Famous People Who Died at Age 79

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Haggard, Merle (died of complications from pneumonia at 79 years exactly on April 6, 2016)

• Fauset, Jessie Redmon (at 79 years 3 days on April 30, 1961)

• Harper, Valerie (at 79 years 8 days on August 30, 2019)

• Wallace, George (died of heart failure at 79 years 19 days on September 13, 1998)

• Dixon, Jeane (died of a heart attack at 79 years 22 days on January 25, 1997)

• Taylor, Elizabeth (died of heart failure at 79 years 24 days on March 23, 2011)

• Wyler, William (at 79 years 26 days on July 27, 1981)

• Thomas, Danny (died of heart failure at 79 years 31 days on February 6, 1991)

• Robinson, Edward G. (died of cancer at 79 years 45 days on January 26, 1973)

• Vangelis (at 79 years 49 days on May 17, 2022)

• Fitzgerald, Ella (died of diabetes at 79 years 51 days on June 15, 1996)

• Atlas, Charles (died of heart failure at 79 years 55 days on December 24, 1972)

• Berrigan, Philip (died of cancer at 79 years 62 days on December 6, 2002)

• Queen Lili'uokalani (at 79 years 70 days on November 11, 1917)

• Springer, Jerry (died of pancreatic cancer at 79 years 73 days on April 27, 2023)

• Karina, Anna (at 79 years 83 days on December 14, 2019)

• Ramone, Phil (at 79 years 84 days on March 30, 2013)

• Carson, Johnny (died of emphysema at 79 years 92 days on January 23, 2005)

• Sax, Adolphe (at 79 years 93 days on February 7, 1894)

• Baraka, Amiri (at 79 years 94 days on January 9, 2014)

• Ho Chi Minh (at 79 years 106 days on September 2, 1969)

• Hines, Earl (at 79 years 115 days on April 22, 1983)

• Kelley, DeForest (died of stomach cancer at 79 years 142 days on June 11, 1999)

• Diddley, Bo (died of heart failure at 79 years 155 days on June 2, 2008)

• Imus, Don (at 79 years 157 days on December 27, 2019)

• Williams, William Carlos (at 79 years 168 days on March 4, 1963)

• Straub, Peter (at 79 years 186 days on September 4, 2022)

• Young, Coleman (died of emphysema at 79 years 189 days on November 29, 1997)

• Auberjonois, René (died of lung cancer at 79 years 190 days on December 8, 2019)

• Dawson, Richard (died of complications from cancer at 79 years 195 days on June 2, 2012)

• Murdoch, Iris (at 79 years 208 days on February 8, 1999)

• Ford, John (at 79 years 211 days on August 31, 1973)

• Stafford, William (at 79 years 223 days on August 28, 1993)

• Van Buren, Martin (at 79 years 231 days on July 24, 1862)

• House, Edward M. "Colonel" (at 79 years 245 days on March 28, 1938)

• Geronimo (died of complications from pneumonia at 79 years 246 days on February 17, 1909)

• Basie, Count (at 79 years 249 days on April 26, 1984)

• Douglas, Aaron (at 79 years 252 days on February 2, 1979)

• Matthau, Walter (died of heart failure at 79 years 274 days on July 1, 2000)

• Safire, William (died of cancer at 79 years 284 days on September 27, 2009)

• Marshall, John (at 79 years 285 days on July 6, 1835)

• Kant, Immanuel (at 79 years 296 days on February 12, 1804)

• Bethune, Mary McLeod (at 79 years 312 days on May 18, 1955)

• Goddard, Paulette (at 79 years 324 days on April 23, 1990)

• Wells, H. G. (at 79 years 326 days on August 13, 1946)

• Mitchum, Robert (at 79 years 329 days on July 1, 1997)

• Avogadro, Amedeo (at 79 years 335 days on July 9, 1856)

• Scalia, Antonin (natural causes at 79 years 339 days on February 13, 2016)

• Cage, John (at 79 years 342 days on August 12, 1992)

• De Gaulle, Charles (died of an aneurysm at 79 years 352 days on November 9, 1970)

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