About the day » Sunday July 1, 1979Calender converter

• Kevin Joseph Knott, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States († 1979)
• Herman Derk Hekman († 1994)

• Bernardus Johannes (Bernard) Oldenkortte (63), Fliess, Tirol, Austria
• Antonia Catharina Akkermans (76), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice Amanda DENGLER (74), Mesa
• Agatha Petronella Kuijt (85)
• Aleida Hendrika Zieverink (51), Enschede
• Bartus Gerardus Scheepmaker (77), Den Haag
• Cornelia Min (84), Bergen (NH/NL)
• Adrianus Henricus van Boxtel (78), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Abraham Polderman (76), Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Catharina Maria Kooij (69), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1976 » Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 » Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
• 1976 » Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1976 » Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1977 » Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician
• 1977 » Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor
• 1981 » Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player
• 1981 » Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer

• 1967 » Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (b. 1888)
• 1968 » Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (b. 1903)
• 1971 » Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer, and politician (b. 1901)
• 1971 » William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
• 1974 » Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Kurt Student, German general and pilot (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Michael Landon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)

• 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 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• 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.
• June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
• November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
• December 4 » The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.

The temperature on July 1, 1979 was between 6.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.