Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Anders Ek was a Swedish film actor. He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and died in Stockholm. He was married to Birgit Cullberg and is the father of dancer Niklas Ek, dancer Mats Ek and actress Malin Ek.

Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States.

Hilda Sofía María Adelaida Guillermina de Luxemburgo fue una princesa luxemburguesa del siglo XX.

Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryukov was a Soviet serial killer, convicted for the killing of five babies in the Moscow area between September and October 1977.

Andrei Nikolaevich Evseev (Russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Евсе́ев, 1955–1979), known as the "Tagansky Maniac", was a Soviet serial killer who operated in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast in the mid-1970s.

Walter Hochmuth was a German politician in the Weimar Republic (KPD), resistance fighter during the Nazi regime and a diplomat of East Germany.

Henrich Focke was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful German helicopter.

Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle, was a British nobleman and soldier, styled Viscount Bury from 1894 to 1942.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Safronov was a featherweight amateur boxer.

Yrjö Aulis Uramo Blomstedt fue un arquitecto finlandés.