Famous Deaths in November 1959

Nov 6 Jose P. Laurel, Philippine president, dies of heart attack at 68

Nov 7 Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72

Nov 8 Frank Sherman Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay, dies at 69
Nov 9 Frederick Preston Search, composer, dies at 70
Nov 10 Lupino Lane, English actor (Deputy Drummer), dies at 67
Nov 14 Thomas W Ross, American actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm), dies at 84
Nov 15 Alex Kennedy, cricketer (31 wkts in 5 Tests for England 1922-23), dies
Nov 17 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer/pianist/conductor, dies at 72
Nov 18 Arthur Q Bryan, American voice actor, comedian and radio personality (Beulah, The Devil Bat), dies from a heart attack at 60
Nov 18 Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician, dies at 65
Nov 19 Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism), dies
Nov 19 Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Bohemian Amsterdam), dies at 83
Nov 19 Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal, dies at 67
Nov 20 Alfonso López Pumarejo, 16th President of Colombia (Liberal: 1934-38 and 1942-46) and statesman (President of UN security council 1948), dies at 73
Nov 21 Max Baer, American heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35), dies at 50

Nov 22 Molla Mallory, eight-time U.S. Open tennis champion, dies at 75

Nov 24 Lyman Bryson, educator (UN Casebook), dies at 71
Nov 24 Yuri Nikolayevich Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60
Nov 24 Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer, dies at 76
Nov 25 Jean Grémillon, French film director, dies at 58
Nov 26 Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (In a Monastery Garden), dies at 84
Nov 27 Gérard Philipe, French actor (Caligula, Devil in the Flesh), dies of cancer at 36
Nov 28 Lester Vail, American actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage), dies at 60
Nov 29 Fritz Brun, Swiss composer and conductor, dies at 81
Nov 29 Hans Henny Jahnn, writer, dies at 64