List of Famous people who died at 79
Egon Bönner
Rupert Arthur Salvin Bowlby
Diana Bruen Coventry
Eduard Marks
Wilhelm Maak
Ronald Michael St. John
Marion Scrymgeour-Wedderburn
Timo Penttilä
Timo Jussi Penttilä was one of Finland's most important modernist architects and was for over 15 years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. He is most renowned for the design of the Helsinki City Theatre (1961–67).
Jürgen Weber
Wolfgang Abendroth
Wolfgang Walter Arnulf Abendroth was a socialist German jurist and political scientist. He was born in Elberfeld, now a part of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Abendroth was an important contributor to the constitutional foundation of postwar West Germany. He briefly held a professorship in law in East Germany. As he was opposed to Stalinism, he left for West Germany, where he was appointed professor in political science at Marburg in 1950. Abendroth also served as a senior judge in the state court of Hesse.