1959
- October 6 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
- October 7 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- October 16 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)
- October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- October 19 - Ebrahim Hakimi, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1871)
- October 22 - Joseph Cahill, Australian politician (b. 1891)
- October 28 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (b. 1932)
- November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- November 21 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1909)
- December 4 - Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director (b. 1882)
- December 22 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
- Chemistry - Jaroslav Heyrovský
- Physiology or Medicine - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
- Literature - Salvatore Quasimodo
- Peace - Philip John Noel-Baker
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Academy Awards
- Best Picture: Gigi
- Best Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gigi
- Best Actor: David Niven, Separate Tables
- Best Supporting Actor: Burl Ives, The Big Country
- Best Actress: Susan Hayward, I Want To Live!
- Best Supporting Actress: Wendy Hiller, Separate Tables
- Best Original Story and Screenplay: Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith, The Defiant Ones
- Best Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium: Alan Jay Lerner, Gigi
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