Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909) Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor (b. 1907) November 8 – Yvonne de Gaulle, French political wife of former President of France Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900) November 11 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian film composer (b. 1894) November 17 – Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian author and psychiatrist (b. 1895) November 23 Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911) Judee Sill, American singer and songwriter (b. 1944) November 26 – Marcel L'Herbier, French movie-maker (b. 1888) November 30 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901) December December 3 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b. 1905) December 5 – Sonia Delaunay, Russian-born French artist (b. 1885) December 7 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900) December 9 – Fulton J. Sheen, American Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1895) December 10 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911) December 11 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1904) December 13 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915) December 15 – Ethel Lackie, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1907) December 16 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani jazz musician (b. 1940) December 21 – Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (b. 1940) December 22 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1902) December 23 Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898) Ernest B. Schoedsack, American film producer and director (b. 1893) December 24 – Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader (b. 1940) December 25 Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906) Lee Bowman, American actor (b. 1914) December 26 – Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (b. 1898) December 27 – Hafizullah Amin, 2nd General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council (b. 1929) December 28 – Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1904) December 30 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902) Nobel Prizes Physics – Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig Medicine – Allan MacLeod Cormack, Godfrey Hounsfield Literature – Odysseas Elytis Peace – Mother Teresa Economics – Theodore Schultz, W. Arthur Lewis Media The Doctor Who story City of Death is set in 1979, its year of broadcast. The events of the 2011 science fiction film Super 8 take place during 1979. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, an interactive drama video game released in 2016, based on the events of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. References Further reading Caryl, Christian, Strange Rebels: