WHO ALL DIED FROM JANUARY TO AUGUST 1979
Find out who all died from January to August 1979

Italian pianist, composer, and conductor Nino Rota died 10. April 1979. (born 1911)

French gymnast Lucien Démanet died 16. March 1979. (born 1874)

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

American actress and pilot Gladys McConnell died 4. March 1979. (born 1905)

American roller coaster designer John C. Allen died 17. August 1979. (born 1907)

American author and poet James T. Farrell died 22. August 1979. (born 1904)

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

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

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

Iranian general Nematollah Nassiri died 16. February 1979. (born 1911)

Ceylon Tamil civil servant K. Alvapillai died 17. February 1979. (born 1905)

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

American baseball player Thurman Munson died 2. August 1979. (born 1947)

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna Akinoumi Setsuo died 25. March 1979. (born 1914)

American businessman Walter O`Malley died 9. August 1979. (born 1903)

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

Romanian-American rabbi and scholar Joel Teitelbaum died 19. August 1979. (born 1887)

English yodeler Harry Hopkinson died 4. March 1979. (born 1902)

American actor Jim Hutton died 2. June 1979. (born 1934)

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