List of Famous people who died at 79

Steve Sandor was an actor who made his first television appearance on Star Trek, playing Lars in the second season episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".

Bruno Cassinari was an Italian painter and sculptor, active in a style mixing cubist and expressionist elements.

Enzo Barboni, sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher, was an Italian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, best known for his slapstick comedies starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

Chen Pixian was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He served in several prominent roles, including party chief of Shanghai and party chief of Hubei province. He was purged at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution but was later rehabilitated.

Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão was a Brazilian biologist and scientist, one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the discoverer of cortical spreading depression, an electrophysiological phenomenon of the central nervous system, which received his name.

Arnaldo Ribeiro was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.