Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Brigitte Rau was a German actress.

Akiyoshi Umekawa was a Japanese mass murderer who killed a woman on December 16, 1963, and shot dead four people on January 26, 1979. Mass media also used a number of different possible readings of his given name, including Teruyoshi, Terumi, Akimi and Akemi. He was one of the rare criminals who was shot dead by Japanese police.

Pastora Imperio es el nombre artístico de Pastora Rojas Monje, bailaora gitana sevillana y una de las figuras más representativas del folclore flamenco de todos los tiempos. Fue bisabuela de la actriz española Pastora Vega.

Mary Marquet fue una actriz teatral y cinematográfica de nacionalidad francesa.

Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE fue una escritora, intelectual, ensayista, traductora, editora, filántropa y mecenas argentina. Publicó libros como La laguna de los nenúfares (1926), diez tomos de Testimonios y Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro (1961).

Younis Saleh Bahri al-Juburi was an Iraqi traveler, journalist, broadcaster, and writer. He was born in January 1904 in Mosul, and was nicknamed "the sailor" for having studied in a military school in Istanbul and graduated as a naval officer. In 1921, he continued his education in the Cavalry Military School in Munich, where he met Adolf Hitler. He has written many books, traveled to several countries, and he is said to have mastered over 17 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has founded multiple radio stations, including the first Arab radio station in the European continent in 1939, Arab Radio of Berlin, which broadcast from Germany to the Arab world. His famous catchphrase was: "This is Berlin, the neighborhood of Arabs." On air, he would make speeches, where he would insult some kings and presidents. He has met some very famous people of his time, and was sentenced to death four times. His personality did, and still does, cause controversy around the nature of his work and his different professions. While he lived in India, he was a monk during the day and a dancer at a nightclub during the night, but still managed to find time to work as a reporter for an Indian newspaper. He was also a Mufti in Indonesia, an Editor in Chief for a newspaper in Java, an Imam in Paris, and gained the nickname "the Legend of the Earth".

Heinrich-Friedrich Reinefarth, conocido como Heinz Reinefarth, también conocido como "el carnicero de Wola" o "el aplasta rebeliones", fue un General de División de las Waffen SS alemanas durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Durante el levantamiento de Varsovia sus tropas fueron responsables de un gran cantidad de excesos contra la población civil, incluyendo la denominada matanza de Wola. Después de la guerra, Reinefarth se convirtió en alcalde del pueblo de Westerland, Schleswig-Holstein y miembro de la asamblea del mismo estado federado. Nunca se le responsabilizó de los crímenes cometidos durante la guerra.

Masataka Taketsuru was a Japanese chemist and businessman who founded Japan's first whisky industry. He was born in 1894 in Takehara, Hiroshima, to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733.

Georges Maurice Edmond Dorléac fue un actor francés de teatro y cine. Fue padre de Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac y Sylvie Dorléac. Fue el esposo de Renée Simonot, quien interpretó la versión francesa de Olivia de Havilland.

Valentin Ivanovich Zubkov was a Soviet film actor. He was born in Peschanoye Settlement of Ryazan Province. He finished Armavir Military Aviation School (1941–1943) and served as a pilot at frontlines of the German-Soviet War.