List of Famous people who died in 1959

Crisanto Luque Sánchez was a Colombian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Bogotá from 1950 to 1959, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Lipót Fejér was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Weisz Leopold, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900.

Salman Schocken or Shlomo Zalman Schocken was a German Jewish publisher, and co-founder of the large Kaufhaus Schocken chain of department stores in Germany. Stripped of his citizenship and forced to sell his company by the German government, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, where he purchased the newspaper Haaretz. In 1940, Schocken moved to the United States, where he founded Schocken Books.

Carl Johan Alexis Enckell was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.

Dr. Hermann Louis Brill was a German doctor of law and a politician (SPD).

Peter Suhrkamp was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.

Yosef Sprinzak was a leading Zionist activist in the first half of the 20th century, an Israeli politician, and the first Speaker of the Knesset, a role he held from 1949 until his death in 1959.

Gero Merhart von Bernegg was a German archaeologist. Although he worked at the same time when German nationalism and Nazi archaeology was dominant in Germany, he was not a "Nazi archaeologist". He came into conflict with Hans Reinerth.

Renato Caccioppoli was an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical analysis, including the theory of functions of several complex variables, functional analysis, measure theory.