1979 in sports

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Deaths

• February 21 - Glendon Gibbs, Australian cricketer
• April 6 - M Marie Widlow, Hall of Fame softball pitcher
• May 31 - Nigel Howard, English cricketer
• June 22 Louis Chiron, Grand Prix motor racing champion
• July 5 - Elizabeth Ryan, tennis star, won 19 Wimbledon titles
• July 9 - Betty Evans Grayson, Hall of Fame softball pitcher
• July 21 - Sandor Kocsis, Hungarian soccer star
• July 22 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, boxer/actor
• August 2 - Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher (1969-1979), plane crash
• August 21 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian, soccer star
• October 22 - Clint Hodgins, Hall of Fame harness-racing driver
• December 15 - Stan Hack, Major League Baseball player (1932-1947)