List of Famous people who died in 1979

Philip Conrad Vincent was a British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Founder of Vincent Motorcycles, his designs influenced the development of motorcycles around the world.

Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra, more commonly known as Chano Urueta, was a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

Mikałaj Prakopavič Michałap was a Soviet ceramic artist and director of the National Art Museum of Belarus from 1939 to 1941.

Ugo D'Alessio (1909–1979) was an Italian film actor.

Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke was a German mathematician and rector at the University of Münster.

Agop Dilâçar was a Turkish-Armenian linguist who specialized in Turkic languages and the first Secretary General and head specialist of the Turkish Language Association. He was proficient in 12 languages, and in addition to Armenian and Turkish, Dilâçar knew English, Greek, Spanish, Azerbaijani, Latin, German, Russian and Bulgarian.