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People on Time Covers 1979

Wikipedia and Time list the Time magazine covers and with no international covers, my list is shorter than post 2000. Guess the people featured on at least one cover in 1979.
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Last updated: February 18, 2024
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American landscape photographer and environmentalist. He developed his early photographic work as a member of the Sierra Club. He was contracted with the US Department of the Interior to make photographs of national parks. For his work and his persistent advocacy, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
Ansel Adams
American filmmaker, actor, and comedian. His most successful film, Annie Hall won four Academy Awards. He directed many films set in New York City, including Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Woody Allen
American journalist, narrator, writer of Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical commentary and self-critical prose, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up.
Russell Baker
Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Leonid Brezhnev
American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
Jimmy Carter
Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
Fidel Castro
American politician who served as the governor of Texas and as the United States Secretary of the Treasury, later running for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 but failed.
John Connally
Chinese revolutionary and politician who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. Man of the Year in 1978.
Deng Xiaoping
German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
Pope John Paul II
American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture, including the Glass House in Connecticut andthe postmodern 550 Madison Avenue in New York City.
Philip Johnson
United States Air Force general and the ninth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
David Jones
Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.
Ruhollah Khomeini
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American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts. He ran in 1980 in the Democratic primary campaign for president, but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter.
Edward Kennedy
American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the US secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977.
Henry Kissinger
Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.
Ruhollah Khomeini
American actress. She made her film debut at age 14 in A Little Romance and later starred in Lonesome Dove, the Glass House and Hardball.
Diane Lane
The last monarch of Iran. He began ruling Iran after succeeding his father and remained in power until he was overthrown by the Iranian Revolution.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time. Performed at the FIFA world cup as one of the Three Tenors.
Luciano Pavarotti
Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
José López Portillo
German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Helmut Schmidt
British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. Dubbed the Iron Lady, she was the first female PM.
Margaret Thatcher
American lawyer and US Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980.
Cyrus Vance
American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.
Paul Volcker
American actor and comedian. He rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the ABC sitcom Mork & Mindy. He went on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting. His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and The Fisher King.
Robin Williams
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