A list of events in 1979 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 11 — Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder is murdered by Kenneth Bianchi.
- 12 — Kenneth Bianchi is apprehended.
- 18 — David Likens died.
- 28 — Akiyoshi Umekawa died.
February[]
- 5 — Nikolay Sakharov died.
- 6 — Mikhail Neznamov is born.
- 23 — Kenneth Williams is born.
- 24 — Anatoly Biryukov died.
March[]
- 9 — John Wayne Gacy's victim, "Body 28" is found.
- 22 — Rudy Bladel is apprehended.
April[]
- 4 — Josephine Whittaker is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe.
- 8 — Alain Lamare is apprehended.
- 9 — Margit Filó died.
- 23 — Lawrence Dalton is apprehended.
May[]
- 4 — Andre Jones is apprehended.
- 11 — Tialda Visser is murdered by Koos Hertogs.
- 12 — Billy Lee Chadd is sentenced to Death.
- 13 — Sid Ahmed Rezala is born.
- 15 — Koos Hertogs's victim, Tialda Visser, is found.
- 16 — Kampatimar Shankariya died.
- 18 — Yegor Khabarov is born.
- 20 — Wesley Brownlee is born.
- 23 — James Miller is apprehended.
- 26 — Laura Sue Benjamin is murdered by Thor Nis Christiansen.
- 28 — Thomas Glen Lundgren is allegedly murdered by William Bonin (suspected victim).
June[]
- 16 — Donald Crisel is murdered by Randy Kraft.
July[]
- 2 — Joe Fischer is apprehended.
- 3 — Kenyel Brown is born.
- 11 — Thor Nis Christiansen is apprehended.
- 24 — Rodney Alcala is apprehended.
August[]
- 16 — John W. Hopkins is apprehended.
- 19 — Vladimir Tretyakov died.
- 29 — William Guatney is apprehended.
September[]
- 8 — Matthew Macon is born.
- 12 — William Dathan Holbert is born.
- 27 — Takeshige Hamada is apprehended.
October[]
- 18 — Mark Martin is born.
- 22 — Angelo Buono is apprehended.
November[]
- 1 — Vladimir Mirgorod is born.
- 7 — Quincy Allen is born.
- 15 — Denis Gorin is born.
- 20 — Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris ("the Toolbox Killers") are apprehended.
December[]
- 4 — Bruce George Peter Lee is apprehended.
- 10 — Álex Maquera Atencio is born.
- 24 — James Vlassakis is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — "Azhakesan" died.
- ? — Peter Barber is apprehended.
- ? — Angelina Barini is born.
- ? — Gennady Barsuk is born.
- ? — Armel Bazonzama is born.
- ? — Yusuf Bilgi is born.
- ? — John Childs is apprehended.
- ? — Manuel Trinidad Cortez is apprehended.
- ? — Roman Emelyantsev is born.
- ? — Andrei Evseev is sentenced to Death.
- ? — Andrei Evseev died.
- ? — Dmitry Farafonov is apprehended.
- ? — Paul Haigh is apprehended.
- ? — Philip Joseph Hughes Jr. is apprehended.
- ? — Hamdi Kayapınar is born.
- ? — Yuri Kurilsky is born.
- ? — Miroslav Lehotský is born.
- ? — Alexander Lobanov is born.
- ? — Lebohang Rantšo is born.
- ? — Shannon Dawn Rayner is born.
- ? — Mikhail Revyakin is apprehended.
- ? — Mikhail Revyakin died.
- ? — Kaisa Vornanen-Karaduman is born.
- ? — Waisale Waqanivalu is born.