1979 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 1979 in Iceland.
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Incumbents
Events
Births
- 11 February – Hanna Guðrún Stefánsdóttir, handball player
- 26 February – Bjarni Guðjónsson, footballer
- 26 February – Daníel Bjarnason, composer and conductor
- 11 June – Helgi Sveinsson, Paralympian athlete
- 15 July – Edda Garðarsdóttir, footballer
- 28 July – Birgitta Haukdal, singer
- 8 August – Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, handball player.[1]
- 25 October – Björn Thorfinnsson, chess player
- 28 November – Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson, TV and radio show host
Deaths
- 22 February – Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, economist (b. 1880)
gollark: Which isn't a theoretical issue, this sort of thing was (probably still is) literally deployed in shops and stuff.
gollark: I disagree. It prevents you being persistently tracked via WiFi (or, well, makes it harder, there are a number of attacks).
gollark: https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/addressrandomization
gollark: A slight issue with it is that because of some kernel changes which haven't been made because ???, it has to power on/off the wireless card when you change MAC, which takes *multiple* hundreds of milliseconds.
gollark: I also have iwd configured to deterministically use different MAC addresses per network, and I think iOS/Android do similar stuff.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
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