List of Famous people who are 79

María del Carmen Iglesias Cano is a Spanish historian. She holds the non-hereditary title Countess of Gisbert, which was bestowed on her by King Juan Carlos.

Dame Norma Christina Elizabeth, Lady Major is an English philanthropist who is the wife of former British prime minister Sir John Major.

Peter Greenaway, is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.

Douglas Huntley Trumbull is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner and The Tree of Life, and directed the movies Silent Running and Brainstorm.

Madhabi Mukherjee, née Chakraborty, is an Indian actress. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Bengali film Dibratrir Kabya. She has acted in some of the most critically acclaimed films in Bengali cinema and is considered one of the greatest actresses of Bengali cinema.

Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010.

Harry Jürgensen is a Chilean lawyer who is member of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. He served as Intendant of Los Lagos Region.

Erik Clausen is a Danish actor, film director and screenwriter. He has directed fourteen films since 1981. His 2007 film Temporary Release was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.