List of Famous people who died in 1979

Gerhard Stolze was a German operatic tenor.

John Carroll was an American actor.

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler was a German-born, art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich was a German novelist and historian of the classical period. As a writer she concerned herself with two distinct cultures: that of Ancient Greece and that of the "North American Indians". As an East German academic she was an influential authority on Ancient Greece. Away from the university she wrote novels concerned with the North American Indians which became classics of East German children's literature.

Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina was a Soviet actress. She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978. She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950. Kuzmina's spouses included filmmakers Boris Barnet and Mikhail Romm. Her memoirs were published in 1989.

Andrey Andreyevich Markov Jr. was a Soviet mathematician, the son of the Russian mathematician Andrey Andreyevich Markov Sr, and one of the key founders of the Russian school of constructive mathematics and logic. He made outstanding contributions to various areas of mathematics, including differential equations, topology, mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.