Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Friedrich Strobel von Stein, conocido como Frederick Stafford fue un actor austriaco.

Karl (Carlo) Alberto Abarth fue un diseñador de automóviles, nacido austriaco, pero nacionalizado posteriormente italiano. Al hacer el cambio, hizo lo propio con su nombre, transformándolo a Carlo.

Marjorie Lawrence fue una soprano dramática australiana, particularmente destacada como intérprete de óperas de Richard Wagner.

Cavit Orhan Tütengil was a Turkish sociologist, writer and columnist, who was assassinated.

Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan was an Indian actor and politician active in Tamil plays and films. He was given the title "Nadigavel" by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. He mostly played villain roles, but had also acted in several films as comedian.

Bertha "Betty" Danko was an American stuntwoman and stunt double. She doubled for many leading actresses of the 1930s and 1940s, but is best known for having doubled for Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. During the filming of the skywriting scene, a pipe attached to the Witch's broomstick exploded, landing Danko in the hospital with a serious leg wound. Her career was cut short by a non-stunt accident in the late 1950s when she was struck by a car while waiting for a bus. She resided in a Hollywood bungalow for 50 years with her widowed mother.

Rachele Mussolini, de soltera Rachele Guidi, conocida también como Donna Rachele fue la esposa y, posteriormente, viuda oficial del dictador italiano Benito Mussolini.

Shaykh Mahmoud Khalil al-Hussary, also known as Al-Hussary, was an Egyptian Qari widely acclaimed for his accurate recitation of the Qur'an. Al-Hussary committed the entire Qur'an to memory by age 8 and started reciting at public gatherings by age 12. In 1944, Al-Hussary won Egypt Radio's Qu'ran Recitation competition which had around 200 participants, including veterans like Muhammad Rifat. The quadrumvirate of El Minshawy, Abdul Basit, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary are generally considered the most important and famous Qurra' of modern times to have had an outsized impact on the Islamic world.

Richard Charles Rodgers fue un compositor estadounidense, considerado importante en Broadway en la época de los compositores Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter o Jule Styne y compuso la melodía de canciones incluidas en el cancionero americano como Blue Moon (1934). Compuso la melodía de todas las canciones de La Novicia Rebelde o en España Sonrisas y Lágrimas.

Giuseppe Meazza fue un futbolista y entrenador italiano que jugaba en la posición de delantero y fue internacional con la selección de Italia.