WHO ALL DIED IN 1979.
See all who died in 1979.

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

American actor Billy Bletcher died 5. January 1979. (born 1894)

American bassist and composer Charles Mingus died 5. January 1979. (born 1922)

American singer-songwriter and harp player (Carter Family) Sara Carter died 8. January 1979. (born 1898)

Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower Pier Luigi Nervi died 9. January 1979. (born 1891)

American actor Jack Soo died 11. January 1979. (born 1917)

American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer Donny Hathaway died 13. January 1979. (born 1945)

Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence died 13. January 1979. (born 1907)

American gangster Thomas DeSimone died 14. January 1979. (born 1950)

American actor Ted Cassidy died 16. January 1979. (born 1932)

German SS officer August Heissmeyer died 16. January 1979. (born 1897)

Danish singer-songwriter Gustav Winckler died 20. January 1979. (born 1925)

Palestinian rebel leader Ali Hassan Salameh died 22. January 1979. (born 1940)

American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States Nelson Rockefeller died 26. January 1979. (born 1908)

Indian mystic Qalandar Baba Auliya died 27. January 1979. (born 1898)

Irish poet Eileen Shanahan died 28. January 1979. (born 1901)

Turkish journalist Abdi İpekçi died 1. February 1979. (born 1929)

English singer and bass player (Sex Pistols, Vicious White Kids, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Flowers of Romance) Sid Vicious died 2. February 1979. (born 1957)

German SS officer and physician Josef Mengele died 7. February 1979. (born 1911)

Hungarian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Dennis Gabor died 8. February 1979. (born 1900)