In the year 1979
544 Notable deaths
Floyd Henry Allport
American psychologist (1890-1979).
Born August 22nd, 1890 in Milwaukee.
Died October 15th, 1979 at 89 years old in Los Altos.
Waldemar de Brito
Brazilian footballer (1913-1979).
Born May 17th, 1913 in São Paulo.
Died February 21st, 1979 at 65 years old in São Paulo.
Paolo Carlini
Actor (1922-1979).
Born January 6th, 1922 in Santarcangelo di Romagna.
Died November 3rd, 1979 at 57 years old in Rome (thrombosis).
Issa Pliyev
Soviet military commander (1903-1979).
Born November 25th, 1903 in Batako.
Died February 6th, 1979 at 75 years old in Moscow.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Soviet writer (1929-1979).
Born August 18th, 1929 in Kyiv.
Died June 13th, 1979 at 49 years old in London (myocardial infarction).
Georges Florovsky
Russian christian theologian and historian (1893–1979).
Born September 9th, 1893 in Odesa, Kropyvnytskyi.
Died August 11th, 1979 at 85 years old in Princeton.
Boris Giuliano
Italian police officer.
Born October 22nd, 1930 in Piazza Armerina.
Died July 21st, 1979 at 48 years old in Palermo. [ref]
Waloddi Weibull
Swedish mathematician (1887-1979).
Born June 18th, 1887 in Vittskövle.
Died October 12th, 1979 at 92 years old in Annecy.
Milton Ager
American composer.
Born October 6th, 1893 in Chicago. [ref]
Died May 6th, 1979 at 85 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]
Bolesław Piasecki
Polish politician (1915-1979).
Born February 18th, 1915 in Łódź. [ref]
Died January 1st, 1979 at 63 years old in Warsaw. [ref]
Deaths 231 to 240 of 544
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris