List of Famous people who died at 79

John Morgan Greene was an American theoretical physicist and applied mathematician, known for his work on solitons and plasma physics.

Chang Cheh was a Chinese filmmaker, screenwriter, lyricist and producer active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Chang Cheh directed more than 90 films in Greater China, the majority of them with the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. Most of his films are action films, especially wuxia and kung fu films filled with violence.

Noel Marshall was an American agent, co-producer, and briefly a director, and actor. He moved to Hollywood, California, in his 20s and began investing in the production of a handful of films, including William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

Dušan Janićijević was a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2011.