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.
Buddy HollyAmerican
Ritchie ValensAmerican
Singer, Songwriter
Frank Lloyd WrightAmerican
Architect
Errol FlynnAustralian
Actor
Billie HolidayAmerican
Musician
Cecil B. DeMilleAmerican
Film Director, Producer
George ReevesAmerican
Actor
George MarshallAmerican
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Carl SwitzerAmerican
Actor
Raymond ChandlerAmerican
Novelist and Screenwriter
Charles StarkweatherAmerican
Serial Killer
Lou CostelloAmerican
Actor
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of HalifaxBritish
Former Viceroy of India
John Foster DullesAmerican
Former United States Secretary of State
Ethel BarrymoreAmerican
Actress
Albert NamatjiraAustralian
Artist
Heitor Villa-LobosBrazilian
Latin American Composer
Harvey GlatmanAmerican
Serial Killer
Bernard BerensonAmerican
Art Historian
Abraham FlexnerAmerican
Educator
Edith ClarkeAmerican
Electrical Engineer
Charles Thomson Rees WilsonBritish
Physicist
Carlos Saavedra LamasArgentinian
First Latin American Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
Owen Willans RichardsonBritish
Physicist
Lizzy AnsinghDutch
Painter
The Big BopperAmerican
Singer, Musician, Disc jockey, Songwriter
Jack FrostAmerican
Composer
Stepan BanderaUkrainian
Political leader
Mario LanzaAmerican
Actor, singer
Victor McLaglenBritish, American
Actor, Boxer
Lester YoungAmerican
Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Composer, Jazz musician,
Mike HawthornBritish
Formula One driver
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Sidney BechetAmerican
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
William D. LeahyAmerican
Officer, Diplomat
Camilo CienfuegosCuban
Armed force officer
George GroszGerman, American
Painter, Draughtsperson, Photographer, University
Stanley SpencerBritish
Painter
Max GersonGerman, American
Physician
Raphael LemkinPolish
Lawyer, Peace researcher
Jacob EpsteinAmerican
Sculptor, Painter
Preston SturgesAmerican
American playwright
George AntheilAmerican
Composer
Rudolf CaracciolaSwiss, German
Racecar driver, Motorcycle racer
Boris VianFrench
Polymath, Singer, Poet, Trumpeter, Lyricist,
Arthur Cecil PigouBritish
Economist, Paramedic, University teacher
Maurice DuplessisCanadian
Politician, Lawyer
S. W. R. D. BandaranaikeSri Lankan
Diplomat, Politician, Lawyer
Bohuslav MartinůSwiss
Composer
Andrew LoomisAmerican
illustrator, painter
José VasconcelosMexican
Writer, Philosopher, Politician, University
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron IronsideBritish
Politician, Diarist, Writer, Military personnel
William Halsey, Jr.American
Daniel François MalanSouth African
Minister, Politician
Alfred MunningsBritish
painter
Edward C. TolmanAmerican
Psychologist
Enrico De NicolaItalian
Journalist
Leslie MorsheadAustralian
Military personnel
Alfred KubinAustrian
Writer, Painter, Etcher
Ki Hajar DewantaraIndonesian
Politician, Philosopher
Gérard PhilipeFrench
Actor
William Guy CarrCanadian
Writer, Submariner
Hitoshi AshidaJapanese
Prime Minister, politician
Baby DoddsAmerican
Drummer
Max BaerAmerican
actor, boxer
Şükrü KayaTurkish
diplomat, politician, minister of agriculture,
Adolf Otto Reinhold WindausGerman
German chemist
Helen Flanders DunbarAmerican
Psychiatrist, Physician
J.P. RichardsonSongwriter, Singer
Edgar Albert GuestAmerican
Adrian Adolph GreenbergAmerican
Ante PavelićCroatian, Yugoslav
Author
Jiří WeilWriter, Translator, Journalist