1979 in England

Events from 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

 * 20 March – Freema Agyeman, actress
 * 10 April – Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer

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)