List of Famous people who are 79

Archduke Leopold Franz of Austria was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Outside of Austria and Hungary, which abolished and outlawed all titles of nobility with the Adelsaufhebungsgesetz in 1919, he may be referred by his titles Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany with the style His Imperial and Royal Highness. Leopold Franz was the titular Grand Duke of Tuscany from 21 January 1984 to 18 June 1993.

Shigeaki Saegusa is a Japanese composer.

Françoise Dürr is a retired French professional tennis player. She won 26 singles titles and over 60 doubles titles.

Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat who served as Vice President of Egypt on an interim basis from 14 July 2013 until his resignation on 14 August 2013.

Rosario "Sal" Gambino is an Italian mobster in the Gambino crime family. He became nationally known when he and his brothers set up a multimillion dollar heroin cartel during the 1970s and 1980s. At the turn of the century he made headline news again when members of his family were suspected of trying to get him a presidential pardon through bribery.

Yusuke Nakamura is a Japanese prominent geneticist and cancer researcher best known for developing Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS). He is one of the world's pioneers in applying genetic variations and whole genome sequencing, leading the research field of personalized medicine.

Ricardo Ezzati Andrello is an Italian-Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from December 2010 to March 2019 and has been a cardinal since February 2014. He previously served as Archbishop of Concepción. He headed the Episcopal Conference of Chile from 2010 to 2016.

Julio Meléndez Calderón is a retired Peruvian football defender.

Gregorio Rosa Chávez is a Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate who serves as the current Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador. He was a close collaborator of the slain archbishop Saint Óscar Romero.

María Ángeles Durán Heras is a Spanish sociologist best known for being a pioneer in research on unpaid work, the social situation of women and their social and work environment, health economics, and inequality in the use of time. She was the first woman to attain a chair of sociology in Spain, in 1982. She was one of the first researchers in her field who carried out works with a feminist perspective in the Spanish academic world. In 1979, she was the founder and director of the Women's Studies Seminar of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the first university institute for women's studies created in Spain. In 2002 she received the Pascual Madoz National Research Award in Economic and Legal Sciences. Retired in 2012, she is currently active at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as an ad honorem researcher.