List of Famous people who died in 1979

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Ann Thorne

First Name Ann

Last Name Thorne

Born on January 23, 1893

Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 85)

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Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari

First Name Mika

Last Name Waltari

Born on September 19, 1908

Died on August 26, 1979 (aged 70)

Born in Finland, Uusimaa

Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive, and besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho.

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Thomas John Arnott

First Name Thomas

Last Name Arnott

Born on April 12, 1899

Died on July 16, 1979 (aged 80)

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Richard Smyth Guinness

First Name Richard

Last Name Guinness

Born on June 13, 1888

Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 90)

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Vernon Elvis Presley

First Name Vernon

Last Name Presley

Born on April 10, 1916

Died on June 26, 1979 (aged 63)

Born in United States of America, Mississippi

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Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim

First Name Prince

Last Name Moneim

Born on February 20, 1899

Died on December 1, 1979 (aged 80)

Born in Egypt, Alexandria Governorate

Damat Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi was an Egyptian prince and former heir apparent to the throne of Egypt and Sudan from 1899 to 1914. Upon the abdication of King Farouk following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, he served as Regent for King Ahmed Fuad II until the declaration of the Republic of Egypt and abolition of the Egyptian and Sudanese monarchy in 1953.

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William Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt

First Name William

Last Name Harcourt

Born on October 5, 1908

Died on January 17, 1979 (aged 70)

Born in United Kingdom, England

William Edward Harcourt, 2nd Viscount Harcourt was an English aristocrat and businessman. Harcourt was a member of the distinguished Harcourt family, who descended from the ancient House of Harcourt in Normandy.

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Ben Lyon

First Name Ben

Last Name Lyon

Born on February 6, 1901

Died on March 22, 1979 (aged 78)

Born in United States of America, Georgia

Actor

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.

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Michael Godolphin Egerton

First Name Michael

Last Name Egerton

Born on September 20, 1924

Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 54)

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Hope Bagenal

First Name Hope

Last Name Bagenal

Died on May 20, 1979 (aged 9)

Philip Hope Edward Bagenal, OBE was a British architectural theorist and acoustician who introduced a scientific approach to the acoustic design of buildings.

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