* 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 1979 she had a son, Barnabé Nuytten with cinematographer Bruno Nuytten.

The Quay Brothers ' works ( 1979 – present ) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work.

The first restriction on the geometry of a moduli space was found in 1979 by Bruno Zumino and published in the article Supersymmetry and Kähler Manifolds.

* Secretary: Mario Pannunzio ( 1956 – 1959 ), Leopoldo Piccardi ( 1959 – 1962 ), Bruno Villabruna ( 1962 – 1963 ), Marco Pannella ( 1963 – 1967 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1967 – 1968 ), Mauro Mellini ( 1968 – 1969 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1969 – 1970 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1970 – 1971 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1971 – 1973 ), Giulio Ercolessi ( 1973 – 1974 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1974 – 1976 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1976 – 1978 ), Jean Fabre ( 1978 – 1979 ), Giuseppe Rippa ( 1979 – 1980 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1980 – 1981 ), Marco Pannella ( 1981 – 1983 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1983 – 1984 ), Giovanni Negri ( 1984 – 1988 ), Sergio Stanzani ( 1988 – 1989 )

While there, in February 1979 he met Bruno Salvadori, leader of the Valdotanian Union.

* President: Oronzo Reale ( 1965 – 1975 ), Ugo La Malfa ( 1975 – 1979 ), Bruno Visentini ( 1979 – 1992 ), Guglielmo Negri ( 1995 – 2000 ), Giorgio La Malfa ( 2001 – 2006 )

Fane Flaws was guitarist and Bruno Lawrence was drummer for Blerta ( 1971 – 1975 ); Flaws and Lawrence then went on to form The Spats ( 1977 – 1979 ) with Tony Backhouse on guitar and Peter Dasent on keyboards.

* Salvatore Bruno ( born 1979 ), Italian football ( soccer ) striker

During his life Naudé received several honors, including the Bruno Kreisky Award ( Germany, 1979 ), the Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award ( USA, 1984 ), the African American Institute Award ( USA, 1985 ), Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award ( USA, 1985 ), the Swedish Labour Movement Award ( Sweden, 1988 ), the Order of Oranje-Nassau ( Netherlands, 1995 ), Order for Meritorious Service ( Gold ) ( South Africa, 1997 ), and the Order of Merit ( Germany, 1999 ).

* Latour, Bruno and Steve Woolgar ( 1979 ).

In 1979 he received the Bruno Kreysky Award for peace and freedom, Vienna, Austria, the Plaque for Peace and Freedom of the Nicaraguan People, San Francisco, United States of America, 1980 ; the Letter of Brotherhood of the Piarist Society, Managua, 1980 ; the Venezuelan Order of Francisco Miranda, 1981 ; the Distinction of Loyalty to the Pope, the Church and the Nicaraguan People, Central of Nicaraguan Workers ( CTN ), 1982.

After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, he emigrated to the Soviet Union and to Austria, where he received Austrian citizenship under Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.

Several months before the release of Breakin < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, Adolfo " Shabba Doo " Quiñones, Michael " Boogaloo Shrimp " Chambers, Bruno Pop N ' Taco ' Falcon, Timothy Solomon and Ana ' Lollipop ' Sanchez were all prominently featured in the music video for Chaka Khan's remake of the 1979 Prince song " I Feel for You ".

In 1979 KCSM accepted the generous trade of KDTV San Francisco's full-power color facilities and moved to channel 60 atop San Bruno Mountain's Radio Peak.

It was founded in 1979 by Bruno Bassi and is currently headquartered in Irvine, California, USA.

* 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.