* 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

* Carson, Tom ( 1979 ).

Bob Carolgees made his debut in early 1979, having been told to go on the programme by Irish comic Frank Carson.

Schallert played the role of Carson Drew in the television series The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries ( 1977 – 1979 ), featuring Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew.

* Willie Carson – Tartan Pimpernel ( 1977 ), The Dancer ( 1979 ), Satinette ( 1983 ), Majmu ( 1990 )

Carson Hilton Palmer ( born December 27, 1979 ) is an American football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League ( NFL ).

Bryan Namoff ( born May 28, 1979 in Carson City, Nevada ) is a retired American soccer player who last played for D. C. United in Major League Soccer.

* Carson, Ada Lou and Herbert L. Carson, " Royall Tyler ," Twayne Publishers: 1979.

Edgar Buchanan ( March 20, 1903April 4, 1979 ) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.

* 1979: Fellowship of Australian Writers, Qld ( FAWQ ), R. Carson Gold Award for The Snake and Bad Tom

They appeared on 400 national television shows in the US, including The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Red Skelton Show, The Muppet Show ( 1979 ), and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

It has hosted many concerts ( including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, and John Denver ), several NCAA championship events including an NCAA men's basketball tournament regional and the NCAA men's gymnastics finals, and the 1979 Missouri Valley Conference men's basketball tournament title game.

Horacio Ramírez ( born November 24, 1979 in Carson, California ) is an American baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs.

In 1979, after some protracted negotiations, National Kinney attempted to purchase The Aladdin hotel and casino in Las Vegas in a joint venture with Johnny Carson, planning to rename it after the star.

The pitching staff was phenomenal, with four pitchers winning six Cy Young Awards ( Mike Cuellar in 1969 ; Jim Palmer in 1973, 1975, and 1976 ; Mike Flanagan in 1979 ; and Steve Stone in 1980 ).

Emerson, Lake and Palmer disbanded later in 1979.

Gene Palmer, Randle Walker ; 1971, Mike Buchanan, Lindsey Roberts ; 1972, Rueben Bussey, Bobby Price, Avery Downing ; 1973, Maurice Jones ; 1974, Coach Ben Pannel, Roy Green, Bobby Hunt, Stanley Lawrence ; 1975, James Brack, Bobby Mowrey, Jerry Malone ; 1976, Pres Young, Rex Scroggins, Dick Ford ; 1977, Robert Knight ; 1979, Jackie Walker, Gregg McNeal ; 1980, Windy Haggard, Syd Keasler, Zell Roberts, Wilber Ingram ; 1981, Kenny Rowe, Martin Luther King Jr, Danny Malone ; 1982, Jimmy Killion, Gene Grammer ; 1983, David Powell, Jerry Bunt ; 1984, Doug Floyd, Ken Jones ; 1985, Mike Trice, Scooter Taylor ; 1986, Brian Koechel, Bryon Lawrence ; 1987, Donald Taylor ; 1988, Jimmie Tallant ; 1989, Tommy Roberts ; 1990, Chris Shafer, Larry Gideon ; 1991, Randy Clark, Clifford Shaw ; 1992, Jimmy Lynn Grimes, Ricky Lawrence ; 1993, Linty Ingram ; 1995, Jeff Brownlee, Ron Gideon ; 1996, John Martin ; 1997, Rob Floyd ; 1998, Steve Green, Patrick Gill ; 1999, J. B. Rodgers ; 2000, Les Langley ; 2001, Rodney Flake ; 2002, Donnie Muckleroy

In 1979, Robert Palmer married Susan Eileen Thatcher.

In a 1979 by-election, Palmer was elected to Parliament as the member for Christchurch Central, having stood as the Labour Party candidate.

A more complete English translation, from the original Greek, began in 1979 with a collaboration between G. E. H. Palmer, Kallistos Ware, and Philip Sherrard.

This piece by Anthony was changed to an appendix in the English translation by Palmer, Sherrard and Ware ( 1979, p. 327 ), because of their view that the language and the general idea is not explicitly Christian and may not have been written by Antony

Although he is best known to television audiences as Palmer Cortlandt on the soap opera All My Children ( 1979 – 2010 ), theatre and dance historians remember him as one of Agnes de Mille's leading dancers.

After a few years of almost no work — he once summed up the 1970s as " I cried and did a lot of gardening "-- he was hired in 1979 for his best-known role, self-made millionaire Palmer Cortlandt on ABC's long-running soap opera " All My Children.

* The Companion Guide to South Africa ( 1979 ), with Eve Palmer

In 1979, the Pickles extended their tour to perform at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska, and in 1981 performed a two-month winter run at the Roundhouse Theater in London.

In 1979 the District acquired Palmer Junior College to make Scott Community College a comprehensive institution.

Tom Palmer ( born 27 March 1979 in Harringay, London ) is an English rugby union footballer.