1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1940s  1950s  1960s  – 1970s –  1980s  1990s  2000s
Years: 1976 1977 197819791980 1981 1982
1979 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1979
MCMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita2732
Armenian calendar1428
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar6729
Bahá'í calendar135–136
Balinese saka calendar1900–1901
Bengali calendar1386
Berber calendar2929
British Regnal year27 Eliz. 2 – 28 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2523
Burmese calendar1341
Byzantine calendar7487–7488
Chinese calendar戊午(Earth Horse)
4675 or 4615
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4676 or 4616
Coptic calendar1695–1696
Discordian calendar3145
Ethiopian calendar1971–1972
Hebrew calendar5739–5740
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2035–2036
 - Shaka Samvat1900–1901
 - Kali Yuga5079–5080
Holocene calendar11979
Igbo calendar979–980
Iranian calendar1357–1358
Islamic calendar1399–1400
Japanese calendarShōwa 54
(昭和54年)
Javanese calendar1910–1912
Juche calendar68
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4312
Minguo calendarROC 68
民國68年
Nanakshahi calendar511
Thai solar calendar2522
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
2105 or 1724 or 952
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2106 or 1725 or 953
Unix time283996800 – 315532799

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Picture of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1

Births

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Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan
 
Florin Salam

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January

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Charles Mingus
 
Nelson Rockefeller
 
Victoria Ocampo

February

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Sid Vicious
 
Josef Mengele
 
Dennis Gabor
 
Jean Renoir
 
Mustafa Barzani
 
José María Velasco Ibarra
 
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
 
Giulio Natta
 
Gabriel Ramanantsoa
 
Mary Pickford
 
John Wayne
 
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
 
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

August

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Bertil Ohlin
 
Giuseppe Meazza
 
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

September

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Agostinho Neto
 
Francisco Macías Nguema

October

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Nur Muhammad Taraki
 
Park Chung-hee

November

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Mamie Eisenhower

December

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