About the day » Thursday April 5, 1979Calender converter

• Isabel Coppens
• Ty Lynn Decker, Clare, Clare Co., Michigan († 2004)
• Randal James de Leeuw, Edson Alberta Canada († 1998)
• Joyce de Jonge, Purmerend,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Adrian Wittman (55)
• Abraham Vermeij (61), Oud-Beijerland
• Anna Antje Ippel (76), werkendam
• Albertus Gradus Nicolaas Oderkerk (77), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Noordijk (90), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Bernardus Phillipson (64), amsterdam, Nederland
• Carson Carsley Yates (60), Miami, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Altiena Wiersinga (71), Wieringerwerf, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Anna Laan (58), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Ferdinandus Maria Adriaensens (77), Turnhout (België)

• 1979 » Alexander Resch, German luger
• 1979 » Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer
• 1979 » Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer
• 1979 » Cesare Natali, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Imany, French singer
• 1979 » Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director
• 1979 » Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
• 1979 » Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka
• 1979 » Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
• 1979 » Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer

• 1975 » Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Harry Wyld, British cyclist (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)
• 1976 » Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
• November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.

The temperature on April 5, 1979 was between 0.7 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.