Curated playlist
1959 deaths
- Buddy HollyBuddy Holly was back on tour in 1959 because his royalties were frozen in a lawsuit. He died in a plane crash at 22.
- Billie HolidayBillie Holiday died with seventy cents in the bank. She earned $250,000 in the three years before her 1947 arrest.
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler sold his first story for $180 after losing his oil job at forty-four.
- Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright turned down a free education in Paris and Rome.
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles ran U.S. foreign policy while his brother Allen ran the CIA.
- Maxwell AndersonMaxwell Anderson was fired from Whittier College for backing a jailed student.
- Eric BlomEric Blom asked for a Bach chorale at his funeral and got Offenbach. The organist had only been told "Bach chorale."
- Edwin MuirEdwin Muir moved from an Orkney farm to Glasgow at fourteen and called it a move from Eden to Hell.
- Enrico De NicolaA journalist begged Enrico De Nicola in print to accept leading Italy. He won roughly 80% of votes in 1946.
- Bhogaraju Pattabhi SitaramayyaBhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya kept a diary during three years in an Ahmednagar fort prison.