Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1979

Herbert Marx, más conocido como Zeppo, fue uno de los Hermanos Marx.

Aleksei Makarovich Smirnov was a Russian actor. He performed in more than fifty films between 1959 and 1977.

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway. The two married in 1921 after a courtship of less than a year, and moved to Paris within months of being married. In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Hadley met other expatriate British and American writers.

Merle Oberon, registrada al nacer como Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, fue una actriz de cine británica.^{[cita requerida]}

Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He appeared in 33 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Moscow, Russia. There he was designated Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. He died on 8 December 1979, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia.

Jean Renoir fue un director de cine, guionista y actor francés. Era el segundo hijo del famoso pintor impresionista Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Shi Jianqiao was the daughter of the Chinese military officer Shi Congbin, whose killing she avenged by assassinating the former warlord Sun Chuanfang. The revenge killing and the legal proceedings that followed were highly publicized at the time and incited public debates over the concepts of filial piety and the rule of law.

Nadezhda Sergeevna Nadezhdina (1904/8-1979) was a Russian choreographer, ballerina, and former director of the Russian female dance troupe Beroyzka from its inception in 1948 until her death. She is the daughter of prominent writer Aleksandra Iakovlevna. She is known for the way she taught her dancers to move across a stage without seeming to move their feet. Beneath long, nearly floor-length gowns, her dancers learned to walk on the very tips of their toes, resulting in the impression that they are floating or gliding across the stage. Winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree in 1950 and the Frederic Joliot-Curie Prize in 1959.

Carlo Schmid fue un político, abogado y escritor alemán.

Norman Wilfred Lewis fue un pintor y profesor afroamericano. Estuvo asociado con el expresionismo abstracto, y utilizó estrategias representativas para centrarse en la vida urbana negra y las luchas de su comunidad.