WHO ALL DIED FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1979
Find out who all died from January to December 1979

French pianist and bandleader Ray Ventura died 30. March 1979. (born 1908)

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

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

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

American playwright and composer Richard Rodgers died 30. December 1979. (born 1902)

American actor Arthur Hunnicutt died 26. September 1979. (born 1910)

American Ku Klux Klan leader and author Asa Earl Carter died 7. June 1979. (born 1925)

Iraqi-Kurdistan politician Mustafa Barzani died 1. March 1979. (born 1903)

American archbishop Fulton J. Sheen died 9. December 1979. (born 1895)

American singer-songwriter and producer Van McCoy died 6. July 1979. (born 1940)

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

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

American actress Darla Hood died 13. June 1979. (born 1931)

American animator, director, and producer Dave Fleischer died 25. June 1979. (born 1894)

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

Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant Cyclone Taylor died 9. June 1979. (born 1884)

American actor and singer Dick Foran died 10. August 1979. (born 1910)

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

American author and illustrator Hardie Gramatky died 29. April 1979. (born 1907)

English composer, conductor, and producer Norrie Paramor died 9. September 1979. (born 1914)