List of Famous people who died at 79

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 7th Baronet was a British baronet, who played first-class cricket for Oxford and was a British Army soldier.

Ronny Graham was an American actor and theater director, composer, lyricist, and writer.

Sheila Mary Fraser was an English actress. She is best known for her roles in the television serial A Family at War (1970–1971) and as Luke Skywalker's aunt Beru in Star Wars (1977).

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Thomas Birch Reynardson was an officer in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of the British Army. He was the son of William John Birch Reynardson and married Diana Helen Ponsonby, daughter of the Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby and Emily Dora Coope, on 14 September 1917.

Sam Coslow was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher and market analyst. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager. He contributed songs to Broadway revues, formed the music publishing company Spier and Coslow with Larry Spier and made a number of recordings as a performer.