Celebrity Deaths in 1959
81 notable figures died in 1959. Listed below in order of date of death.
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Cecil B. DeMille
1881 – 1959 · Actors Jan 1 -
Claire Delmar
1901 – 1959 · Actresses Jan 1 -
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Edvard Eriksen
1876 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Carl Switzer
1927 – 1959 · Actors, Victims of crime and disaster Jan 21 -
Kathryn Adams
1893 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
1873 – 1959 · Native Americans Feb 2 -
Maxwell Anderson
1888 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Meyer “Mike” Berger
1898 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Una O’Connor
1880 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 2 -
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Vincent Astor
1891 – 1959 · Business Magnates Feb 2 -
William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan
1883 – 1959 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2 -
Buddy Holly
1936 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers, Singer Feb 3 -
Ritchie Valens
1941 – 1959 · Rock & Roll, Singer, Song Writers Feb 3 -
Nap Lajoie
1874 – 1959 · Baseball Feb 7 -
Erich Zeisl
1905 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Feb 18 -
George Archainbaud
1890 – 1959 · Director, Producer Feb 20 -
Helen Parrish
1924 – 1959 · Actresses Feb 22 -
Mack Gordon
1904 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Feb 28 -
Eric Blore
1887 – 1959 · Actors Mar 2 -
Eduardo Calvo
1896 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Lou Costello
1906 – 1959 · Actors, Comedian Mar 3 -
Raymond Chandler
1888 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Haydn Wood
1882 – 1959 · Musicians and Composers Mar 11 -
Laura Scudder
1881 – 1959 · Business Magnates Mar 13 -
Duncan Hines
1880 – 1959 · Authors and Writers, Business Magnates Mar 15 -
Olga Knipper
1868 – 1959 · Actresses Mar 22 -
Grant Withers
1904 – 1959 · Actors Mar 27 -
Johnny Thomas Allen
1905 – 1959 · Athletes, Sports Figures Mar 29 -
Cecil Cunningham
1888 – 1959 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Cecil Cunningham
1888 – 1959 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Charles Halton
1876 – 1959 · Actors Apr 4 -
George “Little George” Amick
1924 – 1959 · Sports Figures Apr 4 -
Irving Cummings
1888 – 1959 · Actors, Authors and Writers, Director, Producer Apr 4 -
James Gleason
1882 – 1959 · Actors Apr 4 -
Pierrepont Burt Noyes
1870 – 1959 · Business Magnates Apr 4 -
Alfred Steele
1900 – 1959 · Business Magnates, Relatives Of Notable Apr 19 -
Ernestine Costa
1900 – 1959 · Actors May 5 -
George Chesebro
1888 – 1959 · Actors May 5 -
Olga “Hesperia” Mambelli
1885 – 1959 · Actresses May 5 -
Paul Byron
1888 – 1959 · Actors May 5 -
James “Jimmie” Grier
1902 – 1959 · Actors Jun 6 -
Joseph M. Barbara, Sr
1905 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 6 -
George Reeves
1914 – 1959 · Actors Jun 16 -
Ethel Barrymore
1879 – 1959 · Actresses Jun 18 -
Boris Vian
1920 – 1959 · Actors, Authors and Writers, Musicians and Composers, Poet, Scientists and Inventors, Singer Jun 23 -
Charles Starkweather
1938 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 25 -
Angel Vargas
1904 – 1959 · Blues Singer Jul 7 -
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George Grosz
1893 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Manuel Altolaguirre
1905 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
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Michael Late Benedum
1869 – 1959 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Morrie Arnovich
1910 – 1959 · Sports Figures Jul 7 -
Billie Holiday
1915 – 1959 · Blues Singer, Singer Jul 17 -
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Jacob Epstein
1880 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
Edmund Gwenn
1877 – 1959 · Actors Sep 6 -
Kay Kendall
1927 – 1959 · Actresses Sep 6 -
Adrian
1903 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Dr Abraham Flexner
1866 – 1959 Sep 9 -
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Gerard Hoffnung
1925 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Paul Douglas
1907 – 1959 · Actors Sep 11 -
Harvey Glatman
1927 – 1959 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Sep 18 -
Taylor Holmes
1878 – 1959 · Actors Sep 30 -
Enrico de Nicola
1877 – 1959 · Politicians Oct 1 -
William Bishop
1918 – 1959 · Actors Oct 3 -
Mario Lanza
1921 – 1959 · Actors, Singer Oct 7 -
Errol Flynn
1909 – 1959 · Celebrities, Film Director, Musicians Oct 14 -
Stepan Bandera
1909 – 1959 · Politicians Oct 15 -
George Marshall
1880 – 1959 · Politicians Oct 16 -
Edith Clarke
1883 – 1959 · Educators, Social Reformers Oct 29 -
Arthur Q. Bryan
1899 – 1959 · Actors Nov 11 -
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Francis de Erdely
1904 – 1959 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
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John Randolph Neal
1876 – 1959 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Nov 11 -
Sylvia Lopez
1933 – 1959 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Max Baer
1909 – 1959 · Boxers Nov 21 -
Frank O’Connor
1881 – 1959 · Actors Nov 22 -
Gerard Philipe
1922 – 1959 · Actors Nov 25 -
Tony Canzoneri
1908 – 1959 · Boxers Dec 9 -
Charlie Hall
1899 – 1959 · Actors Dec 12 -
Constance G. Lupino
1892 – 1959 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Rosetta Duncan
1894 – 1959 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Russell Simpson
1880 – 1959 · Actors Dec 12 -
Alfonso Reyes
1889 – 1959 · Authors and Writers Dec 27