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Dead at age 79
1,713 Notable deaths
Mircea Eliade
Romanian-american historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the university of chicago.
Born March 9th, 1907 in Bucharest.
Died April 22nd, 1986 at 79 years old in Chicago. [ref]
Milton Obote
President of uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985).
Born December 28th, 1925 in Uganda, Apac. [ref]
Died October 10th, 2005 at 79 years old in Johannesburg (kidney failure). [ref]
John Challis
English actor.
Born August 16th, 1942 in Bristol.
Died September 19th, 2021 at 79 years old [ref]
Bobby Rydell
American singer and teen idol.
Born April 26th, 1942 in Philadelphia.
Died April 5th, 2022 at 79 years old in Abington Township (pneumonia). [ref]
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer.
Born August 22nd, 1928 in Mödrath castle. [ref]
Died December 5th, 2007 at 79 years old in Kürten (heart failure). [ref]
Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet politician (1895-1975).
Born June 11th, 1895 in Nizhny Novgorod. [ref]
Died February 24th, 1975 at 79 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Nathalie Delon
French actress and director (1941-2021).
Born August 1st, 1941 in Oujda.
Died January 21st, 2021 at 79 years old in 1st arrondissement of Paris (cancer). [ref]
Robert Walker, Jr.
American actor (1940-2019).
Born April 15th, 1940 in Queens.
Died December 5th, 2019 at 79 years old in Malibu. [ref]
José Eduardo dos Santos
President of angola from 1979 to 2017.
Born August 28th, 1942 in Luanda.
Died July 8th, 2022 at 79 years old in Barcelona (heart failure). [ref]
Ethel Barrymore
American actress (1879-1959).
Born August 15th, 1879 in Philadelphia.
Died June 18th, 1959 at 79 years old in Beverly Hills (myocardial infarction).
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