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Who died in August 1979

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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

19001979

British statesman and naval officer who served as Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, and oversaw India's independence as its last Viceroy and first Governor-General

Mika Waltari

Mika Waltari

19081979

Finnish writer best known for his best-selling novel "The Egyptian," Mika Waltari was a prolific author across poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, and film scripts

Giuseppe Meazza

Giuseppe Meazza

19101979

Italian association football player and manager, widely regarded as one of the best players of the 20th century and a two-time World Cup winner who captained Italy to glory

John Diefenbaker

John Diefenbaker

18951979

13th Prime Minister of Canada who led the Progressive Conservative party to three election victories

Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain

19061979

Jewish-German-born British biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for the discovery and development of penicillin

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen

19111979

German biochemist and Nobel Laureate known for his discoveries in cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

Bertil Ohlin

Bertil Ohlin

18991979

Swedish economist and politician whose pathbreaking theories on international trade and capital movements earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977