Famous People Who Died At 79
The list of famous people who died at 79 includes Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Eden, Immanuel Kant, Ho Chi Minh, Antonin Scalia. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, philosophers, novelists and artists and from other domains of life. This list of celebrities who died at 79 includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Harold WilsonBritish
Former British Prime Minister
Anthony EdenBritish
Prime Minister of UK
Elizabeth TaylorBritish, American
Don ImusAmerican
Radio Talk Show Host
Ivar the BonelessViking Warrior
George Washington CarverAmerican
Scientist & Inventor
Johnny CarsonAmerican
Television Host
Ella FitzgeraldAmerican
Singer
Immanuel KantGerman
Philosopher
Danny ThomasAmerican
H. G. WellsBritish
Writer
Charles de GaulleFrench
Former President of France
Merle HaggardAmerican
Robert MitchumAmerican
Film actor
George WallaceAmerican
Ho Chi MinhVietnamese
Former PM and President of Democratic Republic of
Martin Van BurenAmerican
James StacyAmerican
Actor
Charles BabbageBritish
Father of the computer
Walter MatthauAmerican
Actor
Nancy DowAmerican
Actress
Peter FondaAmerican
Actor, Director
Antonin ScaliaAmerican
GeronimoAmerican
Leader
John FordAmerican
Film Director & Producer
Paulette GoddardAmerican
Film actress
DeForest KelleyAmerican
Actor
Robert CulpAmerican
Actor
Maria RasputinRussian
Grigori Rasputin’s Daughter
John CageAmerican
Composer, Writer
François MitterrandFrench
Former President of France
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William FrawleyAmerican
Actor
Ray MillandWelsh
Actor
William-Adolphe BouguereauFrench
Painter
John MarshallAmerican
Former Chief Justice
Richard BriersBritish
Actor
Mary McLeod BethuneAmerican
Educator
Charles X of FranceFrench
King of France and Navarre
Edward WoodwardBritish
Actor
Stephen CoveyAmerican
Writer of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
Hermione BaddeleyBritish, American
Actress
Winfield ScottAmerican
Military Officer
Jim CorbettBritish
Hunter, Naturalist, Writer
Édouard-Henri AvrilFrench
Painter
Nikolai BulganinRussian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Erich FrommGerman
Psychologist
Pope Pius XItalian
Head of the Catholic Church (1903-1914)
Audra LindleyAmerican
Actress
William HarveyBritish
Physician
Mircea EliadeRomanian
Historian of Religion
Aga Khan IIIIndian, Pakistani
Political Leader
Saint MatthiasIsraeli
Religious Leader
Ethel BarrymoreAmerican
Actress
William ShockleyAmerican
Physicist
Sam RayburnAmerican
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Amiri BarakaAmerican
Writer
Gabriel FauréFrench
French Composer & Pianist
Karlheinz StockhausenGerman
Composer
LiliʻuokalaniAmerican
Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Lord MountbattenBritish
Last Viceroy of British India and Governor-General
Roger WilliamsBritish, American
Theologian
Rab ButlerBritish
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
Paul TillichGerman, American
John LindsayAmerican
Politician, Former Mayor of New York City
Jaime EscalanteBolivian, American
Teacher
Charles IvesAmerican
Composer
Lillian HellmanAmerican
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Amedeo AvogadroItalian
Chemist and Physicist
Jerome RobbinsAmerican
Dance Choreographer
George DeweyAmerican
Military Leader
Mikhail BakhtinRussian
Philosopher
Adolphe SaxBelgian
Inventor of Saxophone
Yip ManChinese
Martial Artist
PindarGreek
Poet
Willie SuttonAmerican
Bank Robber
Thomas Hunt MorganAmerican
Geneticist
Marcel BreuerHungarian
Architect & Furniture Designer
Andrei GromykoRussian
Diplomat
John FowlesBritish
Writer & Teacher
Ann HardingAmerican
Actress
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st BaronetBritish
Father of Modern British Civil Service
David H. KochAmerican
Co-owner of Koch Industries
James FarmerAmerican
Civil Rights Activist
Leo BurnettAmerican
Businessman, Advertising Executive
Pierre BonnardFrench
Painter
William A. WellmanAmerican
Director
Bryce CourtenaySouth African
Novelist
William Henry BraggBritish
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Pitirim SorokinAmerican, Russian
Sociologist
Bill BlassAmerican
American fashion designer
Joshua LoganAmerican
Film & Stage Director, Writer
Alexandre YersinSwiss, French, Vietnamese
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Frederick SoddyBritish
Radiochemist
Tayeb SalihSudanese
Writer