1979
This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song).1979 (
MCMLXXIX) was a
common year starting on Monday. It was proclaimed
International Year of the Child by the
United Nations.
*
1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the
Iranian RevolutionJanuary
*
January 1 -
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "
International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund.
*
January 1 -
Sino-American relations:
United States and the
People's Republic of China establish
diplomatic relations*
January 4 - State of
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of dead and injured in
Kent State University shootings.
*
January 7 -
Vietnam and Vietnam-backed
Cambodian
insurgents announce the fall of
Phnom Penh, Cambodian capital, and the collapse of the
Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and
Khmer Rouge retreat to
Thailand*
January 8 - The French tanker
Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at
Bantry in
Ireland - 50 dead
*
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 was broadcast the following day in the
United States and around the world
*
January 13 -
YMCA sues the
Village People for
libel because of their song of the same name
*
January 16 - The
Shah of Iran flees
Iran with his family and relocate to
Egypt after a year of turmoil.
*
January 19 - Former US Attorney General
John N. Mitchell released on
parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama
*
January 29 -
Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at random in
San Diego, California, killing two teachers and wounding 8 students
February
*
February 1 - Convicted bank robber
Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by
President Jimmy Carter.
*
February 1 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to
Tehran,
Iran after nearly 15 years of
exile.
*
February 3 - Khomeini creates the
Council of the Islamic Revolution.
*
February 7 - Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration
*
February 7 -
Pluto moves inside
Neptune's orbit for the first time since either planet was known to science.
*
February 10-
February 11 - Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution
*
February 11 - Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
*
February 12 - Prime Minister
Hissène Habré starts the
battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow
Chad's President
Félix Malloum.
*
February 14 - In
Kabul,
Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to
Afghanistan,
Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
*
February 14 - Following her 1972
sex reassignment surgery, musician
Wendy Carlos legally
changes her name from Walter. She later revealed this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of
Playboy magazine. [
1]
*
February 17 - The
People's Republic of China invades northern
Vietnam, launching the
Sino-Vietnamese War.
*
February 18 - The
Sahara Desert experiences
snow for 30 minutes.
*
February 22 - Independence of
Saint Lucia from the
United Kingdom.
*
February 26 - A total solar
eclipse arcs over northern
Canada and a partial solar
eclipse visible over almost all of
North America and
Central America. [
2]
March
*
March 1 -
Scotland voted narrowly for home rule, which was not implemented, and
Wales voted against
*
March 4 -
U.S. Voyager I photo reveals
Jupiter's rings*
March 5 -
Voyager I's closest approach to
Jupiter at 172,000 miles
*
March 13 - In
Grenada,
Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup
*
March 14 - In
China, a
Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near
Beijing killing at least 200
*
March 25 - The first fully functional
space shuttle orbiter,
Columbia, was delivered to the
John F. 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 a peace treaty
*
March 28 -
Nuclear power plant accident at
Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, releases radiation
*
March 28 - In
Britain,
Jim Callaghan's government loses a
motion of confidence by one vote, forcing a general election
*
March 29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, 6th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia dies in office. He is replaced by
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah,
Sultan of
Pahang.
*
March 30 -
Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative
Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by
INLA bomb in British
House of Commons car park
*
March 31 - The
Royal Navy withdraws from
MaltaApril
*
April 1 -
Iran's government becomes
Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the
Shah officially
*
April 1-
April 18 - Police lock
Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in
Bregenz,
Austria and forget him there for the next 18 days without food or drink
*
April 2 -
Soviet biowarfare laboratory at
Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne
anthrax spores. 66 dead plus unknown amount of
livestock*
April 4 - President
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of
Pakistan is executed
*
April 10 - A tornado hits in
Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. It was the most notable tornado of twenty-six that hit that day.
*
April 11 -
Tanzanian troops take
Kampala, the capital of
Uganda.
Idi Amin flees
*
April 17 - Schoolchildren in the
Central African Republic arrested for protesting against wearing the expensive compulsory
school uniforms. Around 100 are killed. An African judicial commission would later determine that military ruler
Jean-Bédel Bokassa had "almost certainly" taken part in the massacre.
*
April 23 - Fighting in London between the
Anti-Nazi League and the
Metropolitan Police's
Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor
Blair PeachMay
*
May 1 -
Greenland gets
home rule*
May 4 -
Conservatives win the
British general election;
Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
*
May 12 -
Alan Sunderland scores the winner as
Arsenal defeat
Manchester United 3-2 in the
FA Cup final.
*
May 9 -
Unabomber bomb injures
Northwestern University graduate student John Harris
*
May 10 - The
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
*
May 25 -
American Airlines Flight 191: In
Chicago, Illinois, a
DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
*
May 27 -
Indianapolis 500-Mile Race:
Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and the second time for car owner
Roger Penske.
June
*
June 1 - The first black-led government of
Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to
Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
*
June 2 -
Pope John Paul II visits his native
Poland, becoming the first
Pope to visit a
Communist country.
*
June 3 - 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 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional
oil spill ever.
*
June 3 -
General elections in
Italy.
*
June 4 -
Joe Clark becomes
Canada's sixteenth, and youngest,
prime minister.
*
June 12 -
Bryan Allen flies the
Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the
English Channel.
*
June 18 -
Jimmy Carter and
Leonid Brezhnev sign the
SALT II agreement in
Vienna.
*
June 20 - A
Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills
ABC TV news correspondent
Bill Stewart and his interpreter
Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
*
June 23 -
Sydney:
New South Wales Premier
Neville Wran officially opens the
Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during
1980.
*
June 25 -
Belgium:
Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the
Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.
July
*
July 2 - The
Susan B. Anthony one-dollar coin is introduced in the US.
*
July 3 -
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
*
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 its return to
Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
*
July 12 - A "
Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at
Comiskey Park, forcing the
Chicago White Sox to
forfeit their game against the
Detroit Tigers.
*
July 12 - Assassination of
Carmine Galante, boss of
Bonanno Mafia family.
*
July 16 -
Iraqi President
Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President
Saddam Hussein replaces him
*
July 17 -
Nicaraguan president General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to
Miami;
Sandinistas form a new government on
July 19.
*
July 19 - The
Marxist Sandinistas take control of
Nicaragua.
*
July 19 -
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of
Portugal.
*
July 24 - The
Soviet Union exchanges
Gerald Brook for spies
Peter and Helen Kroger with
United Kingdom.
*
July 31 - 400
Iranian pilgrims are killed after clashes with
Saudi security forces in
Mecca.
August
*
August 5 - The
Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with
Mauritania.
*
August 9 - The first British
nudist beach is established in
Brighton.
*
August 14 - A freak storm during the
Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
*
August 22 -
Led Zeppelin releases their album
"In Through The Out Door".
*
August 27 -
Lord Mountbatten and three others are assassinated by the
I.R.A.. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
September
*
September 1 - The American
Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit
Saturn, when it passes the
planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
*
September 7 - The
Chrysler Corporation asks the
United States government for $1 billion to avoid
bankruptcy.
*
September 7 -
ESPN starts broadcasting.
*
September 12 -
Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
*
September 16 - Three families flee from
East Germany by balloon.
*
September 20 - French
paratroopers help
David Dacko to overthrow
Bokassa in the
Central African Republic.
*
September 22 - The
South Atlantic Flash is observed near
Bouvet Island, thought to be a
nuclear weapons test.
*
September 29 - Equatoguinean dictator
Francisco Macías Nguema is executed by Moroccan hired men.
*
September 30 - The
Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its
Modified Initial System (aka. ).
October
*
October 14 - A major
gay rights march in the
United States takes place in
Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people.
*
October 16 - 23 people die in
Nice,
France, when the coastal town is hit by a
tsunami*
October 21 - 259 Muslim radicals occupy
Kaaba and the Grand Mosque in
Mecca.
Saudi Arabian and French security forces goes in to expel them
*
October 25 -
Great Lakes Airlines officially incorporated.
*
October 26 - South Korean president
Park Chung Hee killed by KCIA head
Kim Jaekyu.
*
October 27 -
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.
November
 |
Iranian students burn the American flag on the wall of the American Embassy in Tehran, shortly after seizing the compound. |
*
November 1 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on
November 4 and to expand attacks on
United States and
Israeli interests
*
November 2 - French police shoots gangster
Jacques Mesrine in
Paris*
November 3 - In
Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the
Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of
Klansmen and
neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally
*
November 4 -
Iran hostage crisis begins: 3000
Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the
United States embassy in
Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the
United States send the former
Shah back to
Iran to stand trial.
*
November 5 - The radio news program
Morning Edition premieres on
National Public Radio.
*
November 6 - At
Montevideo,
Uruguay the
International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution where
Taiwan Olympic and sports team participate with the name
Chinese Taipei in future
Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships .
*
November 12 -
Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in
Tehran, US President
Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all
oil imports into the
United States from
Iran*
November 14 -
Iran hostage crisis: US President
Jimmy Carter issues
Executive Order 12170, freezing all
Iranian assets in the
United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis
*
November 16 -
Bucharest Metro Line 1 is opened, in
Bucharest,
Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km)
*
November 17 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian leader
Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black
American hostages being held at the US Embassy in
Tehran.
*
November 20 - A group of around 200 militant
SunniMuslims occupied
Mecca's
Grand Mosque. They were driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that left 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
*
November 21 - After false radio reports from the
Ayatollah Khomeini that the
Americans had occupied the
Great Mosque in
Mecca, the
United States Embassy in
Islamabad,
Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four. (see:
Foreign relations of Pakistan)
*
November 23 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Irish Republican Army member
Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of
Lord Mountbatten*
November 28 - The
Mount Erebus disaster: an
Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into
Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
December
*
December 3 - Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before
The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (now known as the
U.S. Bank Arena) in
Cincinnati, OH.
*
December 4 - the Hastie fire in
Hull,
England, leads to the deaths of three boys and begins the hunt for
Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer
*
December 5 -
Jack Lynch resigns as
Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland. Successor
Charles Haughey.
*
December 21 -
Ceasefire for
Rhodesia signed at
London*
December 24 -
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan*
December 24 - The launch of the first European
Ariane rocket
*
December 26 - In
Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerillas enter the capital
Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins in
December 28*
December 27 - The Soviet Union seizes control of
Afghanistan and
Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President
Hafizullah AminUnknown dates
*
UNICEF declares 1979 the "International Year of the Child."
*
VisiCalc becomes the first
spreadsheet program.
*
Guardian Angels civilian patrol group forms in
New York City.
*
Sprengel Museum opens in
Hanover,
Germany.
*
Windsor Tower was built in
Madrid,
Spain.
*The first
usenet experiments were conducted by
Tom Truscott and
Jim Ellis of
Duke University.
January-March
*
January 1 -
Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (
Kinki Kids)
*
January 2 -
Morena Baccarin, Italian Brazilian actress
*
January 12 -
Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
* January 12 -
Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
*
January 16 -
Aaliyah, American singer (d.
2001)
*
January 20 -
Rob Bourdon, American drummer (
Linkin Park)
*
January 21 -
Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
*
January 23 -
Larry Hughes, American basketball player
*
January 24 -
Tatyana Ali, American actress
*
January 27 -
Rosamund Pike, British actress
*
January 29 -
Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
*
February 1 -
Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
*
February 9 -
Mena Suvari, American actress
*
February 9 -
Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
*
February 11 -
Brandy Norwood, American singer
*
February 16 -
Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
*
February 21 -
Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
*
March 5 -
Flick Shagwell, British porn actress
*
March 9 -
Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
*
March 11 -
Benji Madden and
Joel Madden, twins from
Good Charlotte*
March 12 -
Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (
The Libertines and
Babyshambles)
*
March 14 -
Shawn Morrissey, Canadian author and naturalist; founder,
Korean Mountaineering League*
March 30 -
Norah Jones, American musician
April-May
*
April 4 -
Heath Ledger, Australian actor
*
April 3 -
Daniel Lane, British music journalist (
Kerrang!)
*
April 8 -
Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist (
Children of Bodom)
*
April 10 -
Rachel Corrie, American activist (d.
2003)
*
April 10 -
Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (
Kinki Kids)
*
April 10 -
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
*
April 12 -
Claire Danes, American actress
*
April 14 -
Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
*
April 18 -
Vahid Rahbani, Iranian director
*
April 18 -
Michael Bradley, American basketball player
*
April 19 -
Kate Hudson, American actress
*
April 19 -
Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
*
April 27 -
Travis Meeks, American musician (
Days of the New)
*
April 28 -
Jorge Garcia, American actor
*
May 2 -
Roman Lyashenko, Russian hockey player (d.
2003)
*
May 9 -
Rosario Dawson, American actress
*
May 9 -
Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
*
May 18 -
Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
*
May 24 -
Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
*
May 25 -
Jonny Wilkinson, British rugby union player
*
May 26 -
Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model
June-August
*
June 5 -
Pete Wentz, American bassist and lyricist (
Fall Out Boy)
*
June 13 -
Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
*
June 18 -
Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese
seiyu (voice actress)
*
June 19 -
John Duddy, Irish boxer
*
June 23 -
LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
*
June 24 -
Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
*
June 28 -
Randy McMichael, American football player
*
June 29 -
Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
*
June 30 -
Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor
*
July 3 -
Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
*
July 4 -
Martin Shearman-Brettle, English composer
*
July 5 -
Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
*
July 21 -
David Carr, American football player
*
July 24 -
Stat Quo, American rapper
*
July 26 -
Johnson Beharry, British war hero
*
July 26 -
Tamyra Gray, American singer
*
July 27 -
Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
*
July 30 -
Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
*
August 5 -
David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
*
August 10 -
Joanna Garcia, American actress
*
August 10 -
Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
*
August 13 -
Taizo Sugimura, Japanese politician
*
August 16 -
Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
*
August 18 -
Selena Silver, pornographic film actress
*
August 26 -
Jamal Lewis, American football player
*
August 28 -
Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
September-November
*
September 8 -
Alecia Moore (P!nk), American singer
*
September 13 -
Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
*
September 14 -
Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
*
September 15 -
Amy Davidson, American actress
*
September 17 -
Akin Ayodele, American football player
*
September 28 -
Bam Margera, American skater
*
October 1 -
Rudi Johnson, American football player
*
October 10 -
Mya, American singer and actress
*
October 14 -
Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
*
October 17 -
Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
*
October 20 -
John Krasinski, American actor
*
October 30 -
Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
*
November 1 -
Coco Crisp, American baseball player
*
November 4 -
Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
*
November 6 -
Lamar Odom, American basketball player
*
November 7 -
Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
*
November 8 -
Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
*
November 13 -
Ron Artest, American basketball player
*
November 22 -
Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
*
November 27 -
Hilary Hahn, American violinist
*
November 28 -
Hakeem Seriki, American rapper
*
November 29 -
Jayceon Taylor, a.k.a.
The Game, American rapper
December
*
December 3 -
Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
*
December 3 -
Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
*
December 7 -
Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
*
December 12 -
Nate Clements, American football player
*
December 14 -
Michael Owen, English footballer
*
December 15 -
Adam Brody, American actor
*
December 17 -
William Green, American football player
*
December 18 -
Amy Grabow, American actress
*
December 23 -
Summer Altice, American model and actress
*
December 26 -
Chris Daughtry, American singer
*
December 27 -
Carson Palmer, American football player
*
December 28 -
James Blake, American tennis pro
January-March
*
January 3 -
Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b.
1887)
*
January 5 -
Charles Mingus, American musician (b.
1922)
*
January 8 -
Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b. 1898)
*
January 13 -
Donny Hathaway, American musician (b.
1945)
*
January 26 -
Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York,
Vice President of the United States (b.
1908)
*
February 2 -
Sid Vicious, English musician (
Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b.
1957)
*
February 2 -
Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b.
1903)
*
February 7 -
Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b.
1911)
*
February 9 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1900)
*
February 12 -
Jean Renoir, French film director (b.
1894)
*
February 14 -
Reginald Maudling, British politician (b.
1917)
*
February 23 -
W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b.
1900)
*
February 28 -
Mr. Ed, American talking horse (b.
1949)
*
March 1 -
Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b.
1903)
*
March 19 -
Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b.
1947)
*
March 23 -
Ted Anderson, English footballer (b.
1911)
*
March 28 -
Emmett Kelly, American clown (b.
1898)
*
March 29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia (b.
1917)
*
March 30 -
Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b.
1916)
April-June
*
April 4 -
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
President and
Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b.
1928)
*
April 4 -
Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b.
1903)
*
April 10 -
Nino Rota, Italian composer (b.
1911)
*
April 23 -
Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b.
1946)
*
May 2 -
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
May 11 -
Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b.
1912)
*
May 29 -
Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b.
1892)
*
June 1 -
Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1904)
*
June 11 -
John Wayne, American actor (b.
1907)
*
June 17 -
Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b.
1888)
*
June 19 -
Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b.
1888)
*
June 21 -
Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the
Velvet Underground (b.
1938)
*
June 29 -
Lowell George, American musician (
Little Feat) (b.
1945)
July-August
*
July 3 -
Louis Durey, French composer (b.
1888)
*
July 8 -
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
July 8 -
Robert B. Woodward, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1917)
*
July 10 -
Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b.
1894)
*
July 12 -
Minnie Riperton, American singer (b.
1947)
*
July 16 -
Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b.
1912)
*
July 22 - Nittatsu Hosoi, Japanese priest (b.
1902)
*
July 29 -
Bill Todman, American game show producer (b.
1916)
*
August 2 -
Thurman Munson, baseball player (b.
1947)
*
August 3 -
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
*
August 6 -
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1911)
*
August 9 -
Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b.
1903)
*
August 12 -
Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b.
1906)
*
August 27 -
Earl Mountbatten, last British
Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b.
1900)
*
August 31 -
Sally Rand, American dancer (b.
1904)
September-December
* September -
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, King of Malaysia (b.
1907)
*
September 8 -
Jean Seberg, American actress (b.
1938)
*
September 10 -
Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist (b.
1922)
*
September 28 -
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b.
1921)
*
September 29 -
Francisco Macias Nguema, first president of
Equatorial Guinea*
October 6 -
Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b.
1911)
*
October 10 -
Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b.
1931)
*
October 13 -
Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (b.
1886)
*
October 16 -
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b.
1903)
*
October 22 -
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b.
1887)
*
October 26 -
Park Chung-hee,
President of South Korea (b.
1917)
*
October 30 -
Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b.
1887)
*
October 30 -
Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of
Benito Mussolini (b.
1890)
*
November 1 -
Mamie Eisenhower,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1896)
*
November 29 -
Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b.
1901)
*
December 3 -
Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b.
1905)
*
December 23 -
Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b.
1898)
*
December 27 -
Hafizullah Amin,
President of Afghanistan (b.
1929)
Fictional
*
June 13 -
Pamela Voorhees,
serial killer, mother of
Jason Voorhees (b.
1930)
*
Physics -
Sheldon Lee Glashow,
Abdus Salam,
Steven Weinberg*
Chemistry -
Herbert C. Brown,
Georg Wittig*
Medicine -
Allan M. Cormack,
Godfrey N. Hounsfield*
Literature -
Odysseas Elytis*
Peace -
Mother Teresa*
Economics -
Theodore Schultz,
Arthur Lewis*
Rev. Nikkyo Niwano*
1979 Coin Pictures
