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each month throughout the year.

January

Candis "Candy" Loving (born September 4, 1956) is an American model. She was 's Playmate of the Month for the January 1979 issue, which made her Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate. Her

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was photographed by

Dwight Hooker Dwight Hooker (June 22, 1928 – January 3, 2015) was an American photographer and architect. He was best known as a photographer for ''Playboy'' magazine and has been described as one of the masters of "the sensual and the erotic", along with ph ...

February

Lee Ann Michelle (born 17 March 1960) is an English model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the February 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by

Mario Casilli Mario Anthony Casilli (January 22, 1931 – April 25, 2002) was an American photographer. Among other assignments, he worked for Playboy magazine between 1957 and 1996 and his first photoshoot there was of Jacquelyn Prescott, as Playmate of t ...

March

Denise McConnell (born December 23, 1958) is an American model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Nicholas DeSciose and

Pompeo Posar Pompeo Posar (; February 21, 1921 – April 5, 2004) was a ''Playboy'' magazine staff photographer who photographed many centerfold features and accompanying pictures of women featured as playmate of the month. Notably, he was responsible for th ...

April

Amanda "Missy" Hodges Cleveland (December 25, 1959 – August 14, 2001) was an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1979 issue. Her centrefold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Cleveland was born in

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and attended

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and McClure Academy. She came to the magazine's attention through its 25th Anniversary Great Playmate Hunt. Her death, which resulted from side effects of a prescription drug, occurred the year she would have reached the age of 42. She was a property manager.

May

Michele Drake (born February 7, 1958) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1979 issue and a member of Playboy's vocal group, The Singing Playmates.

June

Louann Fernald (born October 23, 1957) is an American lawyer and former model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.

July

Dorothy Mays (born July 24, 1957) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by

Richard Fegley Leon Richard Fegley (November 29, 1936 – September 15, 2001) was an American photographer who worked for ''Playboy'' magazine for 30 years. Fegley started taking photos during a stint in the United States Air Force and eventually attended the ...

August

Dorothy Stratten (February 28, 1960 – August 14, 1980) was a Canadian model and actress. Stratten found fame as the ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and subsequently

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for 1980. Stratten is remembered for the circumstances of her murder at age 20 by her estranged husband, an act that was the basis of two motion pictures.

September

Vicki McCarty Iovine (born Vicki Ann McCarty; January 13, 1954) is an American model, writer, and lawyer. She is a former member of the board of directors of the

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, as well as a former television producer and radio talk show host. She was ''

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for its September 1979 issue and was photographed by

Arny Freytag Arny Freytag (born April 12, 1950) is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for ''Playboy'' magazine in 1976 and at one time was one of only two photographers who produced the ''Playboy'' centerfold pho ...

. She is separated from her husband,

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and founder of

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Jimmy Iovine James Iovine ( ; born March 11, 1953) is an American entrepreneur, former Music executive, record executive, and media proprietor. He is the co-founder of Interscope Records and became chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, Interscop ...

. They have four children. She has published several books pertaining to pregnancy and parenthood under the brand of Girlfriends' Guides, as well as Best Friends' Guides.

October

Ursula Buchfellner (born 8 June 1961) is a German model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Weissbrich. Buchfellner also was the Playmate for the December 1977 issue of ''Playboy's'' German edition. In her later modeling and acting work, she was sometimes credited as Uschi Buchfellner, Ursula Fellner, Ulla Maris and Ursula Maris. Most of her movie roles were in European B-movies.

November

Sylvie Garant (born September 23, 1957) is a Canadian model. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. She served as hostess for one season of the late 1970s game show '' The $128,000 Question'' and later served as hostess on another Canadian game show, '' The Joke's on Us''.

December

Candace Collins (born May 26, 1957) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its December 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. She was a 9-time cover girl (two US, seven international), and her February 1980 iconic "eyes" cover was chosen as Cover of the Year by Marketing Bestsellers Association. Collins was also a Playboy Bunny at the St. Louis club and Chicago Playboy Bunny of the Year in 1976. The issue Collins appeared in was 410 pages, the largest issue ''Playboy'' ever published. Professionally, she now goes by the name Candace Jordan, as a television host, popular media personality in Chicago, and onetime ''Chicago Tribune'' social columnist. In May 2017, at the age of 59, Collins duplicated her cover along with her cohorts

Kimberley Conrad Kimberley Conrad (; August 6, 1962) is an American model. She was chosen as ''Playboy''s Playmate of the Month in January 1988 and became Playmate of the Year 1989. Conrad was Hugh Hefner's second wife and is mother to two of his four children. N ...

Renee Tenison Reneé Tenison (born December 2, 1968) is an American model, actress, and the first African-American selected to be the ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Year (1990). Personal life and career Tenison was born in Caldwell, Idaho. She has three older ...

, Lisa Matthews, Cathy St. George, Charlotte Kemp, and Monique St. Pierre nearly four decades on.

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