Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff was a Russian-American painter and professor of art. He worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area from 1925 to 1963, including two decades as a teacher at Stanford University, and was particularly prolific as a muralist during the 1930s. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen, but returned to the Soviet Union after the death of his wife, continuing his career there before his death.

Paul Wilhelm Massing was a German sociologist.

Barnes Neville Wallis comúnmente conocido como Barnes Wallis fue un científico inglés, ingeniero e inventor. Es mayormente conocido por inventar la bomba rebotadora, usada por la Real Fuerza Aérea británica, "RAF", en la Operación Castigo o Raid Dambuster, para atacar las principales represas de Alemania en la zona industrial del Rühr, en mayo de 1943 durante la segunda guerra mundial.