page_title: 1979
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1979 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Dame Gracie Fields
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: September 1 – Doris Kenyon, American actress (b. 1897)
  September 2 – Felix Aylmer, British actor (b. 1889)
  September 5 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1884)
  September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright (b. 1884)
  September 9 – Norrie Paramor, British music producer (b. 1914)
  September 10 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan poet and politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
  September 16
  Giò Ponti, Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer and artist (b. 1891)
  Rob Slotemaker, Indonesian-born, Dutch Formula 1 racing car driver (b. 1929)
  September 20
  Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, Sultan of Terengganu and 4th King of Malaysia (b. 1907)
  Ludvík Svoboda, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
  September 22
  Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. 1903)
  Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born British physicist (b. 1904)
  September 24 – Carl Laemmle Jr., American film studio executive (b. 1908)
  September 25 – Yury Kovalyov, Soviet footballer (b. 1934)
  September 26
  John Cromwell, American film director and actor (b. 1887)
  Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
  September 27
  Gracie Fields, British actress (b. 1898)
  Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish guitarist (Paul McCartney & Wings) (b. 1953)
  September 29
  Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (executed) (b. 1924)
  Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian composer (b. 1893)
caption: Gracie Fields
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