Famous People Who Died in 1979

• Bishop, Elizabeth

  Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50

• Carter, Asa Earl

  Author of The Education of Little Tree

• Douglas, Aaron

  The Harlem Renaissance muralist who did 'Aspects of Negro Life'

• Eisenhower, Mamie

  President Dwight D. Eisenhower's wife

• Hilton, Conrad

  The founder of Hilton Hotels

• Kelly, Emmett, Sr.

  The melancholy tramp clown Weary Willie

• Mingus, Charles

  Jazz bassist and composer who did Pithecanthropus Erectus

• Obereon, Merle

  Cathy in the 1939 movie version of 'Wuthering Heights'

• Perelman, S.J.

  Humorist for The New Yorker and Marx Bros. writer

• Pickford, Mary

  "America's Sweetheart" of the silent film era

• Ray, Nicholas

  The director of the movie Rebel Without A Cause

• Rodgers, Richard

  Composer of Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music

• Wayne, John

  Western movie icon and star of True Grit

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