List of Famous people who died at 79

Benny Lee was a Scottish comedy actor and singer. He started his career in stage roles, and developed a television and film career.

Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuận was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Can Tho, Vietnam, from June 20, 1990, until his death on October 17, 2010.

Edward Donno was an American actor and stunt performer with a career that spanned almost 50 years.

Lynn Harold Loomis was an American mathematician working on analysis. Together with Hassler Whitney, he discovered the Loomis–Whitney inequality.

Charles Lee Moore was an American photographer known for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Probably his most famous photo is of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest for loitering on September 3, 1958. It is this photo that sparked Moore's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

Joan J. Taylor was an American archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of the British Isles. She was known for her work on Bronze Age gold working, especially her 1980 monograph Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles.