Famous People Who Died In 1959

• Lou Costello

  Actor

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architect

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• George Marshall

  U.S. Army

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Carlos Saavedra Lamas

  Academic

  Argentina

• Ernest Bloch

  Composer

  Switzerland

• Bernard Berenson

  Historian

  Lithuania

• Lizzy Ansingh

  Painter

  Utrecht, Netherlands

• Albert Namatjira

  Artist

  Division of Lingiari, Australia

• Ritchie Valens

  Singer

  California, United States of America

• Buddy Holly

  Musician

  Texas, United States of America

• Cecil Blount DeMille

  Director

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Abraham Flexner

  Educator

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Billie Holiday

  Singer

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Owen Willans Richardson

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Ethel Barrymore

  Actress

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Edith Clarke

  Electrical Engineer

  Maryland, United States of America

• Raymond Chandler

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Charles Starkweather

  Criminal

  Nebraska, United States of America

• Preston Sturges

  Director

  Illinois, United States of America

• Heitor Villa-lobos

  Musician

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Edmund Gwenn

  Film Actor

  England, United Kingdom

• Cecil B. DeMille

  Actor

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Baby Dodds

  Drummer

  New Orleans, United States of America

• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

  Physicist

  Midlothian, United Kingdom

• Lester Young

  Saxophonist

  Mississippi, united states of America

• George Reeves

  Actor

  Iowa, united states of America

• Errol Flynn

  Actor

  Tasmania, Australia

• J.P. Richardson

  Songwriter

  Texas, United States of America

• Daniel F. Malan

  Prime Minister

  Western Cape, South Africa