List of Famous people who died at 59

Alexander Konstantinovich Kuznetsov was a Russian American actor.

David John Semenko was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach, scout and colour commentator. During his National Hockey League (NHL) career, Semenko played for the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers and Toronto Maple Leafs as an enforcer. During his tenure with Edmonton, he notably protected Wayne Gretzky as an "on-ice bodyguard" during Gretzky's early career. Semenko won two Stanley Cups with the Oilers in 1984 and 1985. He was also the last player to score a goal in the World Hockey Association (WHA) before it folded and merged with the NHL.

Mareike Ann Carrière was a German actress, spokesperson and translator. She was perhaps best known for her television show appearances. She was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany.

Oya Aydoğan was a Turkish actress, model, and television presenter. She was the winner of the Ses Magazine Movie Actress Contest in 1976.

William Wright was an American jump blues singer. He is considered one of Little Richard's greatest influences in his formative years.

Suzanne Eaton was an American scientist and professor of molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany.

William Ray Irick was an American convicted murderer from Tennessee who was sentenced to death and executed for the 1985 murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer in Knoxville. Irick, then aged 26, had been living with Dyer's family for over a year, and was babysitting five of the family's children on the night of the girl's murder.

Ismail Yassine (also credited as Ismail Yasseen; Arabic: إسماعيل ياسين‎ IPA: [esmæˈʕiːl jæˈsiːn]

Oleksandr Rojtburd was a Ukrainian artist of the Ukrainian New Wave and co-founder of the theory of the Ukrainian Transavantgard. He worked as a painter and installation artist, among other things with video and photo projects. He belongs to the first wave of post-independence, post-Soviet, and post-traditional Ukrainian artists.

Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza was a Russian journalist and TV host.