List of Famous people who died at 79

Edith "Ditta" Einzinger, was an Austrian pop singer who recorded under the stage name Lolita.

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as unofficial Chief Ideologue of the Party until his death in 1982. Suslov was responsible for party democracy and the power separation within the Communist Party. His hardline attitude toward change made him one of the foremost orthodox communist Soviet leaders.

Antonio Ferrandis Monrabal was a Spanish actor, remembered especially for the role of Chanquete in the Spanish television serie Verano azul.

Willie Murray Adams was an American rockabilly musician and a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He recorded the 1950s song "Rock, Pretty Mama", recognized as "a seminal rockabilly classic" by critics. Other songs he recorded in the 1950s include "You Heard Me Knocking", "True Love Will Come Your Way", and "You Gotta Have a Duck Tail". He toured with his family band for decades and, as his rockabilly interest declined, he entered the ministry and wrote Gospel songs. He made a comeback late in his career when a collection of 27 of Adams' songs was released in 2002. Fans re-embraced his rockabilly music 45 years after the original recordings, igniting demand for his appearances at music festivals in U.S. and Britain. Adams died March 30, 2019, at age 79.

Raffaele Cutolo was an Italian crime boss, leader of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO), an organisation he built to renew the Camorra. Cutolo has a variety of nicknames including 'o Vangelo, 'o Princepe, 'o Professore and 'o Monaco. Apart from 18 months on the run, Cutolo lived inside maximum-security jails or psychiatric prisons since 1963. At the time of his death he was serving multiple life sentences for murder.

Eberhard "Ebbo" von Koerber was a German manager. As a member of the Board of Management of BMW, he was responsible for sales and marketing from 1984 to 1986. Between 1988 and 1998, he was responsible for the activities of Asea Brown Boveri in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as Vice President of the Group Executive in Zurich. From 2007 to 2012, he was co-president of the Club of Rome.

Patrick Moody Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor who worked in many genres of music, and in film and television.

Juan Carlos Calabró was an Argentine actor and comedian.

Claude Renoir was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Mary Santpere (1913–1992) was a Catalan film and TV actress.