List of Famous people who died at 79

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Sayre Dearing

Mortimer Sayre Dearing

First Name Sayre

Last Name Dearing

Born on September 19, 1899

Died on July 5, 1979 (aged 79)

Born in United States of America, Missouri

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Reinhold Steinhilb

First Name Reinhold

Last Name Steinhilb

Born on February 26, 1926

Died on August 7, 2005 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, Baden-Württemberg

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Rikihei Inoguchi

First Name Rikihei

Born on October 17, 1903

Died on July 13, 1983 (aged 79)

Born in Japan, Tottori Prefecture

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Rodolfo Sonego

First Name Rodolfo

Born on February 27, 1921

Died on October 15, 2000 (aged 79)

Born in Italy

Rodolfo Sonego was an Italian screenwriter.

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John Fowles

First Name John

Last Name Fowles

Born on March 31, 1926

Died on November 5, 2005 (aged 79)

Born in United Kingdom, England

John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.

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Max Heymans

First Name Max

Last Name Heymans

Born on September 7, 1918

Died on September 20, 1997 (aged 79)

Born in Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Gelderland

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Walter Wager

First Name Walter

Last Name Wager

Born on September 4, 1924

Died on July 11, 2004 (aged 79)

Born in United States of America, New York, New York City

Walter Herman Wager was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine. The movie Telefon, starring Charles Bronson, was inspired by his novel of the same name. His book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis.

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Peter Schellenbaum

First Name Peter

Last Name Schellenbaum

Born on April 30, 1939

Died on May 25, 2018 (aged 79)

Born in Switzerland, canton of Zürich

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Dorothee Fürstenberg

First Name Dorothee

Born on August 4, 1935

Died on July 19, 2015 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

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Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

First Name Gustav

Born on November 13, 1902

Died on July 10, 1982 (aged 79)

Born in Germany

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including Homo erectus. His discoveries and studies of hominid fossils in Java and his studies of other important fossils of south-eastern Asia firmly established his reputation as one of the leading figures of 20th Century paleo-anthropology.

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