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December 28, 1959

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Notable Births

Hansjörg Kunze

1959Hansjörg Kunze, German runner and sportscaster[†]

Hansjörg Kunze is a German track and field athlete. He represented East Germany as a long distance runner.

Daniel Léo Simpson

1959Daniel Léo Simpson, American composer[†]

Daniel Léo Simpson is an American composer.

Ana Torroja

1959Ana Torroja, Spanish singer-songwriter[†]

Ana Torroja Fungairiño, 3rd Marchioness of Torroja is a Spanish singer. She was the lead singer of the pop trio Mecano, considered one of the most popular pop bands from Spain during the 1980s and 1990s. Mecano split in 1998 and she embarked on a solo career.

Notable Deaths

Ante Pavelić

1959Ante Pavelić, Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (born 1889)[†]

Ante Pavelić was a Croatian politician who founded and headed the fascist ultranationalist organization known as the Ustaše in 1929 and was dictator of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state built out of parts of occupied Yugoslavia by the authorities of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, from 1941 to 1945. Pavelić and the Ustaše persecuted many racial minorities and political opponents in the NDH during the war, including Serbs, Jews, Romani, and anti-fascists, becoming one of the key figures of the genocide of Serbs, the Porajmos and the Holocaust in the NDH.

Historical Context for December 28, 1959

In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]