List of Famous people who died at 79

Oswald Wykeham Cornwallis was an English Royal Navy officer and amateur cricketer. He was born in 1894 at Linton Park in Kent, the third son of Mabel and Fiennes Cornwallis. His father was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and would later become a peer. He served in both the First and Second World Wars.

John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris was a onetime MI5 spy and an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels, and spy novels.

Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mualla ‎ was the ruler or head of state of Umm Al Quwain from 1981 to 2009. His reign commenced when he succeeded his father, Sheikh Ahmad bin Rashid Al Mualla on February 21, 1981.

Giovanni Giuseppe Gilberto "Nanni" Galli was an Italian saloon, sports-car and Formula One driver of the 1960s and 1970s.

Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.