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Who died in November 1959

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Gérard Philipe

Gérard Philipe

19221959

French actor known for his influential roles in 32 films and his outspoken communist views, prominent in the poetic realism movement

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

18871959

Brazilian composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist known for integrating Brazilian folk music with classical forms, creating over 2,000 works that made him a globally recognized South American composer

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

18691959

Scottish physicist and meteorologist who invented the cloud chamber and won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics