List of Famous people who died at 59

Derek Ball was a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He worked on 40 films between 1968 and 1987.

Gabriel Andrew Dirac was a Hungarian/British mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin 1964-1966. In 1952, he gave a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. The previous year, he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least two-point lines, where is the largest integer not exceeding . This conjecture was proven true when n is sufficiently large by Green and Tao in 2012.

Asger Oluf Jorn was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest corner of Jutland, Denmark, and baptized Asger Oluf Jørgensen.

Élisabeth Gille was a French translator and writer. She is the younger daughter of the French-Russian-Jewish writer Irène Némirovsky and Michel Epstein. She is the author of Le Mirador, a biography of her mother.

Brian Gibson was an English film director.