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

Events change

 
Picture of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1

Births change

 
Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan
 
Florin Salam

Deaths change

January change

 
Charles Mingus
 
Nelson Rockefeller
 
Victoria Ocampo

February change

 
Sid Vicious
 
Josef Mengele
 
Dennis Gabor
 
Jean Renoir

March change

 
Mustafa Barzani
 
José María Velasco Ibarra

April change

 
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

May change

 
Giulio Natta
 
Gabriel Ramanantsoa
 
Mary Pickford

June change

 
John Wayne

July change

 
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
 
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

August change

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

September change

 
Agostinho Neto
 
Francisco Macías Nguema

October change

 
Nur Muhammad Taraki
 
Park Chung-hee

November change

 
Mamie Eisenhower

December change

Nobel Prizes change