List of Famous people who died in 1959

William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir GCB PC was a Scottish industrialist and politician, who served as President of the Air Council in 1918.

Balthasar van der Pol was a Dutch physicist.

Benjamin Christensen was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor both in film and on the stage. As a director he is most well known for the 1922 film Häxan and as an actor, he is best known for his performance in the film Michael (1924), in which he plays Claude Zoret, the jilted lover of the film's title character.

Cheung Wing-sing was the wife of Wing Chun master Yip Man.

Magdolna Vilma Benedikta Purgly de Jószáshely was the wife of Admiral Miklós Horthy.

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs.

Hubert Marischka, brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter.

Stanko Bloudek was a Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, a sportsman and a sport inventor, designer, builder and educator.

Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics, known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons.