Editing 1979

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[[File:1979 Events Collage.jpg|300x300px|thumb|Clockwise from top-left: the [[Soviet Union]] invades [[Afghanistan]], starting the [[Soviet-Afghan War]]; [[Sony]] releases the [[Walkman]]; the [[SALT II]] treaties are signed; Iranian students crowd the U.S. embassy in [[Tehran]] during the [[Iran hostage crisis]]; the oil tanker ''Betelgeuse'' [[Whiddy Island disaster|explodes]], killing 50 people; [[American Airlines Flight 191]] crashes, leaving 273 people dead; [[Ixtoc 1]] suffers a blowout, spilling 3.5 million barrels of oil; the [[Iranian Revolution]] culminates in the overthrow of the [[Pahlavi dynasty]].]]
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==Events==

===January===
{{main|January 1979}}
* [[January 1]]
** [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Kurt Waldheim]] heralds the start of the ''[[International Year of the Child]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Regional Centre for Culture and Book Development in Asia|title=Newsletter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LH6ezAgKysQC|year=1979|page=3}}</ref> Many musicians donate to the ''[[Music for UNICEF Concert]]'' fund, among them [[ABBA]], who write the song ''[[Chiquitita]]'' to commemorate the event.
** In 1979, the United States officially severed diplomatic ties with the [[Republic of China]] ([[Taiwan]]). This decision marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, turning to view the People's Republic of [[China]] as the sole legitimate representative of China.
** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full [[Sino-American relations|diplomatic relations]].
** Following a deal agreed during 1978, [[France|French]] carmaker [[Peugeot]] completes a takeover of American manufacturer [[Chrysler]]'s [[Chrysler Europe|European operations]], which are based in [[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s former [[Rootes Group]] factories, as well as the former [[Simca]] factories in [[France]].
* [[January 6]] – [[Geylang Bahru family murders]]: Four children, aged five to ten, are brutally killed in [[Geylang Bahru]], [[Singapore]].
* [[January 7]] – [[Cambodian–Vietnamese War]]: The [[People's Army of Vietnam]] and Vietnamese-backed [[Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation|Cambodian insurgents]] announce the fall of [[Phnom Penh]], [[Cambodia]], and the collapse of the [[Pol Pot]] regime. Pol Pot and the [[Khmer Rouge]] retreat west to an area along the [[Thailand|Thai]] border, ending large-scale fighting. 
* [[January 8]] – [[Whiddy Island Disaster]]: The French tanker ''Betelgeuse'' explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at [[Bantry]], Ireland; 50 people are killed.
* [[January 9]] – The ''[[Music for UNICEF Concert]]'' is held at the [[United Nations General Assembly]] to raise money for [[UNICEF]] and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by the [[Bee Gees]], other performers include [[Donna Summer]], [[ABBA]], [[Rod Stewart]] and [[Earth, Wind & Fire]]. A soundtrack album is later released.
* [[January 16]] – Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] flees [[Iran]] with his family, relocating to [[Egypt]] after a year of turmoil.
* [[January 19]] – Former U.S. Attorney General [[John N. Mitchell]] is released on [[parole]] after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
* [[January 22]] – [[Uganda–Tanzania War]]: [[Battle of Mutukula]]: The [[Tanzania]]n military captures the [[Uganda]]n border town of [[Mutukula, Uganda|Mutukula]] after a short battle.
* [[January 25]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] arrives in Mexico City for his first visit to Mexico, mainly for 1979's [[Latin American Episcopal Conference]] (CELAM) or Conference of [[Puebla]].
* [[January 28]] – [[Deng Xiaoping]] arrives in Washington, D.C., for the [[State visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States|first visit]] of a [[paramount leader]] of the People's Republic of China to the United States.

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1979}}
[[File:Flag of Saint Lucia.svg|thumb|[[22 February]]: Saint Lucia becomes independent]]
[[File:Flag of Iran.svg|thumb|Restored flag of Iran]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Ayatollah]] [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] returns to [[Tehran]], [[Iran]] after nearly 15 years of [[exile]].<ref>{{cite book|author=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|title=Fundamentalisms Observed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qd5yzP5hdiEC&pg=PA403|date=July 1994|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-50878-8|pages=403}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – Ayatollah Khomeini creates the [[Council of the Islamic Revolution]].
* [[February 7]]
** [[Iranian Revolution]]: Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts, and government administration; the final session of the Iranian [[Islamic Consultative Assembly|National Consultative Assembly]] is held.
** [[Pluto]] moves inside [[Neptune]]'s orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
** Nazi criminal [[Josef Mengele]] suffers a fatal stroke and drowns while swimming in [[Bertioga]], [[Brazilian military government|Brazil]]. His remains are found in [[1985]].
* [[February 10]]–[[February 11|11]] – The Iranian Revolution ends with the Iranian army withdrawing to its barracks leaving power in the hands of Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini|Khomeini]], ending the [[Pahlavi dynasty]].
* [[February 11]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Battle of Simba Hills]]: The Tanzanian military began its assault on the Simba Hills near the town of [[Kakuuto, Uganda|Kakuuto]].
* [[February 12]] – Prime Minister [[Hissène Habré]] starts the Battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow [[Chad]]'s President [[Félix Malloum]].
* [[February 13]] 
** An intense [[February 13, 1979 windstorm|windstorm]] strikes western [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and sinks a {{convert|1.3|km|mi|abbr=on}} long section of the [[Hood Canal Bridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-14 |title=The windstorm that sank the Hood Canal Bridge exactly 44 years ago |url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/windstorm-that-sank-hood-canal-bridge-exactly-44-years-ago/OTNCVFYQTJHRLEPYOP4AJ77VZA/ |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=KIRO 7 News Seattle}}</ref>
** The [[Guardian Angels]] are formed in [[New York City]] as an unarmed organization of young crime fighters.
* [[February 14]] – In [[Kabul]], Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to [[Afghanistan]], [[Adolph Dubs]], who is killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.<ref>J. Robert Moskin, ''American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service'' (Thomas Dunne Books, 2013), p. 594.</ref>
* [[February 15]] – A [[1979 Warsaw gas explosion|suspected gas explosion]] in a [[Warsaw]] bank kills 49 people.
* [[February 17]] – The People's Republic of China invades northern [[Vietnam]], launching the [[Sino-Vietnamese War]].
* [[February 18]]
**The [[1979 Daytona 500]] is televised on [[CBS]], the first ever full airing of a 500-mile race on US [[television]], [[Richard Petty]] wins after [[Cale Yarborough]] and [[Donnie Allison]] battle for first place on the final lap and crash out, leading to a fist fight. This race brought [[NASCAR]] to a wider audience.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Columnist |first=Al Pearce Sports |title=The most important race in NASCAR history |url=https://www.rockymounttelegram.com/sports/professional/the-most-important-race-in-nascar-history/article_7ba1fcb8-e8b1-5e4d-9ddb-f8538b4f2b84.html |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=RockyMount Telegram |date=June 18, 2022}}</ref>
** The Khomeini government in Iran cuts [[Iran-Israel relations|diplomatic relations]] with [[Israel]].
* [[February 21]] –  Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Battle of Gayaza Hills]]: A Tanzanian brigade successfully dislodged Ugandan forces from the Gayaza Hills. The battle is hard-fought, and the Tanzanians suffer their largest number of casualties in a single engagement of the war.
* [[February 22]] – [[Saint Lucia]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* [[February 26]]
** A [[Solar eclipse of February 26, 1979|total solar eclipse]], the last visible from the continental United States until 2017, arcs over northwestern [[conterminous US]] and central Canada ending in Greenland. A partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America including the eastern half of Alaska and the western half of the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0111979/|title=Total Eclipse of the Sun: 1979 February 26|publisher=[[HM Nautical Almanac Office]]|date=2011-04-11|access-date=2013-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060328051052/http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0111979/|archive-date=March 28, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** The [[Superliner (railcar)|Superliner]] railcar enters revenue service with [[Amtrak]].
* [[February 27]]
**The annual [[Mardi Gras]] celebration in [[New Orleans]] is cancelled due to a strike called by the [[New Orleans Police Department]].
**The Soviet oil tanker [[Antonio Gramsci (ship)|''Antonio Gramsci'']] suffers a minor shipwreck in shallow waters shortly after leaving shore in [[Ventspils]], resulting in a 5,000 ton oil spill, the largest that has ever occurred on the [[Baltic Sea]].<ref>{{cite web | url= https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11652270| title= "Tämmöinen öljyhomma merellä on laitoksen sisäinen asia, eikä siitä tiedoteta" – Itämeren pahin öljyturma pysyi pimennossa lähes kuukauden | website = [[Yle]] | date = 2020-11-27 | access-date = 2021-11-04 }}</ref>

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1979}}
* [[March 1]]
** [[1979 Scottish devolution referendum|Scottish devolution referendum]]: [[Scotland]] votes in favour of a Scottish Assembly, which is not implemented due to failing a condition that at least 40% of the electorate must support the proposal; in a [[1979 Welsh devolution referendum|Welsh devolution referendum]], [[Wales]] votes against devolution.
** [[Philips]] publicly demonstrate a prototype of an [[Compact disc|optical digital audio disc]] at a press conference in [[Eindhoven]], Netherlands.
* [[March 2]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Battle of Tororo]]: Ugandan rebels attack and capture the town of [[Tororo]].
* [[March 4]]
** The U.S. ''[[Voyager 1]]'' spaceprobe photos reveal [[Jupiter's rings]].
** Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Tororo: The Ugandan military retakes Tororo from rebels.
* [[March 5]] – ''Voyager 1'' makes its closest approach to [[Jupiter]] at {{convert|277000|km|mi}}.
* [[March 7]] – The largest [[Magnetar]] ([[Soft gamma repeater]]) event is recorded.
* [[March 8]]
**[[Philips]] demonstrates the [[compact disc]] publicly for the first time.
** Thousands of women participate in the [[International Women's Day Protests in Tehran, 1979]] against the introduction of mandatory veiling during the [[Iranian revolution]].
** Images taken by ''Voyager 1'' prove the [[Volcanism on Io|existence of volcanoes]] on [[Io (moon)|Io]], a [[moon of Jupiter]].<ref name="Morabito1979">{{cite journal |title=Discovery of currently active extraterrestrial volcanism |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |last1=Morabito |first1=L. A. |pages=972 |volume=204 |issue=4396 |date=1979 |doi=10.1126/science.204.4396.972 |pmid=17800432 |bibcode=1979Sci...204..972M |display-authors=1 |last2=Synnott |first2=S. P. |last3=Kupferman |first3=P. N. |last4=Collins |first4=S. A.|s2cid=45693338 }}</ref>
* [[March 10]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Battle of Lukaya]]: The Ugandan military, a Libyan expeditionary force and allied [[Palestine Liberation Organisation]] militants begin a counter-offensive against Tanzanian troops in south-central Uganda. The Ugandan-led alliance retakes [[Lukaya, Uganda|Lukaya]] after a short clash with the Tanzanian military.
* [[March 11]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: Battle of Lukaya: The Tanzanian military counter-attacks at Lukaya, completely defeating the Ugandan-led alliance. This defeat permanently cripples the Ugandan military.
* [[March 13]] – [[Maurice Bishop]] leads a successful coup in [[Grenada]]. His government will be crushed by [[Invasion of Grenada|American intervention]] in [[1983]].
* [[March 14]] – In China, a [[Hawker Siddeley Trident]] crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 31 people on the ground and injuring 200.
* [[March 16]]
**End of major hostilities in the [[Sino-Vietnamese War]].
** In his letter to the United Nations, [[Elísio de Figueiredo|Elisio De Figueiredo]], the People's Republic of Angola's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, requests an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the question of [[South African Border War|South Africa's continuous acts of aggression in Angola]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Angola |date=1979-03-16 |title=Letter dated 79/03/16 from the Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council. |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/2225|publisher=United Nations Digital Library}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – The [[Penmanshiel Tunnel]] in the UK collapses, killing two workers.
* [[March 19]] – [[C-SPAN]], an American television channel focusing on government and public affairs, is launched.
* [[March 18]] – Ten miners die in a [[methane]] gas explosion at [[Golborne Colliery]] near [[Wigan]], [[Greater Manchester]], England.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/18/newsid_4226000/4226271.stm|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|title=1979: Three die in Golborne mine blast|access-date=2013-03-18}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] – The [[National Hockey League]] votes to approve its [[NHL–WHA merger|merger]] with the [[World Hockey Association]], to take effect in three months, following the leagues' respective postseasons.
* [[March 25]] – The first fully functional [[Space Shuttle]] orbiter, [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']], is delivered to the [[Kennedy Space Center]], to be prepared for its first launch.
* [[March 26]] 
** In a ceremony at the [[White House]], President [[Anwar Sadat]] of [[Egypt]] and Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] of [[Israel]] sign an [[Egypt–Israel peace treaty]].
** [[Michigan State Spartans men's basketball|Michigan State University]], led by [[Magic Johnson|Earvin "Magic" Johnson]], defeats [[Larry Bird]]-led [[Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball|Indiana State]] 75–64 in the [[1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|NCAA tournament]] [[1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game|championship game]] at [[Salt Lake City]]. 
* [[March 28]]
** In Britain, [[James Callaghan]]'s minority [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government loses a [[motion of confidence]] by one vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/28/newsid_2531000/2531007.stm|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|title=1979: Early election as Callaghan defeated|access-date=2013-03-18}}</ref>
** America's most serious [[nuclear power plant]] accident occurs, at [[Three Mile Island accident|Three Mile Island]], Pennsylvania.
* [[March 29]] – Sultan [[Yahya Petra of Kelantan]], the 6th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] (Head of State) of [[Malaysia]], dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan [[Ahmad Shah of Pahang]].
* [[March 30]] – [[Airey Neave]], Conservative M.P. in the [[British House of Commons]], is killed, presumably by an [[Irish National Liberation Army]] bomb in the car park for the Houses of Parliament.
* [[March 31]]
** The last British soldier (belonging to the [[Royal Navy]]) leaves the [[Maltese Islands]], after 179 years of presence. [[Malta]] declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
** [[Milk and Honey (Israeli group)|Milk and Honey]] win the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1979]] for [[Israel]], with the song ''[[Hallelujah (Milk and Honey song)|Hallelujah]]''.

===April===
{{Main|April 1979}}
* [[April 1]]
** [[Iran]]'s government becomes an [[Islamic Republic]] by a 98% vote, overthrowing the [[Shah]] officially.
** [[Nickelodeon]] launches from [[QUBE]]'s [[Pinwheel (TV series)|Pinwheel]] experiment and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.
**[[Dale Earnhardt|Dale Earnhardt Sr.]] wins his first career [[NASCAR]] race at the [[1979 Southeastern 500]] at [[Bristol Motor Speedway]]. He would go on to win 76 races and seven championships during his career.
* [[April 1]]–[[April 18|18]] – Police lock [[Andreas Mihavecz]] in a holding cell in [[Bregenz]], Austria and forget about him, leaving him there without food or drink.
* [[April 2]] – [[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak]]: A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[biowarfare]] laboratory at [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]] accidentally releases airborne [[anthrax]] spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of [[livestock]]. It is a violation of the [[Biological Weapons Convention]] of [[1972]].
* [[April 2]] – In [[Japan]], the channel of [[TV Asahi]] premieres ''[[Doraemon]]''.
* [[April 4]] – [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Pakistani Prime Minister]] [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]] is executed by hanging for the murder of a political opponent.
* [[April 6]] – [[1979 Nepalese student protests|Student protests]] break out in [[Nepal]].
* [[April 7]] – In Japan, [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] directs ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the first series of the metaseries of the same name.
* [[April 10]] – A tornado hits [[Wichita Falls, Texas]], killing 42 people (the most notable of [[1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak|26 tornadoes that day]]).
* [[April 11]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Fall of Kampala]]: Tanzanian troops take [[Kampala]], the capital of Uganda; [[Idi Amin]] flees.
* [[April 13]] – The [[La Soufrière (volcano)|La Soufrière]] volcano erupts in [[St. Vincent and the Grenadines]].
* [[April 14]] – The [[Progressive Alliance of Liberia]] stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting over 70 deaths and over 500 injured.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |trans-title=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|isbn=9781461659310|pages=23–24|publisher= Scarecrow Press}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[1979 Montenegro earthquake]]: A 6.9 {{M|w|link=y}} shock affects [[Montenegro]] (then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]) and parts of [[Albania]], causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of [[Budva]] is devastated.
* [[April 17]] – Schoolchildren in the [[Central African Republic]] are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory [[school uniform]]s. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
* [[April 22]] – The [[Albert Einstein Memorial]] is unveiled at the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[April 23]] – Fighting breaks out in London between the [[Anti-Nazi League]] and the [[Metropolitan Police]]'s [[Special Patrol Group]]; protester [[Blair Peach]] receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.

===May===
{{main|May 1979}}
* [[May 1]] – [[Greenland]] is granted limited autonomy from Denmark, with its own [[Parliament of Greenland|Parliament]] sitting in [[Nuuk]].
* [[May 3]] – The [[1979 United Kingdom general election]] for the House of Commons takes place, giving the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] a majority, and designating [[Margaret Thatcher]] the nation's first woman prime minister, ending the rule of [[James Callaghan]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/basics/4393311.stm|title=1979: Thatcher wins Tory landslide|work=Election 2005|publisher=BBC News|date=2005-04-05|access-date=2013-03-18}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] – Thatcher is appointed the [[prime minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[May 8]] – Ten shoppers die in [[Woolworths fire|a fire at the Woolworths department store]] in [[Manchester]] city centre in England.
* [[May 9]]
** The [[Salvadoran Civil War]] begins.
** The [[Unabomber]] bomb injures [[Northwestern University]] graduate student John Harris.
* [[May 10]] – The [[Federated States of Micronesia]] becomes self-governing.
* [[May 15]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Battle of Lira]]: [[Tanzania]] and its [[Uganda National Liberation Front]] allies capture [[Lira, Uganda]], from the forces of Ugandan dictator [[Idi Amin]].
* [[May 21]]
** [[Dan White]] is convicted of manslaughter, rather than murder, for the assassination of [[San Francisco]] Mayor [[George Moscone]] and Supervisor [[Harvey Milk]], after using what would become known as the "[[Twinkie defense]]" and persuading a jury that the crime was not premeditated. The maximum sentence is seven years imprisonment, with eligibility for early parole, prompting the "[[White Night riots]]" in the gay community.  
** The [[Montreal Canadiens]] defeat the [[New York Rangers]] four games to one to win their fourth consecutive [[Stanley Cup]].
*[[May 24]]
**[[Thorpe Park]]: Opens its doors having attractions such as [[Phantom Fantasia]] also next door had a farm called Thorpe Farm
* [[May 25]]
** [[American Airlines Flight 191]]: In Chicago, a [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] crashes during takeoff at [[O'Hare International Airport]], killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground in the deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
** [[John Spenkelink]] is executed in [[Florida]], in the first use of the [[electric chair]] in America after the reintroduction of the [[death penalty]] in [[1976]].
** [[Disappearance of Etan Patz|Etan Patz, six years old, is kidnapped in New York]]. He is often referred to as the "Boy on the Milk Carton" and the investigation later sprouts into one of the most famous child abduction cases of all time. This is a cold case until 2010 when it is re-opened. In April 2017, Pedro Hernandez is convicted of the murder and kidnapping and sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[May 27]] – [[1979 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]]: [[Rick Mears]] wins the race for the first time, and car owner [[Roger Penske]] for the second time.

=== June ===
{{main|June 1979}}
* [[June 1]]
** The [[Vizianagaram district]] is formed in [[Andhra Pradesh]], India.
** The first black-led government of [[Rhodesia]] in 90 years takes power, in succession to [[Ian Smith]] and under his power-sharing deal, in the unrecognized republic of [[Zimbabwe Rhodesia]].
** The [[Seattle SuperSonics]] win the NBA Championship against the [[Washington Bullets]].
* [[June 2]]
** [[Pope John Paul II]] arrives in his native Poland on his first official, nine-day stay, becoming the first Pope to visit a [[Communist]] country. This visit, known as nine days that changed the world, brings about the solidarity of the Polish people against Communism, ultimately leading to the rise of the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]] movement.
** [[Los Angeles]]' city council passes the city's first [[homosexual rights]] bill signed without fanfare by mayor [[Tom Bradley (American politician)|Tom Bradley]].
* [[June 3]]
** [[Ixtoc I oil spill]]: A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern [[Gulf of Mexico]] causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428&nbsp;million gallons, making it the largest unintentional [[oil spill]] until it is surpassed by the [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill]] in 2010.
** [[1979 Italian general election]]: The [[Italian Communist Party]] loses a significant number of seats.
* [[June 4]]
** [[Joe Clark]] becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
** [[Flight Lieutenant]] [[Jerry Rawlings]] takes power in [[Ghana]] after a military [[coup d'état|coup]] in which [[General officer|General]] [[Fred Akuffo]] is overthrown.
** Following the "[[Muldergate]]" Information Scandal, [[John Vorster]] resigns as [[State President of South Africa]].<ref name="RSA">[http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_pres1/ Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961–1994]. Accessed 14 April 2017.</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[1979 European Parliament election]]: The first direct elections to the [[European Parliament]] begin, allowing citizens from across all nine (at this time) [[European Communities#Members|member states of the European Communities]] to elect 410 [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]s. It is also the first international election in history.
* [[June 9]]–[[June 23|23]] – The [[1979 Cricket World Cup]] is held in England with West Indies defeating England in the final.
* [[June 12]] – [[Bryan Allen (hang glider)|Bryan Allen]] flies the man-powered ''[[Gossamer Albatross]]'' across the [[English Channel]].
* [[June 13]] – The [[1979 NHL Expansion Draft]] takes place, restocking the franchises from [[Edmonton Oilers|Edmonton]], [[Hartford Whalers|Hartford]], [[Quebec Nordiques|Quebec]], and [[Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996)|Winnipeg]], which are being admitted from the [[World Hockey Association|WHA]] as expansion teams.
* [[June 15]]
** [[McDonald's]] introduces the [[Happy Meal]] in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product since February in franchises in the U.S. state of [[Missouri]].<ref>''Wausau (WI) Daily Herald'', June 15, 1979, p. 9; ''Helena (MT) Independent-Record'', June 19, 1979, p. 31; ''Grand Junction (CO) Daily Sentinel'', June 19, 1979, p. 3; ''Seymour (IN) Tribune'', June 20, 1979, p. 15</ref>
** The ecological horror-thriller ''[[Prophecy (film)|Prophecy]]'' is [[theatrical release|released]] in the United States by [[Paramount Pictures]].
* [[June 18]] – [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] sign the [[SALT II]] agreement in [[Vienna]].
* [[June 19]] – [[Marais Viljoen]] becomes [[State President of South Africa]].<ref name="RSA"/>
* [[June 20]] – A [[Nicaragua]]n National Guard soldier kills [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC TV]] news correspondent [[Bill Stewart (television journalist)|Bill Stewart]] and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
* [[June 22]] 
** Former [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] leader [[Jeremy Thorpe]] was acquitted of [[Thorpe affair|conspiracy to murder]] [[Norman Josiffe|Norman Scott]], who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.<ref>{{cite book|author-link=Auberon Waugh |last= Waugh |first= Auberon |title= The Last Word |location= London |publisher= Michael Joseph |year= 1980 |isbn= 0-7181-1799-9|pages=236&ndash;238}}</ref> 
** The [[World Hockey Association|WHA]] formally ceases operations, completing the [[1979 NHL expansion|merger]] with the [[National Hockey League|NHL]].
* [[June 23]] – [[New South Wales]] Premier [[Neville Wran]] officially opens the [[Eastern Suburbs Railway]] in Sydney. It operates as a shuttle between Central and Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line in 1980. 
* [[June 24]] – The [[Permanent Peoples' Tribunal]], an international opinion tribunal, is founded in [[Bologna]] at the initiative of Senator [[Lelio Basso]].
* [[June 25]] – [[NATO]] [[Supreme Allied Commander]] [[Alexander Haig]] escapes an assassination attempt in Belgium by the [[Red Army Faction|Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization]].

===July===
{{main|July 1979}}
[[File:Flag of Kiribati.svg|thumb|[[12 July]]: Kiribati becomes independent]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Sweden]] becomes the first country to outlaw [[corporal punishment in the home]].
** The [[Sony Walkman]] goes on sale for the first time in Japan.
* [[July 3]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in [[Afghanistan]].
* [[July 5]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] attends the millennium celebrations of the [[Isle of Man]]'s Parliament, [[Tynwald]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/newsid_2494000/2494861.stm|title=1979: Queen oversees Manx millennium|work=On This Day|publisher=BBC|access-date=2008-01-27|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080307131708/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/5/newsid_2494000/2494861.stm|archive-date=March 7, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 8]] – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.
* [[July 9]] – A car bomb destroys a [[Renault]] owned by Nazi hunters [[Serge and Beate Klarsfeld]] at their home in France. A note purportedly from [[ODESSA]] claims responsibility.
* [[July 11]] – [[NASA]]'s first orbiting space station, ''[[Skylab]]'', begins falling back [[Earth]] as its orbit decays after more than six years.
* [[July 12]]
** The [[Gilbert Islands]] become fully independent of the United Kingdom as [[Kiribati]].
** A ''[[Disco Demolition Night]]'' publicity stunt goes awry at [[Comiskey Park]], forcing the [[Chicago White Sox]] to [[Forfeit (baseball)|forfeit]] their game against the [[Detroit Tigers]].
** [[Carmine Galante]], boss of the [[Bonanno crime family]], is assassinated in [[Brooklyn]].
** A [[Hotel Corona de Aragón fire|fire at a hotel]] in [[Zaragoza]], Spain, leaves 72 dead, the worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
* [[July 15]] – President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation in a televised speech talking about the "crisis of confidence in America today"; it would go on to be known as his "national malaise" speech.
* [[July 16]] – [[Iraq]]i President [[Hasan al-Bakr]] resigns and Vice President [[Saddam al-Tikriti]], more commonly referred to in the Western press as "Saddam Hussein", assumes the presidency.
* [[July 17]] – [[Nicaragua]]n president General [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] resigns and flees to [[Miami]].
* [[July 18]] – Over 500 people die after a [[1979 Lembata tsunami|tsunami occurs on Lembata Island]], triggered by a landslide on the Iliwerung volcano.<ref name="ngdcTS1">{{cite web |title=Tsunami Event Information |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/2115 |publisher=National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service: NCEI/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information|doi=10.7289/V5PN93H7 |access-date=29 June 2024 |author1=National Geophysical Data Center }}</ref>
* [[July 21]]
** The [[Sandinista National Liberation Front]] concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the Somoza dynasty and assumes power in [[Nicaragua]].
** [[Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo]] becomes prime minister of Portugal.
** [[Maritza Sayalero]] of [[Venezuela]] wins the [[Miss Universe 1979|Miss Universe]] pageant; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.
** The [[disco]] music genre dominates and peaks on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart, with the first six spots (beginning with [[Donna Summer]]'s ''[[Bad Girls (Donna Summer song)|Bad Girls]]''), and seven of the chart's top ten songs ending that week.
* [[July 22]] – [[1979 Ba'ath Party Purge]]: [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraqi]] president [[Saddam Hussein]] arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling [[Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)|Ba'ath Party]].
* [[July 28]] – [[Morarji Desai]] resigns as India's prime minister and [[Charan Singh]] succeeds him.

===August===
{{main|August 1979}}
* [[August 3]] – Dictator [[Francisco Macías Nguema]] of [[Equatorial Guinea]] is overthrown in a bloody [[coup d'état]] led by [[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]].
* [[August 4]] – Opening game of the ''[[German Football League|American Football Bundesliga]]'' played between [[Frankfurter Löwen]] and [[Düsseldorf Panther]], first-ever league game of [[American football]] in Germany.<ref name="Turn" >{{cite book|author=Annette R. Hofmann|title=Turnen and Sport|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q__8CmcZBZMC&pg=PA224|publisher=Waxmann Verlag|isbn=978-3-8309-6381-3|page=224}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] – The [[Polisario Front]] signs a peace treaty with [[Mauritania]]. Mauritania withdraws from the [[Western Sahara]] territory it had occupied, and cedes it to the [[SADR]].
* [[August 6]] – [[Bauhaus (band)|Bauhaus]] releases their debut single "[[Bela Lugosi's Dead]]", considered to be the first [[gothic rock]] release. 
* [[August 8]] – Two American [[commercial diver]]s, Richard Walker and Victor Guiel, die of [[hypothermia]] after their [[diving bell]] [[Wildrake diving accident|becomes stranded]] at a depth of over {{Convert|160|m}} in the [[East Shetland Basin]]. The legal repercussions of the accident will lead to important safety changes in the diving industry.<ref name="Limbrick">{{cite book|title=North Sea Divers – a Requiem|last=Limbrick|first=Jim|pages=160–162|location=Hertford|publisher=Authors OnLine|year=2001|isbn=0-7552-0036-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPp68NAoUF0C&pg=PA160}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Into the Lion's Mouth: The Story of the ''Wildrake'' Diving Accident|last=Smart|first=Michael|location=[[Medford, Oregon]]|publisher=Lion's Mouth Publishing|year=2011|isbn=978-0-615-52838-0}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Raymond Washington]], co-founder of the [[Crips]], today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; the killers have not yet been identified.
* [[August 10]] – [[Michael Jackson]] releases his breakthrough album ''[[Off the Wall]]''. It sells 7&nbsp;million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album.
* [[August 11]]
** The former Mauritanian province of [[Tiris al-Gharbiyya]] in [[Western Sahara]] is annexed by [[Morocco]].
** The [[1979 Machchhu dam failure|Machchu-2 dam]] in [[Morbi]], India, collapses, killing between 1800 and 25000 people in one of the worst ever [[dam failure]]s.
* [[August 14]] – [[1979 Fastnet race|A freak storm during the Fastnet Race]] results in the deaths of 15 sailors.
* [[August 17]] – The controversial religious satirical film ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'' premieres in the United States.
* [[August 27]] – [[The Troubles]]: [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]] and two others are killed in a bombing on his boat in the Republic of Ireland by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA). Mountbatten was a British fleet admiral, statesman and an uncle of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|The Duke of Edinburgh]]. On the same day, the [[Warrenpoint ambush]] occurs, killing 18 British soldiers. [[Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne]] would die in a hospital the following day from injuries sustained in the bombing.
* [[August 29]] – A national referendum is held in which [[Somalia|Somali]] voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by [[Siad Barre|President Siad Barre]] to placate the United States.

===September===
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* [[September 1]]
** The U.S. ''[[Pioneer 11]]'' becomes the first spacecraft to visit [[Saturn]] when it passes the [[planet]] at a distance of {{convert|21000|km|mi}}.
** [[Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps]] is formed.
* [[September 7]] – The first cable sports channel, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network (better known as [[ESPN]]), is launched in the United States.
* [[September 9]] – The long-running comic strip ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' begins its run, in Canada, before becoming syndicated elsewhere in North America and the world.
* [[September 12]] – [[Hurricane Frederic]] makes landfall at 10:00&nbsp;p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
* [[September 13]] – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of [[Venda]] (not recognised outside South Africa).
* [[September 16]]
** [[East German balloon escape]]: Two families flee from [[East Germany]] by balloon.
** [[The Sugarhill Gang]] release ''[[Rapper's Delight]]'' in the United States, the first [[rap]] [[Single (music)|single]] to become a [[Top 40]] hit on the [[Billboard Hot 100]].
* [[September 20]] – French [[paratrooper]]s help [[David Dacko]] to overthrow [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa|Emperor Bokassa]] in the [[Central African Empire]].
* [[September 22]] – [[Vela incident]]: The "South Atlantic Flash" is observed near the [[Prince Edward Islands]] in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a [[nuclear weapons test]] conducted by [[South Africa]] and [[Israel]].
* [[September 29]] – The overthrown dictator [[Francisco Macías Nguema]] of [[Equatorial Guinea]] is convicted of [[genocide]] and executed by firing squad.
* [[September 30]] – The [[MTR]] in [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System, the Kwun Tong Line.

===October===
{{main|October 1979}}
[[File:Flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg|thumb|[[27 October]]: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Nigeria]] terminates military rule, and the [[Second Nigerian Republic]] is established.
* [[October 1]]–[[October 7|7]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] makes a [[Papal visits to the United States|six-city visit to the United States]], starting in [[Boston]].
* [[October 1]] – The [[MTR]], the [[rapid transit]] railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
* [[October 2]] – Pope John Paul II arrives in [[New York City]] for his first papal tour where he addresses the [[U.N. General Assembly]] against all forms of [[concentration camp]]s and [[torture]].
* [[October 6]] – [[Federal Reserve System]] changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.
* [[October 7]] – Pope John Paul II ends his first U.S. papal visit in [[Washington, D.C.]], with his first-ever visit to the [[White House]].
* [[October 9]] – [[Peter Brock]] wins the [[Bathurst 1000]] by a record six laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
* [[October 12]]
** Near [[Guam]], [[Typhoon Tip]] reaches a record intensity of 870 millibars, the lowest pressure recorded at sea level. This makes Tip the most powerful [[tropical cyclone]] in known world history.
** [[Thorbjörn Fälldin]] returns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]], replacing [[Ola Ullsten]] who is named [[Foreign Minister of Sweden]].
** ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', the first novel by [[Douglas Adams]], is published in the United Kingdom
* [[October 14]] – [[National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights|National March]] for [[LGBT rights by country or territory|gay rights]] takes place in [[Washington, D.C.]], involving tens of thousands of people.
* [[October 15]] – [[Black Monday (Malta)|Black Monday]] events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
* [[October 16]] – A [[1979 Nice tsunami|tsunami in Nice, France]] kills 23 people.
* [[October 17]] – The [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] become only the fourth [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] team (as well as the only MLB franchise to accomplish the feat twice) to recover from a 3-games-to-1 deficit to win the [[1979 World Series]].
* [[October 19]] – 13 U.S. Marines die in a fire at [[Camp Fuji]], Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225121316/http://www.fuji.usmc.mil/about/fire.html |archive-date=2008-02-25|title=US Marine Corps |url=http://www.fuji.usmc.mil/about/fire.html|access-date=2016-03-03}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – The first [[McDonald's]] in [[Singapore]] opens at [[Liat Towers]] in [[Orchard Road]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19801008&id=JqErAAAAIBAJ&pg=3142,1413251|title=U.S. fast food hits Singapore|date=1980-10-08|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2014-11-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19900411&id=Eg0bAAAAIBAJ&pg=7007,31308571|title=Singapore's Orchard Road: You Can Shop Until You Drop|date=1990-04-11|work=Daily News|access-date=2014-11-13}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] – 
**[[Park Chung Hee]], the [[President of South Korea]], is assassinated by [[National Intelligence Service (South Korea)|KCIA]] director [[Kim Jae-gyu]].
**The eradication of the [[smallpox]] [[virus]] is announced by the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>"Smallpox Has Been Eradicated", Associated Press Report in ''Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel'', October 26, 1979, p. 1</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19791011&printsec=frontpage&hl=en "Smallpox: Mankind Says Goodbye To A Ruthless Killer"], by David Zinman, ''Pittsburgh Press'', October 11, 1979, p. B-1</ref> making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction ([[rinderpest]] in 2011 being the other).
* [[October 27]] – [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]] gains independence from the UK.
* [[October 31]] – [[Western Airlines Flight 2605]] crashes upon landing at Mexico City International Airport, killing 72 occupants plus one on the ground; 16 people on board survive.

===November===
{{main|November 1979}}
* [[November 1]]
** Military coup in [[Bolivia]].
** [[Iran hostage crisis]]: [[Iran]]ian Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] urges his people to demonstrate on [[November 4]] and to expand attacks on United States and [[Israel]]i interests.
* [[November 2]]
** French police shoot gangster [[Jacques Mesrine]] in Paris.
** [[Assata Shakur]] (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.
* [[November 3]] – In [[Greensboro, North Carolina]], five members of the [[Communist Workers' Party (United States)|Communist Workers Party]] are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]] and [[neo-Nazis]], during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
* [[November 4]] – [[Iran hostage crisis]] begins: 500 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in [[Tehran]] and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah of Iran]] back to stand trial.
* [[November 5]]
** [[All Saints' Massacre]]: The military junta in [[Bolivia]] initiates a violent crack-down on its opponents.
** The radio news program ''[[Morning Edition]]'' premieres on [[National Public Radio]] in the United States.
* [[November 6]] – At [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]], the [[International Olympic Committee]] adopts a resolution, whereby [[Taiwan]] Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name [[Chinese Taipei]] in future [[Olympic Games]] and international sports tournaments and championships.
* [[November 7]] – U.S. Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] announces that he will challenge President [[Jimmy Carter]] for the 1980 [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nomination.
* [[November 9]]
** The [[Carl Bridgewater]] murder trial ends in England with all four men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9/newsid_2516000/2516015.stm|title=1979: Paperboy's killers convicted|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|access-date=2013-03-18}}</ref>
** Nuclear [[false alarm]]: the [[NORAD]] computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in [[Fort Ritchie, Maryland]], detect an apparent massive [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear strike]]. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the [[early-warning radar]]s, the alert is cancelled.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missileers/falsealarms.html |title=False Alarms on the Nuclear Front |publisher=PBS |date=2001-05-03 |access-date=2014-04-29}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[1979 Mississauga train derailment]]: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
* [[November 12]]
** [[Iran hostage crisis]]: In response to the hostage situation in [[Tehran]], U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all [[Petroleum|oil]] imports into the United States from Iran.
** [[Süleyman Demirel]], of the [[Justice Party (Turkey)|Justice Party]] (AP) forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (43rd government, a minority government).
* November 13 – [[Ronald Reagan]] announces his candidacy for President of the United States, 9 days after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
* [[November 14]] – [[Iran hostage crisis]]: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues [[Executive Order 12170]], freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
* [[November 15]] – British art historian and former [[Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures]] [[Anthony Blunt]]'s role as the "fourth man" of the '[[Cambridge Five]]' [[double agent]]s for the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[NKVD]] during [[World War II]] is revealed by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]];<ref>{{cite news|title=Professor Blunt named as spy|first1=Stewart|last1=Tendler|first2=Ian|last2=Bradley|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1979-11-16|page=1|issue=60476}}</ref> she gives further details on November 21.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1979/nov/21/mr-anthony-blunt Mr. Anthony Blunt]. ''[[Hansard]]'' HC Deb (November 21, 1979) '''974'''/402-520.</ref>
* [[November 16]] – [[Bucharest Metro]] Line One is opened, in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, {{convert|8.63|km|mi}}).
* [[November 17]] – [[Iran hostage crisis]]: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and [[African American]] hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
* [[November 20]] – [[Grand Mosque seizure]]: A group of 200 [[Juhayman al-Otaybi]] militants occupy [[Mecca]]'s [[Masjid al-Haram]], the holiest place in Islam. They are driven out by Saudi military forces after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
* [[November 21]] – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in [[Islamabad]], Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four, and disturbing [[Pakistan–United States relations]].
* [[November 23]] – [[The Troubles]]: In [[Dublin]], Ireland, [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] member [[Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)|Thomas McMahon]] is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]] in August. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the [[Good Friday Agreement]].
* [[November 25]] – The last cargo of [[phosphate]] was shipped from [[Banaba Island]] in [[Kiribati]] in the South Pacific Ocean, bringing an end to the island's chief industry.
* [[November 28]] – [[Air New Zealand Flight 901]]: an [[Air New Zealand]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] crashes into [[Mount Erebus]] in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
* [[November 29]] – After 12 years of environmental controversy and legal action, the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]]'s [[Tellico Dam]] project is completed.<ref name="watery">{{cite news |title=A watery end: Tellico Dam fueled debate, lawsuits, tears |url=https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/a-watery-end-tellico-dam-fueled-debate-lawsuits-tears-ep-360218761-356724041.html/ |access-date=July 26, 2022 |work=[[Knoxville News Sentinel]] |date=August 26, 2012 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727011257/https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/a-watery-end-tellico-dam-fueled-debate-lawsuits-tears-ep-360218761-356724041.html/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It remains the last dam to be built by the agency as of 2023.<ref name="udtrs">{{cite web |title=Building a Better Life for the Tennessee Valley |url=https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History/Built-for-the-People/Building-a-Better-Life-for-the-Tennessee-Valley |website=[[Tennessee Valley Authority]] |access-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726011354/https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History/Built-for-the-People/Building-a-Better-Life-for-the-Tennessee-Valley |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 30]] – ''[[The Wall]]'', a [[rock opera]] [[concept album]] by [[Pink Floyd]], is first released.

=== December ===
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* [[December 3]]
** [[The Who concert disaster]]: Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before [[The Who]] rock concert at the [[Riverfront Coliseum]] in [[Cincinnati]].
** The [[United States dollar]] [[exchange rate]] with the [[Deutsche Mark]] falls to 1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, [[1987]].
** Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
* [[December 4]] – The Hastie fire in [[Kingston upon Hull]], England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for [[Bruce George Peter Lee]], the UK's most prolific killer.
* [[December 5]] – [[Jack Lynch]] resigns as [[Taoiseach]] of Ireland; he is succeeded by [[Charles Haughey]].
* [[December 6]] – The world premiere of ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' is held at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[December 12]]
** The [[NATO Double-Track Decision]]: is the decision of NATO from December 12, 1979, to offer the Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of medium-range ballistic missiles and intermediate-range ballistic missiles combined with the threat that in case of disagreement NATO would deploy more middle-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe, following the so-called "[[Euromissile Crisis]]". 
** The 8.2 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1979 Tumaco earthquake|Tumaco earthquake]] shakes [[Colombia]] and [[Ecuador]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (''Violent''), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.
** [[Coup d'état of December Twelfth]]: [[South Korean Army]] Major General [[Chun Doo-hwan]] orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General [[Jeong Seung-hwa]] without authorization from President [[Choi Kyu-hah]], alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President [[Park Chung Hee]].
** The unrecognised state of [[Zimbabwe Rhodesia]] returns to British control and resumes using the name [[Southern Rhodesia]].
* [[December 13]] – The Canadian [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] minority government of Prime Minister [[Joe Clark]], falls in a non-confidence motion.
* [[December 15]] – The directorial debut of [[Hayao Miyazaki]], ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro]]'' based on the [[manga]] series ''[[Lupin III]]'' is released in Japan.
* [[December 21]] – A [[ceasefire]] for [[Rhodesia]] is signed at London.
* [[December 23]] – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the [[Klein Matterhorn]], opens.
* [[December 24]]
** The [[Soviet Union]] covertly launches its [[Soviet–Afghan War|invasion of Afghanistan]] – 3 days later, [[People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan|PDPA]] general secretary [[Hafizullah Amin]] is executed in [[Operation Storm-333]] and [[Babrak Karmal]] replaces him, beginning the war.
** The first European [[Ariane 1|Ariane]] rocket is launched.
* [[December 26]] – In [[Rhodesia]], 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital [[Harare|Salisbury]] to monitor a ceasefire that begins [[December 28]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The [[One-child policy]] is introduced in China – it contributes to [[Sex-ratio imbalance in China|the country's sex-ratio imbalance]]. It was loosened in [[2013]].
* [[Hànyǔ Pīnyīn]] is widely adopted as the official [[romanization]] system for [[Standard Chinese]], leading to changes in Western spelling of Chinese toponyms.
* [[VisiCalc]] becomes the first [[Commerce|commercial]] [[Spreadsheet#Autoplan/Autotab spreadsheet programming language|spreadsheet program]].
* The first [[usenet]] experiments are conducted by [[Tom Truscott]] and [[Jim Ellis (computing)|Jim Ellis]] of [[Duke University]].
* Worldwide [[per capita]] oil production reaches a historic [[peak oil|peak]].
* The remains of [[Tsar Nicholas II]] and some of the [[Romanovs]] are discovered and exhumed near Sverdlovsk (now [[Yekaterinburg]]).
* [[NBC]] introduces a new version of its famous peacock, used in conjunction with the 1975-style N, for the [[1979 in American television|Fall season]].
*''[[Onde Tem Bruxa Tem Fada]]'', book is published.
* [[Citic Group|China International Trust Investment Group (CITIC)]] founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rong Yiren {{!}} Chinese official |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rong-Yiren#ref86404 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=4 December 2020}}</ref>

== Births ==
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{{BDToC|births}}

=== January ===
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* [[January 1]]
** [[Brody Dalle]], Australian singer<ref>{{cite book|author=Diehl, Matt|title=My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, the Distillers, Bad Religion—How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream|location=New York|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|year=2007|page=92}}</ref>
** [[Vidya Balan]], Indian actress
** [[Gisela (singer)|Gisela]], Spanish pop singer and voice actress
* [[January 2]] 
**[[Erica Hubbard]], American actress
**[[Jagmeet Singh]], Canadian politician, leader of the New Democratic Party
* [[January 3]]
** [[Koit Toome]], Estonian singer and musical actor
** [[Rie Tanaka]], Japanese voice actress
* [[January 4]]
** [[Olger van Dijk]], Dutch politician
** [[Kevin Kuske]], German Olympic bobsledder<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes/athlete/130068/Kuske|title=Kevin Kuske|website=IBSF|access-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 6]]
** [[Christina Chanée]], Danish-Thai pop singer
** [[Bernice Liu]], Hong Kong actress
* [[January 7]]
** [[Bipasha Basu]], Indian actress and model
** [[Aloe Blacc]], American singer and rapper
** [[Christian Lindner]], German politician
* [[January 8]]
** [[Seol Ki-hyeon]], South Korean footballer
** [[Adrian Mutu]], Romanian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Adrian Mutu |url=https://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=27456/profile/index.html |website=[[UEFA]] |publisher=UEFA| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022645/https://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=27456/profile/index.html | archive-date=July 12, 2020 }}</ref>
** [[Stipe Pletikosa]], Croatian football goalkeeper
** [[Sarah Polley]], Canadian actress, writer, director, producer and political activist
* [[January 9]]
** [[Tomiko Van]], Japanese singer ([[Do As Infinity]])
** [[Bipasha Basu]], Indian actress and model
** [[Hannah Yeoh]], Malaysian politician
* [[January 10]] – [[Francesca Piccinini]], Italian volleyball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Francesca Piccinini |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/94551 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=Olympedia}}</ref>
* [[January 11]]
** [[Terence Morris]], American basketball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/morrite01.html|title=Terence Morris Stats|website=Basketball-Reference.com}}</ref> 
**[[Siti Nurhaliza]], Malaysian singer
* [[January 12]]
** [[Marián Hossa]], Slovak ice hockey player
** [[Lee Bo-young]], South Korean actress and model
** [[Grzegorz Rasiak]], Polish footballer
* [[January 13]] 
** [[María de Villota]], Spanish racing driver (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |date=October 12, 2013 |title=Maria De Villota death linked to 2012 crash injuries, family told |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/24505702 |access-date=May 12, 2021 |publisher=BBC Sport}}</ref>
** [[Yang Wei (badminton)|Yang Wei]], Chinese badminton player
* [[January 15]]
** [[Drew Brees]], American football player
** [[Martin Petrov]], Bulgarian footballer
* [[January 16]] – [[Aaliyah]], American R&B singer and actress (d. [[2001]])
* [[January 17]] 
** [[Sharon Chan]], Hong Kong actress
** [[Masae Ueno]], Japanese judoka<ref>{{cite web |title=Masae Ueno |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/92345 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
* [[January 18]]
** [[Jay Chou]], Taiwanese singer, song producer and actor
** [[Paulo Ferreira]], Portuguese footballer
** [[Roberta Metsola]], Maltese politician
** [[Leo Varadkar]], 14th [[Taoiseach]] of Ireland<ref>{{cite book|author1=Philip Ryan|author2=Niall O'Connor|title=Leo: A Very Modern Taoiseach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PtoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|date=30 August 2018|publisher=Biteback Publishing|isbn=978-1-78590-372-4|pages=12}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Svetlana Khorkina]], Russian artistic gymnast
* [[January 20]]
** [[Rob Bourdon]], American drummer ([[Linkin Park]])
** [[Sargis Galstyan]], American actor
** [[Asaka Kubo]], Japanese gravure idol
** [[Will Young]], English singer<ref>{{cite book |last1=McPhee |first1=Erica |title=Will Young: The Biography |year=2005 |publisher=Michael O'Mara Books |location=London, UK |isbn=1-84317-175-9 |page=14}}</ref>
* [[January 21]]
** [[Brian O'Driscoll]], Irish rugby union player
** [[Inul Daratista]], Indonesian dangdut singer
** [[Johann Hari]], Scot-Swiss Journalist and author
* [[January 23]] – [[Larry Hughes]], American basketball player
* [[January 24]] 
** [[Tatyana Ali]], American actress
** [[Christine Lakin]], American actress
* [[January 25]] – [[Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick]], American politician and businesswoman<ref>{{cite web |title=CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Sheila |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C001127 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Antônio Carlos Magalhães Neto|ACM Neto]], Brazilian lawyer and politician
** [[Sara Rue]], American actress
* [[January 27]]
** [[Daniel Vettori]], New Zealand cricketer
* [[January 29]] – [[Christina Koch]], American engineer and NASA astronaut
* [[January 31]] – [[Jenny Wolf]], German speed skater

=== February ===
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[[File:Cerina Vincent 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cerina Vincent]]]]
[[File:Valentín Elizalde in 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Valentín Elizalde]]]]
[[File:Tawakkol Karman (2019) II.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tawakkol Karman]]]]
[[File:Josh Keaton 2018 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Josh Keaton]]]]
[[File:Irina Slutskaya IF Moscow 04-2016.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Irina Slutskaya]]]]
[[File:Jesse Spencer 2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jesse Spencer]]]]
[[File:2016-02-01 Mena Suvari (7).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mena Suvari]]]]
[[File:Jocelyn-Quivrin-Notre-univers.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Jocelyn Quivrin]]]]
[[File:Valentino Rossi 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Valentino Rossi]]]]
[[File:Jennifer Love Hewitt LF2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jennifer Love Hewitt]]]]
[[File:Jordan Peele Peabody 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jordan Peele]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[Mahek Chahal]], Norwegian actress and model
** [[Valentín Elizalde]], Mexican singer (d. [[2006]])
** [[Peter Fulton]], New Zealand cricketer
** [[Juan (footballer, born 1982)|Juan]], Brazilian football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Juan |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/juan-silveira-dos-santos/132/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Rachelle Lefevre]], Canadian actress
** [[Clodoaldo Silva]], Brazilian paralympian swimmer
* [[February 2]]
** [[Fani Chalkia]], Greek athlete
** [[Mayer Hawthorne]], American soul singer
** [[Christine Lampard]], Northern Ireland television presenter
** [[Shamita Shetty]], Indian actress and interior designer
* [[February 4]]
**[[Andrei Arlovski]], Belarusian mixed martial artist
** [[Jodi Shilling]], American actress
** [[Tabitha Brown (actress)|Tabitha Brown]], American actress
* [[February 5]]
** [[Paulo Gonçalves (motorcyclist)|Paulo Gonçalves]], Portuguese rally racing motorcycle rider (d. [[2020]]) 
** [[Ilaria Salvatori]], Italian fencer<ref>{{cite web |title=Ilaria Salvatori |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/ilaria-salvatori-1.html |publisher=Sports Reference|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203221554/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/ilaria-salvatori-1.html |archive-date=December 3, 2016 }}</ref>
* [[February 7]]
** [[Cerina Vincent]], American actress and writer
** [[Tawakkol Karman]], Yemeni politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite web |title=Tawakkul Karmān |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/tawakkul-karman |website=Encyclopædia Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=26 July 2021|date=25 March 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 8]]
** [[Josh Keaton]], American actor
** [[Aleksey Mishin (wrestler)|Aleksey Mishin]], Russian wrestler
* [[February 9]]
** [[Ânderson Polga]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Anderson Polga |url=https://www.foradejogo.net/player.php?player=197902090001&language=2 |website=foradejogo.net| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115232845/https://www.foradejogo.net/player.php?player=197902090001&language=2 | archive-date=January 15, 2021 }}</ref>
** [[Irina Slutskaya]], Russian figure skater
** [[Zhang Ziyi]], Chinese actress and model
* [[February 10]] – [[Paul Waggoner]], American guitarist ([[Between the Buried and Me]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Brandy Norwood]], African-American singer and actress
* [[February 12]] – [[Jesse Spencer]], Australian actor
* [[February 13]]
** [[Anders Behring Breivik]], Norwegian [[Right-wing terrorism|far-right terrorist]] responsible for the [[2011 Norway attacks]]
** [[Mena Suvari]], American actress
** [[Rafael Márquez]], Mexican footballer
* [[February 14]] 
** [[Wesley Moodie]], South African tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Wesley Moodie |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/M759/overview |website=atptour.com}}</ref>
** [[Jocelyn Quivrin]], French actor (d. [[2009]])
* [[February 16]]
** [[Valentino Rossi]], Italian seven-time [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing#MotoGP class|MotoGP]] world champion
** [[Eric Mun]], leader of Korean boy-band [[Shinhwa]]
* [[February 17]] – [[Cara Black]], Zimbabwean tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Cara Black |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/20351/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
* [[February 19]]
** [[Mariana Ochoa]], Mexican singer and actress
** [[Vitas]], Ukrainian and Russian singer and actor
* [[February 20]] – [[Song Chong-gug]], South Korean footballer
* [[February 21]]
** [[Maria Annus]], Estonian actress
** [[Carly Colón]], Puerto Rican professional wrestler
** [[Nathalie Dechy]], French tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Nathalie Dechy |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/40254/name |publisher=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref>
** [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]], American actress and singer
** [[Jordan Peele]], American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer
* [[February 25]] – [[László Bodnár]], Hungarian footballer
* [[February 26]]
** [[Corinne Bailey Rae]], British singer-songwriter and guitarist
** [[Susana Diazayas]], Mexican actress
** [[Ngô Thanh Vân]], Norwegian-Vietnamese actress, singer and model
* [[February 28]]
** [[Michael Bisping]], British mixed martial artist
** [[Sébastien Bourdais]], French racing driver
** [[Sander van Doorn]], Dutch DJ and electronic music producer
** [[Ivo Karlović]], Croatian tennis player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivo Karlovic |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/K336/overview |website=atptour.com |publisher=Association of Tennis Professionals}}</ref>

=== March ===
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[[File:Ricardo Rosselló.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ricardo Rosselló]]]]
[[File:Melina Perez.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Melina Perez]]]]
[[File:20131119 AT-USA Howard IP2O2977.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Tim Howard]]]]
[[File:Oscar Isaac by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oscar Isaac]]]]
[[File:Danny Pudi by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Danny Pudi]]]]
[[File:20170615-126-Nova Rock 2017-Good Charlotte-Joel Madden.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joel Madden]]]]
[[File:AdamLevine2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adam Levine]]]]
[[File:Lee Pace Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2020.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lee Pace]]]]
[[File:Norahjonesongma (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Norah Jones]]]]
* [[March 4]]
** [[Ben Fouhy]], New Zealand flatwater canoeist
** [[Geoff Huegill]], Australian swimmer
* [[March 5]]
** [[Martin Axenrot]], Swedish metal drummer
** [[Riki Lindhome]], American actress and comedian
** [[Tang Gonghong]], Chinese weightlifter
* [[March 6]] 
** [[Érik Bédard]], Canadian pitcher
** [[Tim Howard]], American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |title=1. Tim Howard |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=29756 |website=soccerbase.com}}</ref>
* [[March 7]]
** [[Stephanie Anne Mills]], Canadian voice actress
** [[Ricardo Rosselló]], Puerto Rican politician, [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]
* [[March 8]]
** [[Jasmine You]], Japanese musician (d. [[2009]])
** [[Tom Chaplin]], British singer ([[Keane (band)|Keane]])
* [[March 9]]
** [[Oscar Isaac]], Guatemalan-American actor
** [[Melina Perez]], American professional wrestler
* [[March 10]] - [[Danny Pudi]], American actor
* [[March 12]] – [[Pete Doherty]], British singer and guitarist ([[The Libertines]], [[Babyshambles]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Johan Santana]], Venezuelan baseball player
* [[March 14]]
** [[Nicolas Anelka]], French footballer
** [[Gao Ling]], Chinese badminton player
** [[Chris Klein (actor)|Chris Klein]], American actor
** [[Michele Riondino]], Italian actor
* [[March 16]] – [[Adriana Fonseca]], Mexican actress and dancer<ref name="universal">{{cite news|title=Adriana Fonseca participará en Tiempo final|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/583801.html|access-date=24 May 2010|newspaper=El Universal|date=15 March 2009|language=es|archive-date=October 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008221117/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/583801.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – [[Samoa Joe]], American professional wrestler
* [[March 18]]
** [[Shola Ama]], English singer
** [[Adam Levine]], American singer ([[Maroon 5]])
* [[March 19]]
** [[Emil Dimitriev]], Macedonian politician, Prime Minister
** [[Ivan Ljubičić]], Croatian tennis player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan Ljubicic |url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/L360/overview |website=atptour.com |publisher=Association of Tennis Professionals}}</ref>
** [[Hedo Türkoğlu]], Turkish basketball player
* [[March 20]]
** [[Freema Agyeman]], British actress
** [[Daniel Cormier]], American retired mixed martial artist
** [[Bianca Lawson]], American actress
** [[Silvia Navarro (handballer)|Silvia Navarro]], Spanish handball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Silvia Navarro |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/125208 |website=olympedia.org |publisher=Olympedia}}</ref>
* [[March 23]]
** [[Mark Buehrle]], American baseball player
** [[Bryan Fletcher (American football)|Bryan Fletcher]], American football player
** [[Misty Hyman]], American swimmer<ref>{{cite web |title=Misty Hyman |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hy/misty-hyman-1.html |website=sports-reference.com |access-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713195403/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hy/misty-hyman-1.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* [[March 24]] 
** [[Gaitana (singer)|Gaitana]], Ukrainian singer and songwriter
** [[Lake Bell]], American actress and filmmaker
* [[March 25]]
** [[Lee Pace]], American actor
** [[Gorilla Zoe]], American rapper
* [[March 26]] – [[Juliana Paes]], Brazilian actress and model
* [[March 28]] – [[Shakib Khan]], Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daily-sun.com/post/298191/Happy-birthday-Shakib-Khan|title=Happy birthday, Shakib Khan|date=27 March 2018|website=Daily Sun|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] – [[Estela Giménez]], Spanish gymnast
* [[March 30]]
** [[Daniel Arenas]], Colombian-Mexican actor
** [[Jose Pablo Cantillo]], American actor
** [[Norah Jones]], American musician<ref>{{cite news |last=Dilworth |first=Thomas J. |title=What's Next for Norah Jones? |publisher=ABC News|location=United States |date=July 6, 2007 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/SummerConcert/story?id=3342169 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628203330/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/SummerConcert/story?id=3342169 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |access-date=November 19, 2009}}</ref>
** [[Anatoliy Tymoshchuk]], Ukrainian football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=A. Tymoshchuk |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/692/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>

=== April ===
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[[File:Lindy Booth by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lindy Booth]]]]
[[File:Jesse Carmichael 2007.11.29.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jesse Carmichael]]]]
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[[File:Sophie Ellis-Bextor 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]]]]
[[File:Claire Danes.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Claire Danes]]]]
[[File:Jennifer Morrison SDCC 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jennifer Morrison]]]]
[[File:Luke Evans in 2018  (cropped 4).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Luke Evans]]]]
[[File:Kourtney_Kardashian_2_2009.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kourtney Kardashian]]]]
[[File:Kate Hudson (8033413872) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kate Hudson]]]]
[[File:James McAvoy by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[James McAvoy]]]]
[[File:Jamie King in San Diego Comic-Con 2008 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jaime King]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Ruth Beitia]], Spanish high jumper and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruth BeitÃa |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/ruth-beitia-1.html |website=sports-reference.com |access-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-date=July 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725190317/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/ruth-beitia-1.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* [[April 2]]
** [[Lindy Booth]], Canadian actress
** [[Jesse Carmichael]], American musician ([[Maroon 5]]) 
* [[April 3]]
** [[Živilė Balčiūnaitė]], Lithuanian long-distance runner
** [[Grégoire (musician)|Grégoire]], French singer-songwriter
** [[Sasa Ognenovski]], Australian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=S. Ognenovski |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/sasa-ognenovski/17598/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[April 4]]
** [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor and music video director (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Heath Ledger: The Times Obituary |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3237974.ece |work=The Times |location=UK |date=23 January 2008 |access-date=27 April 2008 |first=Michael |last=Savage|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726153415/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3237974.ece| archive-date=26 July 2008}}</ref>
** [[Roberto Luongo]], Canadian ice hockey goaltender
** [[Maksim Opalev]], Russian canoeist
** [[Natasha Lyonne]], American actress
* [[April 5]]
** [[Sarah Dobbe]], Dutch politician
** [[Timo Hildebrand]], German footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Timo Hildebrand |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/timo-hildebrand/ |website=fussballdaten.de}}</ref>
* [[April 8]]
** [[Mohamed Kader]], Togolese footballer
** [[Alexi Laiho]], Finnish musician ([[Children of Bodom]]) (d. [[2020]])
** [[David Petruschin]], American drag queen
* [[April 9]]
** [[Sebastián Silva (director)|Sebastián Silva]], Chilean director, actor, screenwriter, painter and musician
** [[Keshia Knight Pulliam]], African-American actress
** [[Mario Matt]], Austrian alpine skier
* [[April 10]]
** [[Ryan Agoncillo]], Filipino actor and TV personality
** [[Rachel Corrie]], American activist and diarist (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite web |title=A Time to Remember Solidarity and the Best in Humanity: Commemorating Rachel Corrie (10 April 1979 – 16 March 2003) |url=https://www.alhaq.org/blog/16645.html |website=Al-Haq {{!}} Defending Human rights in Palestine since 1979 |access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
** [[Tsuyoshi Domoto]], Japanese entertainer ([[KinKi Kids]])
** [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]], British singer
* [[April 11]]
** [[Sebastien Grainger]], Canadian singer and musician
** [[Michel Riesen]], Swiss ice hockey player
** [[Josh Server]], American actor
* [[April 12]]
** [[Claire Danes]], American actress
** [[Mateja Kežman]], Serbian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Kežman |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j1943.html |website=bdfutbol.com}}</ref>
** [[Jennifer Morrison]], American actress
* [[April 13]] – [[Baron Davis]], American basketball player 
* [[April 14]]
** [[Pedro Andrade]], Brazilian journalist and model
** [[Rebecca DiPietro]], American model
** [[Pierre Roland]], Indonesian actor
* [[April 15]] 
** [[Karen David]], Indian born-Canadian actress and singer
** [[Luke Evans]], Welsh actor and singer
* [[April 17]] – [[Sung Si-kyung]], South Korean singer
* [[April 18]]
** [[Michael Bradley (basketball)|Michael Bradley]], American basketball player
** [[Anthony Davidson]], English racing driver
** [[Yusuke Kamiji]], Japanese actor
** [[Kourtney Kardashian]], American reality television star
* [[April 19]]
** [[Kate Hudson]], American actress and co-founder of [[Fabletics]]
** [[Antoaneta Stefanova]], Bulgarian chess player
* [[April 20]] – [[Teoh Beng Hock]], Malaysian journalist (d. [[2009]])
* [[April 21]]
** [[Cindy Kurleto]], Filipina-Austrian model and TV personality
** [[James McAvoy]], Scottish actor
** [[Karin Rask]], Estonian actress
* [[April 22]] – [[Daniel Johns]], Australian musician ([[Silverchair]])
* [[April 23]]
** [[Yana Gupta]], Indian actress of Czech origin
** [[Jaime King]], American actress
** [[Joanna Krupa]], Polish-born American model and actress
* [[April 24]]
** [[Laurentia Tan]], Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
** [[Avey Tare]], American musician
** [[Adam Andretti]], American race car driver
* [[April 25]]
** [[Andreas Küttel]], Swiss ski jumper
** [[Andrea Osvárt]], Hungarian actress
* [[April 27]] – [[Travis Meeks]], American musician ([[Days of the New]])
* [[April 28]] – [[Bahram Radan]], Iranian actor
* [[April 29]]
** [[Jo O'Meara]], English singer ([[S Club 7]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Shelley Calene-Black]], American voice actress

=== May ===
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[[File:Lance Bass 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lance Bass]]]]
[[File:Jon Montgomery.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jon Montgomery]]]]
[[File:Rosario Dawson SXSW 2022.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rosario Dawson]]]]
[[File:Mickey Madden 2007.11.29.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mickey Madden]]]]
[[File:MaggieQSmileSDCCJuly10.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maggie Q]]]]
[[File:Ashley Massaro 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ashley Massaro]]]]
[[File:Elisabeth Harnois at The Witching Hour, 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Elisabeth Harnois]]]]
[[File:Jesse Bradford by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jesse Bradford]]]]
* [[May 1]]
** [[Roman Lyashenko]], Russian ice hockey player (d. [[2003]])
** [[Lars Berger]], Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier
** [[Mauro Bergamasco]], Italian rugby union player
* [[May 2]] – [[Jason Chimera]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[May 3]]
** [[Danny Foster (musician)|Danny Foster]], English singer ([[Hear'Say]])
** [[Ingrid Isotamm]], Estonian actress
* [[May 4]]
** [[Lance Bass]], American singer ([[NSYNC]])
** [[Wes Butters]], English broadcaster
* [[May 5]] – [[Vincent Kartheiser]], American actor
* [[May 6]]
** [[Mark Burrier]], American cartoonist
** [[Kerry Ellis]], English stage actress and singer
** [[Gerd Kanter]], Estonian discus thrower
** [[Jon Montgomery]], Canadian former skeleton racer and television personality; host of ''[[The Amazing Race Canada]]''
* [[May 8]] – [[Wendy Armoko]], Indonesian singer, actor, presenter and comedian
* [[May 9]]
** [[Pierre Bouvier]], Canadian musician
** [[Rosario Dawson]], American actress
* [[May 10]]
** [[Marieke Vervoort]], Belgian athlete (d. [[2019]])
** [[Lee Hyori]], South Korean entertainer
* [[May 12]] – [[Adrian Serioux]], Canadian soccer player
* [[May 13]]
** [[Mickey Madden]], American musician ([[Maroon 5]])
** [[Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paxton |first1=J. |title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1987-88 |date=16 December 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-27116-6 |page=1138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Li8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1138}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] 
** [[Urijah Faber]], WEC Featherweight Champion
** [[Carlos Tenorio]], Ecuadorian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=C. Tenorio |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/carlos-vicente-tenorio-medina/289/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[James Mackenzie (actor)|James Mackenzie]], Scottish actor and TV presenter
* [[May 16]]
** [[Brandon Lee (pornographic actor)|Brandon Lee]], Filipino-American gay pornographic film actor 
** [[Jessica Morris]], American actress
** [[Barbara Nedeljáková]], Slovak actress
* [[May 18]]
** [[Mariusz Lewandowski]], Polish footballer
** [[Michal Martikán]], Slovak slalom canoeist
** [[Jens Bergensten]], Swedish game designer and co-founder of the game company [[Mojang]]
* [[May 19]]
** [[Andrea Pirlo]], Italian footballer
** [[Diego Forlán]], Uruguayan football player
* [[May 20]] – [[Andrew Scheer]], Canadian politician
* [[May 21]] – [[Sonja Vectomov]], Czech-Finnish electronic musician and composer
* [[May 22]] 
** [[Maggie Q]], American actress
**[[Nazanin Boniadi]], Iranian-British-American actress 
* [[May 23]] – [[Rasual Butler]], American basketball player (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 24]]
** [[Frank Mir]], American mixed martial artist
** [[Tracy McGrady]], American basketball player
* [[May 25]] – [[Jonny Wilkinson]], English rugby union player<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris Schoeman|title=Legends of the Ball: Rugby's Greatest Players Chosen by Willie John McBride, Frik Du Preez, David Compese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9wnAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=CJS Books|isbn=978-0-620-36962-6|page=106}}</ref>
* [[May 26]]
** [[Ashley Massaro]], American professional wrestler and model (d. [[2019]])
** [[Elisabeth Harnois]], American actress
* [[May 27]] – [[Michael Buonauro]], American comic creator
* [[May 28]] – [[Jesse Bradford]], American actor
* [[May 29]] – [[Brian Kendrick]], American wrestler
* [[May 30]]
** [[Clint Bowyer]], American race car driver
** [[Fabian Ernst]], German footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Fabian Ernst |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/fabian-ernst/ |website=fussballdaten.de}}</ref>
** [[Rie Kugimiya]], Japanese voice actress and singer

=== June ===
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[[File:Morena Baccarin by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Morena Baccarin]]]]
[[File:Pete Wentz - Hella Mega Tour - August 10, 2021 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pete Wentz]]]]
[[File:Anna Torv headshot.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Anna Torv]]]]
[[File:Robyn face.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robyn]]]]
[[File:Chris Pratt 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chris Pratt]]]]
[[File:Mindy Kaling by Claire Leahy (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mindy Kaling]]]]
[[File:Busy Philipps (47282558822) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Busy Philipps]]]]
[[File:RyanTedderphotocall (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ryan Tedder]]]]
[[File:Felicia Day by Gage Skidmore 5.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Felicia Day]]]]
[[File:MatisyahuPressShotOfficial.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Matisyahu]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[TheFatRat]], German musician and producer
** [[Markus Persson]], Swedish video game programmer, designer and creator of [[Minecraft]]
** [[Rhea Santos]], Filipina journalist based in Canada
* [[June 2]]
** [[Choirul Huda]], Indonesian professional footballer and civil servant (d. [[2017]])
** [[Morena Baccarin]], Brazilian actress
* [[June 3]] – [[Pierre Poilievre]], Canadian politician
* [[June 4]] – [[Naohiro Takahara]], Japanese football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=検索結果：詳細 |url=https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFIX04/?player_id=4277 |website=data.j-league.or.jp}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]
** [[François Sagat]], French male gay porn film actor, model and director
** [[Pete Wentz]], American musician, lyricist and bassist ([[Fall Out Boy]])
* [[June 6]] 
** [[Solenne Figuès]], French swimmer<ref>{{cite web |title=Solenne Figuès |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/46719 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
** [[Murder of Shanda Sharer|Shanda Sharer]], American murder victim (d. [[1992]])
* [[June 7]]
** [[Anna Torv]], Australian actress
** [[Kevin Hofland]], Dutch footballer
* [[June 8]]
** [[Pete Orr]], Canadian baseball player
** [[Eddie Hearn]], British promoter
* [[June 9]] – [[Émilie Loit]], French tennis player
* [[June 10]] – [[Lee Brice]], American country music singer-songwriter
* [[June 12]]
** [[Robyn]], Swedish singer-songwriter
** [[Amandine Bourgeois]], French singer
** [[Diego Milito]], Argentine football player
* [[June 13]]
** [[Nila Håkedal]], Norwegian beach volleyball player
** [[Ágnes Csomor]], Hungarian actress
* [[June 14]] – [[Paradorn Srichaphan]], Thai tennis player
* [[June 15]] – [[Yulia Nestsiarenka]], Belarusian athlete
* [[June 16]] – [[Ari Hest]], American singer-songwriter
* [[June 17]] 
** [[Young Maylay]], American actor, record producer and rapper
** [[Nick Rimando]], American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |title=N. Rimando |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/nick-rimando/7404/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[June 18]]
** [[Yumiko Kobayashi]], Japanese voice actress
** [[Chris Neil]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Pini Balili]], Israeli-Turkish footballer and manager<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fifaindex.com/player/20595/pini-balili/fifa08/|title=Pini Balili - FIFA 08 - Player Stats|website=fifaindex.com}}</ref>
** [[Ivana Wong]], Hong Kong singer-songwriter
* [[June 19]]
** [[José Kléberson]], Brazilian football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Kléberson |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/jose-kleberson-pereira/4790/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Kate Tsui]], Hong Kong actress
* [[June 21]]
** [[Chris Pratt]], American actor
** [[Makasini Richter]], Tongan rugby league player
* [[June 22]]
** [[Sandra Klösel]], German tennis player
** [[Jai Rodriguez]], American actor and musician
* [[June 23]]
** [[Marilyn Agliotti]], Dutch field hockey player
** [[LaDainian Tomlinson]], American football player
* [[June 24]]
** [[Petra Němcová]], Czech model
** [[Joaquín de Orbegoso]], Peruvian actor
** [[Craig Shergold]], British cancer patient
** [[Mindy Kaling]], American actress, comedian and author
* [[June 25]]
** [[Busy Philipps]], American film actress
* [[June 26]]
** [[Ryan Tedder]], American singer ([[OneRepublic]]), songwriter and producer
** [[Julia Benson]], Canadian actress
* [[June 27]]
** [[Cazwell]], American rapper and songwriter
** [[Martin Bourboulon]], French film director and screenwriter
** [[Scott Taylor (politician)|Scott Taylor]], American politician
** [[Fabrizio Miccoli]], Italian professional footballer
* [[June 28]]
** [[Felicia Day]], American actress, writer, director, violinist and singer
** [[Randy McMichael]], American football player
* [[June 29]]
** [[Lee Hee-joon]], South Korean actor
** [[Abz Love]], English singer ([[Five (band)|5ive]])
** [[Marleen Veldhuis]], Dutch swimmer
** [[Yehuda Levi]], Israeli actor and male model
** [[Liliana Castro]], Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress
** [[Artur Avila]], Brazilian and French mathematician
* [[June 30]]
** [[Rick Gonzalez]], American actor
** [[Ed Kavalee]], Australian comedian, actor, radio and television host
** [[Faisal Shahzad]], Pakistani-American bomber
** [[Matisyahu]], Jewish-American reggae vocalist, beatboxer and alternative rock musician
** [[Nelson Lucas]], Seychellois sprinter
** [[Christopher Jacot]], Canadian actor
** [[Andy Burrows]], English songwriter and musician

=== July ===
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[[File:Kevin Hart 2014 (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kevin Hart]]]]
[[File:Scott Porter by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Scott Porter]]]]
[[File:Laura Benanti cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Laura Benanti]]]]
[[File:Jayma Mays (GLEE) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jayma Mays]]]]
[[File:Mike Vogel SDCC 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mike Vogel]]]]
[[File:Marielle Franco.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Marielle Franco]]]]
[[File:Rose Byrne 4, 2013.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rose Byrne]]]]
[[File:Mageina Tovah by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mageina Tovah]]]]
[[File:Michelle Williams 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michelle Williams (singer)|Michelle Williams]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Forrest Griffin]], American [[mixed martial arts]] fighter
** [[Patrik Baboumian]], German-Iranian strongman competitor, strength athlete and bodybuilder
* [[July 2]]
** [[Diana Gurtskaya]], Georgian singer
** [[Sam Hornish Jr.]], American race car driver
* [[July 3]]
** [[Sayuri Katayama]], Japanese actress, singer and lyricist
** [[Ludivine Sagnier]], French model and actress
* [[July 5]]
** [[Shane Filan]], Irish singer ([[Westlife]])
** [[Amélie Mauresmo]], French tennis player
* [[July 6]]
** [[Mohsen Bengar]], Iranian footballer
** [[Kevin Hart]], American actor, comedian, writer and producer
* [[July 7]]
** [[Pat Barry (kickboxer)|Pat Barry]], American kickboxer and mixed martial artist
** [[Douglas Hondo]], Zimbabwean cricketer
* [[July 9]]
** [[Gary Chaw]], Malaysian Chinese singer
** [[Ella Koon]], Hong Kong actress
* [[July 10]] – [[Gong Yoo]], South Korean actor
* [[July 11]]
** [[Marina Gatell]], Spanish actress
** [[Im Soo-jung]], South Korean actress
* [[July 13]] 
** [[Laura Benanti]], American actress and singer
** [[Ladyhawke (musician)|Ladyhawke]], New Zealand singer-songwriter
* [[July 14]]
** [[Axel Teichmann]], German cross-country skier
** [[Scott Porter]], American actor and singer<ref name=ScottPorter>{{cite tweet|title=Just wanted to say I'm overwhelmed with all the birthday wishes. Much love to all my virtual friends out there! Thank you! | user=ScottPorter | author=Scott Porter | number=753696587164024833 | date=July 14, 2016 | access-date=July 14, 2016 }}</ref> 
* [[July 15]] 
** [[Travis Fimmel]], Australian fashion model and actor
** [[Alexander Frei]], Swiss footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=A. Frei |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/alexander-frei/223/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[July 16]]
** [[Jim Banks]], American politician<ref>{{cite web |title=BANKS, James E. |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001299 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>
** [[Kinya Kotani]], Japanese singer
** [[Kim Rhode]], American double trap and skeet shooter
** [[Landy Wen]], Taiwanese singer
* [[July 17]] – [[Mike Vogel]], American actor
* [[July 19]]
** [[Malavika (actress)|Malavika]], Indian actress
** [[David Sakurai]], Danish-Japanese actor, director, scriptwriter and martial artist
** [[Bruno Cabrerizo]], Brazilian football player, model and actor
* [[July 20]]
** [[Claudine Barretto]], Filipino film actress, television actress, entrepreneur and product endorser
** [[Marcos Mion]], Brazilian TV host, actor, voice actor and businessman
** [[Milan Nikolić (musician)|Milan Nikolić]], Serbian accordionist
** [[Adam Rose]], South African professional wrestler
** [[Amr Shabana]], Egyptian squash player
* [[July 21]] 
** [[Tamika Catchings]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tamika Catchings |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/103095 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
** [[Andriy Voronin]], Ukrainian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrei Voronin |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=30591 |website=soccerbase.com}}</ref>
* [[July 23]] – [[Michelle Williams (singer)|Michelle Williams]], American singer and actress      
* [[July 24]] – [[Rose Byrne]], Australian actress
* [[July 25]]
** [[Juan Pablo Di Pace]], Argentinian actor and singer 
** [[Ali Carter]], English [[snooker]] player
* [[July 26]]
** [[Johnson Beharry]], British recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]]
** [[Tamyra Gray]], American singer
** [[Derek Paravicini]], British pianist
** [[Yūko Sano]], Japanese volleyball player<ref>{{cite web |title=FIVB Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament |url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyball/competitions/WorldOQT/2008/WWOQT08/Teams/VB_PlayerDB.asp?No=113311 |website=fivb.org}}</ref>
** [[Mageina Tovah]], American actress
* [[July 27]]
** [[Marielle Franco]], Brazilian politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jorge Arce]], Mexican boxer
** [[Shannon Moore]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 30]]
** [[Carlos Arroyo]], Puerto Rican basketball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/arroyca01.html|title=Carlos Arroyo Stats|website=Basketball-Reference.com}}</ref> 
** [[Show Lo]], Taiwanese singer
** [[Graeme McDowell]], Northern Irish professional golfer
** [[Maya Nasser]], Syrian journalist (d. [[2012]])
* [[July 31]] – [[B. J. Novak]], American actor, director and producer

=== August ===
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[[File:Jason Momoa (43055621224) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jason Momoa]]]]
[[File:Evangeline Lilly 2014 Comic Con 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Evangeline Lilly]]]]
[[File:Maria Haukaas Storeng 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Maria Haukaas Mittet]]]]
[[File:Joanna Garcia.jpg|thumb|100px|[[JoAnna Garcia Swisher]]]]
[[File:Pete Browngardt at New York Comic Con 2014 - Peter Dzubay (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Peter Browngardt]]]]
[[File:Aaron Paul by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aaron Paul]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Jason Momoa]], American actor
** [[Junior Agogo]], Ghanaian footballer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Honeysuckle Weeks]], British actress
* [[August 3]]
** [[Evangeline Lilly]], Canadian actress and author of children's literature
** [[Maria Haukaas Mittet]], Norwegian recording artist
* [[August 4]] – [[Patryk Dominik Sztyber]], Polish rock musician
* [[August 5]]
** [[David Healy (footballer)|David Healy]], Northern Ireland footballer
** [[María Isabel Sánchez Torregrosa]], Spanish politician
* [[August 7]]
**[[Miguel Llera]], Spanish footballer
**[[Gangsta Boo]], American rapper (d. [[2023]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[JoAnna Garcia]], American actress
** [[Ted Geoghegan]], American screenwriter
* [[August 11]]
** [[Drew Nelson (actor)|Drew Nelson]], Canadian actor and voice actor
** [[Bubba Crosby]], American baseball player
* [[August 12]]
** [[Peter Browngardt]], American cartoonist
** [[Cindy Klassen]], Canadian speed skater
* [[August 13]] – [[Taizō Sugimura]], Japanese politician
* [[August 15]]
** [[Carl Edwards]], American race car driver
** [[Peter Shukoff]], American comedian, musician and personality
* [[August 16]]
** [[Sarah Balabagan]], Filipina prisoner and singer
* [[August 19]] – [[Oumar Kondé]], Swiss footballer
* [[August 20]] – [[Jamie Cullum]], English jazz pianist and singer
* [[August 22]]
**[[Matt Walters]], American football player
**[[Angelu de Leon]], Filipina actress
* [[August 23]]
** [[Mulan Jameela]], Indonesian singer and politician
** [[Ritchie Neville]], English singer ([[Five (band)|5ive]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Elva Hsiao]], Taiwanese singer
** [[Michael Redd]], American basketball player
* [[August 25]] – [[Andrew Hussie]], American artist
* [[August 26]]
** [[Jamal Lewis (American football)|Jamal Lewis]], American football player
** [[Cristian Mora]], Ecuadorian footballer
** [[Erik Valdez]], American actor
* [[August 27]]
** [[Giovanni Capitello]], American filmmaker and actor
** [[Tian Liang]], Chinese diver
** [[Aaron Paul]], American actor
* [[August 28]]
** [[Robert Hoyzer]], German football referee
** [[Yuki Maeda]], Japanese singer
** [[Shane Van Dyke]], American actor
* [[August 29]] – [[Justine Pasek]], Miss Universe 2002
* [[August 30]]
** [[Leon Lopez]], British actor, film director, singer-songwriter and occasional model
** [[Tavia Yeung]], Hong Kong actress
** [[Niki Chow]], Hong Kong actress
* [[August 31]]
** [[Mickie James]], American professional wrestler
** [[Simon Neil]], Scottish musician (vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), [[Biffy Clyro]] [[Marmaduke Duke]]
** [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], Indian film composer

=== September ===
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[[File:Júlio César FC Internazionale.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Júlio César (football goalkeeper, born 1979)|Júlio César]]]]
[[File:Pink beautiful trauma live 2018.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pink (singer)|Pink]]]]
[[File:Dave Annable.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dave Annable]]]]
[[File:AmyDavidsonJune06.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Amy Davidson]]]]
[[File:Recording artist Flo Rida during a live music performance for the closing ceremonies of the 2016 Invictus Games (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Flo Rida]]]]
[[File:Bam Margera 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bam Margera]]]]
* [[September 1]] 
** [[Neg Dupree]], British comedian
** [[Margherita Granbassi]], Italian fencer<ref>{{cite web |title=MARGHERITA GRANBASSI |url=http://www.federscherma.it/file/18139.pdf |website=.federscherma.it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011351/http://www.federscherma.it/file/18139.pdf |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>
* [[September 2]]
** [[Ron Ng]], Hong Kong actor
** [[Łukasz Żygadło]], Polish volleyball player
* [[September 3]] – [[Júlio César (football goalkeeper, born 1979)|Júlio César]], Brazilian football goalkeeper
* [[September 4]] – [[Maxim Afinogenov]], Russian ice hockey player
* [[September 5]]
** [[John Carew]], Norwegian footballer
** [[Stacey Dales]], Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
* [[September 7]] – [[Nathan Hindmarsh]], Australian rugby league player 
* [[September 8]] – [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], American singer and actress
* [[September 10]] 
** [[Mustis]], Norwegian pianist
** [[Laia Palau]], Spanish basketball player
* [[September 11]]
** [[Eric Abidal]], French footballer
** [[Cameron Richardson]], American actress and model
** [[David Pizarro]], Chilean footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=D. Pizarro |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/david-marcelo-pizarro-cortes/4014/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] 
** [[Michelle Dorrance]], American tap dancer
** [[Jay McGraw]], American author, son of TV psychologist Dr. [[Phil McGraw]]
* [[September 13]] – [[Ivan Miljković]], Serbian volleyball player
* [[September 14]]
** [[Chris John (boxer)|Chris John]], Indonesian former featherweight boxing champion
** [[Ivica Olić]], Croatian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=40. Ivica Olic |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=30141 |website=soccerbase.com}}</ref>
* [[September 15]]
** [[Dave Annable]], American actor
** [[Amy Davidson]], American actress
** [[Edna Kiplagat|Edna Ngeringway Kiplagat]], Kenyan long-distance runner
** [[Patrick Marleau]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[September 16]]
** [[Fanny (singer)|Fanny]], French singer
** [[Flo Rida]], African-American rapper
** [[Soo Ae]], South Korean actress
* [[September 17]]
** [[Akin Ayodele]], American football player
** [[Chuck Comeau]], Canadian drummer
* [[September 18]]
** [[Junichi Inamoto]], Japanese footballer
** [[Alison Lohman]], American actress
* [[September 19]] – [[Noémie Lenoir]], French supermodel
* [[September 20]]
** [[Lars Jacobsen]], Danish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Lars Jacobsen |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/lars-jacobsen/ |website=fussballdaten.de}}</ref>
** [[Aurélie Trouvé]], French politician
* [[September 21]] – [[Chris Gayle]], Jamaican cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/chris-gayle-51880|title=Chris Gayle Profile – Cricket Player West Indies &#124; Stats, Records, Video|publisher=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[MyAnna Buring]], Swedish-English actress
* [[September 23]] – [[Lote Tuqiri (rugby, born 1979)|Lote Tuqiri]], Fijian-Australian rugby player
* [[September 24]]
** [[Justin Bruening]], American actor and model
** [[Erin Chambers]], American actress
** [[Julia Clarete]], Filipina actress
* [[September 25]]
** [[Rashad Evans]], American retired mixed martial artist
** [[Michele Scarponi]], Italian road bicycle racer (d. [[2017]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Naomichi Marufuji]], Japanese professional wrestler
** [[Taavi Rõivas]], [[Prime Minister of Estonia]]
* [[September 27]]
** [[Zoltán Horváth (basketball)|Zoltán Horváth]], Hungarian basketball player (d. [[2009]])
** [[Shinji Ono]], Japanese football player
** [[Nathan Foley (singer)|Nathan Foley]], Australian performer
* [[September 28]]
** [[Bam Margera]], American skateboarder
** [[Anndi McAfee]], American actress and voice actress
* [[September 29]]
** [[Gaitana (singer)|Gaitana]], Ukrainian singer and songwriter of Ukrainian and Congolese descent
** [[Artika Sari Devi]], Putri Indonesia 2004
* [[September 30]]
** [[Mike Damus]], American actor
** [[Vince Chong]], Malaysian singer
** [[Juho Kuosmanen]], Finnish film director and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://torinofilmlab.it//people/654246/Juho-Kuosmanen|title=TorinoFilmLab &#124; Juho Kuosmanen|website=TorinoFilmLab}}</ref><ref>[https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12026208 YLE: Ohjaaja Juho Kuosmanen kertaa riemukasta iltaa Cannesin elokuvajuhlilla – "Ehkä meidät kutsuttiin, koska olimme kaupungissa", voittaja arveli ennen kuin totuus paljastui] (in Finnish)</ref>

=== October ===
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[[File:Brianna Brown.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Brianna Brown]]]]
[[File:Rachael Leigh Cook Photo Op GalaxyCon Raleigh 2019 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rachael Leigh Cook]]]]
[[File:Aaron Ashmore 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aaron Ashmore]]]]
[[File:Shawn Ashmore SDCC 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shawn Ashmore]]]]
[[File:5.21.11KristannaLokenByLuigiNovi.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kristanna Loken]]]]
[[File:Jawed_Karim_2008.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jawed Karim]]]]
[[File:Chris O'Dowd at British Comedy Awards.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Chris O'Dowd]]]]
[[File:Brandon Routh Photo Op GalaxyCon Columbus 2022.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Brandon Routh]]]]
[[File:John Krasinski 2018.png|thumb|100px|[[John Krasinski]]]]
* [[October 1]]
** [[Rudi Johnson]], American football player
** [[Senit]], Italian singer of Eritrean descent
** [[Marko Stanojevic]], English-born Italian rugby union player
* [[October 2]] – [[Brianna Brown]], American actress
* [[October 3]]
** [[Josh Klinghoffer]], American musician ([[Red Hot Chili Peppers]])
** [[John Morrison (wrestler)|John Morrison]], American professional wrestler
* [[October 4]]
** [[Caitriona Balfe]], Irish model and actress
** [[Rachael Leigh Cook]], American actress
** [[Adam Voges]], Australian cricketer
* [[October 5]] – [[Gao Yuanyuan]], Chinese actress
* [[October 6]] – [[Mohamed Kallon]], Sierra Leonean football player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=M. Kallon |url=https://ca.soccerway.com/coaches/mohamed-kallon/1517/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[October 7]]
** [[Aaron Ashmore]], Canadian film and television actor
** [[Shawn Ashmore]], Canadian film and television actor
** [[Simona Amânar]], Romanian gymnast
** [[Tang Wei]], Chinese actress
* [[October 8]] – [[Kristanna Loken]], American actress and model
* [[October 9]]
** [[Csézy]], Hungarian singer
** [[Chris O'Dowd]], Irish actor and comedian
** [[Brandon Routh]], American actor
** [[Gonzalo Sorondo]], Uruguayan footballer
* [[October 10]]
** [[Wu Chun]], Bruneian actor, model and singer
** [[Nicolás Massú]], Chilean tennis player
** [[Mýa]], American singer and actress
* [[October 11]]
** [[Bae Doona]], South Korean actress
** [[Gabe Saporta]], Uruguayan singer ([[Cobra Starship]])
* [[October 13]] 
** [[Wes Brown]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=W. Brown |url=https://uk.soccerway.com/players/wesley-brown/2910/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Esmah Lahlah]], Dutch politician
** [[Mamadou Niang]], Senegalese footballer
* [[October 14]] – [[Stacy Keibler]], American actress and model
* [[October 15]] – [[Jaci Velasquez]], American Christian singer
* [[October 17]] – [[Kimi Räikkönen]], Finnish [[2007 Formula One World Championship|2007]] [[Formula 1]] world champion<ref>{{Citation |title=Kimi Räikkönen wins the World Championship with Finnish commentators | date=November 28, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdjbCHKokg|access-date=2022-07-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-11-16 |title=McLaren lose Brazilian GP appeal|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7099263.stm |access-date=2022-07-10}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Ne-Yo]], African-American singer and songwriter
* [[October 20]]
** [[John Krasinski]], American actor
** [[Paul O'Connell]], Irish rugby union player
**[[Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck|Anna Boden]], American filmmaker 
* [[October 23]] 
** [[Jorge Solís]], Mexican professional boxer
** [[Prabhas]], Indian actor
* [[October 25]] – [[Sarah Thompson (actress)|Sarah Thompson]], American actress
* [[October 28]]
**[[Glover Teixeira]], Brazilian-American mixed martial artist
** [[Jawed Karim]], German and Bangladeshi-American software engineer, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of [[YouTube]]
** [[Martin Škoula]], Czech ice hockey player
* [[October 30]]
** [[Geert Gabriëls]], Dutch politician
** [[Yukie Nakama]], Japanese actress
* [[October 31]] – [[Raziq Khan]], Pakistani cricketer<ref name="espncricinfo">{{cricinfo|id=626112|access-date=2019-06-26|check-wikidata=no|name=Raziq Khan}}</ref>

=== November ===
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[[File:Lamar Odom (37) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lamar Odom]]]]
[[File:Cote de Pablo retouch.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cote de Pablo]]]]
[[File:Mpule Kwelagobe.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mpule Kwelagobe]]]]
[[File:Neeti Mohan Har Kisi Ko.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Neeti Mohan]]]]
[[File:Kelly Brook at 2015 TCA (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kelly Brook]]]]
[[File:Joel Kinnaman (28494159712) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joel Kinnaman]]]]
* [[November 1]]
** [[Coco Crisp]], American baseball player
** [[Maeve Kennedy McKean]], American public health official (d. [[2020]])
** [[Atsuko Enomoto]], Japanese voice actress
** [[Milan Dudić]], Serbian footballer
* [[November 2]] 
** [[Marián Čišovský]], Slovak footballer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Erika Flores]], American actress
* [[November 3]]
** [[Pablo Aimar]], Argentine footballer
** [[Tim McIlrath]], American rock singer, songwriter ([[Rise Against]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Audrey Hollander]], American porn actress
* [[November 5]] 
** [[Leonardo Nam]], Australian actor
** [[Tarek Boudali]], French actor
** [[Patrick Owomoyela]], German Footballer of Nigerian descent
* [[November 6]]
** [[Lamar Odom]], African-American retired basketball player
** [[Myolie Wu]], Hong Kong actress
* [[November 7]] – [[Jon Peter Lewis]], American singer and songwriter
* [[November 8]]
** [[Aaron Hughes]], Northern Irish footballer
** [[Dania Ramirez]], Dominican actress
** [[Dash Berlin]], Dutch DJ and music producer
** [[Salvatore Cascio]], Italian actor
* [[November 9]]
** [[Cory Hardrict]], American actor
** [[Darren Trumeter]], American actor and comedian<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2345089/bio |title=Darren Trumeter |publisher=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
** [[Caroline Flack]], English television and radio presenter and actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[November 12]]
** [[Matt Cappotelli]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2018]])
** [[Cote de Pablo]], Chilean actress
** [[Matt Stevic]], Australian rules football umpire
* [[November 13]]
** [[Henry Wolfe]], American actor and musician
** [[Metta World Peace]], American basketball player
* [[November 14]]
** [[Mavie Hörbiger]], German actress
** [[Olga Kurylenko]], Ukrainian model and actress
** [[Mpule Kwelagobe]], [[Miss Universe 1999]]
** [[Osleidys Menéndez]], Cuban javelin thrower<ref>{{cite web |title=Olisdeilys MENÉNDEZ |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/cuba/olisdeilys-menendez-14263481 |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
* [[November 17]] – [[Matthew Spring]], English footballer
* [[November 18]] – [[Neeti Mohan]], Indian playback singer
* [[November 19]]
** [[Barry Jenkins]], American film director, producer, and screenwriter
** [[Larry Johnson (running back)|Larry Johnson]], American football player
** [[Michelle Vieth]], American born Mexican actress and model<ref>{{citation |url=http://lasnoticiasmexico.com/56086.html |title=Michelle Vieth |website=Las Noticias Mexico.com |access-date=August 24, 2019 |language=es |archive-date=September 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917192751/http://lasnoticiasmexico.com/56086.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[November 20]] – [[Ericson Alexander Molano]], Colombian gospel singer
* [[November 21]] 
** [[Kim Dong-wan]], South Korean singer and actor
** [[Vincenzo Iaquinta]], Italian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=V. Iaquinta |url=https://ca.soccerway.com/players/vincenzo-iaquinta/88/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[November 22]]
** [[Chris Doran]], Irish singer
** [[Scott Robinson (singer)|Scott Robinson]], English singer ([[Five (band)|5ive]])
** [[Njabuliso Simelane]], Swaziland international footballer
* [[November 23]]
** [[Kelly Brook]], English actress and model
** [[Nihat Kahveci]], Turkish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=N. Kahveci |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/nihat-kahveci/3111/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Ivica Kostelić]], Croatian alpine skier
* [[November 24]] – [[Carmelita Jeter]], American sprinter<ref>{{cite web |title=Carmelita Jeter |url=http://legacy.usatf.org/Athlete-Bios/Carmelita-Jeter.aspx#athletemaincontainer |publisher=USA Track & Field |access-date=January 23, 2023 |archive-date=December 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220162937/http://legacy.usatf.org/Athlete-Bios/Carmelita-Jeter.aspx#athletemaincontainer |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[November 25]] – [[Joel Kinnaman]], [[Swedish-American]] actor
* [[November 26]] – [[Deborah Secco]], Brazilian actress
* [[November 27]]
** [[Ricky Carmichael]], American motorcycle and stock car racer
** [[Hilary Hahn]], American violinist
* [[November 28]]
** [[Dane Bowers]], English singer-songwriter ([[Another Level (group)|Another Level]])
** [[Jamie Korab]], Canadian curler
** [[Hakeem Seriki]], African-American rapper ([[Chamillionaire]])
** [[Daniel Henney]], American actor and model
* [[November 29]] 
** [[Simon Amstell]], English comedian and writer
** [[Jayceon Taylor]], American rapper ([[The Game (rapper)|The Game]])
* [[November 30]]
** [[Diego Klattenhoff]], Canadian actor
** [[Andrés Nocioni]], Argentinian basketball player

=== December ===
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[[File:Sabina Babayeva (Eurovision Song Contest 2012).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sabina Babayeva]]]]
[[File:Eric Bauza by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eric Bauza]]]]
[[File:Sara Bareilles 10 13 2015 (36191615226) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sara Bareilles]]]]
[[File:Adam Brody TIFF 2011.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adam Brody]]]]
[[File:Zach Hill 2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Zach Hill]]]]
* [[December 2]]
** [[Sabina Babayeva]], Azerbaijani singer
** [[Yvonne Catterfeld]], German singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality
* [[December 3]]
** [[Daniel Bedingfield]], English pop singer and songwriter
** [[Rock Cartwright]], American football player
** [[Tiffany Haddish]], American actress and comedian
* [[December 5]] – [[Matteo Ferrari]], Italian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=M. Ferrari |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/matteo-ferrari/4008/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Tim Cahill]], Australian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=T. Cahill |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/tim-cahill/709/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
* [[December 7]]
** [[Eric Bauza]], Canadian comedian and voice actor
** [[Sara Bareilles]], American singer, songwriter and pianist
** [[Ayako Fujitani]], Japanese actress
** [[Jennifer Carpenter]], American actress
* [[December 8]] – [[Ingrid Michaelson]], American indie pop singer-songwriter
* [[December 10]] – [[Keiko Nemoto]], Japanese voice actress
* [[December 11]] – [[Rider Strong]], American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
* [[December 12]]
** [[Emin Agalarov]], Azerbaijani-Russian singer-songwriter and businessman
** [[Barulaganye Bolofete]], Botswana footballer
* [[December 14]]
** [[Chris Cheng]], American sport shooter 
** [[Michael Owen]], English footballer
* [[December 15]]
** [[Adam Brody]], American actor
** [[Eric Young (wrestler)|Eric Young]], Canadian professional wrestler
** [[Lee Carr]], African-American singer and songwriter
* [[December 16]]
** [[Trevor Immelman]], South African golfer
** [[Brodie Lee]], American professional wrestler (d. [[2020]])
** [[Daniel Narcisse]], French handball player
** [[Mihai Trăistariu]], Romanian singer and musician
* [[December 17]] 
**[[Jaimee Foxworth]], American actress and model
**[[Erion Veliaj]], Albanian politician, Mayor of Tirana
* [[December 19]]
** [[Kevin Devine]], American songwriter and musician
** [[Paola Rey]], Colombian actress and model
** [[Tara Summers]], English actress
* [[December 20]]
** [[Flávio Amado|Flávio]], Angolan footballer
** [[Ramón Rodríguez (actor)|Ramon Rodriguez]], Puerto Rican actor
* [[December 22]] 
** [[Eleonora Lo Bianco]], Italian volleyball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleonora Lo Bianco |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/94547 |website=olympedia.org}}</ref>
** [[Petra Majdič]], Slovene cross-country skier
* [[December 23]]
** [[Jacqueline Bracamontes]], Mexican actress and beauty contest winner ([[Nuestra Belleza México 2000]])
** [[Kenny Miller]], Scottish football player
* [[December 25]] – [[Ferman Akgül]], vocalist of Turkish nu-metal band [[Manga (band)|maNga]]
* [[December 26]]
** [[Chris Daughtry]], American singer and guitarist
** [[Dimitry Vassiliev]], Russian ski jumper
* [[December 28]]
** [[James Blake (tennis)|James Blake]], American tennis player
** [[André Holland]], American actor
** [[Bree Williamson]], Canadian actress
** [[B-Tight|Robert Edward Davis]], German-American rapper
** [[Zach Hill]], American drummer ([[Death Grips]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Diego Luna]], Mexican actor 
*[[December 30]]
** [[Flávio Amado]], Angolan footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Flávio Amado |url=https://ca.soccerway.com/players/flavio-amado-da-silva/94/ |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
** [[Milana Terloeva]], Chechen journalist and author
** [[Yelawolf]], American rapper
* [[December 31]]
** [[Bob Bryar]], American drummer ([[My Chemical Romance]]) (d. [[2024]])
** [[Elaine Cassidy]], Irish actress
** [[Josh Hawley]], American politician, [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Missouri|MO]]) from 2019

=== Unknown date ===
* [[Irene Cuadrado]], Spanish painter.

== Deaths ==
{{Main|Category:1979 deaths}}

=== January ===
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[[File:Nelson Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Nelson Rockefeller]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Conrad Hilton]], American hotelier (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Vincent Korda]], Hungarian art director (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Billy Bletcher]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Charles Mingus]], American musician (b. [[1922]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Jack Soo]], Japanese-born American actor (b. [[1917]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Donny Hathaway]], American musician (b. [[1945]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Charles W. Morris]], American philosopher and semiotician (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Ted Cassidy]], American actor (b. [[1932]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Ali Hassan Salameh]], Palestinian Leader of [[Black September]] and mastermind of the [[1972 Munich Massacre]] (b. [[1940]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Nelson Rockefeller]], [[List of Vice Presidents of the United States|41st]] [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Victoria Ocampo]], Argentine publisher, writer and critic (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ocampo-victoria-1890-1979 |title=Ocampo, Victoria (1890–1979) |first=Paul B. Jr. |last=Goodwin |encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |via=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref>

=== February ===
[[File:Sid Vicious 1978 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Sid Vicious]]]]
* [[February 1]]
** [[William H. Brockman Jr.]], United States Navy admiral (b. [[1904]])
** [[Abdi İpekçi]], Turkish journalist and human rights activist (b. [[1929]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Sid Vicious]], English musician (b. [[1957]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Issa Pliyev]], Soviet general (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Josef Mengele]], German officer and physician (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Dennis Gabor]], Hungarian-born British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dennis-Gabor Dennis Gabor British engineer]</ref>
* [[February 10]] 
** [[Edvard Kardelj]], Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)|Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA710|year=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-4058-4|pages=710}}</ref>
** [[Karl von Eberstein]], German politician (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Jean Renoir]], French film director and actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Reginald Maudling]], British politician (b. [[1917]])
* [[February 16]] – [[William Gargan]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Nereo Rocco]], Italian footballer and manager (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 23]] – [[W. A. C. Bennett]], Canadian politician, premier of British Columbia (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-andrew-cecil-bennett W.A.C. Bennett]</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Henrich Focke]], German aviation pioneer (b. [[1890]])

=== March ===
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[[File:José María Velasco Ibarra.jpg|thumb|120px|[[José María Velasco Ibarra]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Mustafa Barzani]], Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. [[1903]])
** [[Dolores Costello]], American actress (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Tudor Owen (actor)|Tudor Owen]], Welsh-American actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Tudor-Owen/ Tudor Owen]</ref>
* [[March 15]] – [[Léonide Massine]], Russian dancer and choreographer (b. [[1896]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Jean Monnet]], French political economist, diplomat and a [[Founding fathers of the European Union|founding father of the European Union]] (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Monnet|title=Jean Monnet &#124; European Union founder, diplomat, statesman &#124; Britannica|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=November 5, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Richard Beckinsale]], British actor (b. [[1947]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Ben Lyon]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Yvonne Mitchell]], English actress (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Jean Stafford]], American writer (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Emmett Kelly]], American circus clown (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emmett-Kelly Emmett Kelly American clown]</ref>
* [[March 29]] 
** [[Yahya Petra of Kelantan]], [[Sultan of Kelantan]] and 6th [[King of Malaysia]] (b. [[1917]])
** [[Milena Rudnytska]], Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CR%5CU%5CRudnytskaMilena.htm Rudnytska, Milena]</ref>
* [[March 30]]
** [[Airey Neave]], British politician (assassinated) (b. [[1916]])
** [[José María Velasco Ibarra]], Ecuadorian politician, 24th [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1893]])

=== April ===
[[File:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]]]]
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<!--[[File:Phan Huy Quat.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Phan Huy Quát]]]]-->
* [[April 4]]
** [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], 9th [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] and 4th [[President of Pakistan]] (executed) (b. [[1928]])
** [[Edgar Buchanan]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Nino Rota]], Italian composer (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA733|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75876-0|pages=733}}</ref>
* [[April 11]] – [[Hassan Pakravan]], Iranian diplomat (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Wilhelm Bittrich]], German ''Waffen SS'' general (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Blair Peach]], New Zealand-born, British teacher (b. [[1946]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dummett|first1=Michael|author-link1=Michael Dummett|title=The Death of Blair Peach: the Supplementary Report of the Unofficial Committee of Enquiry|date=1980|publisher=National Council for Civil Liberties|location=London|isbn=978-0-9011-0891-3}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – [[John Carroll (actor)|John Carroll]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Phan Huy Quát]], 4th [[Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam|Prime Minister of South Vietnam]] (b. [[1908]])

=== May ===
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[[File:Mary_Pickford_cph.3c17995u.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Mary Pickford]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Morteza Motahhari]], Iranian cleric and politician (b. [[1919]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Giulio Natta]], Italian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1963/natta/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref>
* [[May 6]] – [[Milton Ager]], American songwriter (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Talcott Parsons]], American sociologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 11]]
** [[Joan Chandler]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
** [[Barbara Hutton]], American socialite (b. [[1912]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Predrag Đajić]], [[Bosnian Serb]] and [[Yugoslavs|Yugoslav]] [[association football|footballer]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Jean Rhys]], Dominican novelist (b. [[1890]])
* [[May 16]] – [[A. Philip Randolph]], African-American civil rights activist (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Benjamin W. Fortson Jr.|Benjamin W. Fortson Jr]], American politician and [[Georgia Secretary of State]] from 1946 to 1979 (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Bernadette Armiger]], Catholic nun and president of the [[American Association of Colleges of Nursing]] from 1972 to 1974 (b. [[1915]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Ahmed Ould Bouceif]], Mauritanian military officer, second [[Prime Minister of Mauritania]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian-American actress and producer (b. [[1892]])

=== June ===
[[File:Werner Forssmann nobel.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Werner Forssmann]]]]
[[File:John Wayne - still portrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[John Wayne]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Werner Forssmann]], German researcher and physician (b. [[1904]])
** [[Ján Kadár]], Czechoslovakian film director (b. [[1918]])
** [[Jack Mulhall]], American actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 2]] – [[Jim Hutton]], American actor (b. [[1934]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Heinz Erhardt]], German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (b. [[1909]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Jack Haley]], American actor (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Reinhard Gehlen]], German general, 20 July Plotter (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Cyclone Taylor]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/t/taylocy01.html|title=Cyclone Taylor Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Salary, Title|website=Hockey-Reference.com}}</ref>
* [[June 11]]
**[[Edward Almond]], American general (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-M-Almond Edward M. Almond United States general]</ref>
** [[Loren Murchison]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1898]])
** [[John Wayne]], American actor and film director (b. [[1907]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Darla Hood]], American actress (b. [[1931]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Nicholas Ray]], American film director, screenwriter and actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Louis Chiron]], Monacan Grand Prix driver (b. [[1899]])
** [[Emory Parnell]], American actor (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/emory_parnell Emory Parnell]</ref>
* [[June 25]] – [[Dave Fleischer]], American animator (b. [[1894]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Akwasi Afrifa]], Ghanaian soldier and politician, [[List of heads of state of Ghana|Head of state]] (1969–1970) (b. [[1936]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Philippe Cousteau]], French diver and cinematographer (b. [[1940]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Lowell George]], American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (b. [[1945]])

=== July ===
[[File:Tomonaga.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Shin'ichirō Tomonaga]]]]
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[[File:Retrato de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.png|120px|thumb|[[Gustavo Diaz Ordaz]]]]
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* [[July 2]] 
** [[Carlyle S. Beals]], Canadian astronomer (b. [[1899]])
** [[Larisa Shepitko]], Ukrainian-Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress (b. [[1938]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Louis Durey]], French composer (b. [[1888]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Theodora Kroeber]], American writer and [[anthropologist]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[July 6]]
** [[Antonio María Barbieri]], Uruguay [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1892]])
** [[Van McCoy]], American musician noted for his [[1975]] hit "[[The Hustle (song)|The Hustle]]" (b. [[1940]])
* [[July 8]]
** [[Elizabeth Ryan]], American 30 [[Grand Slam (tennis)]] tennis champion (b. [[1892]])
** [[Shin'ichirō Tomonaga]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]])
** [[Michael Wilding (actor)|Michael Wilding]], English actor (b. [[1912]])
** [[Robert Burns Woodward]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1917]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Arthur Fiedler]], American conductor (''[[Boston Pops]]'') (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Minnie Riperton]], American [[rhythm and blues]] singer (''[[Lovin' You]]'') (b. [[1947]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Corinne Griffith]], American actress and author (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 15]]
** [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]], Mexican politician, 49th [[President of Mexico]], 1964-1970 (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/6789/Gustavo%20Diaz%20Ordaz|title=Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
|publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Frederick Hanson (engineer)|Frederick Hanson]], New Zealand soldier, engineer, military leader and public servant (b. [[1895]])<ref>[https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5h7/hanson-frederick-melrose-horowhenua Story: Hanson, Frederick Melrose Horowhenua]</ref>
** [[Juana de Ibarbourou]], Uruguayan poet (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Alfred Deller]], English countertenor (b. [[1912]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Edward Akufo-Addo]], Ghanese politician and lawyer, 5th [[President of Ghana]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Herbert Butterfield|Sir Herbert Butterfield]], English philosopher and historian (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Sándor Kocsis]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Joseph Kessel]], French journalist and author (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/joseph-kessel JOSEPH KESSEL]</ref>
* [[July 26]] – [[Virginia Brissac]], American actress (b. [[1883]])
* [[July 28]] – [[George Seaton]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Herbert Marcuse]], German-American philosopher, sociologist and political theorist (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/marcuse-radical-philosopher-dies-largely-unnoticed-before-60s.html|title=Marcuse, Radical Philosopher, Dies|date=July 31, 1979|author=Kenneth A. Briggs|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 26, 2022}}</ref>

===August===
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[[File:John G. Diefenbaker.jpg|thumb|120px|[[John Diefenbaker]]]]
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[[File:Mika-Waltari-1958.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Mika Waltari]]]]
[[File:Camorra Jean Seberg.png|120px|thumb|[[Jean Seberg]]]]
* [[August 2]]
** [[Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre]], Peruvian politician, founder and leader of [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|APRA]] party (b. [[1895]]) 
** [[Thurman Munson]], American baseball player (b. [[1947]]) 
* [[August 3]] – [[Bertil Ohlin]], Swedish economist and Liberal politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Feodor Lynen]], German biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Walter O'Malley]], American baseball executive (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Dick Foran]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
** [[Walther Gerlach]], German physicist (b. [[1889]])
** [[Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi]], Afghan politician, 9th [[Prime Minister of Afghanistan]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Ernst Chain]], German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 16]] – [[John Diefenbaker]], 13th [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Vivian Vance]], American actress and singer (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Saad Jumaa]], Prime Minister of Jordan (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Stuart Heisler]], American film and television director (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Ahmad Daouk]], Lebanese politician, 12th [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] (b. [[1892]])
** [[Hanna Reitsch]], German aviator (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan Kenton]], American jazz pianist (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Alvin Karpis]], American criminal (b. [[1907]])
** [[Mika Waltari]], Finnish author (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Hejkalová |first=Markéta|translator-last=Turner|translator-first=Gerald |year=2008 |orig-year=2007 (Czech)|title=Mika Waltari: The Finn |location=Helsinki |publisher=WSOY |isbn=978-951-0-34335-7 | page=171}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Jean Seberg]], American actress (body found on [[September 8]]) (b. [[1938]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Sally Rand]], American dancer (b. [[1904]])

=== September ===
[[File:President MPLA, heer Neto door Den Uyl ontvangen premier Den Uyl en A Neto (r), Bestanddeelnr 927-8518 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|[[Agostinho Neto]]]]
[[File:Dame Gracie Fields Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gracie Fields]]]]
[[File:Don Francisco Macias.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Francisco Macías Nguema]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[Doris Kenyon]], American actress (b. [[1897]])
* [[September 2]] – [[Felix Aylmer]], British actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Alberto di Jorio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Norrie Paramor]], British music producer (b. [[1914]])
* [[September 10]] – [[Agostinho Neto]], Angolan poet and politician, 1st [[President of Angola]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Jocelyne LaGarde]], Tahitian actress (b. [[1924]])
* [[September 16]] 
** [[Giò Ponti]], Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer and artist (b. [[1891]])
** [[Rob Slotemaker]], Indonesian-born, Dutch [[Formula 1]] racing car driver (b. [[1929]]) 
* [[September 20]]
** [[Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah]], [[Sultan of Terengganu]] and 4th [[King of Malaysia]] (b. [[1907]])
** [[Ludvík Svoboda]], 8th [[President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Abul A'la Maududi]], Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. [[1903]])
** [[Otto Robert Frisch]], Austrian-born British physicist (b. [[1904]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Carl Laemmle Jr.]], American film studio executive (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Yury Kovalyov]], Soviet footballer (b. [[1934]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[John Cromwell (director)|John Cromwell]], American film director and actor (b. [[1887]])
** [[Arthur Hunnicutt]], American actor (b. [[1910]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Gracie Fields|Dame Gracie Fields]], British actress (b. [[1898]])
** [[Jimmy McCulloch]], Scottish guitarist ([[Paul McCartney & Wings]]) (b. [[1953]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Francisco Macías Nguema]], 1st [[President of Equatorial Guinea]] (executed) (b. [[1924]])
** [[Ivan Wyschnegradsky]], Russian composer (b. [[1893]])

=== October ===
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* [[October 1]] 
** [[Dorothy Arzner]], American film director (b. [[1897]])
** [[Roy Harris]], American composer (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/632/Roy-Harris/ Roy Harris]</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Elizabeth Bishop]], American poet (b. [[1911]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Nur Muhammad Taraki]], Afghan revolutionary communist politician, journalist and writer (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 12]] –  [[Celia Lovsky]], Austrian-born American actress (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://trekkiefeminist.com/celia-lovsky/ Celia Lovsky]</ref>
* [[October 13]] 
** [[Rebecca Clarke (composer)|Rebecca Clarke]], English composer and violist (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musicbywomen.org/composer/rebecca-clarke/|title=Rebecca Clarke}}</ref>
** [[Archibald Roosevelt]], American army officer and conservative political activist (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Family-and-Friends/Archibald-Bulloch-Roosevelt Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt]</ref>
* [[October 15]] – [[Jacob L. Devers]], American army general (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 17]] – [[John Stuart (actor)|John Stuart]], Scottish actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/heritage-images/john-stuart-1898-1979-scottish-actor-14945434.html John Stuart (1898-1979), Scottish actor, 20th century]</ref>
* [[October 18]] – [[Virgilio Piñera]], Cuban author, playwright and poet (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer and composition teacher (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Antonio Caggiano]], Argentine cardinal (b. [[1889]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Maphevu Dlamini]], 2nd Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. [[1922]])
** [[Gerald Templer|Sir Gerald Templer]], British [[field marshal]] (b. [[1898]]) 
* [[October 26]] – [[Park Chung Hee]], Korean politician, 3rd [[President of the Republic of Korea]] ([[South Korea]]) (assassinated) (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Charles Coughlin]], Canadian-born American priest and controversial conservative radio show commentator (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Barnes Wallis|Sir Barnes Wallis]], British aeronautical engineer (b. [[1887]])

=== November ===
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* [[November 1]]
** [[Albert Préjean]], French actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Mamie Eisenhower]], 34th [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 2]] – [[Jacques Mesrine]], French criminal; known as the "French [[Robin Hood]]" (b. [[1936]])
* [[November 5]] 
** [[Al Capp]], American cartoonist (b. [[1909]])
** [[Amedeo Nazzari]], Italian actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[November 7]] –&nbsp;[[Frank O'Connor (actor, born 1897)|Frank O'Connor]], American actor, rancher, and painter (b. [[1897]])<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=November 12, 1979 |title=Charles Francis O'Connor, Artist, Husband of the Writer Ayn Rand |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/12/archives/charles-francis-oconnor-artist-husband-of-the-writer-ayn-rand.html |access-date=December 23, 2022 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |type=obituary |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[November 8]] 
** [[Edward Ardizzone]], English painter, printmaker and author (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.edward-ardizzone-archive.org/bio EDWARD JEFFREY IRVING ARDIZZONE]</ref>
** [[Yvonne de Gaulle]], French wife of [[Charles de Gaulle]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], Russian film composer (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Ernest N. Harmon]], American general (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.historynet.com/ernie-harmon-the-other-patton/ ERNIE HARMON: THE OTHER PATTON]</ref>
* [[November 17]] – [[Immanuel Velikovsky]], Russian author and psychiatrist (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Marie Byles]], Australian solicitor and conservationist (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411235131/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/byles-marie-beuzeville-9652|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-11|title=Biography – Marie Beuzeville Byles – Australian Dictionary of Biography|date=2015-04-11|access-date=2017-10-22}}</ref>
* [[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 ===
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* [[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]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/20/archives/ann-dvorak-dies-screen-actress-67-made-debut-as-paul-munis-sister.html|title=Ann Dvorak Dies; Screen Actress, 67|date=1979-12-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 22, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[December 11]] – [[James J. Gibson]], American psychologist and academic (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Concise Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ea-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA761|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-492-9|pages=761}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[Jon Hall (actor)|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]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/12/24/motion-picture-producer-darryl-f-zanuck-is-dead-at-77/6e238304-adea-462e-8121-5b782c74ff51/|title=Motion Picture Producer Darryl F. Zanuck Is Dead at 77|first1=Gary|last1=Arnold|date=December 24, 1979|access-date=August 31, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>
* [[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 of Afghanistan|People's Democratic Party]] and Chairman of the [[Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan)|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]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Rodgers {{!}} American composer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Rodgers |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref>

== Nobel Prizes ==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Sheldon Glashow]], [[Abdus Salam]], [[Steven Weinberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Herbert C. Brown]], [[Georg Wittig]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] – [[Allan MacLeod Cormack]], [[Godfrey Hounsfield]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Odysseas Elytis]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Mother Teresa]]
* [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|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 (2011 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 ==
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==Further reading==
* Caryl, Christian, ''Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century'' (2013), 1979 as worldwide turning point; [https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Rebels-Birth-Century-ebook/dp/B00C4GRUOM/ excerpt and text search]
* Facts on File. ''Facts on File Yearbook: 1979'' (1980) weekly factual report on events worldwide.
* Hodson, H.V. ''Annual Register of World Events 1979'' (1980), in-depth coverage of major countries
* Paxton, John, ed. ''Statesman's Yearbook 1978–1979'' (1980), statistical details on all countries

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