WHO ALL DIED FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1979
Find out who all died from January to October 1979

English actor Michael Wilding died 8. July 1979. (born 1912)

American murderer John Spenkelink died 25. May 1979. (born 1949)

Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico Gustavo Díaz Ordaz died 15. July 1979. (born 1911)

American author Gertrude Chandler Warner died 29. August 1979. (born 1890)

England cricketer Tiger Smith died 31. August 1979. (born 1886)

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) Lowell George died 29. June 1979. (born 1945)

American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts Conrad Hilton died 3. January 1979. (born 1887)

English-Italian actress and singer Gracie Fields died 27. September 1979. (born 1898)

American actor, director, and producer John Wayne died 11. June 1979. (born 1907)

Belgian painter and poet Christian Dotremont died 20. August 1979. (born 1922)

French journalist and author Joseph Kessel died 23. July 1979. (born 1898)

American union leader and activist A. Philip Randolph died 16. May 1979. (born 1889)

German mountaineer Hannelore Schmatz died 3. October 1979. (born 1940)

Dominican-English author Jean Rhys died 14. May 1979. (born 1890)

German physician, Nobel Prize laureate Werner Forssmann died 1. June 1979. (born 1904)

Ceylon Tamil geographer and academic S. Selvanayagam died 23. May 1979. (born 1932)

Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Giulio Natta died 2. May 1979. (born 1903)

Chinese footballer Lee Wai Tong died 4. July 1979. (born 1905)

Monegasque race car driver Louis Chiron died 22. June 1979. (born 1899)