People who died in 1959
Bohuslav Martinů
1890
– 1959
· Age 68
Deceased
Ritchie Valens
1941
– 1959
· Age 17
Deceased
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Edmond Debeaumarché
1906
– 1959
· Age 52
Deceased
Mario Lanza
1921
– 1959
· Age 38
Deceased
José Paciano Laurel
1891
– 1959
· Age 68
Deceased
Raphael Lemkin
1900
– 1959
· Age 59
Deceased
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
1881
– 1959
· Age 78
Deceased
Edmund Gwenn
1877
– 1959
· Age 81
Deceased
Arthur Cecil Pigou
1877
– 1959
· Age 81
Deceased
Alfred Schütz
1899
– 1959
· Age 60
Deceased
Hitoshi Ashida
1887
– 1959
· Age 71
Deceased
Sidney Bechet
1897
– 1959
· Age 62
Deceased
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
1899
– 1959
· Age 60
Deceased
Shirō Ishii
1892
– 1959
· Age 67
Deceased
Daniel François Malan
1874
– 1959
· Age 84
Deceased
Wanda Landowska
1879
– 1959
· Age 80
Deceased
Lester Young
1909
– 1959
· Age 49
Deceased
Barthélemy Boganda
1910
– 1959
· Age 48
Deceased
Bernard Berenson
1865
– 1959
· Age 94
Deceased
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Charles Vidor
1900
– 1959
· Age 58
Deceased
Maxwell Anderson
1888
– 1959
· Age 70
Deceased
Ernest Bloch
1880
– 1959
· Age 78
Deceased
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
1909
– 1959
· Age 49
Deceased
Enrique Guaita
1910
– 1959
· Age 48
Deceased
Lou Costello
1906
– 1959
· Age 52
Deceased