Deaths
- Cesare Terranova, Sicilian prosecutor
- January 12 – Johnny Dioguardi (Johnny Dio), Lucchese crime family member and labor racketeer
- April – James Torello "Turk", Chicago Outfit member
- May 11 – Harvey 'Chris' Rosenberg, Gambino crime family associate and member of the DeMeo Crew
- July 12 – Carmine Galante "Lilo"/"The Cigar", Bonanno crime family Boss
Read more about this topic: 1979 In Organized Crime
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)