About the day » Tuesday June 19, 1979Calender converter

• Alineke Beate Gabrielle Hartman, Haarlem
• Regina van den Pol, Voorthuizen († 2020)
• PATRICIA JOHANNA MARIA MAAT, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• XAVIERA FRANCISCA PETRONELLA MAAT, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Martijn Jongenelen, Oss,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Nicholas Gene Gaunitz († 1979)
• Tonya Sue Sutton († 1979)

• ANNA DIJKSHOORN (82), SCHIEDAM
• Aagje Maria van 't Hoog (96), Bilthoven
• Cornelia Christina Jacobs (74), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Clarence George Bogaards (76), Pella, Marion, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Annie Krul (71), Beekbergen, Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Smit (90)
• Alida Cornelia Johanna Koster (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Dirk Bouttelgier (23), Kortrijk
• Aartje Kornelia Rietveld (80), noordeloos (zuid holland)
• Arthur SEGERS (66), Wambeek,1741,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE

• 1978 » Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 » Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
• 1978 » Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1979 » José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer
• 1980 » Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
• 1980 » Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1981 » Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
• 1981 » Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer

• 1975 » Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
• 1979 » Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager and co-founder of the Mudd Club (b. 1955)
• 1984 » Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1987 » Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 » Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)

• 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.
• February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
• March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
• October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
• November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

The temperature on June 19, 1979 was between 8.8 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.