List of Famous people who are 79

Geneviève Mnich, is a French actress. She has appeared in 80 films since 1972.

Ana Rosa Guy Galego is a Brazilian actress.

Michel Rostain (born 28 September 1942, Mende, Lozère, is a French lyric and musical theater director as well as a writer.

Li Jinai is a general in the People's Liberation Army.

Rin Kaihō or Lin Haifeng is a professional Taiwanese Go player who made his name in Japan. He is, along with Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki and Kato Masao, considered one of the 'Six Supers' that dominated Japanese Go world in the last three decades of the twentieth century.

Catherine Louise "Gypsy" Share is known as a former member of the Manson Family; she was convicted of witness intimidation in relation to the 1970 trial of the Tate-LaBianca murders. In 1971 she was convicted of armed robbery and served five years. Share was not directly involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders, for which Charles Manson and some of his followers were convicted and originally sentenced to death. She served 90 days for witness intimidation.

Maryse Joissains-Masini, also known as Maryse Charton, is the mayor of Aix-en-Provence. She was also a member of the National Assembly of France. in which she represented the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and is a member of The Republicans party.

Irmgard Schwaetzer is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and a Protestant church official. Since 2013, she has been chairing the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

Marta Kubišová is a Czech singer. By the time of the Prague Spring of 1968, with her song "Modlitba pro Martu", she was one of the most popular female singers in Czechoslovakia.

Édith Butler is a Canadian singer-songwriter and folklorist of Acadian descent. Her career began in the early 1960s with performances in Moncton, followed by national appearances on CBC Television's Singalong Jubilee.