List of Famous people who died in 1959

Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa (1871–1959), known in Catalan as Hermenegild Anglada Camarasa, was a Catalan and Balearic Spanish painter.

Eric Walter Orbom was an American art director. He won a posthumous Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Spartacus.

Paul Nicolas was a French footballer. He was part of the French national team squad at the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Summer Olympics.

Russell McCaskill Simpson was an American character actor.

Oskar Fehr was a German ophthalmologist. Among his medical specialties were swimming pool conjunctivitis, tumours of the eye, and retinal detachment. He was an internationally renowned eye surgeon.

Adrian Adolph Greenburg, widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own.

Jerzy Leszczyński (1884–1959) was a Polish stage and film actor. Both his parents Bolesław Leszczyński and Honorata Leszczyńska were noted stage actors of the nineteenth century.

Marcel Vibert was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including Moulin Rouge and Champagne.