List of Famous people who died in 1979

Şadi Çalık was a Turkish sculptor. He is famous for his abstract sculpture.

Antonio María Barbieri, OFM Cap, born Alfredo Barbieri, was an Uruguayan Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Montevideo from 1940 to 1976, and was elevated to the cardinalate.

Antonio Caggiano was an archbishop and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina. He played a part in helping Nazi sympathisers and war criminals escape prosecution in Europe by easing their passage to South America.

Paul Goodwin Wexler, was an American character actor in feature films and on television for nearly 30 years, from 1950 until 1979. Six-feet-six-inches tall and physically imposing with a long face and deep baritone voice, he specialized in macabre or off-beat roles.

Paul Amiot was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973.

Antonio Aranda Mata was a military officer who fought on side of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.

Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and physician who wrote under the pen name of Banaphul. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.