List of Famous people who died at 79

Edward Robert Muscare, also known by his pseudonyms of Edarem, Uncle Ed, and Edmus Scarey, was an American television presenter, actor, internet celebrity, and sex offender. He gained success in the latter field through his eccentric and comedic posts on YouTube, uploaded from 2006 through 2009.

Ivan Sergeyevich Bortnik was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia (2000).

Joseph Eula was an American fashion illustrator. He was a prominent illustrator in the 1960s and 70s, having held the post of creative director at Halston for ten years.

Barry Dennen was an American actor, singer, voice actor, and writer. He played Pontius Pilate on the original recording and later in the film of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Ray Milland was a Welsh-American actor and film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945) and also for such roles as a sophisticated leading man opposite John Wayne's corrupt character in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954), and Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).

Arlen Darryl Ness was an American motorcycle designer and entrepreneur best known for his custom motorcycles. Ness received acclaim for his designs, most of which are noted for their unique body style and paintwork.

Born in South Africa, Michael Edward Bolus was an artist and teacher who settled in England in 1957 and studied at St Martin's School of Art from 1958 to 1962, studying under Anthony Caro. After a brief period living in Cape Town he returned to London in 1964 to begin a teaching post at St Martin's and the Central School of Art and Design. Bolus had his first UK solo exhibition at Waddington Galleries in 1968, which has exhibited a number of his sculptures since then.

Tony Bullimore, was a British businessman and international yachtsman. He is known especially for being rescued on 10 January 1997 during a sailing race after he had been presumed dead.

Johnny Sheffield was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, played Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played Bomba the Jungle Boy.

Desmond Arthur Peter Leslie was a British pilot, film maker, writer, and musician. He was the younger son, and youngest child, of Shane Leslie, and his wife Marjorie. He invented the multi-track mixing desk.