* 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player

* 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

* 1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

* 1979 – Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1979 – Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist

* 1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer

* 1979: Michael Aldrich invented online shopping

* 1979 – Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist

* 1979 – Michael Lorenz, German footballer

* 1912 – Michael Wilding, English actor ( d. 1979 )

* Tax policy and the economy: a debate between Michael Harrington and Representative Jack Kemp, April 25, 1979., ( New York, N. Y.: Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1979, no ISBN )

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

* 1979 – Michael Madden, American bassist ( Maroon 5 )

* 1979 – Mike Patto, ( Michael Thomas McCarthy ), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners ( b. 1942 )

* 1979 – Michael Lehan, American football player

There is an English translation by Michael Mahoney ( New York: Dover, 1979 ).

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

Damian O ' Neill and Michael Bradley, 1979.

Left to right: Michael Bradley, Billy Doherty and Feargal Sharkey performing " Get Over You " live in the U. S. A. in 1979.

* Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1979 resigned as Prime Minister on 22 November 1990 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

* 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.

* Not the Nine O ' Clock News ( 1979 )

* Not The Nine O ' clock News ( 1979 )

* 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun ( Kangta ), lead singer of the former South Korean group H. O. T.

* 1903 – Walter O ' Malley, American baseball executive ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Chris O ' Dowd, Irish actor and former Gaelic footballer

* 1979 – James O ' Connor, Irish footballer

* 1979 – George O ' Callaghan, Irish footballer

In the fall of 1979, at Reagan's request, Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham conceived a concept he called the High Frontier, an idea of strategic defense using ground-and space-based weapons theoretically possible because of emerging technologies.

Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).

* On May 25, 1979, the American Airlines Flight 191 from O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.

* October 9 – Walter O ' Malley, American baseball executive ( d. 1979 )

A 1979 study from the University of Waikato found that " Temperatures derived from an < sup > 18 </ sup > O /< sup > 16 </ sup > O profile through a stalagmite found in a New Zealand cave ( 40. 67 ° S, 172. 43 ° E ) suggested the Medieval Warm Period to have occurred between AD 1050 and 1400 and to have been 0. 75 ° C warmer than the Current Warm Period.

O ' Rourke was a proponent of Gonzo journalism ; one of his earliest and best-regarded pieces was " How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink ", a National Lampoon article in March 1979.

In 1979, Danish director Lars von Trier made the short movie entitled Menthe — la bienheureuse, as an homage to Story of O.

* Lionel Smith, Cecil Moore: Serial I / O and Math Utilities for the 8049 Microcomputer, Application Note AP-49, January 1979, Intel Corporation.

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The original lineup of B * Witched comprised twin sisters Edele Lynch and Keavy Lynch ( born 15 December 1979 ), Lindsay Armaou ( born 18 December 1978 ) and Sinéad O ' Carroll ( born 14 May 1973 ).

Sung to the tune " Maryland, My Maryland " (" O Christmas Tree "), the song was incorporated in the Bicentennial programs of 1979.

* The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O ' Connor, 1979