List of Famous people who died in 1979

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Mary Albinia Gibbs

First Name Mary

Last Name Gibbs

Born on November 5, 1894

Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 84)

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Hans Scherfig

First Name Hans

Last Name Scherfig

Born on April 8, 1905

Died on January 28, 1979 (aged 73)

Born in Kingdom of Denmark, Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark

Hans Scherfig was a renowned Danish author and artist.

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Rudolf Jugert

First Name Rudolf

Last Name Jugert

Born on September 30, 1907

Died on April 14, 1979 (aged 71)

Born in Germany, Lower Saxony

Filmmaker

Rudolf Jugert (1907–1979) was a German film director.

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Ronald Adam

Ronald George Hinings Adams

First Name Ronald

Last Name Adam

Born on December 31, 1896

Died on March 28, 1979 (aged 82)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Actor

Ronald George Hinings Adams, known professionally as Ronald Adam, was a British officer of the RFC and RAF, an actor on stage and screen, and a successful theatre manager.

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Josef Stangl

First Name Josef

Last Name Stangl

Born on August 12, 1907

Died on April 8, 1979 (aged 71)

Born in Germany, Bavaria

Josef Stangl was a Roman Catholic bishop of Würzburg, Germany.

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I. A. Richards

First Name I.

Last Name Richards

Born on February 26, 1893

Died on September 7, 1979 (aged 86)

Born in United Kingdom, England

Ivor Armstrong Richards, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained and self-referential æsthetic object.

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Arndt Georg Nissen

First Name Arndt

Last Name Nissen

Died on December 6, 1979 (aged 9)

Born in Kingdom of Denmark, Denmark, Southern Denmark

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Ömer Lütfi Barkan

First Name Ömer

Last Name Barkan

Born on November 30, 1901

Died on August 23, 1979 (aged 77)

Born in Edirne Province

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Richard William St. George Caulfeild, 12th Viscount Charlemont

First Name Richard

Last Name Charlemont

Born on March 13, 1887

Died on June 18, 1979 (aged 92)

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Elizabeth Josephine McMullen

First Name Elizabeth

Last Name McMullen

Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 9)

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