page_title: 1959
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1959 / Deaths / December
context_page_description: 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1959th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 959th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1950s decade.
context_section_description: December 2 – Giuseppe Zucca, Italian screenwriter (b. 1887)
  December 3 – Juozapas Skvireckas, Soviet Orthodox archbishop and reverend (b. 1873)
  December 4 – Hubert Marischka, Austrian film director (b. 1882)
  December 7
  Charlie Hall, English actor (b. 1899)
  Prince Kuni Asaakira (b. 1901)
  December 9 – Donald MacDonald, American actor (b. 1898)
  December 11 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900)
  December 12
  Marcella Craft, American soprano (b. 1874)
  Russell Simpson, American actor (b. 1880)
  December 14
  Edna Wallace Hopper, American stage actress (b. 1872)
  Stanley Spencer, British painter (b. 1891)
  December 19 – Andrés Martínez Trueba, 31st President of Uruguay (b. 1884)
  December 22 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born dancer and actress (b. 1901)
  December 23 – E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, British politician (b. 1881)
  December 24 – Edmund Goulding, American director (b. 1891)
  December 28 – Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader and WWII war criminal (b. 1889)
  December 29 – Juan José Morosoli, Uruguayan writer (b. 1899)
caption: Prince Kuni Asaakira
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