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Famous 1959 deaths.

Cecil B. DeMille (American movie director & producer), 77

Dr. Frances McGill (Canadian forensic pathologist), 76

Carl Switzer (American child actor & singer), 31

Capt. MacGillivray Milne (American navy captain & governor of American Samoa), 76

Walter Beall (American baseball player), 59

Frank Shannon (Irish-American actor & writer), 84

Charles Holley aka Charles “Buddy” Holly (American singer & songwriter)(pictured), 22

J.P. Richardson; Jr. aka The Big Bopper (American guitarist & songwriter), 28

Ritchie Valenzuela aka Ritchie Valens (American guitarist & singer), 17

Vincent Astor (American businessman), 67

Nap Lajoie (American baseball player), 84

Helen Parrish (American actress), 35

Eric Blore (British actor & writer), 71

Lou Cristillo aka Lou Costello (American comedian & actor), 52

Fred Stone (American actor), 85

Edwin Balmer (American writer), 75

The Blessed Fr. Dominik Trčka (Czech Catholic priest), 72

Granville “Grant” Withers (American actor), 54

Rear Adm. Reginald R. Belknap (American admiral), 87

The Blessed Fr. Nicholas Charnetsky (Ukrainian Catholic priest), 75

Archbishop Marios Makrionitis (Greek Catholic archbishop), 45

Frank Wright (American architect), 91

James Gleason (American actor & playwright), 76

The Blessed María Guggiari Echeverría (Paraguayan professed religious), 34

Troy Sanders (American composer), 57

Vice Adm. William S. Pye (American admiral), 78

Cardinal Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (French  Catholic cardinal), 87

Ed Walsh (American baseball player), 78

George Reeves (American actor), 45

Grock (Swiss-Italian clown), 79

Friar Dr. Agostino Gemelli (Italian friar and doctor), 81

Billie Holiday (American singer)(pictured), 44

Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy (American admiral), 84

Charles “Heinie” Conklin (American actor & comedian), 73

Mother St. María Natividad Venegas De La Torre (Mexican Catholic nun & saint), 90

The Blessed Bishop Ioan Bălan (Romanian Catholic bishop), 79

Fr. Luigi Sturzo (Italian Catholic priest), 87

Fleet Adm. William Halsey; Jr. (American admiral), 76

Archbishop Alexander Evreinov (Russian Catholic archbishop), 82

Edmund Gwenn (British actor), 81

Wayne Morris (American actor), 45

Taylor Holmes (American actor), 81

De Benneville “Bert” Bell (American NFL commissioner), 64

Gen. George C. Marshall; Jr. (American general & secretary of defense)(pictured), 78

Cardinal Federico Tedeschini (Italian Catholic cardinal), 86

Victor McLaglen (British-American boxer and actor), 72

Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau (Canadian Catholic archbishop), 66

Archbishop Juozapas Skvireckas (Soviet-Austrian Catholic archbishop), 86

Charlie Hall (British-American actor), 60

Jim Bottomley (American baseball player), 59

Russell Simpson (American actor), 79