List of Famous people who died at 79

Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "Mosaic", "Bolivia", "Holy Land", "Mode for Joe" and "Fantasy in D".

Moyer MacClaren Bupp professionally known as Sonny Bupp, was an American child film actor and businessman. His most notable film was Citizen Kane (1941), in which he appears as Junior, Charles Foster Kane III, the eight-year-old son of Charles Foster Kane and his first wife, Emily. Bupp was the last surviving credited member of the Citizen Kane cast at his death.

Grigol Abashidze, or Grigory for short, was a Georgian poet known for works featuring Communist influences.

Thomas Paul "Tompall" Glaser was an American outlaw country music artist.

Paul Weiss was a German and British mathematician and theoretical physicist, pioneer of canonical quantization of field theories.

Vasco Cabral (1926–2005) was a Bissau-Guinean writer and politician. He was minister of economy and finance, minister of justice, and Vice President of Guinea-Bissau.