** Elena Sanz de Limantour ( 1922 – 1979 ), married in 1949 to Robert Borgs, and had issue:

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

** 1977 – 1979 Golden Eagle

** 1979 Silver Anniversary CJ-5 Limited Edition ( estimated 1, 000 built )

** 1977 – 1979 Jeep Golden Eagle

** 1977 – 1979 Golden Eagle

** Aaliyah, R & B singer and actress ( b. 1979 )

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal ( d. 1979 )

** Darla Hood, American actress ( d. 1979 )

** Alfred Deller, English countertenor ( d. 1979 )

** Barbara Hutton, American socialite ( d. 1979 )

** Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, Pakistani journalist, theologian, and philosopher ( d. 1979 )

** Lazar Lagin, Soviet writer ( d. 1979 )

** John Wayne, American actor ( d. 1979 )

** S. J. Perelman, American humorist and author ( d. 1979 )

** Hope Summers, American actress ( d. 1979 )

** Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer ( d. 1979 )

** Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan and Prime Minister of Pakistan ( d. 1979 )

** Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist ( d. 1979 )

** Ivon Hitchens, English painter ( d. 1979 )

** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

** Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist ( d. 1979 )

** OSA-II with four SS-N-2 Styx missiles-6

** Shershen class torpedo boat with four 533mm heavyweight torpedo tubes 4 or 5

** Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan, Atlas Group joint venture with Honda to build cars and motorbikes

** Tukey's lemma: Every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.

** the rebound phenomenon, also known as the loss of the check reflex is also sometimes seen in patients with cerebellar ataxia.

** Various articles on Alcidamas ( 1856 – 1919, with links to further online material )

** edited by Leonhard von Spengel, with commentary in Latin, Leipzig, 1847 ( online )

** edited by Pierre Chiron, Collection Budé, with French translation, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-251-00498-X

** Andronikos V Palaiologos ( c. 1400 – c. 1407 ), Co-Emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos

** Support for mirroring with striping

** Run on RS / 6000 systems with PowerPC processors and PCI busses.

** In this use, the ablative can also be used with infinitives and participles.

** gun howitzers: capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel.

** ağzaçık or bükme-filo-style pastry stuffed with cheese or lentils.

** keşkek-boiled wheat and chick peas stewed with meat.

** local cream kaymak eaten with honey, with a bread pudding ekmek kadayıf, or with pumpkin simmered in syrup.

** Aryan, a term associated with the Proto-Indo-Iranians

** xFIP: This variant substitutes a pitcher's own home run percentage with the league average

** for all f in X ′ there exists x in X with ǁxǁ ≤ 1, so that f ( x ) = ǁfǁ.

** List of Bantu noun classes with reconstructed Proto-Bantu prefixes ( in French )

** For a list of persons with the given name Benjamin see

** The Book of Joshua, Douay Rheims Bible Version with annotations By Bishop Challoner

** Hardware bug, a defect in hardware, often with close affinity to software