The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1959, the 5th anniversary year of the publication. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
Cindy Fuller (May 13, 1938 – January 6, 2020) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] She was an American model who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1959 issue.
Her centerfold was photographed by Bunny Yeager.[2] Many years later, at around the turn of the 21st-century, she claimed to be the first Jewish Playmate. That means she was the first, by about seven years, before the previously presumed first one, December 1966's Susan Bernard.[3] Fuller died on January 6, 2020, at the age of 81.[4]
Yvette Iola Vickers (néeVedder) (August 26, 1928 – c. 2010) was a blond-haired, blue-eyed American actress, pin-up model, and singer. In 1959 she appeared as the PlayboyPlaymate of the Month for the July issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Russ Meyer. She also appeared in several other men's magazines.
Clayre Peters born September 17, 1930 in Manhattan, New York, is an American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1959 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Frank Eck.
Marianne Gaba (November 13, 1939 – May 3, 2016) was an American model, actress and beauty queen. She was Miss Illinois USA 1957 Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1959 issue. Marianne Gaba Starkman died from a brain tumor in Los Angeles, on May 3, 2016, at the age of 76.[6]
April 26, 2016(2016-04-26) (aged 76) California, U.S.
Height
5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Bonnie La Rue Miller (née Nix, June 9, 1939 – April 26, 2016), better known as Ellen Stratton, was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1959. She also became the first "official" Playmate of the Year for 1960.[9]
Her centerfold was photographed by William Graham. Stratton died in California, on April 26, 2016 at the age of 76.[10]
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