List of Famous people who died in 1959

Pierre Frieden was a Luxembourg politician and writer. He was the 17th Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven months, from 29 March 1958 until his death, on 23 February 1959. He also served as Interior Minister from 1951.

Arthur Cecil Alport, M.D. was a South African physician who first identified the Alport syndrome in a British family in 1927.

John Godfrey Knauff, known professionally as Jack Norworth, was an American songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.

Jakob Nielsen was a Danish mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. He was born in the village Mjels on the island of Als in North Schleswig, in modern-day Denmark. His mother died when he was 3, and in 1900 he went to live with his aunt and was enrolled in the Realgymnasium. In 1907 he was expelled for membership to an illicit student club. Nevertheless, he matriculated at the University of Kiel in 1908.

Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck was a German physicist and electrical engineer who contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art. Zenneck improved the Braun cathode ray tube by adding a second deflection structure at right angles to the first, which allowed two-dimensional viewing of a waveform. This two-dimensional display is fundamental to the oscilloscope.

Philip Geoffrey Doyne was a British fencer. He competed at the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games.

Lady Christian Norah Dawson-Damer was the sister-in-law of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

William Allen Horning was an American two-time Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death. Together they had three sons.