People who died in 1979
John Wayne
1907
– 1979
· Age 72
Deceased
Mary Pickford
1892
– 1979
· Age 87
Deceased
Park Chung-hee
1917
– 1979
· Age 61
Deceased
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
1928
– 1979
· Age 51
Deceased
Dennis Gabor
1900
– 1979
· Age 78
Deceased
Herbert Marcuse
1898
– 1979
· Age 81
Deceased
Josef Mengele
1911
– 1979
· Age 67
Deceased
Sid Vicious
1957
– 1979
· Age 21
Deceased
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
1906
– 1979
· Age 73
Deceased
Nelson Rockefeller
1908
– 1979
· Age 70
Deceased
Jean Renoir
1894
– 1979
· Age 84
Deceased
Giulio Natta
1903
– 1979
· Age 76
Deceased
Agostinho Neto
1922
– 1979
· Age 56
Deceased
Robert Burns Woodward
1917
– 1979
· Age 62
Deceased
Giuseppe Meazza
1910
– 1979
· Age 68
Deceased
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
1900
– 1979
· Age 79
Deceased
Ernst Chain
1906
– 1979
· Age 73
Deceased
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
1900
– 1979
· Age 79
Deceased
Mika Waltari
1908
– 1979
· Age 70
Deceased
Bertil Ohlin
1899
– 1979
· Age 80
Deceased
Talcott Parsons
1902
– 1979
· Age 76
Deceased
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
1924
– 1979
· Age 55
Deceased
Elizabeth Bishop
1911
– 1979
· Age 68
Deceased
Werner Forssmann
1904
– 1979
· Age 74
Deceased
Konstantin Simonov
1915
– 1979
· Age 63
Deceased