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- For an extensive coverage see 1979 in athletics (track and field)
- March 10 - In an international women's field hockey match at Wembley Stadium,England.England drew 0-0 with Ireland.
- August - The 2nd Women's World Field Hockey Championships was held at Vancouver, Canada with the Netherlands as the champions.
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- For an extensive coverage see 1979 in football (soccer)
Men's professional
Men's amateur
Women's professional
Events
Records
Men's Competition
Women's Competition
General sporting events
- September 7 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
Awards
Births
January
- January 2 — Erick Fornaris, Cuban diver
- January 2 — Hanna Ljungberg, Swedish football (soccer) player
- January 2 — Carla Tagliente, American field hockey striker
- January 3 — Juana Miguelina Gonzalez, Dominican Republic volleyball player
- January 3 — Brooke Morrison, Australian field hockey player
- January 5 — Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian pole vaulter
- January 5 — Masami Tanaka, Japanese breaststroke swimmer
- January 7 — Fabiola Zuluaga, Colombian tennis player
- January 9 — Jenny Johnson, Canadian field hockey midfielder
- January 9 — Kate Wilson-Smith, Australian badminton player
- January 10 — Francesca Piccinini, Italian volleyball player
- January 11 — Olga Jarkova, Russian curler
- January 14 — Whynter Lamarre, Canadian water polo goalie
- January 15 — Marie-Helene Chisholm, Canadian judoka
- January 16 — Helen Grant, English field hockey player
- January 17 — Oleg Lisogor, Ukrainian swimmer
- January 20 — Jérôme Thomas, French boxer
- January 21 — Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
- January 24 — Gregory Berrios, Puerto Rican volleyball player
- January 24 — Amanda Levens, American basketball player
- January 25 — Pi Hongyan, China-born badminton player from France
- January 26 — Joris Keizer, Dutch swimmer
- January 27 — Barbara Schwartz, Austrian tennis player
- January 30 — Luis Amaranto Perea, Colombian football (soccer) defender
- January 30 — Karen Smith, Australian field hockey player
- January 31 — Jenny Wolf, German ice speed skater
February
- February 2 — Fani Halkia, Greek athlete
- February 3 — Isabel Ceballos, Colombian breaststroke swimmer
- February 3 — Vesna Čitaković, Serbian volleyball player
- February 6 — Robyn Kenney, American field hockey midfielder
- February 8 — James Polster, American volleyball player
- February 8 — Adam Trupish, Canadian boxer
- February 9 — Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
- February 9 — Luka Špik, Slovenian rower
- February 10 — Kristen Viikmäe, Estonian football (soccer) striker
- February 11 — Arnaud di Pasquale, French tennis player
- February 13 — Rafael Márquez, Mexican football (soccer) player
- February 15 — Alenka Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
- February 16 — Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcyclist
- February 17 — Cara Black, Zimbabwean tennis player
- February 19 — Sarah Schleper, American alpine skier
- February 20 — Cindy Morgan, Australian field hockey player
- February 21 — Nathalie Dechy, French tennis player
- February 24 — Alexei Kulechov, Russian volleyball player
- February 27 — Anna Vania Mello, Italian volleyball player
- February 28 — Gareth Brooks, New Zealand field hockey player
March
- March 1 — Magui Serna, Spanish tennis player
- March 1 — Khady Yacine Ngom, Senegalese basketball player
- March 2 — Yuri Yatsev, Russian water polo player
- March 4 — Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
- March 7 — Tapio Kangasniemi, Finnish volleyball player
- March 8 — Susanna Garabatos, Spanish freestyle swimmer
- March 10 — Richárd Bodor, Hungarian breaststroke swimmer
- March 10 — Ashley Callus, Australian freestyle swimmer
- March 10 — Johann Le Bihan, French medley swimmer
- March 12 — Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player
- March 12 — Nidia Guenard, Puerto Rican wrestler
- March 13 — Fabio Luiz Magalhães, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- March 13 — Cédric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
- March 14 — Nicolas Anelka, French football (soccer) player
- March 14 — Gao Ling, Chinese female badminton player
- March 14 — Yoko Shibui, Japanese long-distance runner
- March 15 — Rachel Harris, Australian freestyle and medley swimmer
- March 15 — Azelia Liu, Canadian field hockey goalkeeper
- March 16 — Suzie Faulkner, Australian field hockey player
- March 16 — Carolina Torres, Chilean pole vaulter
- March 17 — Florina Herea, Romanian freestyle swimmer
- March 21 — Ben Bishop, Australian field hockey player
- March 22 — Minke Smabers, Dutch field hockey player
- March 23 — Natalya Baranovskaya, Belarusian swimmer
- March 23 — Misty Hyman, American swimmer
- March 25 — Muriel Hurtis, French athlete
- March 26 — Almudena Gallardo, Spanish archer
- March 29 — Daisuke Usami, Japanese volleyball player
April
- April 5 — Emily Halliday, Australian field hockey player
- April 6 — Marcos Costa, Brazilian boxer
- April 6 — Jana Salat, Canadian waterpolo player
- April 7 — Michel Kratochvil, Swiss tennis player
- April 12 — Cezar Bădiţă, Romanian medley swimmer
- April 12 — Mateja Kežman, Serbian football (soccer) player
- April 13 — Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
- April 16 — Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula 1-driver
- April 17 — Daniel Hernandes, Brazilian judoka
- April 18 — Pawina Thongsuk, Thai weightlifter
- April 18 — Ngaire Smith, Australian field hockey player
- April 18 — Zain Wright, Australian field hockey midfielder
- April 19 — Candice Forword, South African field hockey forward
- April 19 — Sarah Price, British backstroke swimmer
- April 21 — Israel Héctor Perez, Argentine featherweight boxer
- April 22 — Tomislav Cosković, Croatian volleyball player
- April 23 — Pavel Abramov, Russian volleyball player
- April 24 — Ronald Brouwer, Dutch field hockey player
- April 27 — Alison Bradley, Canadian softball player
- April 30 — Kip Carpenter, American speed skater
- April 30 — Gerardo Torrado, Mexican football (soccer) player
May
- May 1 — Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
- May 1 — Ann Dow, Canadian water polo player
- May 1 — Lars Berger, Norwegian biathlete
- May 2 — Sumika Minamoto, Japanese freestyle swimmer
- May 5 — Muideen Ganiyu, Nigerian boxer
- May 9 — Rubens Bertogliati, Swiss road cyclist
- May 11 — Javier Bruses, Spanish field hockey goalkeeper
- May 11 — Åsa Sandlund, Swedish freestyle swimmer
- May 15 — Ravi Kahlon, Canadian field hockey player
- May 16 — Jonas Lennart Andersson, Swedish archer
- May 18 — Bruno Bonfim, Brazilian freestyle swimmer
- May 18 — Justin Sheriff, Irish field hockey forward
- May 19 — Diego Forlán, Uruguay football (soccer) player
- May 24 — Tracy McGrady, American NBA player
- May 24 — Natalya Nazarova, Russian athlete
- May 25 — Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby union player
- May 25 — Dragan Zorić, Serbian flatwater canoer
- May 26 — Jonas Reckermann, German beach volleyball player
- May 27 — Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Saudi Arabian athlete
- May 28 — Andrey Mishin, Russian boxer
- May 29 — Angela Platt, Irish field hockey goalkeeper
- May 29 — Tal Stricker, Israeli breaststroke swimmer
- May 29 — Janneke van Tienen, Dutch volleyball player
- May 31 — Said Saif Asaad, Qatari weightlifter
- May 31 — Cassius Duran, Brazilian diver
June
- June 5 — Germán Martínez, Colombian swimmer
- June 6 — Solenne Figues, French swimmer
- June 6 — Lisanne de Roever, Dutch field hockey player
- June 7 — Kevin Hofland, Dutch football (soccer) player
- June 8 — Ruben Houkes, Dutch judoka
- June 11 — Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-born football (soccer) player
- June 11 — Patricia Miranda, US wrestler
- June 15 — Yulia Nesterenko, Belarusian athlete
- June 16 — Hüsnü Koçabas, Dutch boxer
- June 20 — Todd Matthews-Jouda, Sudanese track and field athlete
- June 22 — Joey Cheek, American speed skater
- June 24 — Fanny Letourneau, Canadian synchronised swimmer
- June 27 — Ehud Vaks, Israeli judoka
- June 29 — Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch freestyle swimmer
- June 30 — Ioana Diaconescu, Romanian freestyle swimmer
- June 30 — Geovanni de Jesus, Brazilian marathon runner
July
- July 5 — Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
- July 7 — Alexandra Fouace, French archer
- July 7 — Matias Vila, Argentine field hockey midfielder
- July 8 — Olesya Krasnomovets, Russian athlete
- July 9 — Vyacheslav Shyrshov, Ukrianian freestyle swimmer
- July 9 — Andrea Dewar, Canadian waterpolo player
- July 13 — Saralee Thungthongkam, Thai badminton player
- July 14 — Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
- July 16 — Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer
- July 16 — Kim Rhode, American shooter
- July 17 — Robin Szolkowy, German pair figure skater
- July 17 — Juan Manuel Vivaldi, Argentine field hockey goalkeeper
- July 18 — Aleksandr Varlamov, Belarusian/Russian diver
- July 20 — Gijs Damen, Dutch swimmer
- July 20 — Miklós Fehér, Hungarian football (soccer) player (d. 2004)
- July 20 — David Ortega, Spanish freestyle and backstroke swimmer
- July 20 — Hidde Van Beest, Australian volleyball player
- July 21 — Tine Rasmussen, Danish badminton player
- July 21 — Ingrid Tørlen, Norwegian beach volleyball player
- July 23 — Károly Balzsay, Hungarian boxer
- July 25 — Mylanie Barre, Canadian canoeist
- July 26 — Yuko Sano, Japanese volleyball player
- July 27 — Sergey Dotsenko, Ukrainian boxer
- July 28 — Alena Popchanka, Belarusian freestyle swimmer
- July 31 — Carlos Marchena, Spanish football (soccer) player
August
- August 2 — Thamar Henneken, Dutch freestyle swimmer
- August 5 — Denys Zavhorodniy, Ukrianian freestyle swimmer
- August 8 — William Avery, American basketball player
- August 8 — José Guerra, Cuban diver
- August 8 — Carrie Lightbound, Canadian canoeist
- August 9 — Erin Chan, Canadian synchronised swimmer
- August 12 — Cindy Klassen, Canadian ice speed skater
- August 15 — Kamil Djamaloudinov, Russian boxer
- August 18 — Mia Hagman, Finnish breaststroke swimmer
- August 18 — Colleen Lanne, American freestyle swimmer
- August 21 — Ashley Whitney, American freestyle swimmer
- August 22 — Mia Audina, Indonesia-born badminton player from the Netherlands
- August 23 — Luke Doerner, Australian field hockey player
- August 23 — Kaori Mori, Japanese badminton player
- August 27 — Oliver Kieffer, French volleyball player
- August 28 — Robert Hoyzer, German football (soccer) referee
- August 29 — José Antonio Casilla, Spanish volleyball player
- August 31 — Mark Johnston, Canadian freestyle swimmer
September
- September 2 — Alexander Povetkin, Russian boxer
- September 5 — John Carew, Norwegian football (soccer) player
- September 5 — Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
- September 5 — George O'Callaghan, Irish football (soccer) player
- September 6 — Annika Liebs, German freestyle and backstroke swimmer
- September 6 — Christian Pampel, German volleyball player
- September 12 — Aaron Hopkins, Australian field hockey player
- September 18 — Silvia Muñoz, Spanish field hockey player
- September 19 — Li Wing Mui, Hong Kong badminton player
- September 23 — Kim Un-Chol, North Korean boxer
- September 26 — Jaycie Phelps, US gymnast
- September 26 — Yurendell DeCaster, Dutch baseball player
- September 27 — Shinji Ono, Japanese football (soccer) player
- September 30 — Andy van der Meyde, Dutch football (soccer) player
October
- October 1 — Rudi Johnson, American football player
- October 1 — Lyudmila Kolchanova, Russian long jumper
- October 1 — Walewska Oliveira, Brazilian volleyball player
- October 1 — Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby player
- October 6 — Kohei Kawamoto, Japanese butterfly swimmer
- October 7 — Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
- October 16 — Michal Tabara, Czech tennis player
- October 17 — Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish Formula 1-driver
- October 19 — Sachiko Sugiyama, Japanese volleyball player
- October 20 — Tim Neesham, Australian water polo player
- October 20 — Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
- October 23 — Simon Davies, Welsh football (soccer) player
- October 24 — Larisa Lăcustă, Romanian breaststroke and freestyle swimmer
- October 25 — Thomas Ereu, Venezuelan volleyball player
- October 31 — Simão Sabrosa, Portuguese football (soccer) player
November
- November 1 — Ursula Ditton, Australian field hockey player
- November 3 — Pablo Aimar, Argentinian football (soccer) player
- November 4 — Lazarus Barla, Indian field hockey defender
- November 10 — Petra Banović, Croatian freestyle and medley swimmer
- November 11 — María Jesús Rosa, Spanish field hockey goalkeeper
- November 13 — Ron Artest, American NBA player
- November 14 — Osleidys Menéndez, Cuban athlete
- November 17 — Nehomar Cermeño, Venezuelan bantamweight boxer
- November 20 — Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russian athlete
- November 20 — Silvijo Petriško, Croatian coxswain
- November 21 — Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player
- November 28 — Thomas Lurz, German long distance swimmer
- November 29 — Michael Lamey, Dutch football (soccer) player
- November 30 — Roxana Preussler, Argentine long-distance runner
December
- December 2 — Teo Edo, Spanish long-distance freestyle swimmer
- December 2 — Abdul Razzaq, Pakistani cricketer
- December 3 — Rodrigo Garza, Spanish field hockey player
- December 5 — Khumiso Ikgopoleng, Botswanan boxer
- December 7 — Nigella Saunders, Jamaican badminton player
- December 8 — Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish football (soccer) player
- December 11 — Fernando Oscaris, Argentine field hockey defender
- December 12 — Darren Mew, British breaststroke swimmer
- December 12 — Razundara Tjikuzu, Namibian football (soccer) player
- December 13 — Norman Schuster, German boxer
- December 14 — Michael Owen, English football player
- December 16 — Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
- December 17 — Charlotte Edwards, English cricketer
- December 17 — Thum Ping Tjin, Singaporean swimmer
- December 20 — Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist
- December 21 — Stephen Lambert, Australian field hockey goalkeeper
- December 24 — Lucilla Wright, British field hockey player
- December 25 — Hugo Viart, French freestyle swimmer
- December 26 — Aleksander Rodić, Slovenian football (soccer) player
- December 28 — Fátima Madrid, Spanish freestyle swimmer
- December 30 — Angela Lichty, Canadian softball player
- December 30 — Abi Oyepitan, British athlete
Deaths
- January 7 — Ivan Stedman (83), Australian swimmer (b. 1895)
- February 21 – Glendon Gibbs, Australian cricketer
- March 8 – Gérard Blitz, Belgian swimmer and water polo player (b. 1901)
- April 6 – M Marie Widlow, Hall of Fame softball pitcher
- May 1 – Taisto Mäki, Finnish long-distance runner
- May 31 – Nigel Howard, English cricketer
- June 22 – Louis Chiron (79), Monegasque racing driver
- June 30 – Chris Taylor (29), American freestyle wrestler (b. 1950)
- July 1 — Vsevolod Bobrov (56), Soviet footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1922)
- July 5 – Elizabeth Ryan, tennis player, won nineteen Wimbledon titles
- July 9 – Betty Evans Grayson, Hall of Fame softball pitcher
- July 21 – Sandor Kocsis, Hungarian soccer player
- July 22 – Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer and actor
- August 2 – Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher (1969-1979), plane crash
- August 21 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian soccer player
- August 24 — Bernt Evensen (74), Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1905)
- October 22 – Clint Hodgins, Hall of Fame harness-racing driver
- December 15 – Stan Hack, Major League Baseball player (1932-1947)
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