List of Famous people who died in 1959

Jules Kruger (1891–1959) was a French cinematographer. He is known particularly for films which he photographed in the 1920s and 1930s for Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Raymond Bernard, and Julien Duvivier. He also worked in Great Britain and in Spain.

Julien Josephson was an American motion picture screenwriter. His career spanned between 1914 and 1943. He was a native of Roseburg, Oregon.

Helena Pickard was a British stage, film and television actress.

John Lorimer Auden MC, was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War. He was a collector of natural history.

Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa was an Italian prelate and church diplomat.

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, also known as Isaac Herzog or Hertzog, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, his term lasting from 1921 to 1936. From 1936 until his death in 1959, he was Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine and of Israel after its independence in 1948.

Seán Lester was an Irish diplomat who was the last secretary-general of the League of Nations from 31 August 1940 to 18 April 1946.

Rosalind Ivan was an English stage and film character actress. Ivan appeared in fourteen American films from 1944 to 1954.