1979
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
The 1970s
Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
1979
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of Americ…
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
1979
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.
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1979
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the developmen…
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
1979
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
1979
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
1979
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her …
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
1979
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Asa Philip Randolph was an American railwayman, trade unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successfu…
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Somasundaram Selvanayagam was a Ceylon Tamil geographer, academic and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Jaffna.
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Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
Sir Ernest Bullock was an English organist, composer, and teacher. He was organist of Exeter Cathedral from 1917 to 1928 and of Westminster Abbey from 1928 to 1941. In the latter p…
Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
1979
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer…
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
1979
Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
Amedeo "Amédée" Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.
Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
1979
John Spenkelink, American murderer (born 1949)
John Arthur Spenkelink was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated i…
John Spenkelink, American murderer (born 1949)
1979
George Brent, Irish-American actor (born 1904)
George Brent was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.
George Brent, Irish-American actor (born 1904)
1979
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John Howland Wood Jr. was an American lawyer and judge from Texas. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas…
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1979
Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (born 1892)
Gladys Louise Smith, baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film indust…
Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (born 1892)
1979
Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheter…
Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
1979
Jim Hutton, American actor (born 1934)
Dana Scott James Hutton was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name, and his screen partnershi…
Jim Hutton, American actor (born 1934)
1979
Jack Haley, American actor (born 1897)
John Joseph Haley Jr. was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He is most notable for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand co…
Jack Haley, American actor (born 1897)
1979
Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884)
Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. A cover-point and rover, he played professionally from 1906 to 1922, and is a…
Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884)
1979
Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (born 1893)
Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called "a pioneer in the fie…
Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (born 1893)
1979
Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)
Efstratios Dimitriou, known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music researcher, best known as the co-founder, …
Demetrio Stratos, Egyptian-Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1945)
1979
Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (born 1946)
Ahmad Zahir was an Afghan singer, songwriter and composer. Dubbed the "Elvis of Afghanistan", he is widely considered the all-time greatest singer of Afghanistan. The majority of h…
Ahmad Zahir, Afghan singer-songwriter (born 1946)
1979
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (born 1931)
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong was a Ghanaian military officer and politician who was the military head of state of Ghana from 13 January 1972 to 5 July 1978, when he was deposed in a pa…
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Ghanaian general and politician, 6th Head of state of Ghana (born 1931)