Death year 1979 celebrities
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Rowena Farre (1921 – 9 January 1979) was a British writer who achieved fame for her first book Seal Morning, published in 1957. Seal Morning describes how, at the age of ten, the writer and her aunt Miriam settled in a remote croft in Sutherland, S
PJ Wolfson (22 May 1903, New York – 16 April 1979, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles), born Pincus Jacob Wolfson, was an American writer turned screenwriter and film producer.
Mercedes Muñoz Sampedro (1896–1979) was a Spanish stage and film actress.
George Garnett Dunning (November 17, 1920 – February 15, 1979) was a Canadian-born filmmaker and animator. He is best known for animating and directing the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine.
Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 1907 – 13 January 1979) was an Australian soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard Wagner’s operas. She was the first soprano to perform the immolation scene in Götterdämmerung by ridin
Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1887 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was a highly regarded American film actor and stage and film director during the Golden Age of the studios, spanning the early days of sound to 1950’s Film Noir
Edward Akufo-Addo (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the “Big Six” leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), which engaged in the fight for Ghana’s independence. He became the Chief Just
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and occasional actor.
Nikolai Ivanovich Glazkov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Глазко́в; January 30, 1919 – October 1, 1979) was a Soviet poet renowned for his uncanny and ironic verse, his alcoholism, and for jokingly coining the term samizdat, w