List of Famous people who died at 79

Martin Summerfield was an American physicist and rocket scientist, a co-founder of Aerojet, head of Princeton University propulsion and combustion laboratory.

William Gropper was an American cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and Morgen Freiheit.

Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

John Keith Patrick Allen was a British actor.

Jerrold J. Mundis was an American author, speaker and counselor. He wrote on the creation of healthy money relationships for individuals, including debt reduction and income growth. Mundis was also a teacher of professional and avocational writing and the author of a book about writer's block.

Pino van Lamsweerde was an Italian–Canadian director and animator.

Siegfried Adolf Wouthuysen was a Dutch physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics.