Year (''' MDCCLXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 5 - Stephen Decatur , American naval officer (d. 1820 )
- January 18 - Peter Roget , British lexicographer (d. 1869 )
- March 6 - Antoine-Henri Jomini , French General (d. 1869)
- March 15 - William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (d. 1848 )
- May 28 - Thomas Moore , Irish poet (d. 1852 )
- August 1 - Francis Scott Key , American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843 )
- August 20 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Swedish chemist (d. 1848 )
- August 29 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres , Painter
- November 14 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger , Danish poet (d. 1850 )
- ''date unknown'' - Giacomo Beltrami , Italian explorer (d. 1855 )
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- January 3 - Claude Bourgelat , French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712 )
- January 20 - David Garrick , English actor (b. 1717 )
- January 22 - Jeremiah Dixon , English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733 )
- February 7 - William Boyce , English composer (b. 1711 )
- February 14 - James Cook , British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728 )
- February 24 - Paul Daniel Longolius , German encylopedist (b. 1704 )
- April 24 - Eleazar Wheelock , American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711 )
- May 3 - John Winthrop , American astronomer (b. 1714 )
- June 7 - William Warburton , English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698 )
- September 12 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple , English politician (b. 1711 )
- October 11 - Kazimierz Pułaski , Veteran commander of Polish, Russian, and American troops (b. 1745 )
- November 16 - Pehr Kalm , Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716 )
- December 6 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , French painter (b. 1699 )
- December 8 - Nathan Alcock , English physician (b. 1707 )
- December 16 - Emperor Go-Momozono Of Japan (b. 1758 )
- December 17 - Giuseppe Carcani , Italian composer (b. ? 1703 )
- December 23 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl Of Bristol , British admiral and politician (b. 1724 )
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