Editing 1979 (section)

== Deaths ==
{{Main|Category:1979 deaths}}

=== January ===
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[[File:Nelson Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Nelson Rockefeller]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Conrad Hilton]], American hotelier (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Vincent Korda]], Hungarian art director (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Billy Bletcher]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Charles Mingus]], American musician (b. [[1922]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Jack Soo]], Japanese-born American actor (b. [[1917]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Donny Hathaway]], American musician (b. [[1945]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Charles W. Morris]], American philosopher and semiotician (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Ted Cassidy]], American actor (b. [[1932]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Ali Hassan Salameh]], Palestinian Leader of [[Black September]] and mastermind of the [[1972 Munich Massacre]] (b. [[1940]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Nelson Rockefeller]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|41st]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Victoria Ocampo]], Argentine publisher, writer and critic (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ocampo-victoria-1890-1979 |title=Ocampo, Victoria (1890–1979) |first=Paul B. Jr. |last=Goodwin |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

=== February ===
[[File:Sid Vicious 1978 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Sid Vicious]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[William H. Brockman Jr.]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1904]])
** [[Abdi İpekçi]], Turkish journalist and human rights activist (b. [[1929]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Sid Vicious]], English musician (b. [[1957]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Issa Pliyev]], Soviet general (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Josef Mengele]], German officer and physician (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian-born British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dennis-Gabor Dennis Gabor British engineer]</ref>
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Edvard Kardelj]], Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)|Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA710|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4058-4|pages=710}}</ref>
** [[Karl von Eberstein]], German politician (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Jean Renoir]], French film director and actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Reginald Maudling]], British politician (b. [[1917]])
* [[February 16]] – [[William Gargan]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Nereo Rocco]], Italian footballer and manager (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 23]] – [[W. A. C. Bennett]], Canadian politician, premier of British Columbia (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-andrew-cecil-bennett W.A.C. Bennett]</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Henrich Focke]], German aviation pioneer (b. [[1890]])

=== March ===
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[[File:José María Velasco Ibarra.jpg|thumb|120px|[[José María Velasco Ibarra]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Mustafa Barzani]], Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. [[1903]])
** [[Dolores Costello]], American actress (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Tudor Owen (actor)|Tudor Owen]], Welsh-American actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Tudor-Owen/ Tudor Owen]</ref>
* [[March 15]] – [[Léonide Massine]], Russian dancer and choreographer (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Jean Monnet]], French political economist, diplomat and a [[Founding fathers of the European Union|founding father of the European Union]] (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Monnet|title=Jean Monnet &#124; European Union founder, diplomat, statesman &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=November 5, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Richard Beckinsale]], British actor (b. [[1947]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Ben Lyon]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Yvonne Mitchell]], English actress (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Jean Stafford]], American writer (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Emmett Kelly]], American circus clown (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emmett-Kelly Emmett Kelly American clown]</ref>
* [[March 29]] 
** [[Yahya Petra of Kelantan]], [[Sultan of Kelantan]] and 6th [[King of Malaysia]] (b. [[1917]])
** [[Milena Rudnytska]], Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CR%5CU%5CRudnytskaMilena.htm Rudnytska, Milena]</ref>
* [[March 30]]
** [[Airey Neave]], British politician (assassinated) (b. [[1916]])
** [[José María Velasco Ibarra]], Ecuadorian politician, 24th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1893]])

=== April ===
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* [[April 4]]
** [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] and 4th [[President of Pakistan]] (executed) (b. [[1928]])
** [[Edgar Buchanan]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Nino Rota]], Italian composer (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA733|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75876-0|pages=733}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – [[Hassan Pakravan]], Iranian diplomat (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Wilhelm Bittrich]], German ''Waffen SS'' general (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Blair Peach]], New Zealand-born, British teacher (b. [[1946]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dummett|first1=Michael|author-link1=Michael Dummett|title=The Death of Blair Peach: the Supplementary Report of the Unofficial Committee of Enquiry|date=1980|publisher=National Council for Civil Liberties|location=London|isbn=978-0-9011-0891-3}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – [[John Carroll (actor)|John Carroll]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Phan Huy Quát]], 4th [[Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam|Prime Minister of South Vietnam]] (b. [[1908]])

=== May ===
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[[File:Mary_Pickford_cph.3c17995u.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Mary Pickford]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Morteza Motahhari]], Iranian cleric and politician (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Giulio Natta]], Italian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1963/natta/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Milton Ager]], American songwriter (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Talcott Parsons]], American sociologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 11]]
** [[Joan Chandler]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
** [[Barbara Hutton]], American socialite (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Predrag Đajić]], [[Bosnian Serb]] and [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]] [[association football|footballer]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominican novelist (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 16]] – [[A. Philip Randolph]], African-American civil rights activist (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Benjamin W. Fortson Jr.|Benjamin W. Fortson Jr]], American politician and [[Georgia Secretary of State]] from 1946 to 1979 (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Bernadette Armiger]], Catholic nun and president of the [[American Association of Colleges of Nursing]] from 1972 to 1974 (b. [[1915]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Ahmed Ould Bouceif]], Mauritanian military officer, second [[Prime Minister of Mauritania]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian-American actress and producer (b. [[1892]])

=== June ===
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[[File:John Wayne - still portrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[John Wayne]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Werner Forssmann]], German researcher and physician (b. [[1904]])
** [[Ján Kadár]], Czechoslovakian film director (b. [[1918]])
** [[Jack Mulhall]], American actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Jim Hutton]], American actor (b. [[1934]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Heinz Erhardt]], German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (b. [[1909]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Jack Haley]], American actor (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Reinhard Gehlen]], German general, 20 July Plotter (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Cyclone Taylor]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/t/taylocy01.html|title=Cyclone Taylor Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Salary, Title|website=Hockey-Reference.com}}</ref>
* [[June 11]]
**[[Edward Almond]], American general (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-M-Almond Edward M. Almond United States general]</ref>
** [[Loren Murchison]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1898]])
** [[John Wayne]], American actor and film director (b. [[1907]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Darla Hood]], American actress (b. [[1931]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Nicholas Ray]], American film director, screenwriter and actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Louis Chiron]], Monacan Grand Prix driver (b. [[1899]])
** [[Emory Parnell]], American actor (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/emory_parnell Emory Parnell]</ref>
* [[June 25]] – [[Dave Fleischer]], American animator (b. [[1894]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Akwasi Afrifa]], Ghanaian soldier and politician, [[List of heads of state of Ghana|Head of state]] (1969–1970) (b. [[1936]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Philippe Cousteau]], French diver and cinematographer (b. [[1940]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Lowell George]], American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (b. [[1945]])

=== July ===
[[File:Tomonaga.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Shin'ichirō Tomonaga]]]]
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[[File:Retrato de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.png|120px|thumb|[[Gustavo Diaz Ordaz]]]]
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* [[July 2]] 
** [[Carlyle S. Beals]], Canadian astronomer (b. [[1899]])
** [[Larisa Shepitko]], Ukrainian-Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress (b. [[1938]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Louis Durey]], French composer (b. [[1888]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Theodora Kroeber]], American writer and [[anthropologist]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Antonio María Barbieri]], Uruguay [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1892]])
** [[Van McCoy]], American musician noted for his [[1975]] hit "[[The Hustle (song)|The Hustle]]" (b. [[1940]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Elizabeth Ryan]], American 30 [[Grand Slam (tennis)]] tennis champion (b. [[1892]])
** [[Shin'ichirō Tomonaga]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]])
** [[Michael Wilding (actor)|Michael Wilding]], English actor (b. [[1912]])
** [[Robert Burns Woodward]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1917]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Arthur Fiedler]], American conductor (''[[Boston Pops]]'') (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Minnie Riperton]], American [[rhythm and blues]] singer (''[[Lovin' You]]'') (b. [[1947]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Corinne Griffith]], American actress and author (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]], Mexican politician, 49th [[President of Mexico]], 1964-1970 (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6789/Gustavo%20Diaz%20Ordaz|title=Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
|publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Frederick Hanson (engineer)|Frederick Hanson]], New Zealand soldier, engineer, military leader and public servant (b. [[1895]])<ref>[https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h7/hanson-frederick-melrose-horowhenua Story: Hanson, Frederick Melrose Horowhenua]</ref>
** [[Juana de Ibarbourou]], Uruguayan poet (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Alfred Deller]], English countertenor (b. [[1912]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Edward Akufo-Addo]], Ghanese politician and lawyer, 5th [[President of Ghana]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Herbert Butterfield|Sir Herbert Butterfield]], English philosopher and historian (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Sándor Kocsis]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and author (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/joseph-kessel JOSEPH KESSEL]</ref>
* [[July 26]] – [[Virginia Brissac]], American actress (b. [[1883]])
* [[July 28]] – [[George Seaton]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Herbert Marcuse]], German-American philosopher, sociologist and political theorist (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/marcuse-radical-philosopher-dies-largely-unnoticed-before-60s.html|title=Marcuse, Radical Philosopher, Dies|date=July 31, 1979|author=Kenneth A. Briggs|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 26, 2022}}</ref>

===August===
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[[File:John G. Diefenbaker.jpg|thumb|120px|[[John Diefenbaker]]]]
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[[File:Mika-Waltari-1958.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Mika Waltari]]]]
[[File:Camorra Jean Seberg.png|120px|thumb|[[Jean Seberg]]]]
* [[August 2]]
** [[Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre]], Peruvian politician, founder and leader of [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|APRA]] party (b. [[1895]]) 
** [[Thurman Munson]], American baseball player (b. [[1947]]) 
* [[August 3]] – [[Bertil Ohlin]], Swedish economist and Liberal politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Feodor Lynen]], German biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Walter O'Malley]], American baseball executive (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Dick Foran]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
** [[Walther Gerlach]], German physicist (b. [[1889]])
** [[Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi]], Afghan politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Ernst Chain]], German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 16]] – [[John Diefenbaker]], 13th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Vivian Vance]], American actress and singer (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Saad Jumaa]], Prime Minister of Jordan (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Stuart Heisler]], American film and television director (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Ahmad Daouk]], Lebanese politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] (b. [[1892]])
** [[Hanna Reitsch]], German aviator (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan Kenton]], American jazz pianist (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Alvin Karpis]], American criminal (b. [[1907]])
** [[Mika Waltari]], Finnish author (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Hejkalová |first=Markéta|translator-last=Turner|translator-first=Gerald |year=2008 |orig-year=2007 (Czech)|title=Mika Waltari: The Finn |location=Helsinki |publisher=WSOY |isbn=978-951-0-34335-7 | page=171}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Jean Seberg]], American actress (body found on [[September 8]]) (b. [[1938]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Sally Rand]], American dancer (b. [[1904]])

=== September ===
[[File:President MPLA, heer Neto door Den Uyl ontvangen premier Den Uyl en A Neto (r), Bestanddeelnr 927-8518 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Agostinho Neto]]]]
[[File:Dame Gracie Fields Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gracie Fields]]]]
[[File:Don Francisco Macias.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Francisco Macías Nguema]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[Doris Kenyon]], American actress (b. [[1897]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Felix Aylmer]], British actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Alberto di Jorio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Norrie Paramor]], British music producer (b. [[1914]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Agostinho Neto]], Angolan poet and politician, 1st [[President of Angola]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Jocelyne LaGarde]], Tahitian actress (b. [[1924]])
* [[September 16]] 
** [[Giò Ponti]], Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer and artist (b. [[1891]])
** [[Rob Slotemaker]], Indonesian-born, Dutch [[Formula 1]] racing car driver (b. [[1929]]) 
* [[September 20]]
** [[Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah]], [[Sultan of Terengganu]] and 4th [[King of Malaysia]] (b. [[1907]])
** [[Ludvík Svoboda]], 8th [[President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Abul A'la Maududi]], Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. [[1903]])
** [[Otto Robert Frisch]], Austrian-born British physicist (b. [[1904]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Carl Laemmle Jr.]], American film studio executive (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Yury Kovalyov]], Soviet footballer (b. [[1934]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[John Cromwell (director)|John Cromwell]], American film director and actor (b. [[1887]])
** [[Arthur Hunnicutt]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Gracie Fields|Dame Gracie Fields]], British actress (b. [[1898]])
** [[Jimmy McCulloch]], Scottish guitarist ([[Paul McCartney & Wings]]) (b. [[1953]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Francisco Macías Nguema]], 1st [[President of Equatorial Guinea]] (executed) (b. [[1924]])
** [[Ivan Wyschnegradsky]], Russian composer (b. [[1893]])

=== October ===
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[[File:Park Chung hee.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Park Chung Hee]]]]
* [[October 1]] 
** [[Dorothy Arzner]], American film director (b. [[1897]])
** [[Roy Harris]], American composer (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/632/Roy-Harris/ Roy Harris]</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet (b. [[1911]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]], Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 12]] –  [[Celia Lovsky]], Austrian-born American actress (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://trekkiefeminist.com/celia-lovsky/ Celia Lovsky]</ref>
* [[October 13]] 
** [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]], English composer and violist (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicbywomen.org/composer/rebecca-clarke/|title=Rebecca Clarke}}</ref>
** [[Archibald Roosevelt]], American army officer and conservative political activist (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Family-and-Friends/Archibald-Bulloch-Roosevelt Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt]</ref>
* [[October 15]] – [[Jacob L. Devers]], American army general (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 17]] – [[John Stuart (actor)|John Stuart]], Scottish actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/heritage-images/john-stuart-1898-1979-scottish-actor-14945434.html John Stuart (1898-1979), Scottish actor, 20th century]</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Virgilio Piñera]], Cuban author, playwright and poet (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer and composition teacher (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Antonio Caggiano]], Argentine cardinal (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Maphevu Dlamini]], 2nd Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. [[1922]])
** [[Gerald Templer|Sir Gerald Templer]], British [[field marshal]] (b. [[1898]]) 
* [[October 26]] – [[Park Chung Hee]], Korean politician, 3rd [[President of the Republic of Korea]] ([[South Korea]]) (assassinated) (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Charles Coughlin]], Canadian-born American priest and controversial conservative radio show commentator (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Barnes Wallis|Sir Barnes Wallis]], British aeronautical engineer (b. [[1887]])

=== November ===
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[[File:Zeppo Marx.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Zeppo Marx]]]]
* [[November 1]]
** [[Albert Préjean]], French actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Mamie Eisenhower]], 34th [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Jacques Mesrine]], French criminal; known as the "French [[Robin Hood]]" (b. [[1936]])
* [[November 5]] 
** [[Al Capp]], American cartoonist (b. [[1909]])
** [[Amedeo Nazzari]], Italian actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[November 7]] –&nbsp;[[Frank O'Connor (actor, born 1897)|Frank O'Connor]], American actor, rancher, and painter (b. [[1897]])<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=November 12, 1979 |title=Charles Francis O'Connor, Artist, Husband of the Writer Ayn Rand |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/12/archives/charles-francis-oconnor-artist-husband-of-the-writer-ayn-rand.html |access-date=December 23, 2022 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |type=obituary |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Edward Ardizzone]], English painter, printmaker and author (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.edward-ardizzone-archive.org/bio EDWARD JEFFREY IRVING ARDIZZONE]</ref>
** [[Yvonne de Gaulle]], French wife of [[Charles de Gaulle]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], Russian film composer (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Ernest N. Harmon]], American general (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.historynet.com/ernie-harmon-the-other-patton/ ERNIE HARMON: THE OTHER PATTON]</ref>
* [[November 17]] – [[Immanuel Velikovsky]], Russian author and psychiatrist (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Marie Byles]], Australian solicitor and conservationist (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411235131/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-11|title=Biography – Marie Beuzeville Byles – Australian Dictionary of Biography|date=2015-04-11|access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] 
** [[Merle Oberon]], British actress (b. [[1911]])
** [[Judee Sill]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1944]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Marcel L'Herbier]], French movie-maker (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Zeppo Marx]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1901]])

=== December ===
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[[File:Rafael F.Bonnelly.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly]]]]
[[File:Rodgers.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Richard Rodgers]]]]
* [[December 3]] – [[Dhyan Chand]], Indian hockey player (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Sonia Delaunay]], Russian-born French artist (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]], British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Fulton J. Sheen]], American [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and venerable (b. [[1895]]) 
* [[December 10]] – [[Ann Dvorak]], American actress (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/20/archives/ann-dvorak-dies-screen-actress-67-made-debut-as-paul-munis-sister.html|title=Ann Dvorak Dies; Screen Actress, 67|date=1979-12-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 22, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[James J. Gibson]], American psychologist and academic (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA761|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-492-9|pages=761}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Ethel Lackie]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Vagif Mustafazadeh]], Azerbaijani jazz musician (b. [[1940]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Ermindo Onega]], Argentine footballer (b. [[1940]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Darryl F. Zanuck]], American film producer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/12/24/motion-picture-producer-darryl-f-zanuck-is-dead-at-77/6e238304-adea-462e-8121-5b782c74ff51/|title=Motion Picture Producer Darryl F. Zanuck Is Dead at 77|first1=Gary|last1=Arnold|date=December 24, 1979|access-date=August 31, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* [[December 23]] 
** [[Peggy Guggenheim]], American art collector (b. [[1898]])
** [[Ernest B. Schoedsack]], American film producer and director (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Rudi Dutschke]], German radical student leader (b. [[1940]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Joan Blondell]], American actress (b. [[1906]])
** [[Lee Bowman]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Helmut Hasse]], German mathematician (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Hafizullah Amin]], 2nd General Secretary of the [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|People's Democratic Party]] and Chairman of the [[Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan)|Revolutionary Council]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly]], 43rd [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1904]]) 
* [[December 30]] – [[Richard Rodgers]], American composer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Rodgers {{!}} American composer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Rodgers |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref>