Discover what happened on 23 January 1979 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Ernst Wolf Mommsen
- Erwin Kock (Austrian pastor (1905–1979))
- Henning Svensson (Swedish footballer and manager (1891-1979))
- Jacob Cornelis van Staveren
- Joško Tischler (Slovene-Austrian politician (1902-1979))
- Innocente Salvini (Italian painter (1889-1979))
- Frank Owen (British politician (1905-1979))
- Hadley Richardson (first wife of author Ernest Hemingway (1891–1979))
- Isaac Klein (American rabbi)
- Kirk Hershey (American football player (1918-1979))
- Kureo Sasabe
- Motoo Ōtaguro (Japanese music critic (1893-1979))
- Leonid Pysarenko (Ukrainian Soviet painter (1907-1979))
- Ron Smith (Australian rules footballer (1914-1979))
- Sadık Doğanay
- Johannes Lust
- Jocelyn Frere Adburgham (British architect)
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- David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale ((1921-1979))
- Martin Konrad August Christopf Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Graf von Degenfeld-Schonburg ((1913-1979))
- Elinor Gertrude Lupton ((died 1979))
- Stanko Obad
- Henry Ray Aldrich (geologist and editor)
- Carl Savage (geologist (1916-1979))
- Ernie Meyer (American football player)
- Marvel Ranson Guisti (American educator and political activist)
- Baqir Al Usfur (Bahraini Islamic scholar and writer)
- Jacob Stanislaus Gomes
- Ōe Bunshō (Japanese cramicist)
- John Anthony Hickman
- Franz Faber