WHO ALL DIED IN 1959.
See all who died in 1959.

Indian activist and educator Bhaurao Patil died 9. May 1959. (born 1887)

American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer Sidney Bechet died 14. May 1959. (born 1897)

Irish footballer and manager Elisha Scott died 16. May 1959. (born 1894)

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles died 24. May 1959. (born 1888)

American gymnast Philip Kassel died 26. May 1959. (born 1876)

English author Sax Rohmer died 1. June 1959. (born 1883)

German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus died 9. June 1959. (born 1876)

Hungarian politician Zoltán Meskó died 10. June 1959. (born 1883)

American actor and director George Reeves died 16. June 1959. (born 1914)

American actress Ethel Barrymore died 18. June 1959. (born 1879)

German politician Hermann Brill died 22. June 1959. (born 1895)

French author, poet, and playwright Boris Vian died 23. June 1959. (born 1920)

American spree killer Charles Starkweather died 25. June 1959. (born 1938)

Dutch rower Geert Lotsij died 29. June 1959. (born 1878)

Mexican politician José Vasconcelos died 30. June 1959. (born 1882)

German painter George Grosz died 6. July 1959. (born 1893)

Slovene journalist and painter Ferenc Talányi died 9. July 1959. (born 1883)

English cricketer, coach, and umpire Charlie Parker died 11. July 1959. (born 1882)

Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch died 15. July 1959. (born 1880)