Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- National income - 1,235,622 million
- 1 January â President of India makes official the decision to set up the Mandal Commission
- 22 January â 12 Iranian students who claimed to be members of the Iranian Islamic Students Association laid siege to the Iranian consulate at Churchgate.
- 31 January â The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal. (Marichjhapi massacre)
- 13 May â a tropical cyclone hits Coastal Andhra and destroys 7 lakh homes and affects 40 lakh people.
- 1 June â Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
- 27 June â CISF conflict at Bokaro
- 2 July â Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram.
- 3 July â A cargo ship named MV Kairali owned by Kerala Shipping Corporation went missing on its journey carrying iron ore from Mormugao to Rostock.
- 28 July â Charan Singh of Bharatiya Lok Dal, coalition partner of Janata Party became Prime Minister of India with outside support of Congress (I).
- 11 August â Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
- 12 October â C. H. Mohammed Koya sworn in as Chief minister of Kerala. He is the first Muslim League leader to become Chief Minister of an Indian state.
- 10 December â Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo.
Births
January to June
- 1 January Vidya Balan, actress.
- 3 January Gul Panag, actress
- 7 January â Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
- 16 January â Climax Lawrence, footballer
- 2 February â Shamita Shetty, actress
- 26 February â Premgi Amaren, playback singer, composer, songwriter, actor and comedian.
- 28 February â Srikanth
- 24 March â Emraan Hashmi, actor.
- 8 April â Amit Trivedi, music director, singer, film scorer
- 28 April â Sharman Joshi, actor
- 23 May â Divya Palat, actress.
- 10 June â D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
- 12 June â Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
- 18 June â A. L. Vijay, film director.
- 20 June â Renedy Singh, footballer.
July to December
- 14 September â Kamya Panjabi, actress.
- 18 September â Vinay Rai, actor.
- 27 September â B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 7 October â Narain, actor.
- 23 October â Prabhas, actor.
- 4 November â Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
- 7 November â Raima Sen, actress
- 18 November â Neeti Mohan, singer
- 20 November Shalini, actress and child artist.
- 3 December Konkona Sen Sharma, actress
- 14 December â Samit Basu, novelist.
- 30 December Kausalya, actress.
Deaths
- 9 February â Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
- 19 May â Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).
- 18 August â Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
- 3 December â Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
- 8 October â Jayaprakash Narayan, political activist (b. 1902)
- 20 October â D.K.Sapru, character actor. (b. 1916).
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