* 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

Barbara Bray, Vintage Books, 1979

** Barbara Hutton, American socialite ( d. 1979 )

Barbara Harlow ( Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-226-14333-0 ).

* Joey: a Loving Portrait of Alfred Perlès Together With Some Bizarre Episodes Relating to the Opposite Sex, Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1979.

* 1979, Barbara Chase-Riboud's novel Sally Hemings became a bestseller.

The film won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tesich, and also received nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Barbara Barrie ), Best Director ( Peter Yates ), Best Original Song Score / Adaptation ( Patrick Williams ) and Best Picture.

The 1979 movie Harper Valley PTA with Barbara Eden and the 1994 movie Milk Money with Ed Harris and Melanie Griffith were both shot in Lebanon.

They had three daughters: Benita Rosalind Guggenheim ( 1895 – 1927 ), Marguerite " Peggy " Guggenheim ( 1898 – 1979 ) and Barbara Hazel Guggenheim ( 1903 – 1995 ).

Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married Hollywood music director and composer Frederick M. Karger ( 1916 – 1979 ) on November 1, 1952, at El Montecito Presbyterian Church in Santa Barbara.

* Barbara Hoctor ( 1979 – 1980 )

* Melton, J. Gordon, The Encyclopedia of American Religions, from the Institute for the Study of American Religions, POB 90709, Santa Barbara, CA 93190 1979 ( 3rd edition, 1988 ); The Essential New Age, 1990.

Previous MPs for Blackburn include former Labour cabinet minister Barbara Castle, who represented the town in Westminster from 1945 to 1979.

The town is also closely linked to Barbara Castle who was an MP in Blackburn for 34 years ( 1945 – 1979 ) as well as holding the positions of Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Social Services during the Labour governments of the sixties and seventies.

They had twelve children, six boys and six girls: Oliver William Foster ( 1878 – 1955 ), Francis Brodie ( 1880 – 1967 ), Alec ( 1881 – 1938 ), Lionel ( 1883 – 1948 ), Noel ( 1885 – 1962 ), Violet ( 1888 – 1924 ), Raymond ( 1889 – 1915 ), Honor ( 1891 – 1979 ), Lorna ( 1892 – 1987 ), Norah ( 1894 – 1990 ), Barbara ( 1896 – 1983 ), and Rosalynde ( 1896 – 1983 ).

The first nonstop flights from Santa Barbara out of California commenced when United Airlines began nonstop Boeing 727 jet service to Denver in 1979 and to Chicago in 1980.

Joan La Barbara ( born June 8, 1947 in Philadelphia, PA ) is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary musicPool, Jeannie G. ( Jan., 1979 ).

Barbara Walters joined the cast in 1979 as something less than a co-anchor and soon became a regular special contributor in the fall of 1981.

* Barbara Walters ( 1979 – 2004 )

* Kill the Messenger, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.

He was born 8 July 1955, educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, married in 1978 Rachel Caroline Vincent Millett, and has one son and three daughters: Fiona Joan Margaret ( b. 1979 ), Sarah Barbara Sibell ( b. 1981 ), Charles Edward Millett ( b. 1983 ), and Julia Rachel Caroline ( b. 1984 ).

He earned his bachelor's degree in 1977 from the United States Air Force Academy and a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1979 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simon's Chapter Two in 1979 and 1980 and appeared in the West Coast premiere of Forty Deuce in 1985.

* Breaking Away ( 1979 ), Academy Award winner, Best Original Screenplay, directed by Peter Yates, starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, and Hart Bochner

* Barbara Boylan, dancer ( 1961 – 1967, 1979 )