List of Famous people who are 79

Markéta Jílková is a Czech novelist, screenwriter, author of literature for children and youth. After studying in Prague, she worked in awareness-raising facilities in Liberec and Sokolov. From 1962 to 1964, she was employed as a train attendant. At the end of the sixties, she worked for the publishers of Mladý svět and Květy. From 1971 to 1976, she broadcast a literary show for children and youth for Czechoslovak television. Since 1976, she has been a writer by profession. She worked for the brief Czechoslovak Radio and, from 1991 to 1992, worked as a methodologist at a children's home. From 1981 to 1985, she studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at Prague's FAMU.

John Christopher Dixon, billed as John D. Collins, is an English actor and narrator, perhaps best known for appearing in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! in which he played Flt. Lt. Fairfax, a stranded British airman in occupied France during World War II. He is the actor to have been cast most frequently in writer/producer David Croft's hit sitcoms: a total of six different series and ten characters.

Cliff Potts is an American television and film actor whose roles include John Keenan in the 1972 cult science fiction film, Silent Running starring Bruce Dern.

Ada Pometti is an Italian film, television and stage actress.

Ignacio Rodríguez Iturbe was a Venezuelan hydrologist who was a professor at Texas A&M University.