List of Famous people who died in 1959

Walther Bauersfeld was a German engineer.

Gustav "Guggi" Wieser was an Austrian footballer and coach.

Friedrich Kühne, born Franz Michna, was a German film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1957.

André Roanne was a French actor. He began his career playing in short films, and acted in 91 films in total, most notably those of Fernandel. Most of his films were French; he did, however, also appear in German and Italian works, especially co-productions with French companies. He also served occasionally as an assistant director, screenwriter, technician, and film editor.

Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum was a Russian and Soviet literary scholar and historian of Russian literature. He is a representative of Russian formalism.

Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau was a French chemist. He studied at the elite École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI). Together with his doctoral advisor Henri Moissan he was working on fluorine chemistry discovering several new compounds, like bromine trifluoride, oxygen difluoride, selenium tetrafluoride and sulfur hexafluoride.