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

Australian author and critic Vance Palmer died 15. July 1959. (born 1885)

American singer-songwriter and actress Billie Holiday died 17. July 1959. (born 1915)

American businessman and publisher Eugene Meyer died 17. July 1959. (born 1875)

American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France William D. Leahy died 20. July 1959. (born 1875)

Polish-Irish rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog died 25. July 1959. (born 1888)

French race car driver Jean Behra died 1. August 1959. (born 1921)

Hungarian politician József Révai died 4. August 1959. (born 1898)

English-American poet Edgar Guest died 5. August 1959. (born 1881)

American director, screenwriter, and playwright Preston Sturges died 6. August 1959. (born 1898)

Irish-American baseball player Mike O`Neill died 12. August 1959. (born 1877)

Jr., American admiral William Halsey died 16. August 1959. (born 1882)

Polish-French harpsichord player Wanda Landowska died 16. August 1959. (born 1879)

American-English sculptor Jacob Epstein died 19. August 1959. (born 1880)

American singer-songwriter and guitarist Blind Willie McTell died 19. August 1959. (born 1901)

Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů died 28. August 1959. (born 1890)

English-American actor and singer Edmund Gwenn died 6. September 1959. (born 1877)

English actress and singer Kay Kendall died 6. September 1959. (born 1926)

Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis died 7. September 1959. (born 1890)

Cuban fencer Ramón Fonst died 9. September 1959. (born 1883)

American actor Paul Douglas died 11. September 1959. (born 1907)