Curated category
1959 deaths
- Buddy HollyBuddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a cornfield five miles northwest of Clear Lake, Iowa, on the 3rd of February 1959.
- Billie HolidayBillie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan on the 7th of April, 1915, died with seventy cents in the bank. She had made a quarter of a million dollars in the three…
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959, having spent much of the intervening years doing almost everything except what he…
- Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. He was born on the 8th of June 1867, yet he insisted throughout…
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles died on the 24th of May, 1959, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, having resigned as Secretary of State just weeks earlier as bone…
- Maxwell AndersonMaxwell Anderson died on the 28th of February 1959, two days after a stroke, and was cremated. Half his ashes were scattered by the sea near his home in…
- Eric BlomEric Walter Blom was born in Bern, Switzerland on the 20th of August 1888, and he died on the 11th of April 1959, but in between he shaped how the…
- Edwin MuirEdwin Muir was born on the 15th of May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, a parish in Orkney, and in his own words he arrived in Glasgow in 1901 feeling…
- Enrico De NicolaEnrico De Nicola was so reluctant to lead his country that a journalist had to beg him in print to make up his mind. When the newly elected Constituent…
- Bhogaraju Pattabhi SitaramayyaOn the 24th of November 1880, Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was born in Gundugolanu village. He grew up in Krishna district within what is now Andhra…