List of Famous people who are 79

Étienne Balibar is a French philosopher. He has taught at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, at the University of California Irvine and is currently an Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University and a Visiting Professor at the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.

Edmond Baudoin is a French artist, illustrator, and writer of sequential art and graphic novels.

Liu Qi is a retired Chinese politician. He formerly served as the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing, and also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China. He was also the President of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee.

Hilmar Kabas is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).

Gerhard Olschewski is a German actor. He has appeared in 94 films and television shows since 1966. He starred in the 1976 film A Lost Life, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival, where he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor.

Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.

Emin Çölaşan is a Turkish investigative journalist, whose daily column appeared in the mass-circulation newspaper, Istanbul-based Hürriyet, for 22 years, from 1985 to 2007,. Since 2007, he continues his column in Sözcü.

Chen Zhili is a retired senior female politician of the People's Republic of China, who served as State Councilor and Minister of Education, and a Vice Chairperson of the National People's Congress. She was vice chairman of the organization commission of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Daphne Marlatt, born Buckle, CM, is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Francheska Alfredovna Yarbusova, often credited as F. Yarbusova, is an award-winning Russian artist and the wife and collaborator of Yuri Norstein, daughter of Alfred L. Yarbus a scientist famous for understanding how eye movements help us explore images. Yarbusova received a degree in film animation from VGIK in 1967, after which she began working for Soyuzmultfilm in the roles of art director or artist. She debuted as art director in the film A Little Locomotive from Romashkovo, directed by Vladimir Degtyaryov, in 1967. She also worked on other films such as A White Skin and Plasticine Hedgehog, but is primarily known for her work as the art director and artist in the films of Yuri Norstein, beginning with The Battle of Kerzhenets in 1971. She is currently working with her husband on an adaptation of Gogol's Overcoat.