List of Famous people who died at 79
Dinah Susan Jamieson
Desmond de Burgh Persse
Sir William Paul Mallinson, 3rd Bt.
Herbert Chenevix Trench
Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham
John David Hunter Blair
Alfred Znamierowski
Alfred Znamierowski was a Polish vexillologist, heraldist, illustrator, and journalist. During his career he published several books and designed hundreds of coats of arms, flags, banners and seals for over 200 different municipalities and institutions.
Thomas Watson
Thomas John Watson Jr. was an American businessman, political figure, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (1952–71), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America (1964–68), and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1979–81). He received many honors during his lifetime, including being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Fortune called him "the greatest capitalist in history" and Time listed him as one of "100 most influential people of the 20th century".