Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1959

Olga Leonárdovna Knipper-Chéjova fue una actriz rusa. Tras casarse con Antón Chéjov en 1901, añadió el apellido del escritor al suyo paterno pasando a llamarse Olga Knipper-Chéjova.

Albert Cohn fue un juez integrante de la Suprema Corte del Estado de Nueva York y padre de Roy Cohn. Fue una influyente figura en la política del Partido Demócrata.

Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, born in Kumbhoj, Kolhapur, was a social activist and educator in Maharashtra, India. A strong advocate of mass education, he founded the Rayat Education Society. Bhaurao played an important role in educating backward castes and low income people by coining the philosophy earn and learn. He was a prominent member of Satyashodhak Samaj, founded by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. The people of Maharashtra honoured him with the sobriquet Karmaveer and the Government of India awarded him with Padma Bhushan in 1959 in India.

Fred Wood Jackman Sr., was an American cinematographer and film director of the silent era. He worked on 58 films as a cinematographer between 1916 and 1925. He also directed eleven films between 1919 and 1927, including two film serials for Hal Roach Studios.

Anders Wiman was a Swedish mathematician.

Sir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS was a Scottish chemist, who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use.

Signe Heide Steen was a Norwegian actress.

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard fue un inglés explorador de la Antártida y superviviente de la expedición Terra Nova. Es conocido por su libro histórico El peor viaje del mundo en el que relata las peripecias y condiciones extremas que debió enfrentar durante la expedición.

Philip Asheton Tonge was an English actor. Born into a theatrical family, he was a child actor, making his stage debut at the age of five. Among the stars with whom he performed while he was a boy were Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson. His colleagues as child actors included Hermione Gingold, Mary Glynne, Esmé Wynne-Tyson and Noël Coward.

Sir Alan Hilary Moore, 2nd Baronet (1882–1959) served in the RNVR for 4 years as a midshipman and a sub-lieutenant, then as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy during the First World War. From his observations of sailing vessels encountered between Orkney and Aden during this time he wrote Last Days of Mast & Sail which describes the many types of sailing vessels both large and small which were soon to be largely displaced by motorised vessels. This includes some 200 illustrations of sailing ships and their rigging by R. Morton Nance.