People who died in the 1950s

727 notable people documented at Resting Places cemeteries died in the 1950s, according to Wikidata's death-date records. Listed by death year.

• Adolf Meyer (1866–1950), university teacher, psychiatrist · buried at Druid Ridge Cemetery
• Agnes Smedley (1892–1950), women's rights activist, journalist, writer · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Al Jolson (1886–1950), vaudeville performer, jazz musician, film actor · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Alan Hale (1892–1950), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Alexander Tairov (1885–1950), director, theatre director, theatre manager · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexandros Diomidis (1875–1950), journalist, banker, historian · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950), feminist, women's rights activist, journalist · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Antonina Nezhdanova (1873–1950), music educator, opera singer, university teacher · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Antonina Zubkova (1920–1950), aircraft pilot · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Arturo Alessandri (1868–1950), librarian, politician, lawyer · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Betty Francisco (1900–1950), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950), opinion journalist, university teacher, journalist · buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)
• Charles Drew (1904–1950), university teacher, surgeon, physician · buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)
• Christy Cabanne (1888–1950), film director, director, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edward Arthur Milne (1896–1950), astrophysicist, university teacher, docent · buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
• Elsie de Wolfe (1865–1950), interior architect, theatre designer, designer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Fevzi Çakmak (1876–1950), politician, military personnel · buried at Turkish State Cemetery
• General Soedirman (1916–1950), military personnel · buried at Kusumanegara Heroes' Cemetery
• George Minot (1885–1950), internist, physician · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Giuseppe De Luca (1876–1950), music educator, opera singer, musician · buried at Campo Verano
• Gustaf John Ramstedt (1873–1950), linguist, explorer, orientalist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Hanka Ordonówna (1902–1950), dancer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), autobiographer, essayist, draftsperson · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Heinrich Tessenow (1876–1950), university teacher, urban planner, architect · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Helen Holmes (1892–1950), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950), ornithologist, zoologist · buried at Graceland Cemetery
• Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950), aircraft pilot, military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Hobart Cavanaugh (1886–1950), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950), opinion journalist, writer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• John Gould Fletcher (1886–1950), autobiographer, poet, writer · buried at Mount Holly Cemetery
• John M. Stahl (1886–1950), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Joseph Wright (1864–1950), rowing coach, rower, boxer · buried at St. James Cemetery (Toronto)
• Karl Guthe Jansky (1905–1950), astrophysicist, inventor, physicist · buried at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)
• Karl Renner (1870–1950), social democrat, member of parliament, author · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Karl Seitz (1869–1950), pedagogue, politician, writer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Karl Straube (1873–1950), musicologist, music teacher, university teacher · buried at Südfriedhof (Leipzig)
• Kazys Grinius (1866–1950), physician, teacher, humanist · buried at Lithuanian National Cemetery
• Kim Kyu-sik (1881–1950), diplomat, poet, politician · buried at Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery
• Kuniaki Koiso (1880–1950), politician, military personnel · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Mammad Said Ordubadi (1872–1950), journalist, playwright, poet · buried at Alley of Honor
• Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), religious studies scholar, philosopher, anthropologist · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Marguerite De La Motte (1902–1950), film actor, actor · buried at Olivet Gardens of Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• Maurice Costello (1877–1950), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Max Davidson (1875–1950), film actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Max Reyter (1886–1950), military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950), scientific collector, botanist, botanical collector · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Mikhail Tskhakaya (1865–1950), revolutionary, politician · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Milada Horáková (1901–1950), jurist, politician · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Nikolai Luzin (1883–1950), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881–1950), composer, music educator, musicologist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Voznesensky (1903–1950), economist, politician · buried at Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
• Orhan Veli Kanık (1914–1950), poet, writer · buried at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
• Peter Fraser (1884–1950), head of government, diplomat, politician · buried at Karori Cemetery
• R. A. Stewart Macalister (1870–1950), prehistorian, anthropologist, archaeologist · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• Ransom E. Olds (1864–1950), racing automobile driver, car designer, entrepreneur · buried at Mount Hope Cemetery (Lansing, Michigan)
• Recep Peker (1889–1950), politician, military personnel · buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
• Ren Bishi (1904–1950), politician · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Rex Ingram (1892–1950), theatre designer, film actor, film editor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Roza Tamarkina (1920–1950), music educator, pianist, composer · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Sara Allgood (1880–1950), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Sergei Khudyakov (1901–1950), military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Shigenori Tōgō (1882–1950), foreign minister, diplomat, politician · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Sid Grauman (1879–1950), theatre entrepreneur, film actor, businessperson · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Théodore Steeg (1868–1950), politician, lawyer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Vasily Gordov (1896–1950), politician, military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950), diarist, draftsperson, dancer · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Walter Damrosch (1862–1950), music educator, conductor, composer · buried at Ledgelawn Cemetery
• Walton H. Walker (1889–1950), soldier, military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), senior civil servant, scientific collector, diarist · buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
• Willis Carrier (1876–1950), technician, inventor, engineer · buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, New York)
• Yvan Goll (1891–1950), librettist, editor, translator · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Abraham Cahan (1860–1951), autobiographer, novelist, editor · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Aggelos Sikelianos (1884–1951), dramaturge, playwright, poet · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Alain (1868–1951), philosopher, journalist, teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Alfred A. Cohn (1880–1951), television editor, newspaper editor, film editor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879–1951), music educator, conductor, composer · buried at Forest Cemetery, Riga
• Ali Sami Yen (1886–1951), association football player, association football coach · buried at Feriköy Cemetery
• Andrei Platonov (1899–1951), novelist, prose writer, science fiction writer · buried at Moscow Armenian Cemetery
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), classical composer, music theorist, musicologist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Billie Bennett (1874–1951), film actor, actor · buried at Oak Hill Cemetery (Evansville, Indiana)
• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951), general field marshal, explorer, soldier · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951), journalist, songwriter, banker · buried at Rosehill Cemetery
• Constant Lambert (1905–1951), musicologist, jazz musician, music director · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Edwin L. Marin (1899–1951), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Empress Teimei (1884–1951), consort, aristocrat, sponsor · buried at Musashi Imperial Graveyard
• Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1868–1951), university teacher, author, engineer · buried at Wolvercote Cemetery
• Fanny Brice (1891–1951), film actor, model, radio personality · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Francisco Boix (1920–1951), journalist, photographer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Frank Weston Benson (1862–1951), graphic artist, painter · buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery
• Fréhel (1891–1951), recording artist, film actor, singer · buried at Cimetière parisien de Pantin
• Géza Maróczy (1870–1951), non-fiction writer, chess player, hydraulic engineer · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Harry Bluett Liversedge (1894–1951), athletics competitor, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Harry Kerr (1879–1951), athletics competitor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951), journalist, playwright, writer · buried at Westpark Cemetery
• Ivan Grishin (1901–1951), military officer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• J. C. Leyendecker (1874–1951), designer, painter, illustrator · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Jack Holt (1888–1951), film actor, actor · buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery
• Janusz Jędrzejewicz (1885–1951), military officer, politician · buried at Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery
• Jimmy Yancey (1894–1951), musician, pianist, composer · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Jules Berry (1883–1951), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Karel Teige (1900–1951), linguist, architectural theoretician, art theorist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Kim Chaek (1903–1951), politician · buried at Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
• Leon Errol (1881–1951), comedian, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Lloyd C. Douglas (1877–1951), novelist, priest, writer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Louis Jouvet (1887–1951), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), logician, epistemologist, philosopher of language · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• Mady Christians (1896–1951), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Maila Talvio (1871–1951), translator, writer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Maria Montez (1912–1951), film actor, model, poet · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Marion Aye (1903–1951), film actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), women's rights activist, political activist, journalist · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951), diplomat, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886–1951), essayist, literary scholar, journalist · buried at Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery
• Paula von Preradović (1887–1951), novelist, poet, composer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Pauline Pfeiffer (1895–1951), novelist, journalist · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Pedro Salinas (1891–1951), linguist, essayist, university teacher · buried at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
• Peter Cheyney (1896–1951), crime fiction writer, novelist, journalist · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951), prose writer, journalist, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Roland Jacobi (1893–1951), table tennis player, tennis player, official · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Sadegh Hedayat (1902–1951), short story writer, prose writer, novelist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Selim Palmgren (1878–1951), pianist, conductor, composer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Serge Voronoff (1866–1951), immunologist, gynecologist, physiologist · buried at Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice
• Sergey Ognev (1886–1951), university teacher, zoologist · buried at Pyatnitskoye Cemetery
• Sergey Vavilov (1891–1951), university teacher, public figure, physicist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Sigmund Romberg (1887–1951), film score composer, pianist, composer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), opinion journalist, poet, writer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Takashi Nagai (1908–1951), diarist, radiologist, physician · buried at Sakamoto International Cemetery
• Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889–1951), politician, military personnel, lawyer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900–1951), writer, screenwriter, opinion journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Warner Baxter (1889–1951), film actor, stage actor, inventor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865–1951), politician, military personnel · buried at Twickenham Cemetery
• William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), art collector, publisher, socialite · buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
• Alberto Savinio (1891–1952), journalist, painter, musician · buried at Campo Verano
• Alberto Williams (1862–1952), music educator, pianist, conductor · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952), feminist, women's rights activist, political theorist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alice Austen (1866–1952), artist, photographer · buried at Moravian Cemetery
• Arturo Rawson (1885–1952), soldier, diplomat, politician · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• August Alle (1890–1952), journalist, poet, writer · buried at Metsakalmistu
• Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), philosopher, literary critic, art historian · buried at Cemetery of Poggioreale
• Bernard Lyot (1897–1952), astronomer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Billy Hughes (1862–1952), social democrat, head of government, diplomat · buried at Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium
• Charles Lightoller (1874–1952), adventurer, sailor · buried at Mortlake Crematorium
• Curly Howard (1903–1952), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952), explorer, anthropologist, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Eliezer Kaplan (1891–1952), diplomat, politician · buried at Mount Herzl
• Elmo Lincoln (1889–1952), film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Emilie Louise Flöge (1874–1952), art collector, model, fashion designer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Eva Perón (1919–1952), suffragist, women's rights activist, trade unionist · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952), children's writer, journalist, playwright · buried at Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery
• Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), architectural photographer, journalist, photojournalist · buried at Rock Creek Cemetery
• Frances Theodora Dana (1861–1952), botanist, writer, naturalist · buried at Albany Rural Cemetery
• George Santayana (1863–1952), essayist, novelist, philosopher · buried at Campo Verano
• Georgy Shpagin (1897–1952), design engineer, engineer, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Géza Kiss (1882–1952), water polo player, swimmer, journalist · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Gregory La Cava (1892–1952), director, film director, comics artist · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952), statistician, university teacher, civil servant · buried at Campo Verano
• Harold Innis (1894–1952), philosopher, sociologist, university teacher · buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
• Hattie McDaniel (1893–1952), fundraiser, philanthropist, film actor · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• Henri Claisse (1895–1952), French resistance fighter, art collector, librettist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Henry Drysdale Dakin (1880–1952), chemist, physician · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Hugh Herbert (1884–1952), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• J. Farrell MacDonald (1875–1952), film actor, television actor, film director · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• J. P. McGowan (1880–1952), film actor, film editor, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jack Conway (1887–1952), manufacturer, film producer, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• John Garfield (1913–1952), film actor, film producer, stage actor · buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery
• Jonas Staugaitis (1868–1952), politician, physician · buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery
• Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865–1952), university teacher, jurist, politician · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Karen Horney (1885–1952), psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, psychiatrist · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952), SOE agent, spy, crew member · buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
• Leib Kvitko (1890–1952), children's writer, poet, writer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Macedonio Fernández (1874–1952), short story writer, prose writer, novelist · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Mariano Azuela (1873–1952), novelist, politician, physician · buried at Panteón de Dolores
• Mary Engle Pennington (1872–1952), bacteriologist, chemist, inventor · buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Maryse Bastié (1898–1952), French resistance fighter, aircraft pilot · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), historian of classical antiquity, latinist, social historian · buried at Grove Street Cemetery
• Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952), memoirist, satirist, translator · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Natalia Brasova (1880–1952) · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952), autobiographer, philosopher, yogi · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Peretz Markish (1895–1952), playwright, poet, writer · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Philip G. Epstein (1909–1952), playwright, screenwriter · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Polly Moran (1883–1952), vaudeville performer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• René Grousset (1885–1952), art historian, orientalist, curator · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Robert P. Patterson (1891–1952), jurist, military officer, politician · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Roland West (1885–1952), director, film director, screenwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Sam Lufkin (1891–1952), actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877–1952), classical composer, pianist · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov (1881–1952), sculptor, painter · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Susan Peters (1921–1952), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Fox (1879–1952), film director, film producer, geologist · buried at Salem Fields Cemetery
• Yakov Frenkel (1894–1952), nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist, physicist · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953), scholar, translator, writer · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• Albert Austin (1881–1953), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Alice Eastwood (1859–1953), scientific collector, scientific illustrator, botanical illustrator · buried at Toronto Necropolis
• Alice Prin (1901–1953), dancer, model, art model · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• André Auffray (1884–1953), sport cyclist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Arkady Shvetsov (1892–1953), military flight engineer, politician, engineer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Arnold Bax (1883–1953), classical composer, pianist, conductor · buried at St. Finbarr's Cemetery
• Arthur Hoyt (1874–1953), film actor, director, film director · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Bill Tilden (1893–1953), tennis player, tennis coach · buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
• Charles Edward Merriam (1874–1953), university teacher, political scientist, scientist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Dimitri Arakishvili (1873–1953), ethnomusicologist, music educator, musicologist · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Dooley Wilson (1886–1953), film actor, stage actor, musician · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• Eduard Künneke (1885–1953), film score composer, composer · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Edward Sedgwick (1889–1953), film screenwriter, film actor, director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Ekvtime Takaishvili (1863–1953), anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• Emil August Fieldorf (1895–1953), military officer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953), film score composer, musician, conductor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Ernst Reuter (1889–1953), university teacher, politician · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), playwright, writer, screenwriter · buried at Forest Hills Cemetery
• Evgeny Paton (1870–1953), civil engineer, university teacher, inventor · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Florence Price (1887–1953), classical pianist, music educator, musician · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Francesco Saverio Nitti (1868–1953), university teacher, journalist, economist · buried at Campo Verano
• Francis Ford (1881–1953), silent film actor, film actor, director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• George Barnes (1892–1953), cinematographer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879–1953), music educator, music arranger, violinist · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953), logician, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), playwright, screenwriter · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Irving Reis (1906–1953), director, film director, cinematographer · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), Nobel Prize winner, prose writer, translator · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• James J. Jeffries (1875–1953), boxer, actor · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• James Scullin (1876–1953), head of government, diplomat, politician · buried at Melbourne General Cemetery
• John Marin (1870–1953), draftsperson, printmaker, painter · buried at Fairview Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey)
• Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (1883–1953), military personnel · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), linguist, opinion journalist, revolutionary · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Julian Tuwim (1894–1953), linguist, prose writer, children's writer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Karel Domin (1882–1953), scientific collector, botanist, botanical collector · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905–1953), linguist, translator, playwright · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953), politician, military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Lev Mekhlis (1889–1953), journalist, economist, politician · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Lewis Stone (1879–1953), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Ludomir Różycki (1883–1953), pianist, conductor, composer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Luis Alberto Riart (1880–1953), sociologist, diplomat, politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Maksim Purkayev (1894–1953), military officer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Maria Andreyeva (1868–1953), film actor, model, stage actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953), autobiographer, suffragist, activist · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Millard Mitchell (1903–1953), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Mykola Zelinsky (1861–1953), university teacher, chemist, inventor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nato Vachnadze (1904–1953), film actor, assistant director, actor · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Nigel Bruce (1895–1953), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Nikolai Golovanov (1891–1953), music educator, university teacher, choir director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Porter Hall (1888–1953), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Pyotr Shirshov (1905–1953), polar explorer, oceanographer, botanist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Q157321 (1879–1953), draftsperson, graphic artist, sculptor · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Q173645 (1902–1953), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver, engineer · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• Rachilde (1860–1953), salonnière, playwright, writer · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Reginald Baker (1884–1953), competitive diver, rugby union player, boxer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Richard Rosson (1893–1953), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Richard von Mises (1883–1953), philosopher, university teacher, physicist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953), university teacher, physicist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Robert Ferdinand Wagner (1877–1953), lieutenant governor, jurist, politician · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Rosemonde Gérard (1866–1953), playwright, poet, writer · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), composer · buried at Springfield Cemetery (Springfield, Massachusetts)
• Sara Adler (1858–1953), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953), pianist, conductor, composer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869–1953), mathematician, politician · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Şükrü Saracoğlu (1887–1953), foreign minister, diplomat, politician · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Tamar Abakelia (1905–1953), theatre designer, scenographer, graphic artist · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), textile designer, theatre designer, fashion designer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Vsevolod Merkulov (1895–1953), torturer, playwright, politician · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893–1953), film actor, film editor, opinion journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• William Farnum (1876–1953), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• William Sterling Parsons (1901–1953), naval officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Xu Beihong (1895–1953), painter, teacher · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Agus Salim (1884–1954), journalist, diplomat, writer · buried at Kalibata Heroes' Cemetery
• Alain LeRoy Locke (1885–1954), philosopher, university teacher, art historian · buried at Congressional Cemetery
• Alexander Abasheli (1884–1954), science fiction writer, poet, writer · buried at Didube Pantheon
• Andrey Vyshinsky (1883–1954), university teacher, jurist, diplomat · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Auguste Perret (1874–1954), designer, general contractor, urban planner · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Ayaz İshaki (1878–1954), opinion journalist, journalist, dramaturge · buried at Edirnekapı Martyr's Cemetery
• Bobby Ball (1925–1954), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver, engineer · buried at Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery
• Boris Gorbatov (1908–1954), film screenwriter, short story writer, journalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Bud Fisher (1884–1954), film producer, film director, journalist · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Dziga Vertov (1896–1954), film editor, director, film director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ed Sanders (1930–1954), boxer · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Édouard Le Roy (1870–1954), philosopher, theologian, mathematician · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Eduard Wiiralt (1898–1954), draftsperson, printmaker, sculptor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Elvira Rawson (1867–1954), suffragist, professor, physician · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Emil Leon Post (1897–1954), logician, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
• Emily Fitzroy (1860–1954), film actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, university teacher · buried at Oak Woods Cemetery
• Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884–1954), chess player, writer · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Felipe Molas López (1901–1954), politician · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954), prose writer, journalist, playwright · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Florence Bates (1888–1954), film actor, television actor, radio personality · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Francesco Borgongini Duca (1884–1954), theologian, titular bishop, Catholic bishop · buried at Campo Verano
• Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), philosopher of history, historian of Modern Age, opinion journalist · buried at Dahlem Cemetery
• Gideon Sundback (1880–1954), electrical engineer, inventor, businessperson · buried at Greendale Cemetery
• Giuseppe Bruno (1875–1954), Catholic priest · buried at Campo Verano
• Gladys George (1900–1954), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Hella Wuolijoki (1886–1954), journalist, ethnologist, playwright · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Henri Laurens (1885–1954), printmaker, visual artist, designer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Hoyt Vandenberg (1899–1954), military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Ida May Park (1879–1954), director, film director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Irving Pichel (1891–1954), film actor, director, film director · buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Ivan Maslennikov (1900–1954), soldier, politician, military personnel · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Joe May (1880–1954), director, film producer, film director · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Jurij Janowski (1902–1954), short story writer, novelist, editing staff · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Léon Jouhaux (1879–1954), trade unionist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Leon Schiller (1887–1954), theatre critic, director, theatre director · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), scientific collector, pteridologist, horticulturist · buried at Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)
• Lidiia Seifullina (1889–1954), journalist, librarian, teacher · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954), film actor, director, film director · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Mabel Paige (1880–1954), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), women's rights activist, suffragist, orator · buried at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)
• Maurice Tillet (1903–1954), rugby union player, professional wrestler · buried at Lithuanian National Cemetery
• Mikhail Prishvin (1873–1954), diarist, prose writer, short story writer · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Mikimoto Kōkichi (1858–1954), entrepreneur, politician, engineer · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Nina Genke-Meller (1893–1954), painter · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Pat McDonald (1878–1954), athletics competitor · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906–1954), short story writer, novelist, poet · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Sōjin Kamiyama (1884–1954), actor · buried at Aoyama Cemetery
• Sydney Greenstreet (1879–1954), film actor, stage actor, character actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Thea von Harbou (1888–1954), science fiction writer, film actor, director · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Theodore Lyman (1874–1954), university teacher, physicist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Tom Tyler (1903–1954), film actor, actor · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Detroit)
• Vasily Yan (1875–1954), prose writer, opinion journalist, journalist · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Viktor Abakumov (1908–1954), military officer, politician · buried at Levashovo Memorial Cemetery
• William Hoyt (1875–1954), pole vaulter, athletics competitor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
• William K. Howard (1893–1954), director, film producer, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Yehuda Ashlag (1880–1954), kabbalist, rabbi, composer · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Zofia Nałkowska (1884–1954), prose writer, essayist, journalist · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Abram Dragomirov (1868–1955), military personnel · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955), suffragist, sculptor, artist · buried at Congressional Cemetery
• Aleksei Dikiy (1889–1955), opera director, director, theatre director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexandros Papagos (1883–1955), head of government, marshal, politician · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Alexei Abrikosov (1875–1955), pathologist, university teacher, author · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alfréd Hajós (1878–1955), swimmer, athletics competitor, journalist · buried at Kozma Street Cemetery
• Alice Joyce (1890–1955), film actor, actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871–1955), draftsperson, graphic artist, painter · buried at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955), suffragist, women's rights activist · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
• Antanas Merkys (1887–1955), politician, lawyer · buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery
• Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), music educator, classical composer, musicologist · buried at Saint-Vincent Cemetery
• Arthur Tansley (1871–1955), scientific collector, ecologist, botanist · buried at Cambridge City Cemetery
• Artur Bernardes (1875–1955), politician, lawyer · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Bill Orthwein (1881–1955), water polo player, swimmer, lawyer · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Bill Vukovich (1918–1955), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer · buried at Belmont Memorial Park
• Carlos Dávila (1887–1955), journalist, diplomat, politician · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• Carlyle Blackwell (1884–1955), film actor, film producer, film director · buried at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York)
• Carmen Miranda (1909–1955), dancer, film actor, singer · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Constance Collier (1878–1955), film actor, theatre director, stage actor · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
• Dorothy Bernard (1890–1955), film actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Edwin Scharff (1887–1955), exlibrist, ceramics designer, lithographer · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Emmanuel de Martonne (1873–1955), climatologist, geographer · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Emmett Till (1941–1955), schoolchild · buried at Burr Oak Cemetery
• George Enesco (1881–1955), music educator, musicologist, university teacher · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Grigory Gamburtsev (1903–1955), geophysicist, seismologist, inventor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Hamida Javanshir (1873–1955), women's rights activist, philanthropist, memoirist · buried at Alley of Honor
• Harry Cobby (1894–1955), regional manager, aircraft pilot, military personnel · buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery
• Hermann Weyl (1885–1955), philosopher, university teacher, physicist · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Ilmari Hannikainen (1892–1955), musician, pianist, composer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Ira Hayes (1923–1955), paratrooper · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), music educator, film score composer, conductor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ivan Šubašić (1892–1955), politician · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• James P. Johnson (1894–1955), jazz musician, pianist, composer · buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Queens)
• Jerry Hoyt (1929–1955), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• John Hodiak (1914–1955), film actor, radio personality, stage actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• John William Davis (1873–1955), diplomat, jurist, politician · buried at Locust Valley Cemetery
• Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863–1955), explorer, writer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Karl Hofer (1878–1955), art educator, visual artist, graphic artist · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Kim Bo-hyon (1871–1955), peasant · buried at Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery
• Leonid Govorov (1897–1955), military officer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), university teacher, translator, historian · buried at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery
• Lloyd Bacon (1889–1955), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955), aerospace engineer, military flight engineer, aircraft pilot · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Mahammad Amin Rasulzade (1884–1955), journalist, translator, politician · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Manny Ayulo (1921–1955), Formula One driver, racing driver, engineer · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Margaret Abbott (1876–1955), golfer · buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery
• Martha Norelius (1909–1955), swimmer · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Matthew Henson (1866–1955), explorer, traveler, writer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), printmaker, graphic artist, painter · buried at Saint-Vincent Cemetery
• Michael Chekhov (1891–1955), film actor, theatre director, drama teacher · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Mihály Károlyi (1875–1955), head of government, author, diplomat · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Nana Bryant (1888–1955), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955), printmaker, painter · buried at Montrouge Cemetery
• Olha Khokhlova (1891–1955), model, choreographer, ballet dancer · buried at Cimetière du Grand Jas
• Ona Munson (1903–1955), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Pierre Levegh (1905–1955), ice hockey player, Formula One driver, racing automobile driver · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887–1955), military personnel · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Robert Francis (1930–1955), film actor, film editor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Robert Riskin (1897–1955), director, film producer, film director · buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery
• Robert W. Wood (1868–1955), science fiction writer, novelist, university teacher · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)
• S. Z. Sakall (1883–1955), stage actor, actor, screenwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955), short story writer, novelist, journalist · buried at Miani Sahib Graveyard
• Shemp Howard (1895–1955), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Theda Bara (1885–1955), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Tin Ujević (1891–1955), non-fiction writer, linguist, translator · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Tomasz Arciszewski (1877–1955), trade unionist, politician · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Vasili Blokhin (1895–1955), executioner, military personnel · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), revolutionary, journalist, translator · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), journalist, poet lawyer, playwright · buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
• Walter Hampden (1879–1955), Theaterintendant, film actor, television actor · buried at Cemetery of the Evergreens
• William Churchill deMille (1878–1955), film actor, theatre director, film producer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• William Nigh (1881–1955), film actor, film editor, director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), academic, university teacher, historian · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Aino Kallas (1878–1956), short story writer, writer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Alben W. Barkley (1877–1956), prosecutor, jurist, politician · buried at Mount Kenton Cemetery
• Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956), short story writer, journalist, public figure · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956), ceramics designer, draftsperson, collagist · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Art Tatum (1909–1956), jazz musician, musician, pianist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), trade unionist, film actor, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), Theaterintendant, librettist, literary critic · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• Bob Sweikert (1926–1956), Formula One driver, racing automobile driver · buried at Lone Tree Cemetery (Fairview, California)
• Bolesław Bierut (1892–1956), politician · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–1956), short story writer, translator, poet · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Charles Joughin (1878–1956), baker · buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery
• Charley Grapewin (1869–1956), cabaret performer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• David Browning (1931–1956), competitive diver, swimmer · buried at Restland Memorial Park
• Eduardo Lonardi (1896–1956), military personnel · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Edward Arnold (1890–1956), trade unionist, film actor, stage actor · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Elpidio Quirino (1890–1956), diplomat, politician, lawyer · buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani
• Elsie Janis (1889–1956), film actor, stage actor, songwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Ernest King (1878–1956), naval officer, admiral · buried at United States Naval Academy Cemetery
• Eugenio Pio Zolli (1881–1956), rabbi · buried at Campo Verano
• Ewald André Dupont (1891–1956), journalist, film director, screenwriter · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Fanny Durack (1889–1956), competitive diver, swimmer · buried at Waverley Cemetery
• Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956), printmaker, lithographer, etcher · buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
• Fred Allen (1894–1956), radio personality, journalist, comedian · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Frigyes Riesz (1880–1956), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• George Bancroft (1882–1956), film actor, stage actor, military officer · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), essayist, novelist, physician writer · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879–1956), military personnel · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Günther Ramin (1898–1956), harpsichordist, university teacher, choir director · buried at Südfriedhof (Leipzig)
• Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956), conductor, composer, writer · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• H. F. Baker (1866–1956), university teacher, mathematician, astronomer · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956), autobiographer, linguist, cultural critic · buried at Loudon Park Cemetery
• Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), producer, film actor, stage actor · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Herminio Masantonio (1910–1956), association football player · buried at La Chacarita Cemetery
• Hiram Bingham III (1875–1956), explorer, archaeologist, aircraft pilot · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Holmes Herbert (1882–1956), film actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Isham Jones (1894–1956), saxophonist, violinist, songwriter · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), draftsperson, printmaker, painter · buried at Green River Cemetery
• Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), logician, philosopher, university teacher · buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
• Jean Hersholt (1886–1956), linguist, film actor, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jehanne d'Alcy (1865–1956), film actor, stage actor · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), explorer, university teacher, geologist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), furniture designer, draftsperson, designer · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Juan José de Amézaga (1881–1956), jurist, politician, lawyer · buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo
• Juan Negrín (1892–1956), finance minister, university teacher, head of government · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870–1956), banker, diplomat, politician · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Jules Rimet (1873–1956), sports executive, lawyer · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Katherine MacDonald (1891–1956), manufacturer, film actor, film producer · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Konstantin Päts (1874–1956), sportsperson, journalist, head of government · buried at Metsakalmistu
• Lajos Asztalos (1889–1956), non-fiction writer, chess player, university teacher · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Lev Rudnev (1885–1956), university teacher, architect · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Lewis Terman (1877–1956), university teacher, psychologist, writer · buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park
• Lloyd Ingraham (1874–1956), film actor, film director, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Louis Calhern (1895–1956), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), exlibrist, lithographer, miniature painter · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Mikheil Gelovani (1893–1956), choir singer, film actor, theatre director · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Nikolai Panin (1874–1956), figure skating coach, sport shooter, figure skater · buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery
• Norman Kerry (1894–1956), film actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894–1956), film editor, director, film producer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ostap Vyshnia (1889–1956), short story writer, writer · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), traveler, geophysicist, explorer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Owen Davis (1874–1956), television writer, film screenwriter, film producer · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Paul Kelly (1899–1956), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872–1956), writer · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956), visual artist, scenographer, graphic artist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ralph DePalma (1882–1956), racing automobile driver, racing driver · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Ralph Morgan (1883–1956), trade unionist, film actor, stage actor · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Reinhold Glière (1875–1956), music educator, musicologist, choreographer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889–1956), prose writer, novelist, playwright · buried at Karacaahmet Cemetery
• Risto Ryti (1889–1956), head of government, banker, economist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Robert Newton (1905–1956), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary
• Robert Yerkes (1876–1956), university teacher, zoologist, psychologist · buried at Evergreen Cemetery (New Haven, Connecticut)
• Samad Vurgun (1906–1956), playwright, politician, poet · buried at Alley of Honor
• Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), non-fiction writer, chess player, journalist · buried at Cimetière parisien de Pantin
• Sergei Vasilenko (1872–1956), music educator, musicologist, conductor · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Sergey Blazhko (1870–1956), university teacher, astronomer · buried at Vagankovo Cemetery
• Thomas John Watson, Sr. (1874–1956), chief executive officer, entrepreneur · buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
• Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), jazz musician, film actor, trumpeter · buried at Kensico Cemetery
• Vera Lewis (1873–1956), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Victor Young (1900–1956), violinist, film score composer, bandleader · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Virginia Kirtley (1888–1956), film actor, actor, screenwriter · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Vladimir A. Obruchev (1863–1956), writer, scientist, science fiction writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Yves Nat (1890–1956), music educator, musician, pianist · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Zoltán Halmay (1881–1956), Olympic competitor, swimming coach, swimmer · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Abdülhalik Renda (1881–1957), beamter, politician, military personnel · buried at Cebeci Asri Cemetery
• Abolqasem Lahouti (1887–1957), journalist, politician, poet · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Adolfas Ramanauskas (1918–1957), teacher · buried at Antakalnis Cemetery
• Albert Anastasia (1902–1957), crime boss, criminal, gangster · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957), draftsperson, writer · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957), politician · buried at Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore
• Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957), music educator, university teacher, organist · buried at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
• Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957), variety artist, chansonnier, film actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Amvrosy Buchma (1891–1957), director, theatre director, drama teacher · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Andrzej Bursa (1932–1957), satirist, journalist, poet · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Anna Haava (1864–1957), librettist, translator, nurse · buried at Raadi cemetery
• Anna Pankratova (1897–1957), educator, historian, politician · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957), prose writer, opinion journalist, public figure · buried at Komitas Pantheon
• Carlos Castillo Armas (1914–1957), military officer, politician, military personnel · buried at Guatemala City General Cemetery
• Charles Brabin (1882–1957), film actor, film director, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Christopher Morley (1890–1957), humorist, essayist, novelist · buried at Roslyn Cemetery
• Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957), assemblage artist, architectural drafter, sculptor · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Dennis Brain (1921–1957), horn player, musician, composer · buried at Hampstead Cemetery
• Dorothy Sebastian (1903–1957), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), politician · buried at Loyasse Cemetery
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), classical composer, librettist, music arranger · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Eugène Schueller (1881–1957), chemist, entrepreneur, businessperson · buried at Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery
• Evgenii Eduardovich Bertels (1890–1957), iranologist, Turkologist, orientalist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Frank País (1934–1957), military personnel, politician · buried at Santa Ifigenia Cemetery
• Gene Lockhart (1891–1957), music educator, film actor, theatre director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• George Samuel Clason (1874–1957), soldier, publisher, author · buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery
• Gerty Cori (1896–1957), biochemist, physiologist, researcher · buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery
• Giuseppe Di Vittorio (1892–1957), trade unionist, partisan, politician · buried at Campo Verano
• Grace Coolidge (1879–1957), politician, teacher · buried at Plymouth Notch Cemetery
• Grant Mitchell (1874–1957), film actor, director, stage actor · buried at Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
• Grigory Landsberg (1890–1957), university teacher, inventor, physicist · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Harrison Ford (1884–1957), stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Helene Costello (1906–1957), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Henry Norris Russell (1877–1957), astrophysicist, astronomer · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), film actor, naval officer, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jack Butler Yeats (1871–1957), comics artist, painter · buried at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium
• James Connolly (1868–1957), triple jumper, high jumper, long jumper · buried at Holyhood Cemetery
• James Middleton Cox (1870–1957), opinion journalist, journalist, governor · buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
• James Whale (1889–1957), director, theatre director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Jenő Heltai (1871–1957), Theaterintendant, journalist, theatre manager · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• John von Neumann (1903–1957), consultant, university teacher, economist · buried at Princeton Cemetery
• Johnny Torrio (1882–1957), criminal · buried at Green-Wood Cemetery
• José Patricio Guggiari (1884–1957), magistrate, politician, lawyer · buried at Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
• Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953–1957) · buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia)
• Jože Plečnik (1872–1957), designer, university teacher, urban planner · buried at Žale
• Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (1876–1957), university teacher, musician, pianist · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Judy Tyler (1932–1957), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Julia Morgan (1872–1957), film producer, artist, architect · buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Käthe Dorsch (1890–1957), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Konrad Tom (1887–1957), director, film director, songwriter · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Larbi Ben M'hidi (1923–1957), politician, military personnel · buried at El Alia Cemetery
• Leopold Staff (1878–1957), librettist, translator, playwright · buried at Powązki Cemetery
• Lőrinc Szabó (1900–1957), editor, translator, poet · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), film producer, screenwriter · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Luisa Casati (1881–1957), art collector, model, salonnière · buried at Brompton Cemetery
• Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957), novelist, journalist, playwright · buried at Mirogoj Cemetery
• Maurice Audin (1932–1957), political activist, resistance fighter, mathematician · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957), music educator, professor, composer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (1875–1957), exlibrist, graphic artist, painter · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Norma Talmadge (1894–1957), film actor, film producer, actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), film screenwriter, film actor, film director · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Óscar Domínguez (1906–1957), textile artist, sculptor, painter · buried at Montparnasse Cemetery
• Otto Suhr (1894–1957), trade unionist, social scientist, journalist · buried at Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf
• Paul Bildt (1885–1957), film actor, director, stage actor · buried at Dahlem Cemetery
• Petros Voulgaris (1883–1957), soldier, diplomat, politician · buried at First Cemetery of Athens
• Ralph Barton Perry (1876–1957), philosopher, university teacher, author · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Ramon Magsaysay (1907–1957), politician, engineer · buried at Manila North Cemetery
• Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), polar explorer, explorer, oceanographer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881–1957), military flight engineer, aircraft pilot · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Rudolf Kastner (1906–1957), political activist, zionist, journalist · buried at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
• Rudolf Weigl (1883–1957), immunologist, university teacher, biologist · buried at Rakowicki Cemetery
• Russell Hicks (1895–1957), actor, screenwriter · buried at Los Angeles National Cemetery
• Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), librettist, film actor, director · buried at Montmartre Cemetery
• Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878–1957), university teacher, poet lawyer, historian · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Sergei Komarov (1891–1957), film director, director, screenwriter · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Theodor Körner (1873–1957), politician, military personnel, mayor · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• Tomitaro Makino (1862–1957), scientific collector, botanical collector, botanist · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Viktor Smeds (1885–1957), artistic gymnast · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Walter Jakobsson (1882–1957), figure skating judge, figure skater · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Walter Oliver (1883–1957), scientific collector, malacologist, explorer · buried at Karori Cemetery
• Wheeler Dryden (1892–1957), film director, stage actor, comedian · buried at Twickenham Cemetery
• William Cameron Menzies (1896–1957), producer, director, production designer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958), pianist, composer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Aleksander Klumberg (1899–1958), sportsperson, elite athlete, athletics competitor · buried at Rahumäe Cemetery
• Alma Bennett (1904–1958), film actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Anni Swan (1875–1958), children's writer, journalist, translator · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Armas Järnefelt (1869–1958), musician, pianist, conductor · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Art Bisch (1926–1958), Formula One driver, engineer · buried at Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery
• Big Bill Broonzy (1893–1958), blues musician, street artist, guitarist · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Bill Goodwin (1910–1958), film actor, television actor, actor · buried at Desert Memorial Park
• Billy Meredith (1874–1958), association football player · buried at Southern Cemetery, Manchester
• Billy Whelan (1935–1958), association football player · buried at Glasnevin Cemetery
• Cândido Rondon (1865–1958), scientific collector, explorer, sertanista · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958), inventor, entrepreneur, engineer · buried at Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
• Christabel Pankhurst (1880–1958), feminist, women's rights activist, suffragist · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), aircraft pilot, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Doris Humphrey (1895–1958), dancer, choreographer · buried at Forest Home Cemetery (Forest Park)
• Eddie Colman (1936–1958), association football player · buried at Weaste Cemetery
• Eino Kaila (1890–1958), philosopher, psychologist · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Estelle Taylor (1894–1958), film actor, model, stage actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Evgeny Shvarts (1896–1958), film screenwriter, short story writer, prose writer · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Ferdinand Bruckner (1891–1958), Theaterintendant, theatre director, playwright · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Florent Schmitt (1870–1958), musicologist, music critic, pianist · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Francis Carco (1886–1958), novelist, journalist, biographer · buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
• Franklin Pangborn (1889–1958), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958), novelist, journalist, writer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• G. E. Moore (1873–1958), philosopher, university teacher · buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground
• George Jean Nathan (1882–1958), critic, film critic, journalist · buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)
• Georgy Ivanov (1894–1958), prose writer, literary critic, translator · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), artist, teacher, composer · buried at Campo Verano
• Grigory Petrovsky (1878–1958), factory worker, revolutionary, statesperson · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• H. B. Warner (1875–1958), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Harold Smith (1909–1958), competitive diver · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Harry Cohn (1891–1958), film studio executive, film producer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Harry Warner (1881–1958), film producer, media proprietor, entrepreneur · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Henri Farman (1874–1958), aerospace engineer, racing automobile driver, sport cyclist · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Henry Kuttner (1915–1958), science fiction writer, novelist, writer · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958), polar explorer, traveler, geophysicist · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Herbert Brenon (1880–1958), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896–1958), politician, military personnel · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• James Branch Cabell (1879–1958), autobiographer, short story writer, science fiction writer · buried at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
• Jerzy Zabielski (1897–1958), fencer, military officer · buried at Powązki Military Cemetery
• Jesse Louis Lasky (1880–1958), producer, director, film producer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Johannes R. Becher (1891–1958), librettist, novelist, literary editor · buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
• John B. Watson (1878–1958), psychologist, politician · buried at Willowbrook Cemetery
• Johnston McCulley (1883–1958), novelist, journalist, writer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Joseph Klausner (1872–1958), newspaper editor, literary theorist, literary historian · buried at Har HaMenuchot
• Konstantin Yuon (1875–1958), theater artist, art theorist, scenographer · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Kurt Neumann (1898–1958), director, film director, writer · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Leo Blech (1871–1958), general music director, music director, musician · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Leon Orbeli (1882–1958), physiologist, biologist, military personnel · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958), theatre critic, literary critic, journalist · buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery (Santa Monica, California)
• Lloyd Hughes (1897–1958), actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Marguerite Snow (1889–1958), film actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Marie Pujmanová (1893–1958), critic, journalist, editing staff · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Marshall Neilan (1891–1958), film screenwriter, film actor, film producer · buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
• Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), suffragist, women's rights activist, archivist · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958), humorist, essayist, novelist · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958), military commander, military personnel · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Max Jakob Friedländer (1867–1958), draftsperson, art collector, art historian · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• Monta Bell (1891–1958), film editor, film producer, film director · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Nezihe Muhiddin (1889–1958), activist, journalist, politician · buried at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
• Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903–1958), children's writer, theologian, translator · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Otto Witte (1872–1958), circus performer · buried at Ohlsdorf Cemetery
• Paul Panzer (1872–1958), silent film actor, film actor, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Paul Rivet (1876–1958), French resistance fighter, linguist, anthropologist · buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery
• Q235313 (1895–1958), film actor, actor · buried at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery
• Robert Donat (1905–1958), film actor, director, film director · buried at East Finchley Cemetery
• Ronald Colman (1891–1958), television actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery
• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), molecular biologist, biophysicist, crystallographer · buried at Willesden Jewish Cemetery
• Sam Taylor (1895–1958), director, film producer, film director · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Sam Zimbalist (1904–1958), producer, film editor, film producer · buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
• Sheldon Lewis (1868–1958), film actor, actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Thurston Hall (1882–1958), stage actor, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
• Tyrone Power (1914–1958), polo player, film actor, military officer · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Varvara Stepanova (1894–1958), performance artist, scenographer, textile artist · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Virginia Pearson (1886–1958), silent film actor, film actor, stage actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Vítězslav Nezval (1900–1958), prose writer, linguist, novelist · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Vladimir Lossky (1903–1958), philosopher, theologian, writer · buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery
• W. C. Handy (1873–1958), autobiographer, music journalist, non-fiction writer · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Walther Schreiber (1884–1958), politician · buried at Waldfriedhof Dahlem
• Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884–1958), diplomat, politician, poet · buried at Aşiyan Asri Cemetery
• Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958), Nihonga painter, painter, artist · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Abdulla Shaig (1881–1959), pedagogue, translator, playwright · buried at Alley of Honor
• Abraham Flexner (1866–1959), biographer, pedagogue, physician · buried at Cave Hill Cemetery
• Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Donskoye Cemetery
• Alfonso López Pumarejo (1886–1959), Palace janitor, journalist, diplomat · buried at Central Cemetery of Bogotá
• André Siegfried (1875–1959), opinion journalist, sociologist, geographer · buried at Passy Cemetery
• Baby Dodds (1898–1959), jazz musician, musician, drummer · buried at Lincoln Cemetery (Cook County)
• Benjamin Péret (1899–1959), poet, writer · buried at Batignolles Cemetery
• Billie Holiday (1915–1959), jazz singer, autobiographer, jazz musician · buried at Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx)
• Boris Eikhenbaum (1886–1959), man of letters, literary scholar, university teacher · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1959), prose writer, journalist, translator · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Buddy Holly (1936–1959), guitarist, songwriter, musician · buried at Eastlawn Memorial Gardens
• Carl Enckell (1876–1959), diplomat, politician · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Carl Switzer (1927–1959), film actor, television actor, animal breeder · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878–1959), university teacher, diplomat, jurist · buried at La Recoleta Cemetery
• Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Charles Pélissier (1903–1959), sport cyclist · buried at Montrouge Cemetery
• Charles Starkweather (1938–1959), criminal, spree killer, serial killer · buried at Wyuka Cemetery
• Charles Vidor (1900–1959), film director · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Charlie Hall (1899–1959), film actor, film director, comedian · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Dmitry Manuilsky (1883–1959), revolutionary, statesperson, diplomat · buried at Baikove Cemetery
• Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), film actor, director, film producer · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Edmund Gwenn (1877–1959), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory
• Eero Lehtonen (1898–1959), athletics competitor, sprinter · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Emil František Burian (1904–1959), theatrologist, theatre director, director · buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery
• Enrico de Nicola (1877–1959), journalist, politician, lawyer · buried at Cemetery of Poggioreale
• Errol Flynn (1909–1959), film actor, director, film director · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Esfir Shub (1894–1959), film editor, film director, documentary filmmaker · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Ethel Barrymore (1879–1959), film actor, stage actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Galaktion Tabidze (1891–1959), poet, writer · buried at Mtatsminda Pantheon
• George Amick (1924–1959), Formula One driver, motorcycle racer · buried at Crown Hill Cemetery
• George Antheil (1900–1959), film score composer, pianist, inventor · buried at Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey)
• George Grosz (1893–1959), lithographer, draftsperson, printmaker · buried at Friedhof Heerstraße
• George Marshall (1880–1959), army officer, American football player, foreign minister · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Gilda Gray (1901–1959), film actor, dancer, stage actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Gleb Krzhizhanovsky (1872–1959), economist, politician, engineer · buried at Kremlin Wall Necropolis
• Grant Withers (1905–1959), television actor, journalist, actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Guido Brignone (1886–1959), film actor, film editor, director · buried at Campo Verano
• Harold Hardwick (1888–1959), swimmer, boxer · buried at Waverley Cemetery
• Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959), musicologist, cellist, classical guitarist · buried at Cemitério de São João Batista
• Helen Parrish (1923–1959), silent film actor, radio drama actor, film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Ichirō Hatoyama (1883–1959), politician, lawyer · buried at Yanaka Cemetery
• Imre Schlosser (1889–1959), association football player, association football coach · buried at Farkasréti Cemetery
• Irving Cummings (1888–1959), film screenwriter, producer, film actor · buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Isaac HaLevy Herzog (1888–1959), rabbi · buried at Sanhedria Cemetery
• Ivan Perestiani (1870–1959), director, film director, filmmaker · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), draftsperson, sculptor, painter · buried at Putney Vale Cemetery
• James Gleason (1882–1959), film actor, television actor, film producer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Jerónimo Méndez (1887–1959), surgeon, politician, physician · buried at Santiago General Cemetery
• John Foster Dulles (1888–1959), foreign minister, trustee, diplomat · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Joseph Sprinzak (1885–1959), trade unionist, politician · buried at Mount Herzl
• Kafū Nagai (1879–1959), diarist, novelist, university teacher · buried at Zōshigaya Cemetery
• Karo Halabyan (1897–1959), politician, architect · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Kathryn Adams (1893–1959), film actor, actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Klaudzi Duzh-Dusheuski (1891–1959), journalist, diplomat, politician · buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery
• Lester Young (1909–1959), jazz musician, saxophonist, musician · buried at Cemetery of the Evergreens
• Lipót Fejér (1880–1959), university teacher, mathematician · buried at Fiume Road Graveyard
• Lou Costello (1906–1959), producer, film actor, television actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959), scientific collector, ichthyologist, botanist · buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery
• Mack Gordon (1904–1959), librettist, film score composer, lyricist · buried at Home of Peace Cemetery (Los Angeles)
• Madame Sul-Te-Wan (1873–1959), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
• Mario Lanza (1921–1959), recording artist, film actor, opera singer · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Max Gerson (1881–1959), physician · buried at Maple Grove Cemetery (Queens)
• Mike Hawthorn (1929–1959), Formula One driver · buried at West Street Cemetery
• Olga Knipper (1868–1959), actor · buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
• Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959), theoretical physicist, university teacher, physicist · buried at Brookwood Cemetery
• Preston Sturges (1898–1959), autobiographer, film screenwriter, director · buried at Ferncliff Cemetery
• Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), peace and conflict researcher, university teacher, prosecutor · buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
• Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), crime fiction writer, novelist, poet · buried at Mount Hope Cemetery (San Diego)
• Reuven Shiloah (1909–1959), official, diplomat · buried at Sanhedria Cemetery
• Ritchie Valens (1941–1959), rock singer, songwriter, guitarist · buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery
• Ruben Lagus (1896–1959), military officer · buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery
• Russell Simpson (1880–1959), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Sax Rohmer (1883–1959), writer, comics writer, novelist · buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green
• Taylor Holmes (1878–1959), stage actor, actor, film actor · buried at Holy Cross Cemetery (Culver City, California)
• Una O'Connor (1880–1959), film actor, television actor, stage actor · buried at Calvary Cemetery (Queens)
• Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), boxer, film actor, television actor · buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California)
• Vincent Richards (1903–1959), tennis player · buried at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
• Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959), young adult author, short story writer, children's writer · buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery
• Wayne Morris (1914–1959), film actor, television actor, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Werner Krauss (1884–1959), autobiographer, film actor, radio drama · buried at Vienna Central Cemetery
• William D. Leahy (1875–1959), naval officer, diplomat, admiral · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William Halsey Jr. (1882–1959), naval officer, soldier · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• William Hammond Wright (1871–1959), astronomer · buried at Oak Hill Memorial Park
• William J. Donovan (1883–1959), intelligence officer, diplomat, military officer · buried at Arlington National Cemetery
• Zalman Shneur (1887–1959), poet, writer · buried at Trumpeldor Cemetery