A list of events in 1959 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 7 — Oleksandr Kornev is born.
- 14 — David Van Dyke is born.
- 20 — Joel Rifkin is born.
- 27 — Firat Samigullin is born.
February[]
- 5 — Gail Mathews (victim) is born.
- 25 — Francis Heaulme is born.
- 28 — Michel Peiry is born.
March[]
- 3 — Arthur Bomar is born.
- 3 — Robert Silveria is born.
- 6 — Faryion Wardrip is born.
- 22 — Lucious Boyd is born.
- 25 — Wolfgang Abel is born.
April[]
- 8 — Igor Lendiel is born.
- 9 — Fyodor Kozlov is born.
- 17 — Nathaniel Lipscomb is apprehended.
- 29 — William Smith is born.
May[]
- 14 — David Morton is born.
- 17 — Sergey Shipilov is born.
- 29 — Vender Duncan died.
- ? — Sukhwinder Dhillon is born.
June[]
- 15 — Richard Beasley is born.
- 19 — Heinrich Pommerenke is apprehended.
July[]
- 1 — Volker Eckert is born.
- 1 — William Lewis Reece is born.
- 23 — Leroy Keith died.
- 25 — Anatoly Onoprienko is born.
- 30 — Edward Tenney is born.
- ? — Scott Lehr is born.
August[]
- 1 — Ángel Reséndiz is born.
- 3 — Dellmus Colvin is born.
- 17 — Charles Anthony Boyd is born.
- 19 — Anthony Sowell is born.
- 21 — Stephen Nash died.
- 26 — Wayne Garrison is born.
- 31 — Billy Carroll (victim) is born.
September[]
- 4 — Jacques Fruminet is born.
- 9 — Harrison Graham is born.
- 18 — Harvey Glatman died.
- 24 — Danny Figueroa is born.
October[]
- 1 — Vladimir Khudyakov is born.
- 14 — Genzo Kurita died.
- 24 — Adrian Stroe is born.
- 25 — Mauricio Silva is born.
November[]
- 3 — David Franklin Young is born.
- 21 — Michael Tenneson is born.
- 26 — Sergey Golovkin is born.
December[]
- 1 — Luis Raúl Menocchio is born.
- 9 — John Martin Scripps is born.
- 11 — Reuben Smith is born.
- 17 — Frederick Hammer is born.
- 30 - Lawrence Bierton is born
Unknown[]
- ? — Glenn Haslam Barker is born.
- ? — Mike Bonnin (victim) is born.
- ? — Viktor Bolkhovsky is born.
- ? — Tony Bottrill is born.
- ? — Regis Brown is born.
- ? — Herbert Coddington is born.
- ? — Mark Cunningham is born (c.).
- ? — Rik Debrabandere is born.
- ? — Yevgeny Frolov is born.
- ? — Leroy Keith is apprehended.
- ? — Magomed Luguyev is born.
- ? — Yuri Moon is born.
- ? — David Mulcahy is born.
- ? — Josefina Pino García is apprehended.