List of Famous people who died at 59

Nadia Arslan, also romanised as Nadia Arsalan, was a Lebanese actress who came to prominence in Egyptian films of the 1970s.

Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, was the Libyan Minister of Defence during the period of Muammar Gaddafi. His official position was Secretary of the Libyan General Interim Committee for Defence.

Akhilesh Kumar Singh was an Indian politician.

Bidia Dandaron was a major Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR. He also worked in academic Tibetology, contributed to the Tibetan-Russian Dictionary (1959) and made several translations from Tibetan into Russian. He is mostly remembered as a Buddhist teacher whose students in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania continued both religious and scholarly work, and as an early Buddhist author who wrote on European philosophy, history, and science within a Buddhist framework. Among his students were Alexander Piatigorsky and Linnart Mäll.

Isamu Kenmochi was a Japanese modernist designer significant in the development of Japanese industrial design after World War II.