1959 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Adolfo López Mateos
• Interior Secretary : Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• The Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers is formed.
• The motorcycle club Solo Angeles is formed.
• August 12: The Mexican Academy of Sciences is founded.
• September 10: MASA is founded when the state-owned investment bank, SOMEX acquired the private company, Sheppard Hnos.
• October 10: The Autonomous University of Zacatecas is established.
• October 23–29: 1959 Mexico hurricane

  Film

• List of Mexican films of 1959

  Births

• April 16 – Gran Apache, wrestler.
• 5 May - Arturo A. Puig, Author.
• 27 August — Daniela Romo, actress, singer, TV host
• 6 September — Fernando Ciangherotti, soap opera actor
• 30 September — Miguel Barbosa Huerta, Governor of Puebla starting 2019
• 5 October — Ernesto Laguardia, soap opera actor
• October 7 – Brazo de Oro
• 10 October — Marcelo Ebrard, politician and Mayor of Mexico City 2006-2012; Secretary of Foreign Affairs starting 2018.
• November 16 — Rafael Flores, soccer player who played for Mexico in the 1986 FIFA World Cup;
• 25 November — José Antonio Gali Fayad, Governor of Puebla 2017-2018
• Date unknown
• *Agustín Bernal, actor.
• *Tedi López Mills, poet.
• *Fernando Maiz Garza, businessman, builder, and philanthropist.
• *Gustavo Nakatani Ávila, singer

  Deaths

• June 30 — José Vasconcelos, writer, philosopher, and politician
• December 27 — Alfonso Reyes, writer, philosopher, and diplomat

  Sport

• 1958–59 Mexican Primera División season
• The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League
• Mexico ends up 3rd out of 4 during the Panamerican Championship 1960 in Costa Rica.
• Club San Sebastián de León dissolves.