Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1959

Louis Kollros was a Swiss mathematician. From 1909 to 1948 he was a professor ordinarius of geometry at ETH Zurich.

Emil Ketterer was a German track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Later in his life, he became an ardent Nazi and SA-Obergruppenführer. As a medical doctor, he was involved in approval and promotion of euthanasia under the Nazi regime. He was father-in-law of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, SS officer and victim of the Red Army Faction.

Georg Jakob Christof Joos was a German experimental physicist. He wrote Lehrbuch der theoretischen Physik, first published in 1932 and one of the most influential theoretical physics textbooks of the 20th Century.

James Burr V Allred was the 33rd Governor of Texas. He later served, twice, as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Bertha Thalheimer was a German left-wing peace activist who became a politician (KPD).

Ernst Emil Alexander Back fue un físico alemán, nacido en Friburgo.. Es conocido por ser el descubridor del efecto Paschen-Back.

Boris Vian fue un polímata: novelista, dramaturgo, poeta, músico de jazz, ingeniero, periodista y traductor de nacionalidad francesa. Utilizó numerosos heterónimos, como Vernon Sullivan, Boriso Viana, o los anagramas Baron Visi, Brisavion, Navis Orbi o Bison Ravi, entre otros. Escribió teatro, letra y música de canciones, cuentos y novelas. Tanto sus diez novelas como sus actuaciones de jazz fueron muy admiradas.^{[cita requerida]}

Francis Pélissier, nacido el 13 de junio de 1894 en París y fallecido el 22 de febrero de 1959 en Mantes-la-Jolie, fue un ciclista francés.

Vishwambhar Dayalu Tripathi was an Indian lawyer and politician.

Sir William George Maxwell was a British colonial administrator in British Malaya and the Straits Settlements.