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 Wilson11 March 1916, British
Former British Prime Minister
Elizabeth Taylor27 February 1932, British, American
Anthony Eden12 June 1897, British
Prime Minister of UK
Merle Haggard06 April 1937, American
Johnny Carson23 October 1925, American
Television Host
Immanuel Kant22 April 1724, German
Philosopher
H. G. Wells21 September 1866, British
Writer
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Viking Warrior
Maria Rasputin27 March 1898, Russian
Grigori Rasputin’s Daughter
Charles de Gaulle22 November 1890, French
Former President of France
Ho Chi Minh19 May 1890, Vietnamese
Former PM and President of Democratic Republic of
Robert Mitchum06 August 1917, American
Film actor
James Stacy23 December 1936, American
Actor
Martin Van Buren05 December 1782, American
Danny Thomas06 January 1912, American
Charles Babbage26 December 1791, British
Father of the computer
George Wallace25 August 1919, American
Nancy Dow22 July 1936, American
Actress
Peter Fonda23 February 1940, American
Actor, Director
Ella Fitzgerald25 April 1917, American
Singer
Walter Matthau01 October 1920, American
Actor
Geronimo16 June 1829, American
Leader
Antonin Scalia11 March 1936, American
George Washington Carver01 January 1864, American
Scientist & Inventor
Robert Culp16 August 1930, American
Actor
François Mitterrand26 October 1916, French
Former President of France
John Ford01 February 1894, American
Film Director & Producer
Paulette Goddard03 June 1910, American
Film actress
DeForest Kelley20 January 1920, American
Actor
John Cage05 September 1912, American
Composer, Writer
John Marshall24 September 1755, American
Former Chief Justice
William Frawley26 February 1887, American
Actor
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Edward Woodward01 June 1930, British
Actor
Jim Corbett25 July 1875, British
Hunter, Naturalist, Writer
Ray Milland03 January 1907, Welsh
Actor
Charles X of France09 October 1757, French
King of France and Navarre
Stephen Covey24 October 1932, American
Writer of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
William Harvey01 April 1578, British
Physician
Lord Mountbatten25 June 1900, British
Last Viceroy of British India and Governor-General
Jaime Escalante31 December 1930, Bolivian, American
Teacher
Nikolai Bulganin11 June 1895, Russian
Former Premier of the Soviet Union
Richard Briers14 January 1934, British
Actor
William Shockley13 February 1910, American
Physicist
Audra Lindley24 September 1918, American
Actress
Gabriel Fauré12 May 1845, French
French Composer & Pianist
Hermione Baddeley13 November 1906, British, American
Actress
Karlheinz Stockhausen22 August 1928, German
Composer
Paul Tillich20 August 1886, German, American
Roger Williams21 December 1603, British, American
Theologian
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882, American
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Rab Butler09 December 1902, British
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer
John Lindsay24 November 1921, American
Politician, Former Mayor of New York City
Adolphe Sax06 November 1814, Belgian
Inventor of Saxophone
Jerome Robbins11 October 1918, American
Dance Choreographer
Lillian Hellman20 June 1905, American
Dramatist and Screenwriter
Mary McLeod Bethune10 July 1875, American
Educator
Amiri Baraka07 October 1934, American
Writer
Ethel Barrymore15 August 1879, American
Actress
Marcel Breuer21 May 1902, Hungarian
Architect & Furniture Designer
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866, American
Geneticist
Willie Sutton30 June 1901, American
Bank Robber
Leo Burnett21 October 1891, American
Businessman, Advertising Executive
Andrei Gromyko18 July 1909, Russian
Diplomat
David H. Koch03 May 1940, American
Co-owner of Koch Industries
John Fowles31 March 1926, British
Writer & Teacher
James Farmer12 January 1920, American
Civil Rights Activist
Yip Man01 October 1893, Chinese
Martial Artist
William A. Wellman29 February 1896, American
Director
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet02 April 1807, British
Father of Modern British Civil Service
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Bryce Courtenay14 August 1933, South African
Novelist
Pitirim Sorokin21 January 1889, American, Russian
Sociologist
Bill Blass22 June 1922, American
American fashion designer
Frederick Soddy02 September 1877, British
Radiochemist
Ann Harding07 August 1902, American
Actress
Alexandre Yersin22 September 1863, Swiss, French, Vietnamese
Discoverer of Yersinia Pestis
Tayeb Salih12 July 1929, Sudanese
Writer
Joshua Logan05 October 1908, American
Film & Stage Director, Writer
Joan Aiken04 September 1924, American
Writer
Allen Tate19 November 1899, American
Poet
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882, American
Physicist
Betty Cuthbert20 April 1938, Australian
Athlete
Kenichi Fukui04 October 1918, Japanese
Chemist
Milton Avery07 March 1885, American
Painter
Heinrich Rohrer06 June 1933, Swiss
Physicist
Derek Barton08 September 1918, British
Chemist
William Dieterle15 July 1893, German
Actor, Director
Giambattista della Porta01 November 1535, Italian
Scholar, Polymath
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879, British
Physicist
Haldan Keffer Hartline22 December 1903, American
Physiologist
Hugo Theorell06 July 1903, Swedish
Swedish scientist
Albert Anker01 April 1831, Swiss
Painter
Archibald Alexander17 April 1772, American
American theologian
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28 October 1914, British
Biochemist