Editing 1979 (section)

=== December ===
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* [[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>