List of Famous people who died in 1959

Jeremy Michael Unser Jr. was an American racecar driver. He was the 1957 USAC Stock Car champion.

Othón Pompeyo Blanco Núñez de Cáceres was a Mexican Marine and the founder of the city of Chetumal who served as undersecretary of the Mexican Navy from 1941 to 1946.

Michael Georg Poeschke was a German politician (SPD) and mayor of Erlangen from 1946 to 1959.

Henri-Pierre Roché was a French author who was deeply involved with the artistic avant-garde in Paris and the Dada movement.

Henri François Jean André Marchand known as Henri Marchand — was a French actor of stage and screen.

Bjørn Thalbitzer was a Danish tennis player. He competed in the men's singles and doubles events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.

Karel Buchta was a Czechoslovak soldier and skier.