page_title: 1979
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1979 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: John G. Diefenbaker
context_page_description: 1979 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: August 2 – 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)
  Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi, Afghan politician, 9th Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921)
  Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski, Polish pilot and writer (b. 1913)
  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 20 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
  August 21 – Stuart Heisler, American film and television director (b. 1896)
  August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
  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)
  August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. 1900)
  August 30 (body found on September 8) – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
  August 31 – Sally Rand, American dancer (b. 1904)
caption: John Diefenbaker
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