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- Wyrley Birch was born on 7 May 1883 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Guard That Girl (1935), Air Hawks (1935) and Studio One (1948). He was married to Grace Bullock. He died on 7 February 1959 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA.
- Nap Lajoie was born on 5 September 1874 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA. He died on 7 February 1959 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
- Archie Leonard was born on 28 October 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Mrs. Mike (1949). He was married to June R. Salie and Helen Yager. He died on 7 February 1959 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
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Blues guitarist, Eddie Jones, more familiarly known as "Guitar Slim", was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood in 1926.
In 1950, he teamed up with famed piano player Huey P. Smith and another player to form a blues trio. The next year he signed a contract with Imperial Records, but left them in 1953 for Specialty Records where he released "The Things I Used to Do", with the great Ray Charles on piano. The song shot to the top of the Billboard R&B chart and went on to become the best-selling R&B record of 1954.
He stayed with Specialty for a few more years until the label dropped him--his subsequent recordings didn't do as well as his first--and, in 1958, he signed with Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco, but again his releases failed to live up to the success of his first hit. He developed health problems--very likely brought on by his prodigious drinking and womanizing--and in his weakened state he caught pneumonia and died on February 7, 1959, in New York City.- Pál Fehér was born on 4 August 1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Helyet az öregeknek (1934). He died on 7 February 1959 in Budapest, Hungary.
- D.F. Malan was born on 22 May 1874 in Riebeek West, Cape Colony. He died on 7 February 1959.