1979 deaths

Uruguayan footballer (1900-1979)

American actress (1903–1979)

Soviet football, bandy, and ice hockey player (1922–1979)

Indian independence activist and political leader

Ukrainian and American composer

Monegasque racing driver

American catholic bishop and television presenter (1895–1979)

Norwegian political scientist

Russian psychologist (1903–1979)

American physicist (1898-1979)

American film star; member of the Marx Brothers (1901–1979)

American hotelier and member of the Hilton family

German general, Nazi, spy (1902-1979)

German physicist (1889-1979)

Russian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)

Finnish athletics competitor, recording artist; singer and film actor

German mathematician (1898–1979)

French journalist and novelist (1898–1979)

soldier and former military head of state of Ghana (1931-1979)

German poet (1914–1979)

American singer (1947–1979)

American film director and film editor (1897–1979)

Hungarian writer (1912–1979)

German general (1894-1979

American photographer (1906-1979)

American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader (1911-1979)

Iranian politician (1919-1979)

British actress (1915–1979)

American screenwriter, playwright, film director and producer, and theater director (1911-1979)

João Coelho Neto, known more commonly as Preguinho (8 February 1905 – 1 October 1979), was a Brazilian footballer who played as a striker.

Canadian sprinter (1907-1979)

German politician (1894-1979)

English scientist, engineer and inventor (1887-1979)

French film director (1888–1979)

American actor, director and producer (1886/7–1979)

Canadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentator (1891–1979)

French composer (1888–1979)

Belgian writer (1912–1979)

second President of the Republic of Ghana (1906-1979)

Ukrainian soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1928-1979)

American stage, radio and film actor (1898–1979)

soldier, politician, former Chief of Defence Staff and head of state of Ghana (1937-1979)

Soviet general (1903–1979)

soldier, politician, and former head of state of Ghana (1936-1979)

Afghan singer (1946-1979)

English literary critic and rhetorician (1893–1979)

Norwegian writer (1902–1979)

Italian architect (1891-1979)

American jazz guitarist and composer (1935–1979)

American anthropologist (1897–1979)

German aviation pioneer (1890–1979)

American actress (1909–1979)

American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director (1894-1979)

British psychoanalyst & psychiatrist (1897–1979)

Irish-American actor (1899-1979)

American philosopher (1903-1979)

Danish singer-songwriter (1925-1979)

Dutch politician (1897-1979)

Catholic cardinal (1890-1979)

Italian author and translator (1908-1979)