List of Famous people who died at 79

Evita Muñoz

First Name Evita
Born on November 26, 1936
Died on August 23, 2016 (aged 79)
Born in Mexico, Veracruz

Eva María Muñoz Ruíz, known professionally as Evita Muñoz "Chachita", was a Mexican actress, comedian, singer, and dancer. Her professional career began in 1941, when she was only four-years-old, and she continued performing through, and contributing to, the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Muñoz was still four-years-old when she played the character Chachita in her second film, ¡Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes! (1941), and went on to play Chachita in eight more films and numerous television roles over the subsequent decades, and would be credited as Eva Muñoz "Chachita" in other appearances. For more than 75 years, "Chachita" was recognized as a successful artist in cinema, television, theater, radio, nightclub, and circus shows.

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Priscilla Lane

First Name Priscilla
Last Name Lane
Born on June 12, 1915
Died on April 4, 1995 (aged 79)
Height 159 cm | 5'3

Priscilla Lane was an American actress, and the youngest sibling in the Lane Sisters of singers and actresses. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties (1939) co-starring with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Saboteur (1942), an Alfred Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine, and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), in which she portrays Cary Grant's fiancée and bride.

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Gordon "Butch" Stewart

First Name Gordon
Last Name Stewart
Born on July 6, 1941
Died on January 4, 2021 (aged 79)
Born in Jamaica

Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman. He was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer.

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Harry Secombe

First Name Harry
Last Name Secombe
Born on September 8, 1921
Died on April 11, 2001 (aged 79)

Sir Harry Donald Secombe was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show (1951–1960), playing many characters, but most notably, Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and films – notably as Bumble in Oliver! (1968) – and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

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Klara Luchko

First Name Klara
Born on July 1, 1925
Died on March 26, 2005 (aged 79)

Klara Stepanivna Luchko was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actress known for her roles in the Soviet cinema.

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Axel Gehrke

First Name Axel
Last Name Gehrke
Born on January 12, 1942
Died on September 23, 2021 (aged 79)

Axel Gehrke was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 until 2021.

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Carole Shelley

First Name Carole
Last Name Shelley
Born on August 16, 1939
Died on August 31, 2018 (aged 79)

Carole Augusta Shelley was a British-American actress who made her career in the United States. Her many stage roles included Gwendolyn Pigeon in The Odd Couple, the character of Madame Morrible in the original Broadway cast of the musical Wicked. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in The Elephant Man in 1979.

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Diane Disney Miller

Diane Marie Disney
First Name Diane
Last Name Miller
Born on December 18, 1933
Died on November 19, 2013 (aged 79)

Diane Marie Disney-Miller was the only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney. Diane co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum alongside her family. She was president of the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Family Foundation. The museum, which opened in 2009, was established to promote and inspire creativity and innovation and celebrate and study the life of Walt Disney.

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Mohamed Ali Bouleymane

First Name Mohamed
Last Name Bouleymane
Born on May 10, 1942
Died on October 4, 2021 (aged 79)

Mohamed Ali Bouleymane was a Tunisian politician. He served as Mayor of Tunis from 1986 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 2000. He also served as Secretary of State for Housing and Regional Planning to the Ministry of Equipment from 1988 to 1990.

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Alf Ramsey

Alfred Ernest Ramsey
First Name Alf
Born on January 22, 1920
Died on April 28, 1999 (aged 79)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey was an English football player and manager. As a player, he represented the England national team and captained the side, but he is best known for his time as England manager from 1963 to 1974, which included guiding them to victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Knighted in 1967 in recognition of the World Cup win, Ramsey also managed his country to third place in the 1968 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship respectively. As a player, Ramsey was a defender and a member of England's 1950 World Cup squad.

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