List of Famous people who died at 79
Sir Fiennes William Strang Steel, 2nd Bt.
Richard Fanshawe
Raymond Wilson Sturge
Peter Hugh Dudley Ryder
Stuart Jeffery Eardley-Wilmot
Rosamond Mary Edith Cholmeley
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse was an American career diplomat. He was United States Ambassador to Laos and the United States Ambassador to Thailand.
James C. Quayle
James Cline Quayle was an American newspaper publisher and businessman who owned several newspapers in the United States including the Huntington Herald-Press in Indiana and the Wickenburg Sun in Arizona. He was the father of Dan Quayle, the 44th Vice President of the United States.
Alfred H. Barr
Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, his arranging of the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, in the words of author Bernice Kert, was "a precursor to the hold Van Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination."