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Deaths on the year of 1979 in history

Deaths
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03 Jan 1979 Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
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05 Jan 1979 Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922)
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05 Jan 1979 Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
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07 Jan 1979 Zbigniew Turski: Composer, dies at 70
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08 Jan 1979 Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (Carter Family) (b. 1898)
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09 Jan 1979 Avery Claflin: Composer, dies at 80
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09 Jan 1979 Sara Carter: Vocalist / guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
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09 Jan 1979 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
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11 Jan 1979 Jack Soo, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
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13 Jan 1979 Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
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13 Jan 1979 Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
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14 Jan 1979 Thomas DeSimone, American gangster (b. 1950)
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16 Jan 1979 August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
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16 Jan 1979 Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
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16 Jan 1979 Fred Elizalde composer, dies at 71
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18 Jan 1979 Cyril Mockridge composer, dies at 82
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19 Jan 1979 Paul Meurisse actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies
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20 Jan 1979 Gustav Winckler, Danish singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
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22 Jan 1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
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24 Jan 1979 Jerry Damon comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
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24 Jan 1979 Mabel Taliaferro actress (My Love Come Back), dies at 91
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25 Jan 1979 J Robertson Hare actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
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26 Jan 1979 Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
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27 Jan 1979 Qalandar Baba Auliya, Indian-Pakistani mystic, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1898)
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28 Jan 1979 Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
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01 Feb 1979 Mort Marshall: Actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
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01 Feb 1979 Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
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02 Feb 1979 Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (b. 1957)
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03 Feb 1979 Jody Gilbert: Actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite)
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06 Feb 1979 Alain Teister: Dutch Sculptor / writer, dies at 47
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07 Feb 1979 Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (b. 1911)
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08 Feb 1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov: Russian poet, dies at 82
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08 Feb 1979 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
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09 Feb 1979 Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
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10 Feb 1979 Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1910)
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12 Feb 1979 Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
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13 Feb 1979 Jean Renoir actor/director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
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14 Feb 1979 Adolph Dubs, American lieutenant and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (b. 1920)
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15 Feb 1979 Alex Bradford actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51
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15 Feb 1979 Mehdi Rahimi Iran General/military Governor of Tehran, executed
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16 Feb 1979 Nematollah Nassiri, Iranian general (b. 1911)
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16 Feb 1979 Louise Allbritton actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58
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16 Feb 1979 William Gargan actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73
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16 Feb 1979 Nematullah Nassiri Iran General/head of Savak, executed
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17 Feb 1979 William Gargan actor (Rain, Bells of St Mary), dies at 73
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21 Feb 1979 Glendon Gibbs cricketer (Test Cricket West Indies vs Australia 1955), dies
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21 Feb 1979 Ray Whitley composer, dies
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22 Feb 1979 Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic (b. 1877)
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23 Feb 1979 W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
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28 Feb 1979 Mr Ed talking horse, dies
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28 Feb 1979 Jane Hylton English actress (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52
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01 Mar 1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani: Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
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01 Mar 1979 Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
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02 Mar 1979 Edith Craig: Actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71
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02 Mar 1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani: Kurdish leader, dies at 75
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02 Mar 1979 Richard Sykes: British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
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02 Mar 1979 Christy Ring, Irish hurler (b. 1920)
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04 Mar 1979 Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (b. 1926)
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04 Mar 1979 Mike Patto, English singer and keyboard player (Spooky Tooth, Boxer, Patto, and Timebox) (b. 1942)
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04 Mar 1979 Gladys McConnell, American actress and pilot (b. 1905)
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05 Mar 1979 Vicente Ascone: Composer, dies at 81
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06 Mar 1979 Charles Wagenheim: Actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83
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07 Mar 1979 Guiomar Novaes: Pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
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07 Mar 1979 Klaus Egge: Norwegian Composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
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09 Mar 1979 Barbara Mullen: Actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64
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11 Mar 1979 Victor Kilian actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
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12 Mar 1979 Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928)
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16 Mar 1979 Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
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16 Mar 1979 Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (b. 1874)
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16 Mar 1979 Jean-Guy Cardinal, Canadian politician (b. 1925)
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17 Mar 1979 Merv Inverarity cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
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19 Mar 1979 Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
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19 Mar 1979 Al Hodge actor (Captain Video), dies at 65
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22 Mar 1979 Ben Lyon actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Indiscreet), dies at 78
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23 Mar 1979 Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
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23 Mar 1979 Philip Bourneuf actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71
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24 Mar 1979 Yvonne Mitchell writer, dies at 53
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25 Mar 1979 Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
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25 Mar 1979 Robert Madgwick, Australian colonel and academic (b. 1905)
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25 Mar 1979 ... Sykes British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
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25 Mar 1979 Anton Heiller composer, dies at 55
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26 Mar 1979 Jean Stafford, American author and academic (b. 1915)
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26 Mar 1979 Beauford Delaney, American-French painter (b. 1901)
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27 Mar 1979 Melville S. Green, American physicist and academic (b. 1922)
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27 Mar 1979 William Elliott, Canadian captain and pilot (b. 1898)
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27 Mar 1979 Vincenc Beneš, Czech painter (b. 1883)
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27 Mar 1979 Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett, New Zealand physicist and meteorologist (b. 1901)
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27 Mar 1979 Ronald Adam actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
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28 Mar 1979 Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (b. 1898)
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29 Mar 1979 Melville Cooper TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82
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30 Mar 1979 Ray Ventura, French pianist and bandleader (b. 1908)
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30 Mar 1979 Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1916)
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01 Apr 1979 Marinus Peijnenburg: Dutch politician, dies at 51
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01 Apr 1979 Barbara Luddy, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
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01 Apr 1979 Bruno Coquatrix, French talent manager (b. 1910)
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02 Apr 1979 Carroll D Rosenbloom: LA Rams President, dies at 72
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04 Apr 1979 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto: Pakistani President, hanged in Pakistan at 51
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04 Apr 1979 Edgar Buchanan, American actor and singer (b. 1903)
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04 Apr 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (b. 1928)
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05 Apr 1979 Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and painter (b. 1893)
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06 Apr 1979 M Marie Widlow: Softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61
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06 Apr 1979 Milton Ager: US composer, dies at 85
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06 Apr 1979 Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
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07 Apr 1979 Bruno Apitz: Writer, dies at 78
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09 Apr 1979 Staats Cotsworth: Dies at 71
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10 Apr 1979 Nino Rota, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
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10 Apr 1979 Henri
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20 Apr 1979 Peter Donald host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
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23 Apr 1979 Blair Peach, New Zealand-English educator and activist (b. 1946)
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24 Apr 1979 John Carroll actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
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27 Apr 1979 Celal Atik, Turkish wrestler and trainer (b. 1918)
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28 Apr 1979 Feliks Roderyk Labunski composer, dies at 86
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29 Apr 1979 Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
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29 Apr 1979 Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
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29 Apr 1979 Julia A Perry US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
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02 May 1979 Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
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08 May 1979 Talcott Parsons: US sociologist, dies at 76
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09 May 1979 Lan Adomian: Composer, dies at 73
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09 May 1979 Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
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10 May 1979 John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton satirist (Beachcomber), dies
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10 May 1979 Louis Paul Boon Flemish writer (Eros & the Lonely Man), dies at 67
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11 May 1979 Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass) (b. 1914)
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11 May 1979 Joan Chandler dies at 55
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11 May 1979 Lester Raymond Flatt musician (Flatt & Scruggs-Ballad of Jed Clampett), dies at 64
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12 May 1979 Ileana Sararoiu, Romanian singer (b. 1936)
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13 May 1979 Nelly Aenders actress (In Pyama), dies at 65
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14 May 1979 Jean Rhys, Dominican-English author (b. 1890)
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14 May 1979 Paul van 't Veeer Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk), dies at 57
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16 May 1979 A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)
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16 May 1979 Asa Philip Randolph labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
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23 May 1979 S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)
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23 May 1979 Hubert van Doorne auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79
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24 May 1979 Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
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24 May 1979 Jan Arvan actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies
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25 May 1979 Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
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25 May 1979 John Spenkelink, American murderer (b. 1949)
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26 May 1979 George Brent, Irish-American actor and singer (b. 1899)
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29 May 1979 Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
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29 May 1979 John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
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30 May 1979 Jack Raine actor (Quartet), dies at 82
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31 May 1979 Nigel Howard cricketer (England captain 1951-52 tour of India), dies
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01 Jun 1979 Jack Mulhall: Actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
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01 Jun 1979 Werner Forssman: German urologist (Nobel 1956)
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01 Jun 1979 Werner Forssmann, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
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02 Jun 1979 Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
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03 Jun 1979 Arno Schmidt: Writer, dies at 65
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05 Jun 1979 Pauline Offner: Zen Theravadin nun, dies at 53
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06 Jun 1979 Jack Haley, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
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07 Jun 1979 Asa Earl Carter, American Ku Klux Klan leader (b. 1925)
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08 Jun 1979 Herb Polesie: Producer / playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79
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08 Jun 1979 Louis Salvador Palange: Composer, dies at 61
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09 Jun 1979 Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (b. 1884)
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11 Jun 1979 August Maes: Flemish actor / director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
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11 Jun 1979 Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author (b. 1893)
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11 Jun 1979 John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
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13 Jun 1979 Darla Hood, American actress, voice actress, and singer (b. 1931)
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13 Jun 1979 Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (I Ribelli and Area) (b. 1945)
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15 Jun 1979 Ernst Meister: Writer, dies at 67
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16 Jun 1979 Ben Weber: US Composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
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16 Jun 1979 Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich: Writer, dies at 77
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16 Jun 1979 Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (b. 1931)
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16 Jun 1979 Nicholas Ray, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
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17 Jun 1979 Duffy Lewis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
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17 Jun 1979 Lou Frizzel actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
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21 Jun 1979 Julian Orchard: Actor (Perfect Friday, Bless this House), dies at 49
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22 Jun 1979 Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (b. 1899)
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22 Jun 1979 Emory Parnell St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
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22 Jun 1979 Julius Sommer dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
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25 Jun 1979 Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894)
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25 Jun 1979 Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American photographer (b. 1906)
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26 Jun 1979 Charles Clore: Financier
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26 Jun 1979 Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian politician (b. 1936)
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28 Jun 1979 Paul Dessau: German Composer / conducter (Berlin, 1925-33), dies at 84
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29 Jun 1979 Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1945)
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30 Jun 1979 Alfons Vranckx: Belgian politician, dies at 72
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01 Jul 1979 Richard Ward: Actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
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03 Jul 1979 Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
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04 Jul 1979 Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1905)
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05 Jul 1979 Elizabeth Ryan: Tennis ace (won 19 Wimbledon titles), dies at 87
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05 Jul 1979 Judson Laire: Actor / singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76
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06 Jul 1979 Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
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08 Jul 1979 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
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08 Jul 1979 Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
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08 Jul 1979 Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
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09 Jul 1979 Betty Evans Grayson: Softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53
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09 Jul 1979 Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
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10 Jul 1979 Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
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11 Jul 1979 Claude Wagner, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1925)
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12 Jul 1979 Kalervo Tuukkanen: Composer, dies at 69
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12 Jul 1979 Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
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12 Jul 1979 Minnie Ripperton singer (Lovin' You), dies of cancer at 30
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13 Jul 1979 Corine Griffith: Dies at 84
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13 Jul 1979 Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
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14 Jul 1979 George De Witt TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
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15 Jul 1979 Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
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16 Jul 1979 James F Mcintyre: Archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
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16 Jul 1979 Alfred Deller, English singer (b. 1912)
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21 Jul 1979 Ludwig Renn: Writer, dies at 90
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22 Jul 1979 Soschtschenko: Writer, dies at 83
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22 Jul 1979 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento: Boxer / actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69
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22 Jul 1979 J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
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22 Jul 1979 Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
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22 Jul 1979 Hope Summers actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78
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23 Jul 1979 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and author (b. 1898)
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24 Jul 1979 Archie Duncan actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65
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27 Jul 1979 Ettore Manni: Actor (Street People, Divine Nymph), dies at 52
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27 Jul 1979 Shirley Mason: Actress (Let it Rain, Dark Skies), dies at 79
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29 Jul 1979 Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1898)
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29 Jul 1979 Bill Todman, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
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31 Jul 1979 Beatrix Lehmann, English actress and director (b. 1903)
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02 Aug 1979 Thurmon Munson: New York Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
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02 Aug 1979 Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)
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03 Aug 1979 Renato Fasano: Composer, dies at 76
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03 Aug 1979 Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
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03 Aug 1979 Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
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06 Aug 1979 Kurt Kasznar: Actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
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06 Aug 1979 Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
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08 Aug 1979 Nicholas Monsarrat, English author (b. 1910)
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09 Aug 1979 Allan Frank: Actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64
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09 Aug 1979 Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
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09 Aug 1979 Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953)
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10 Aug 1979 Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
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10 Aug 1979 Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
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11 Aug 1979 J. G. Farrell, English author (b. 1935)
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12 Aug 1979 Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
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13 Aug 1979 Andrew Dasburg, American painter (b. 1887)
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16 Aug 1979 John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
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17 Aug 1979 John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
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17 Aug 1979 Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
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19 Aug 1979 Dorsey Burnette: Rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
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22 Aug 1979 Henry Beernink: Politician, dies at 69
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22 Aug 1979 James T Farrell: US writer (French Girls are Vicious)
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23 Aug 1979 Richard Hearne: Actor (Captain Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
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25 Aug 1979 Stan Kenton orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
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27 Aug 1979 Boleslaw Szabelski: Composer, dies at 82
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27 Aug 1979 Louis Mountbatten: British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
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27 Aug 1979 Earl Mountbatten British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
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28 Aug 1979 Simonow: Writer
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29 Aug 1979 Mary Marquet: Actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84
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29 Aug 1979 Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author (b. 1890)
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30 Aug 1979 Jean Seberg, American actress and singer (b. 1938)
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31 Aug 1979 Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
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31 Aug 1979 Tiger Smith, England cricketer (b. 1886)
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01 Sep 1979 Doris Kenyon: Silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81
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02 Sep 1979 Felix Aylmer: Actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90
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02 Sep 1979 Otto P. Weyland, American general (b. 1903)
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04 Sep 1979 Jef van de Wiele: Belgian politician, dies at 76
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04 Sep 1979 Canuplin, Filipino magician (b. 1904)
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05 Sep 1979 Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (b. 1884)
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06 Sep 1979 Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (b. 1910)
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08 Sep 1979 Jean Seberg: Actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
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09 Sep 1979 Solon Michaelides: Composer, dies at 73
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09 Sep 1979 Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1914)
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10 Sep 1979 Stanislav Pylypovych Lyudkevych: Composer, dies at 99
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10 Sep 1979 Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
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14 Sep 1979 Raymond Loucheur: Composer, dies at 80
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14 Sep 1979 Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (b. 1917)
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15 Sep 1979 Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
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16 Sep 1979 Nur Mohammed Taraki: President of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
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17 Sep 1979 Miloslav Kabelac: Composer, dies at 71
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18 Sep 1979 Gene Kelly sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
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20 Sep 1979 Ludvik Svoboda: Czech General / politician, dies at 83
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20 Sep 1979 Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
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21 Sep 1979 John McQuade actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73
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23 Sep 1979 Catherine Lacey, English actress (b. 1904)
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25 Sep 1979 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower, actor, and singer (b. 1915)
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26 Sep 1979 John Cromwell: Actor / director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
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26 Sep 1979 Seymour Shifrin: Composer, dies at 53
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26 Sep 1979 Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
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27 Sep 1979 Gracie Fields, English-Italian actress and singer (b. 1898)
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27 Sep 1979 Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (One in a Million, Small Faces, Wings, Thunderclap Newman, and The Dukes) (b. 1953)
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27 Sep 1979 Jimmy McCullough musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose
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28 Sep 1979 John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
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28 Sep 1979 Jimmy McCulloch guitarist of Wings, dies at 26
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01 Oct 1979 Roy Harris: US composer, dies at 81
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03 Oct 1979 Charles White: Artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles, California
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03 Oct 1979 Claudia Jennings: Playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29
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03 Oct 1979 Ray Genet, Swiss-American mountaineer (b. 1931)
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03 Oct 1979 Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (b. 1940)
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03 Oct 1979 Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
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04 Oct 1979 Christina Spierenburg: Dutch singer, dies at 56
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05 Oct 1979 Charlie Smith: Oldest American (137 year)
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06 Oct 1979 Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and author (b. 1911)
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08 Oct 1979 June Nash: Actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
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08 Oct 1979 Emmaline Henry, American actress (b. 1928)
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08 Oct 1979 Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
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10 Oct 1979 Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (b. 1931)
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10 Oct 1979 Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1886)
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13 Oct 1979 Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1905)
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13 Oct 1979 Clarence Muse actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90
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16 Oct 1979 Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)
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17 Oct 1979 Karel Reiner: Composer, dies at 69
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17 Oct 1979 S. J. Perelman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1904)
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17 Oct 1979 John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
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22 Oct 1979 Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
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22 Oct 1979 Jesse Bishop murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber
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25 Oct 1979 Gerald Templer, English field marshal (b. 1898)
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26 Oct 1979 Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (b. 1917)
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30 Oct 1979 Rachele Mussolini, Italian wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
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30 Oct 1979 Barnes Wallis, English scientist and engineer, invented the Bouncing bomb (b. 1887)
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01 Nov 1979 Jacques Mesrine: French "enemy of the state", shot to death
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01 Nov 1979 Mamie Eisenhower, American wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 36th First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
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02 Nov 1979 Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
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05 Nov 1979 Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
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07 Nov 1979 Amedeo Nazzari: Actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71
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07 Nov 1979 Paolo Carlini: Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53
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08 Nov 1979 Sydney Tafler: Actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
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09 Nov 1979 Lewis Charles: Actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
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10 Nov 1979 Friedrich Thorberg: Writer, dies at 71
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12 Nov 1979 Dimitri Tiompkin: Composer, dies at 85
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17 Nov 1979 John Glassock: Bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery
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17 Nov 1979 John Grascock of Jethro Tull, dies at 27 following heart surgery
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22 Nov 1979 Anne Vondeling: Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
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23 Nov 1979 Merle Oberon actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
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30 Nov 1979 Joyce Grenfell: Adventure for Two, Actress, dies at 69
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30 Nov 1979 Zeppo Marx, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
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03 Dec 1979 Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1905)
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04 Dec 1979 Robert Karnes: Actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
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05 Dec 1979 Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
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07 Dec 1979 Mari Andriessen: Sculptor (Docker), Amsterdam, dies at 82
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07 Dec 1979 Nicolas Born: Writer, dies at 41
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07 Dec 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
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09 Dec 1979 Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
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10 Dec 1979 Ann Dvorak, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
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10 Dec 1979 Fulton J Sheen archbishop/religious broadcaster (Life is Worth Living), dies from a heart attack in New York NY at 84
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11 Dec 1979 James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
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11 Dec 1979 Claire Carleton New York NY, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
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13 Dec 1979 Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915)
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13 Dec 1979 Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916)
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14 Dec 1979 Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury cricketer (2 Tests for India, average 205), dies
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15 Dec 1979 Bern Hoffman actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
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21 Dec 1979 Bill Anderson cricketer (Test for New Zealand 1946, scored five & one), dies
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22 Dec 1979 Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1902)
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23 Dec 1979 Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
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24 Dec 1979 Dirk Uipko Stikker Dutch CEO (Heineken)/Secretary-General NATO, dies at 82
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24 Dec 1979 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke German student leader, dies at 39
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25 Dec 1979 Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
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25 Dec 1979 Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
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25 Dec 1979 Lee Bowman actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
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27 Dec 1979 Hafizullah Amin, Afghan educator and politician, 2nd President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
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30 Dec 1979 Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902)
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