List of Famous people who died at 59
Aleksandr Vilkov
Derek Ball
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.
Peter Asmussen
Gabriel Andrew Dirac
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 Jorn
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.
Maria Julieta Drummond de Andrade
Élisabeth Gille
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
Brian Gibson was an English film director.