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Events on Friday 26 January 1979 1
1908 – 1979Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979)Died 26 January 1979, aged 70Nelson Rockefeller, businessman and four-term Governor of New York who served as US Vice President under Gerald Ford, died of a heart attack in New York City. A grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, he was a major figure in liberal Republican politics for decades. He died on 26 January 1979.