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

Afghan singer-songwriter Ahmad Zahir died 14. June 1979. (born 1946)

Ghanaian general, 6th Head of state of Ghana Ignatius Kutu Acheampong died 16. June 1979. (born 1931)

American actor, director, and screenwriter Nicholas Ray died 16. June 1979. (born 1911)

American baseball player Duffy Lewis died 17. June 1979. (born 1888)

American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling Paul Popenoe died 19. June 1979. (born 1888)

American drummer and songwriter (Velvet Underground and Theatre of Eternal Music) Angus MacLise died 21. June 1979. (born 1938)

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

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

Latvian-American photographer Philippe Halsman died 25. June 1979. (born 1906)

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

French composer Louis Durey died 3. July 1979. (born 1888)

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

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

Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Sin-Itiro Tomonaga died 8. July 1979. (born 1906)

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

American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Robert Burns Woodward died 8. July 1979. (born 1917)

American actress and author Cornelia Otis Skinner died 9. July 1979. (born 1899)

American conductor Arthur Fiedler died 10. July 1979. (born 1894)

Canadian judge and politician Claude Wagner died 11. July 1979. (born 1925)

American singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton died 12. July 1979. (born 1947)