List of Famous people who died at 79

Georgia Lind (1905–1984) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles in films. From the mid-1930s she devoted herself increasingly to the theatre, and post-Second World War she also did a large amount of radio work. One of her final film performances was a small role in Robert A. Stemmle's Berliner Ballade (1948). She was married to the actor Rudolf Platte.

Wolfram Brück was a German lawyer politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1986 and 1989. He took over the role of mayor after Walter Wallmann left office to serve in the federal government, and his tenure lasted until the next local election in 1989 in which the CDU lost its majority in the Landtag of Hesse.

William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and wrote the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine about popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.

Mathilde Rose Thérèse Gabriel-Péri was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958.

Marie Déa was a French actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1939 to 1983.

Italo Viglianesi was an Italian trade unionist politician and syndicalist.