List of Famous people who died in 1979

Salah Farhat was a Tunisian politician who was a founder of the Constitutional Liberal Party (Destour) after having campaigned in the Young Tunisians Movement.

Michael Rohde was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player, who played 40 matches and scored 22 goals for the Danish national team from 1915 to 1931, and competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. In June 1931 he beat Poul "Tist" Nielsen's record from 1925, as Rohde became the first Dane to play 39 international games. By his international retirement in September 1931, he had played 40 international games, a record broken by Fritz Tarp in September 1932. Rohde played for Danish amateur club B.93 throughout his entire senior career, winning three Danish championships. From 1911 to 1933, Rohde scored 254 goals in 252 matches for B 93, and he most famously scored all four goals, when B.93 beat English professional team Huddersfield FC 4-3.

Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, producer, and director. He worked on several films with Merian C. Cooper including King Kong and Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness.

Charles Wagenheim was an American actor who starred in over 250 films. Wagenheim appeared in Barnaby Jones, portraying a cemetery groundskeeper ; episode titled, "The Murdering Class"(03/04/1973).

Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of 395 minor planets.

Hans Pössenbacher was an Austrian-born German actor.

Victor Arthur Kilian was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.