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Events from1979 inEngland

• April 23 – Fighting breaks out in London between theAnti-Nazi League and theMetropolitan Police'sSpecial Patrol Group; protesterBlair Peach receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.
• May 8 – Ten shoppers die ina fire at the Woolworths department store inManchester city centre in England.^[1]
• December 4 – The Hastie fire inKingston upon Hull, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt forBruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.

• 18 January – Katie Hooper, synchronised swimmer
• 20 March –Freema Agyeman, actress^[2][3]
• 10 April –Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer^[4]
• 2 December – Gayle Adamson, synchronised swimmer

• 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)

• 1979 in Northern Ireland
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• 1979 in England

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