List of Famous people who died in 1979
Phil Vincent
Philip Conrad Vincent was a British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. Founder of Vincent Motorcycles, his designs influenced the development of motorcycles around the world.
Chano Urueta
Santiago Eduardo Urueta Sierra, more commonly known as Chano Urueta, was a Mexican film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Bernhard Walter
Nicholas Prokopievich Miholaps
Mikałaj Prakopavič Michałap was a Soviet ceramic artist and director of the National Art Museum of Belarus from 1939 to 1941.
Joseph J. Hunaerts
Ugo D'Alessio
Ugo D'Alessio (1909–1979) was an Italian film actor.
Heinrich Behnke
Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke was a German mathematician and rector at the University of Münster.
Cuma Tak
Theodor Dierksmeier
Agop Dilaçar
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.