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Deaths in April 1979

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ109356224 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1979.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1979

1

Red Burnett, 68, Canadian sports journalist, heart attack.

Bill Cope, 79, English footballer.

Bruno Coquatrix, 68, French record producer and politician.

Abdelhalim Hemche, 71, Algerian painter.

Gennady Komnatov, 29, Soviet Olympic racing cyclist (1972), traffic collision.

Barbara Luddy, 70, American actress (Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Winnie the Pooh), lung cancer.

Rinus Peijnenburg, 51, Dutch politician.

Editorial summary

“Deaths in April 1979” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, April and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, April and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Deaths in April 1979” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deaths, April and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109356224. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 1972.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in April 1979” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.