1979
Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
Cristian Rafael Mora Medrano is a retired Ecuadorian football goalkeeper.
Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
The 1970s
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1979
Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer
Rubén Arriaza Pazos is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer
1979
Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist who is known for her work with indie rock band Arcade Fire, with whom she is a former core member and currently a touring member. She has cont…
Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist
1979
Aaron Paul, American actor and producer
Aaron Paul is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Jesse Pinkman in the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). He went on to reprise the role in the Netflix sequel film…
Aaron Paul, American actor and producer
1979
Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
Karel Rachůnek was a Czech professional ice hockey player. Rachůnek was the captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) when the team was decimated in the…
Karel Rachůnek, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
1979
Rusty Smith, American speed skater
Rusty Smith is a short track speed skater from the United States who won bronze in the 500m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another bronze in the 5000m relay at t…
Rusty Smith, American speed skater
1979
Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
Shaila de los Ángeles Morales de las Heras, better known as Shaila Dúrcal, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. Her parents are singers Rocío Dúrcal and Antonio Morales ("Junior").
Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
1979
Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
In early 2005, German football was overshadowed by the discovery of a €2 million match fixing scandal centred on second division referee Robert Hoyzer, who confessed to fixing and …
Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
1979
Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
Kristen Heinrich is an Australian netball player, who played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship in 2008.
Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
1979
Markus Pröll, German footballer
Markus Pröll is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During his career, he played for 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany and Panionios in …
Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979
Ruth Riley, American basketball player
Ruth Ellen Riley Hunter is a retired American professional basketball player, playing most recently for the Atlanta Dream in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her…
Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1979
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
1979
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of Americ…
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
1979
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.
Cyrus S
1979
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
1979
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
1979
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the developmen…
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
1979
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her …
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
1979
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Asa Philip Randolph was an American railwayman, trade unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successfu…
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Somasundaram Selvanayagam was a Ceylon Tamil geographer, academic and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Jaffna.
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Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
Sir Ernest Bullock was an English organist, composer, and teacher. He was organist of Exeter Cathedral from 1917 to 1928 and of Westminster Abbey from 1928 to 1941. In the latter p…
Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
1979
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer…
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
1979
Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
Amedeo "Amédée" Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.
Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
1979
John Spenkelink, American murderer (born 1949)
John Arthur Spenkelink was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated i…
John Spenkelink, American murderer (born 1949)