List of Famous people who died in 1979
William Litton Rowland de Burgh Young
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism while he was director of the Max-Planck Institute for Cellular Chemistry in Munich.
Anthony Abel Smith
Caroline Irene Morgan-Grenville
Alan Browning
Alan Brown, known professionally as Alan Browning, was an English actor. He is best remembered for portraying Alan Howard in the television series Coronation Street, a role he played from 1969 to 1973. He was married to his Coronation Street co-star Pat Phoenix from 23 December 1972, until his 1979 death from liver failure as a result of his heavy alcohol intake. Phoenix played his on screen wife, Elsie Tanner, in Coronation Street.
John Oliver-Bellasis
Jeff Sutton
Jefferson Howard Sutton was an American author who wrote 23 books of science fiction, war, political and juvenile fiction.