

Births

• 12 April – Andy Bausch, film director
• 18 May – Ranga Yogeshwar, scientist
• 28 September – Michel Margue, historian
• 30 September – Fernand Kartheiser, politician
• 8 October – Claude Michely, cyclist
• 12 December – Patrick Hastert, actor
• 28 December – Antoine, Prince of Ligne

Deaths

• 23 February – Pierre Frieden, politician and Prime Minister
• 7 June – Victor Prost, politician
• 22 July – Robert Bruch, linguist
• 24 September – Jean Schaack, painter
• 26 September – Ernest Hamelius, politician and banker
• 4 October – Romain Nati, Councillor of State
• 2 December – Leo Müller, politician and journalist
• 4 December – Jean-Pierre Ries, clergyman

Footnotes

References

• (French) Thewes, Guy (2006) (PDF). Les gouvernements du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg depuis 1848 (2006 ed.). Luxembourg City: Service Information et Presse. ISBN 978-2-87999-156-6. http://www.gouvernement.lu/publications/gouvernement/gouvernements_depuis_1848/Les_gouv_2006.pdf. Retrieved 12 December 2009.