Dead at age 79

1,720 Notable deaths

Manuk Abeghian

Folklorist (1865-1944).

Born March 29th, 1865 in Təzəkənd.

Died September 25th, 1944 at 79 years old in Yerevan.

Sam Barkas

English footballer (1909-1989).

Born December 29th, 1909 in South Shields.

Died December 10th, 1989 at 79 years old in Shipley.

Feg Murray

American hurdler.

Born May 15th, 1894 in San Francisco.

Died July 16th, 1973 at 79 years old in Carmel-by-the-Sea (disease).

Giuseppe Ros

Italian boxer (1942–2022).

Born September 22nd, 1942 in Mareno di Piave.

Died February 17th, 2022 at 79 years old in Vittorio Veneto (COVID-19). [ref]

Raymond Schwartz

French banker and esperanto author.

Born April 8th, 1894 in Metz.

Died May 14th, 1973 at 79 years old in Paris. [ref]

Ryhor Baradulin

Belarusian poet, essayist and translator.

Born February 24th, 1935.

Died March 2nd, 2014 at 79 years old in Minsk (heart failure).

Jolanta Lothe

Polish actress.

Born April 19th, 1942 in Vilnius.

Died April 1st, 2022 at 79 years old in Warsaw. [ref]

Ewald Balser

Actor (1898-1978).

Born October 5th, 1898 in Elberfeld.

Died April 17th, 1978 at 79 years old in Vienna (cancer).

Dorothea Pertz

English botanist (1859-1939).

Born March 14th, 1859 in London.

Died March 6th, 1939 at 79 years old in Cambridge.

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936).

Born July 5th, 1857 in Bourg-en-Bresse. [ref]

Died August 10th, 1936 at 79 years old in Paris. [ref]

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