List of Famous people who died at 59

Vincenzo Savio was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of Belluno-Feltre.

Alexander Alexandrovich Ivanov was a Soviet and Russian teacher, poet-parodist, permanent host of the cult TV show Around Laughter in the Soviet Union (1978-1991).

Morag Hood was a British actress who featured in numerous television programmes, stage productions, and audio presentations in the UK from the 1960s up to the late 1990s.

Maria Adelaide Aglietta was an Italian politician, deputy for the Radical Party between 1979 and 1985 and 1987 to 1989. She was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999. Between 1 November 1990 and 18 July 1994 she was head of the Greens parliamentary group in the European Parliament.

Yuki Shimoda was an American actor best known for his starring role as Ko Wakatsuki in the NBC movie of the week Farewell to Manzanar in 1976. He also co-starred in the 1960s television series Johnny Midnight, with Edmond O'Brien. He was a star of movies, early television, and the stage. His Broadway stage credits include Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell, and Pacific Overtures, a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Harold Prince.

William Lava was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as that for the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 to 1969, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn, making him the last composer and arranger in the classic era of Warner Bros. Cartoons.