List of Famous people who died at 79

Captain Henry William Newman Fane, OBE, JP, DL was an English local politician who served as Chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.

Harry Woolf was an American educator and historian of science who served as provost of The Johns Hopkins University and was later the fifth Director of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Adrian Dalsey was a co-founder of DHL, a shipping company.

Leonard Gershe was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist.

Vincentas Sladkevičius, M.I.C. was a Lithuanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Kaunas from 1989 to 1996, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988.

Gerald Eustace Howell Palmer was a United Kingdom author, book translator, and Conservative Party politician. Palmer's work in translating the Philokalia, an Eastern Orthodox spiritual text, is still recognised in modern times with the popularity of that book.