List of Famous people who died at 79

Mohammed Sabila was a Moroccan writer and philosopher.

Seán Mac Eoin was an Irish Fine Gael politician and soldier who served as Minister for Defence briefly in 1951 and from 1954 to 1957, Minister for Justice from 1948 to 1951, and Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces from February 1929 to October 1929. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1921 to 1923, 1929 to 1957, and 1961 to 1965.

Shu Uemura was a Japanese make-up artist and founder of the cosmetics line which bears his name. The cosmetics made up from his name had been one of the most famous makeup stores in the world today.

Susumu Ishikawa was a Japanese anison and voice actor who had performed many anime openings, including 1964 hit theme song from Obake no Q-taro and the theme from the 1972 anime series Dokonjō Gaeru. He performed songs in Godzilla vs. Gigan, and was the voice of the main character called Pero in the anime film Puss In Boots.

Frédéric Manns was a French biblist.

Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Paul Fouad Tabet was a Lebanese prelate of the Maronite Church, part of the Catholic Church, who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1980 and service as an apostolic nuncio from 1980 to 2009 in the Caribbean, Nigeria, Geneva, and Greece.