Duvall received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed film Network ( 1976 ) and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in The Great Santini ( 1979 ) as the hard-boiled Marine LtCol.

* Jack Frost ( 1979, Buddy Hackett )

* In 1979, former Genesis guitarist, Steve Hackett released the instrumental, " Clocks-The Angel of Mons ", on his album: Spectral Mornings.

This marriage broke up just before the 1979 General Election, and in London in September 1980 to Helen Hackett.

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

* 1979 – Young Maylay, American rapper, voice actor, and producer

* 1979 – Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* 1979 – Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress

* The Black Hole ( 1979 ) ( voice )

Lennie Weinrib provided his voice for one season in 1979 and from 1980 on, it was performed by Don Messick ( who voiced Scooby ).

He also recorded Ess's band Y Pants for their debut release on 99 Records and performed with Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio in 1977, a noise music experience that was very important in the development of his compositional voice ( Branca 1979 ).

Alfred George Deller CBE ( 31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979 ), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century, and is sometimes referred to as the ' godfather ' of the counter-tenor.

Six years later, in 1979, the collection Bimë e zë ( Plant and voice ) followed.

* Nutcracker Fantasy ( 1979 ) ( voice )

* The Black Hole ( 1979 ) ( voice )

Nash was the only original voice actor in the film as Walt Disney ( Mickey Mouse ) and Pinto Colvig ( Goofy ) had died in the 1960s, Cliff Edwards ( Jiminy Cricket ) and Billy Gilbert ( Willie the Giant ) in 1971, and Billy Bletcher ( Pete ) in 1979.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* Jack Frost ( 1979 ) ( animation short ; voice of Pardon Me Pete )

In 2005, he was the voice of Mayor Turkey Lurkey in Chicken Little ( 2005 ), his first Disney movie since 1979.

The combination of Moore's blues-based guitar and Lynott's voice produced " Parisienne Walkways ", which reached the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart in April 1979 and the Thin Lizzy album Black Rose: A Rock Legend which reached number two in the UK album chart.

Rachael Leigh Cook ( born October 4, 1979 ) is an American actress, model, voice artist and producer, who is best known for her starring role in films She's All That ( 1999 ), Josie and the Pussycats ( 2001 ), and the television series Into the West and Perception, as well as being the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the English version of Final Fantasy VII.

* Intellivision – the alternative to Atari 2600 in 1979, Intellivision offered voice command modules and Tron ; now defunct.

He also did the voice of " Snip " in the Rankin / Bass 1979 movie " Jack Frost ".

* Akiko Kobayashi ( voice actor ) ( born 1979 ), voice actor and singer