1979 in England

Events

• April 23 – Fighting breaks out in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group; protester Blair Peach receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.
• May 8 – Ten shoppers die in a fire at the Woolworths department store in Manchester city centre in England.
• December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.

Births

• 18 January – Katie Hooper, synchronised swimmer
• 20 March – Freema Agyeman, actress
• 10 April – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
• 2 December – Gayle Adamson, synchronised swimmer

Deaths

• 2 February – Sid Vicious, musician
• 24 March – Yvonne Mitchell, actress
• 13 October – Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
• 30 October – Barnes Wallis, engineer and inventor (born 1887)
• 23 November – Merle Oberon, actress (born 1911)

See also

• 1979 in Northern Ireland
• 1979 in Scotland
• 1979 in Wales

References