Famous People Who Died In 1979
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1979. This list includes people like John Wayne, Josef Mengele, Dhyan Chand, Sid Vicious, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, poets and physicists who died in 1979. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
John Wayne26 May 1907, American
Actor, Director, Producer
Josef Mengele16 March 1911, German
War Criminal
Sid Vicious10 May 1957, British
Musician
Richard Beckinsale06 July 1947, British
TV & Film Actor
Conrad Hilton25 December 1887, American
American Hotelier and Businessman
Nelson Rockefeller08 July 1908, American
41st Vice President of the U.S.A
Ted Cassidy31 July 1932, American
Actor
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto05 January 1928, Pakistani
Merle Oberon19 February 1911, Indian, American
Actress
Mary Pickford08 April 1892, Canadian, American
Actress, Producer, Screenwriter
Jayaprakash Narayan11 October 1902, Indian
Political Leaders
Vivian Vance26 July 1909, American
Actress
Jean Seberg13 November 1938, American
Actress
Barbara Hutton14 November 1912, American
Socialites
Charles Mingus22 April 1922, American
Jazz Musician
Dhyan Chand29 August 1905, Indian
Richard Rodgers28 June 1902, American
Composer, songwriter, playwright
Edgar Buchanan20 March 1903, American
Actor
Zeppo Marx25 February 1901, American
Comedian
Fulton J. Sheen08 May 1895, American
Archbishop
Alvin Karpis10 August 1907, Canadian, Spanish
Gangster
A. Philip Randolph15 April 1889, American
Leader of the African-American civil-rights
Darla Hood08 November 1931, American
Actress
Jean Renoir15 September 1894, French, American
Film Director, Actor, Producer
Elizabeth Bishop08 February 1911, American
Poet
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Barnes Wallis26 September 1887, British
Inventor of Bouncing Bomb
Jean Monnet09 November 1888, French
Political Economist & Diplomat
Lord Mountbatten25 June 1900, British
Last Viceroy of British India and Governor-General
Sonia Delaunay14 November 1885, French
Artist
Immanuel Velikovsky10 June 1895, Israeli
Author
Agostinho Neto17 September 1922, Angolan
Former President of Angola
Philippe Halsman02 May 1906, American
Photographer
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Robert Burns Woodward10 April 1917, American
Organic Chemist
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Allen Tate19 November 1899, American
Poet
Marjorie Lee Browne09 September 1914, American
Mathematics Educator
Corinne Griffith21 November 1894, American
Actress
Giulio Natta25 February 1903, Italian
Chemist
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898, American
Scientist
Ernst Boris Chain19 June 1906, German
Biochemist
George Seaton17 April 1911, American
Screenwriter, Film Director
Vernon Presley10 April 1916, American
Elvis Presley's Father
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga31 March 1906, Japanese
Physicist
Walter Gerlach01 August 1889, German
Physicist
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen06 April 1911, German
Biochemist
Park-Chung-hee14 November 1917, South Korean
Former President of South Korea
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin23 April 1899, Swedish
Economist
Aaren Simpson24 September 1977, American
O. J. Simpson's Daughter
Minnie Riperton08 November 1947, American
Singer, Singer-songwriter
Jim Hutton31 May 1934, American
Actor
Donny Hathaway01 October 1945, American
Singer, Singer-songwriter, Conductor, Musician,
Hannelore Schmatz16 February 1940, German
Mountaineer
Joan Blondell30 August 1906, American
Actress
Mamie Eisenhower14 November 1896, American
Former First Lady of the United States
Lowell George13 April 1945, American
Musician, Singer, Composer, Guitarist, Songwriter,
John Diefenbaker18 September 1895, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat
Herbert Marcuse18 July 1898, German, American
American-German philosopher
Philippe Cousteau30 December 1940, French
Explorer
Peggy Guggenheim26 August 1898, American
Art collector, Patron of the arts, Art dealer,
Rachele Mussolini11 April 1890, Italian
Talcott Parsons13 December 1902, American
Sociologist, University teacher
Carmine Galante21 February 1910, American
Drug trafficker
Gracie Fields09 January 1898, British
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Hanna Reitsch29 March 1912, Austrian, German, Polish
Aviator, Test pilot, Helicopter pilot, Military
Nino Rota03 December 1911, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Teacher, Pianist, Actor,
Sara Carter21 July 1898, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer
Jimmy McCulloch04 June 1953, British, Scottish
Musician, Songwriter, Guitarist
Reinhard Gehlen03 April 1902, German
Officer
Judee Sill07 October 1944, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer, Composer, Pianist
Hafizullah Amin01 August 1929, Afghan
Politician
Francisco Macías Nguema01 January 1924, Spanish
Former President of Equatorial Guinea
Giuseppe Meazza23 August 1910, Italian
Association football player, Association football
Jacques Mesrine28 December 1936, French
Criminal
I. A. Richards26 February 1893, British
Literary critic, Philosopher, Writer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900, British, American
Astronomer, University teacher
Al Capp28 September 1909, American
Cartoonist, Writer, Journalist
Stan Kenton15 December 1911, American
American musical artist
Ahmad Zahir14 June 1946, Afghan
Singer
Lester Flatt1914 AD
Guitarist
Nur Muhammad Taraki15 July 1917, Afghan
Politician, Poet, Writer, Journalist
Wilhelm Bittrich26 February 1894, German
Officer
Rudi Dutschke07 March 1940, German
Sociologist, Politician
Sándor Kocsis21 September 1929, Hungarian
Footballer
Yuen Siu-tien27 November 1912
Actor, Film actor
Wilfred Bion08 September 1897, British
Psychiatrist, Psychanalyst, Psychologist
Norman Hartnell12 June 1901, British
Fashion designer
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry10 April 1901, Salvadoran
Writer, Journalist, Painter, Sculptor
Aaron Douglas26 May 1899, American
Painter
Rexford Tugwell10 July 1891, American
Economist, Academician
Yvonne de Gaulle22 May 1900, French
Dorothy Arzner1897 AD, American
Director
James J. Gibson27 January 1904, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Adolph Dubs04 August 1920, American
Diplomat, Politician
Joel Teitelbaum13 January 1887, Romanian
Philosopher, Rabbi
Edward Akufo-Addo26 June 1906, Ghanaian
Judge, Lawyer, Politician