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

Russian-Israeli agronomist Selig Suskin died 26. February 1959. (born 1873)

American journalist, author and playwright Maxwell Anderson died 28. February 1959. (born 1888)

English actor Eric Blore died 2. March 1959. (born 1887)

American actor and comedian Lou Costello died 3. March 1959. (born 1906)

American runner Maxie Long died 4. March 1959. (born 1878)

American author Lester Dent died 11. March 1959. (born 1904)

American saxophonist Lester Young died 15. March 1959. (born 1909)

American author and screenwriter Raymond Chandler died 26. March 1959. (born 1888)

Central African politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central Africa Barthélemy Boganda died 29. March 1959. (born 1910)

Russian mystic and poet Daniil Andreyev died 30. March 1959. (born 1906)

Croatian politician Riccardo Zanella died 30. March 1959. (born 1875)

Israeli scholar Leo Aryeh Mayer died 6. April 1959. (born 1895)

American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright died 9. April 1959. (born 1867)

Dutch conductor Eduard van Beinum died 13. April 1959. (born 1901)

American actor Charles Halton died 16. April 1959. (born 1876)

American actor, director, and producer Irving Cummings died 18. April 1959. (born 1888)

English footballer and manager Percy Smith died 18. April 1959. (born 1880)

Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate Carlos Saavedra Lamas died 5. May 1959. (born 1878)

Estonian-American economist Ragnar Nurkse died 6. May 1959. (born 1907)

Canadian soccer player John Fraser died 8. May 1959. (born 1881)