Editing 1959 (section)

===July===
[[File:Billie Holiday 1947 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billie Holiday]]]]
[[File:Fleet Admiral Leahy.tif|thumb|100px|[[William D. Leahy]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Sergei Chetverikov]], Russian biologist (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Johan Bojer]], Norwegian novelist and dramatist (b. [[1872]])
* [[July 6]] – [[George Grosz]], German artist (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 7]] 
** [[Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa]], Spanish painter (b. [[1871]])
** [[Ernest Newman]], English music critic (b. [[1868]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783271900/ernest-newman/|title=Ernest Newman|date=May 14, 2020 }}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Grock]], Swiss clown (b. [[1880]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Ernest Bloch]], Swiss-born American composer (b. [[1880]])
** [[Agostino Gemelli]], Italian [[Franciscan]] friar and reverend (b. [[1878]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Billie Holiday]], American singer (b. [[1915]])<ref>{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''New York Times'', July 18,|1959|p=15}} |last1=''New York Times'' (''The'') |author-link1=The New York Times |date=July 18, 1959 |title=Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44 – Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence |work=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/07/18/80594441.html |url-access=subscription |edition=Late City |volume=108 |issue=37065 |page=15 |access-date=November 25, 2013 |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – [[William D. Leahy]], American admiral (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 25]]
** [[Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog]], Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of [[Israel]] (b. [[1888]])
** King [[Mutara III of Rwanda]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Aleksandar Tsankov]], 21st [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 30]] – [[María Natividad Venegas de la Torre]], Mexican [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1868]])