List of Famous people who died at 79

Aloysio José Leal Penna, SJ was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Botucatu, Brazil.

Sheikh Md. Nurul Haque was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Member of Parliament from Khulna-6.

Arduino Bertoldo was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Foligno, Italy.

Dorothy McCullough Lee was an American politician and attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon. She was the first female mayor of Portland, Oregon; she also served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly, on the Multnomah County Commission, and on the United States Parole Commission.

Daniel Mark Buechlein, OSB was a Benedictine monk and an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the third Bishop of Memphis from 1987 until he was appointed the fifth Archbishop of Indianapolis from July 14, 1992. Pope Benedict XVI accepted his early resignation because of health problems on September 21, 2011.

Hermann Jónasson was an Icelandic politician of the Progressive Party, who was Prime Minister of Iceland on two occasions.