Deaths
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- January 3 – Edwin Muir, 72 (born 1887), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
- February 20 – Zalman Shneur, 72, Hebrew-Yiddish poet and author
- February 23 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet, of a heart attack
- April 4 – Sarah Cleghorn, 83
- April 8 – Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (born 1874), Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki
- June 9 – Ryuko Kawaji 川路柳虹, pen-name of Kawaki Makoto (born 1888), Japanese, Showa period poet and literary critic
- June 23 – Boris Vian, 39, French writer, poet, singer, and musician
- July 6 – George Grosz (born 1893), German artist and poet, died from falling down a flight of stairs after a night drinking
- August 5 – Edgar Guest, 79, American poet known as the "poet of the people"
- August 21 – Denis Devlin (born 1908) Irish modernist poet and career diplomat
- September 18 – Benjamin Péret, 60, French poet and Surrealist
- December 27 – Alfonso Reyes, 70, Mexican poet, and writer
Read more about this topic: 1959 In Poetry
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