List of Famous people who are 79

António Lobo Antunes, GCSE is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Christopher Frederick Andrews is an English-German singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s.

Katja Behrens is a German author and translator of Jewish descent.

Maki Hirahara , known as Maki Carrousel , is a Japanese transgender actress who is represented by the talent agency Office Carrousel.

Paulinho da Viola is a Brazilian sambista, singer-songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.

Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.

Wojciech Zygmunt Pszoniak was a Polish film and theatre actor.

Michel Tremblay, CQ is a French Canadian novelist and playwright.

Terumasa Hino is a Japanese jazz trumpeter. He is considered one of Japan's finest jazz musicians. His instruments include the trumpet, cornet, and flügelhorn.

Yves Brunier is a French puppeteer. He is best known for his character, Casimir, an orange colored dinosaur who appears on French Children's TV. He played Chelli in Sacatruc, the French version of Big Bag. Brunier later went to perform on 5, Rue Sésame as Yoyo. He also performed on the Muppet Show TV pilot.