List of Famous people who are 79

Piero Marini is a Roman Catholic archbishop who is president of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses. For twenty years he served as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, in charge of the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff. In that capacity he worked for Popes John Paul II for 18 years and Benedict XVI for two years.

Edward Willis Levert is an American singer–songwriter and actor. Levert is best known as the lead vocalist of The O'Jays.

John Colin Stillwell is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.

Cecil Bridgewater is an American jazz trumpeter.

Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz is a German-American activist, and author. In West Berlin and West Germany in 1960s she was active with her husband Rudi Dutschke in the Socialist Students Union (SDS) and the Federal Republic's broader “extra-parliamentary opposition” (APO).

Carol Sue Littleton, ACE is an American film editor.

Richard W. Rahn is an American economist, syndicated columnist, and entrepreneur. He is chairman of Improbable Success Productions and the Institute for Global Economic Growth. Rahn writes a syndicated weekly economic column which is published in The Washington Times, Real Clear Markets and elsewhere. He was the vice president and chief economist of the United States Chamber of Commerce during the Reagan administration and remains a staunch advocate of supply-side economics, small government, and classical liberalism.