Famous People Who Died In 1959
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1959. This list includes people like Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Errol Flynn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Billie Holiday and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include artists, political leaders, military leaders and lawyers who died in 1959. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Australia and many more countries.
Ritchie Valens13 May 1941, American
Singer, Songwriter
Buddy Holly07 September 1936, American
Frank Lloyd Wright08 June 1867, American
Architect
Billie Holiday07 April 1915, American
Musician
Errol Flynn20 June 1909, Australian
Actor
George Reeves05 January 1914, American
Actor
George Marshall31 December 1880, American
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Cecil B. DeMille12 August 1881, American
Film Director, Producer
Lou Costello06 March 1906, American
Actor
Carl Switzer07 August 1927, American
Actor
Raymond Chandler23 July 1888, American
Novelist and Screenwriter
John Foster Dulles25 February 1888, American
Former United States Secretary of State
Ethel Barrymore15 August 1879, American
Actress
Albert Namatjira28 July 1902, Australian
Artist
Heitor Villa-Lobos05 March 1887, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
Harvey Glatman10 December 1927, American
Serial Killer
Edith Clarke10 February 1883, American
Electrical Engineer
Bernard Berenson26 June 1865, American
Art Historian
Abraham Flexner13 November 1866, American
Educator
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson14 February 1869, British
Physicist
Carlos Saavedra Lamas01 November 1878, Argentinian
First Latin American Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879, British
Physicist
Lizzy Ansingh13 March 1875, Dutch
Painter
The Big Bopper24 October 1930, American
Singer, Musician, Disc jockey, Songwriter
Stepan Bandera01 January 1909, Ukrainian
Political leader
Mario Lanza31 January 1921, American
Actor, singer
Victor McLaglen10 December 1886, British, American
Actor, Boxer
Lester Young27 August 1909, American
Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Composer, Jazz musician,
Sidney Bechet14 May 1897, American
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Boris Vian10 March 1920, French
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
Mike Hawthorn10 April 1929, British
Formula One driver
William D. Leahy06 May 1875, American
Officer, Diplomat
Camilo Cienfuegos06 February 1932, Cuban
Armed force officer
George Grosz26 July 1893, German, American
Painter, Draughtsperson, Photographer, University
Raphael Lemkin24 June 1900, Polish
Lawyer, Peace researcher
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Max Gerson18 October 1881, German, American
Physician
Maurice Duplessis20 April 1890, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer
Preston Sturges29 August 1898, American
American playwright
George Antheil08 July 1900, American
Composer
Arthur Cecil Pigou18 November 1877, British
Economist, Paramedic, University teacher
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike08 January 1899, Sri Lankan
Diplomat, Politician, Lawyer
José Vasconcelos28 February 1882, Mexican
Writer, Philosopher, Politician, University
Jacob Epstein10 November 1880, American
Sculptor, Painter
Bohuslav Martinů08 December 1890, Swiss
Composer
Stanley Spencer30 June 1891, British
Painter
William Halsey, Jr.30 October 1882, American
Rudolf Caracciola30 January 1901, Swiss, German
Racecar driver, Motorcycle racer
Edward C. Tolman14 April 1886, American
Psychologist
Andrew Loomis1892 AD, American
illustrator, painter
Daniel François Malan22 May 1874, South African
Minister, Politician
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside06 May 1880, British
Politician, Diarist, Writer, Military personnel
Enrico De Nicola09 November 1877, Italian
Journalist
Alfred Munnings08 October 1878, British
painter
Leslie Morshead18 September 1889, Australian
Military personnel
Alfred Kubin10 April 1877, Austrian
Writer, Painter, Etcher
Ki Hajar Dewantara02 May 1889, Indonesian
Politician, Philosopher
Gérard Philipe04 December 1922, French
Actor
William Guy Carr02 June 1895, Canadian
Writer, Submariner
Max Baer11 February 1909, American
actor, boxer
Hitoshi Ashida15 November 1887, Japanese
Prime Minister, politician
Baby Dodds24 December 1898, American
Drummer
Helen Flanders Dunbar14 May 1902, American
Psychiatrist, Physician
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus25 December 1876, German
German chemist
J.P. Richardson1930 AD
Songwriter, Singer
Edgar Albert Guest20 August 1881, American
Adrian Adolph Greenberg03 March 1903, American
Ante Pavelić14 July 1889, Croatian, Yugoslav
Author
Jiří Weil06 August 1900
Writer, Translator, Journalist
Şükrü Kaya09 March 1883, Turkish
diplomat, politician, minister of agriculture,