About the day » Thursday July 19, 1979Calender converter

• Larae Beth Wiekamp, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2019)
• Thomas van Dorpe († 1979)
• Julian Nathan Sanders, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

• Augiust Isidore André Pasque (58), Sint-Truiden, België
• Alberdina Keizer (70), Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland
• Bernard Mein (59), Michigan, United States
• Cornelis (Cees) Sprundel van (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus HOLTHUIZEN (75), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis van Sprundel (72), Bergen op Zoom
• Berend Wiersema (89)
• Agatha G. Liefting (73), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Timmerman (95), Wolvega
• Cornelia Adriana de Ruijter (89), Axel

• 1977 » Ed Smith, English cricketer and journalist
• 1977 » Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1977 » Tony Mamaluke, American wrestler and manager
• 1979 » Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 » Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 » Luke Young, English footballer
• 1979 » Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
• 1980 » Giorgio Mondini, Italian race car driver
• 1980 » Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
• 1981 » Nenê, Brazilian footballer

• 1974 » Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1975 » Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1977 » Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Hans Morgenthau, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Margaret Craven, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1980 » Nihat Erim, Turkish jurist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1930)
• 1984 » Aziz Sami, Iraqi writer and translator (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)

• 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.
• May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
• August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• October 6 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
• December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.

The temperature on July 19, 1979 was between 11.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.