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Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
George Marshall
American army officer and statesman (1880–1959)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Billie Holiday
American jazz singer (1915–1959)
Raymond Chandler
American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
Stepan Bandera
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
Errol Flynn
Australian actor (1909–1959)
Buddy Holly
American rock and roll singer (1936–1959)
Boris Vian
French writer and musician (1920–1959)
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)
Gérard Philipe
French actor (1922-1959)
George Grosz
German artist (1893–1959)
Adolf Windaus
German chemist (1876–1959)
Enrico de Nicola
President of Italy from 1946 to 1948
Ethel Barrymore
American actress (1879–1959)
Ante Pavelić
Croatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)
John Foster Dulles
United States Secretary of State (1888-1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer (1887–1959)
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Argentine politician (1878-1959)
Mike Hawthorn
British racing driver (1929–1959)
Camilo Cienfuegos
Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla (1932–1959)
Victor McLaglen
British-American actor (1886–1959)
Ichirō Hatoyama
Prime Minister of Japan from 1954 to 1956
Park Jung-yang
Korean Joseon dynasty and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberalism and social activists (1872-1959)
Bohuslav Martinů
Czech composer (1890–1959)
Ritchie Valens
Native-Latino American musician (1941–1959)
Edmond Debeaumarché
French Resistance member
Mario Lanza
American tenor and actor (1921-1959)
José Paciano Laurel
President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
British politician (1881-1959)
Raphael Lemkin
Polish Jewish lawyer (1900–1959)
Edmund Gwenn
British actor (1877–1959)
Arthur Cecil Pigou
British economist (1877-1959)
Alfred Schütz
American sociologist (1899–1959)
Shirō Ishii
Japanese army medical officer and microbiologist, war criminal and director of Unit 731 (a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army)
Sidney Bechet
American jazz musician
Hitoshi Ashida
Japanese politician (1887-1959)
Barthélemy Boganda
1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory (1910-1959)
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
Daniel François Malan
South African Prime Minister (1874-1959)
Wanda Landowska
Polish-French harpsichordist (1879–1959)
Lester Young
American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)
Maxwell Anderson
American playwright and writer (1888–1959)
Bernard Berenson
American art critic and collector (1865-1959)
Ernest Bloch
American composer (1880-1959)
Charles Vidor
Hungarian-American film director (1900-1959)
George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
Lou Costello
American actor and comedian (1906–1959)
Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Nepali poet (1909-1959)
William Halsey Jr.
United States admiral (1882–1959)
Enrique Guaita
Italian footballer
Alfred Kubin
Austrian illustrator, cartoonist and writer (1877-1959)
George Reeves
American actor (1914–1959)
Max Baer
American boxer (1909–1959)
William D. Leahy
United States admiral, ambassador to France, Chief of Staff (1875–1959)
Olga Knipper
Russian actress (1868–1959)
Preston Sturges
American film director and screenwriter (1898-1959)
Kay Kendall
English actress (1927-1959)
Sisavang Vong
King of Laos (1885-1959)