List of Famous people who died at 79
Evita Muñoz
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.
Priscilla Lane
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.
Gordon "Butch" Stewart
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.
Harry Secombe
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.
Klara Luchko
Klara Stepanivna Luchko was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actress known for her roles in the Soviet cinema.
Axel Gehrke
Axel Gehrke was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 until 2021.
Carole Shelley
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.
Diane Disney Miller
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.
Mohamed Ali Bouleymane
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.
Alf Ramsey
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.