* 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

* Christian molina ( born 1979 ), Spanish Director

The Christian Democrat group was the biggest group at formation, but as time wore on it lost support and was the second-biggest group by the time of the 1979 elections.

He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy ( now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.

* 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Jaci Velasquez, American Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer

* 1979 – Christian Jones, Australian race car driver

In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.

* December 12 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer ( d. 1979 )

In his lecture series from 1979 to 1980 Foucault extended his analysis of government to its ' wider sense of techniques and procedures designed to direct the behaviour of men ', which involved a new consideration of the ' examination of conscience ' and confession in early Christian literature.

The birth of the New Christian right, however, is usually traced to a 1979 meeting where televangelist Jerry Falwell was urged to create a " Moral Majority " organization.

The most recent eruption was on " Black Friday " was also the Christian ' Good Friday ' for that year, April 13, 1979.

In August 1979 Norman made his first of his four appearances at the Greenbelt Festival, a British Christian festival of " arts, faith and justice " held annually since 1974, that was held that year in the grounds of Odell Castle in Bedfordshire, Norman took Randy Stonehill with him, and introducing him to his own established audiences.

Greenbelt 1979 attracted 16, 000 people, and made Stonehill " a major Christian Artist in Europe ".

Norman asked the band to replace two songs, had the album mixed and took new photos of the band for the album's cover to replace those he deemed too controversial for the Christian market, and in September 1979, Norman released a test pressing.

In a 1979 interview Norman explained: " I would like the work that I do, and all my artists do, to break down the limited concepts of what Christian music should be and show what it can be and must be if it's ever to reach people like us.

In 1979, under the leadership of Pastor J. D. Langford of the First United Pentecostal Church, the Kennett Christian Academy opened its doors with a student body of sixty.

Otto von Habsburg was Vice President ( 1957 – 1973 ) and President ( 1973 – 2004 ) of the International Paneuropean Union, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria ( CSU ) 1979 – 1999.

He served from 1979 until 1999 as a Member of the European Parliament for the conservative Christian Social Union of Bavaria ( CSU ) party, eventually becoming the senior member of the European Parliament.

Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, in 1979, and then studied under Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer at the L ' Abri community in Huemoz, Switzerland, not far from Lausanne.

Jacquelyn " Jaci " Davette Velasquez ( Spanish Jaci Velásquez, born October 15, 1979 in Houston, Texas ) is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer — in both English and Spanish languages.

From 1979 to 1986, Seibert performed guitar and vocals for a Christian band called Omega Sunrise.

Esping-Andersen ( 1990 ) constructed the welfare regime typology acknowledging the ideational importance and power of the three dominant political movements of the long 20th century in Western Europe and North America, that is Social Democracy, Christian Democracy ( conservatism ) and Liberalism ( Stephens 1979 ; Korpi 1983 ; Van Kersbergen 1995 ; Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser 2011 ).