Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1959

William Axt was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores.

Paul Rosenberg, fue un marchante de arte francés, conocido por representar a Pablo Picasso, Braque y Henri Matisse.

Augustine Courtauld, often called August Courtauld, was a yachtsman and British Arctic explorer, best known for serving as the solo meteorologist of a winter observation post, Icecap Station, located in the interior of Greenland in 1930–1931.

David van Dantzig was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid. He was a member of the Significs Group.

Ramón Fonst Segundo fue un deportista cubano que compitió en esgrima, especialista en las modalidades de espada y florete.

Jane Winton fue una actriz, bailarina, soprano, escritora y pintora estadounidense.

Gilda Gray fue una actriz y bailarina de nacionalidad polaca, conocida como The Shimmy Queen por popularizar un baile llamado "shimmy", el cual se puso de moda en producciones teatrales y cinematográficas de los años 1920.

Fernand Bouisson fue un político francés de la Tercera república, que sirvió como presidente de la Asamblea Nacional de Francia desde 1927 hasta 1936 y durante un corto tiempo como primer ministro en 1935.

Alabert Fogarasi, also known as Béla Fogarasi was a Hungarian philosopher and politician.

Florence Laura Goodenough was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studied child intelligence and various problems in the field of child development. She was president of the Society for Research in Child Development from 1946-1947. She is best known for published book The Measurement of Intelligence, where she introduced the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test to assess intelligence in young children through nonverbal measurement. She is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale. In 1931 she published two notable books titled Experimental Child Study and Anger in Young Children which analyzed the methods used in evaluating children. She wrote the Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, becoming the first known psychologist to critique ratio I.Q.