* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Sam Atwell, Australian actor

* 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress

* 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, British financial analyst

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress

* 1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player

* 1979 – Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast

* 1979 – Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer

* 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model

* 1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor

* 1979 – Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American actor and producer

* 1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver

* 1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist ( Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre )

* 1979 – Aaron Paul, American actor

* 1979 – Rusty Smith, American speed skater

* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist

* 1979 – Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer

* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player

* 1979 – Tony Stewart, American football player

Éric Cyr ( born February 11, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Éric Losfeld ( Mouscron, 1922-Paris, 1979 ) was a Belgian-born French publisher who had a reputation for publishing controversial material with his publishing imprint Éditions Le Terrain Vague.

* 1979 – Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario ( b. 1910 )

* 1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer

* 1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer

* 1979 – Rémy Martin, French rugby player

* 1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French race car driver

On 20 September 1979, Dacko, with French support, led a bloodless coup that overthrew Bokassa while he was out of the country.

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

* 1874 – Lucien Démanet, French gymnast ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer

* 1979 – Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer

* 1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver

Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.

* Led by the legendary French Lick standout Larry Bird, Indiana State was the runner-up in the 1979 NCAA Tournament.

* Burge, Tyler ( 1979 ) " Individualism and the Mental ", in French, Uehling, and Wettstein ( eds.

The French automaker Renault began investing in AMC in 1979.

* 1979 – Ludivine Sagnier, French actress

* 1979 – Louis Durey, French composer ( b. 1888 )

* 1979 – Thomas Voeckler, French cyclist

* 1979 – Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player

* 1979 – Anne-Gaëlle Sidot, French tennis player

* 1979 – Sidney Govou, French footballer

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

* I as in Icarus is a 1979 French conspiracy thriller with Yves Montand as an attorney investigating the assassination of the President.