List of Famous people who died at 79

Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione was an American photographer and publisher. He founded the adult magazine Penthouse in 1965. This was aimed at competing with Hugh Hefner's Playboy, but with more extreme erotic content, a special style of soft-focus photography, and in-depth reporting of government corruption scandals. By 1982 Guccione was listed in the Forbes 400 wealth list, and owned one of the biggest mansions in Manhattan. However, he made some extravagant investments that failed, and the growth of free online pornography industry in the 1990s greatly diminished his market. In 2003, Guccione's publishers filed for bankruptcy and he resigned as chairman.

Margarete Gröwel was a German teacher who became a politician. Later, in 1953, she became the first woman to serve in the German consular service in Houston.

Montserrat Sabater Bacigalupi was a Spanish publisher.

Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux, was the 13th Chief Justice of Canada from 1970 to 1973.

Liudvikas Povilonis was a Lithuanian priest, archbishop, Apostolic Administrator of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas (1979-1988), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Panevėžys (1983-1984), archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vilkaviškis (1979-1988), Auxiliary of the Apostolic Administrator of Kaunas Archdiocese and Vilkaviškis Diocese (1973–1979).