Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Captain Thomas Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere, styled The Honourable Thomas Cholmondeley from birth until 1931, was a British peer. Popularly known as Tom Delamere, he lived on and owned the vast estate known as Soysambu Ranch in Kenya.

Leverett A. Saltonstall was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States Senator (1945–1967). Saltonstall was internationalist in foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy, serving as a well-liked mediating force in the Republican Party. He was the only member of the Republican Senate leadership to vote for the censure of Joseph McCarthy.

Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

Bertil Ohlin, fue un economista sueco.

Theodora Kracaw Kroeber Quinn fue una escritora y antropóloga conocida por ser la autora de la historia de Ishi, el último miembro de la tribu yahi de California, y por su recopilación de la tradición oral de varias culturas nativas de California.