List of Famous people who died at 79
Egerton Shelswell-White
Judith Katharine de Yarburgh-Bateson
Charles Hayes
Charles Arthur Hayes was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Illinois's 1st congressional district, from 1983 to 1993.
Ursula Doryne Elizabeth Crofton
Masaichi Nagata
Masaichi Nagata was a Japanese film producer and baseball executive.
Judith Harriet Wright
Donald Arthur
Shinji Ishihara
Robert B. Anderson
Robert Bernard Anderson was an American administrator, politician, and businessman. He served as the Secretary of the Navy between February 1953 and March 1954. He also served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1957 until 1961, and was one of President Eisenhower's closest confidants. Two years before his death from cancer, he was disbarred for illegal banking operations and tax evasion.
Max Dresden
Max Dresden was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist and historian of physics. He is known for his research in "statistical mechanics, superconductivity, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics."