List of Famous people who died at 79
Yrjö Väisälä
Yrjö Väisälä [ˈyrjø ˈʋæisælæ] (
listen) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.
Mary Sidney Clive
Werner Stötzer
Werner Stötzer was a German Artist and Sculptor. For the last three decades of his life he lived and worked in Altlangsow in the marshy Oderbruch region of Brandenburg.
Teymuraz Bagration
Prince Teymuraz Bagration of Mukhrani was a Georgian-Russian nobleman and an émigré in the United States where he served as President of the Tolstoy Foundation, a New York-based charitable organization.
Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Ralph Philip Boas Jr. was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.
Lap-Ban Chan
Lap-Ban Chan (1911-1990) is a former Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Chan is credited with over 440 films.
Dick Elffers
Dirk Cornelis "Dick" Elffers was a Dutch artist.
Professor Peter John Otter Self
Guy Tréjan
Guy Tréjan (1921–2001) was a French film, stage and television actor. He was the nephew of the Swiss singer and dancer Flore Revalles.
Hugh Dawnay
Major Hugh Dawnay was a polo player and author.