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Mohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani
1928–1979
politician
Official cause
gunshot wound
Rosemary LaPlanche
1923–1979
actor, model, beauty pageant contestant
Official cause
cancer
Allene Ray
1901–1979
actor, film actor
Official cause
cancer
Elisabeth von Dyck
1950–1979
political activist
Official cause
gunshot wound
Leif Erland Andersson
1943–1979
astronomer, university teacher
Official cause
lymphoma
Erin O'Brien-Moore
1902–1979
actor, stage actor, television actor
Official cause
cancer
Giulio Natta
1903–1979
chemist, inventor, university teacher
Official cause
Parkinson's disease
Sérgio Fleury
1933–1979
police officer
Official cause
drowning
Brian Field
1934–1979
military personnel
Official cause
traffic collision
William Spengler
1889–1979
boxer
Official cause
disease
Mohamed Akid
1949–1979
association football player
Official cause
2014 Colchester murders
Nino Rota
1911–1979
composer, conductor, teacher
Official cause
coronary thrombosis
Amir Hossein Rabii
1931–1979
military personnel
Official cause
gunshot wound
Breece D'J Pancake
1952–1979
writer, teacher
Official cause
gunshot wound
Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
1919–1979
politician, diplomat, writer
Official cause
execution by shooting
Marcel Jouhandeau
1888–1979
writer
Official cause
stomach cancer
Leonard Whitcup
1903–1979
composer, lyricist
Official cause
stroke
Salomon Malhangu
1956–1979
politician, freedom fighter, anti-apartheid activist
Official cause
hanging to death
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
1928–1979
politician, diplomat, lawyer
Official cause
hanging to death
Edgar Buchanan
1903–1979
actor, dentist, television actor
Official cause
stroke
Jean-Marie Villot
1905–1979
diplomat, Catholic priest, Catholic deacon
Official cause
pneumonia
Kermit Schaefer
1914–1979
writer, television producer, screenwriter
Official cause
disease
Alan Crofoot
1929–1979
opera singer, actor, television actor
Official cause
falling
Mike Patto
1942–1979
singer, musician, songwriter
Official cause
lymphoid leukemia