Famous People Who Died In 1979

• Fulton J. Sheen

  Archbishop

  Illinois, United States of America

• Dennis Gabor

  Scientist

  Hungary

• Giulio Natta

  Scientist

  Imperia, Italy

• Allen Tate

  Poet

  Kentucky, United States of America

• George Seaton

  Screenwriter

  Indiana, United States of America

• Jayaprakash Narayan

  Politician

  Bihar, India

• Marjorie Lee Browne

  Educator

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Charles Mingus

  Musician

  Arizona, United States of America

• Jean Renoir

  Actor

  Île-de-France, France

• Robert Burn Woodworth

  Chemist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Immanuel Velikovsky

  Author

  Vitebsk, Belarus

• Nadia Boulanger

  Composer

  Île-de-France, France

• Merle Oberon

  Actress

  Maharashtra, India

• Barnes Wallis

  Scientist

  England, United Kingdom

• Josef Mengele

  War Criminal

  Bavaria, Germany

• Corinne Griffith

  Actress

  Texas, United States of America

• Mary Pickford

  Actress

  Ontario, Canada

• Walter Gerlach

  Physicist

  Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

• Conrad Hilton

  Entrepreneur

  New Mexico, United States of America

• Sonia Delaunay

  Artist

  Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

• John Wayne

  Actor

  Iowa, United States of America

• Richard Rodgers

  Composer

  New York, United States of America

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Evangelist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Ernst Boris Chain

  Biochemist

  Berlin, Germany

• A. Phillip Randolph

  Politician

  Florida, United States of America

• Feodor Lynen

  Biochemist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Agostinho Neto

  Politician

  Bengo Province, Angola

• Vivian Vance

  Actress

  Kansas, United States of America

• Jean Monnet

  Economist

  France

• Nelson Rockefeller

  Politician

  Maine, United States of America

• Sid Vicious

  Bassist

  London, United Kingdom

• Shinichiro Tomonaga

  Physicist

  Tokyo, Japan

• Bertil Gotthard Ohlin

  Economist

  Scania, Sweden

• Philippe Halsman

  Photographer

  Latvia

• Léonide Massine

  Ballet Dancer

  Russia

• Walter O'Malley

  Businessperson

  New York, United States of America

• A. Philip Randolph

  Politician

  Florida, United States of America

• Lester Flatt

  Guitarist

  Tennessee, United States Of America

• José María Velasco Ibarra

  Dictator

  Pichincha, Ecuador

• Mamie Eisenhower

  Family Member

  Iowa, United States of America

• Ted Cassidy

  Actor

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Stan Kenton

  Pianist

  Kansas, United States of America

• Zeppo Marx

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Aaron Douglas

  Illustrator

  Kansas, united states of America

• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Politician

  Sindh, Pakistan

• Lord Mountbatten

  Navy Officer

  Berkshire, England

• Dorothy Arzner

  Director

  California, united states of America

• Katharine Burr Blodgett

  Entrepreneur

  New York, United States