* 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

In the context of pornography, Catharine MacKinnon argued that use of the word acts to reinforce a dehumanisation of women by reducing them to mere body parts ; and in 1979 Andrea Dworkin described the word as reducing women to " the one essential – ' cunt: our essence ... our offence '".

* 1979: Andrea Celeste

* Andrea Centazzo: Environment for Sextet ( 1979, LP, Ictus Records )

The Games have acted as a stepping stone for many of Canada ’ s celebrated athletes, including: Toller Cranston ( 1967 ), Bob Gainey ( 1971 ), Ian Bridge ( 1977 ), Sylvie Daigle ( 1979 ), Catriona LeMay Doan ( 1983 and 1987 ), Bruny Surin ( 1985 ), Marianne Limpert, Annie Pelletier and Anne Montminy ( 1989 ), Hayley Wickenheiser and Marc Gagnon ( 1991 ), Andrea Neil ( 1993 ), Steve Nash ( 1993 ), Maryse Turcotte ( 1995 ), Alexandre Despatie ( 1997 ), Dwayne De Rosario ( 1997 ), Patrice Bernier ( 1997 ), Adam Van Koeverden ( 1997 ), Heather Moyse ( 1997 ), Jeff Francis ( 2001 ), Kara Lang ( 2001 ), Erin McLeod ( 2001 ) Jared Connaughton ( 2005 ), Krista Betts ( 2005 ), Sidney Crosby ( 2003 ), and Steven Stamkos ( 2007 ).

Four assassinations were committed by the PAC: Antonio Santoro, a prison guard accused by the PAC of mistreatment of prisoners ( on June 6, 1978 in Udine ), jeweler Pierluigi Torregiani ( on February 16, 1979 in Milan ), Lino Sabadin, a butcher ( on the same date, near Mestre ), and DIGOS agent Andrea Campagna, who had participated in the first arrests in the Torregiani case ( on April 19, 1979 in Milan ).

Andrea Dewar ( born July 9, 1979 in Pointe-Claire, Quebec ) is a Canadian water polo player.

* Andrea Dworkin ( 1979 ).

In 1979, Andrea Fulton assumed the role of director, which she continues to this day while also playing the role of housekeeper.

John Suchet, a former ITN newscaster, was the presenter of these specials ; he was aided by a team of correspondents including Andrea Catherwood ( who had left ITV News in 2006 ) and Peter Snow, who was an ITN newscaster and correspondent between 1962 and 1979.

* Cleopatra's Daughter by Andrea Ashton ( 1979 ) also tells the story of Cleopatra Selene's early life.

* Andrea Righi ( b. 1979 ), Italian freestyle swimmer

* 1979 – Marco Bonura, Italian footballer

* 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Paolo Ginestra, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Nicola Campedelli, Italian footballer

* 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer

* 1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver

* 1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer

* 1884 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

This was one of several contributing factors in ending the covert relationship that the Italian Communist Party had with the KGB culminating with a total break in 1979.

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

* 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer

* December 3 – Nino Rota, Italian composer ( d. 1979 )

* February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1979 )

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

With the demolition of the Masséna Casino in 1979, the Place Masséna became more spacious and less dense and is now bordered by red ochre buildings of Italian architecture.

If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Since 1979 Clarksburg has hosted the annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival held during Labor Day weekend.