* 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

Steiger was married five times: actress Sally Gracie ( 1952 – 1958 ), actress Claire Bloom ( 1959 – 1969 ), Sherry Nelson ( 1973 – 1979 ), Paula Ellis ( 1986 – 1997 ) and actress Joan Benedict Steiger ( married 2000 until his death ).

* Claire Danes ( born 1979 ), American film, television, and theater actress

Later productions were Edith Evans and Friends ( 1974 ); a revival of On Approval ( Frederick Lonsdale ) with Geraldine McEwan and Edward Woodward ( 1975 ); The Circle, with Googie Withers and John McCallum ( 1976 ); Rosmersholm ( Ibsen ) with Claire Bloom and Daniel Massey ( 1977 ); The Millionairess ( Shaw ), with Penelope Keith ; Waters of the Moon again, starring Wendy Hiller and Ingrid Bergman in her last stage role ( both 1978 ); and Keith Michell and Susan Hampshire in The Crucifer of Blood ( 1979 ).

Fanny Létourneau ( born June 24, 1979 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is a Canadian synchronized swimmer, who won the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in the Women's Duet alongside Claire Carver-Dias.

The Swedish pop group, ABBA, appeared on a pre-recorded segment for the show in 1979, when Claire Lindeman and Clare Doggett got to sing " Thank You for the Music " with them in a London recording studio.

* 1979 Claire Ramey ( Turner )

WEAU constructed a weather radar in 1979, the first TV station in the La Crosse / Eau Claire market with its own radar.

There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.

In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

In 1979, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979's remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Rick Schroder playing the role of his adoring son.

The next season, Milwaukee won 95 games and finished second in the East behind the Baltimore Orioles on the strength of their home run power, led by Oglivie ( who led the league in homers in 1980 along with Reggie Jackson ), Cooper, and Thomas ( who hit a then club-record 45 home runs in 1979, since broken by Prince Fielder, who hit 50 homers in 2007 ).

For nearly 50 years, Cooper remained the youngest Oscar nominee in any category, until he was surpassed by Justin Henry's nomination, at age 8, in the Supporting Actor category for Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 ).

* Cooper, Derek ( 1979 ) Road to the Isles: Travellers in the Hebrides 1770-1914.

* Gladys Cooper ( 1979 ), by Sheridan Morley

* New essays on John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism / edited by Wesley E. Cooper, Kai Nielsen, and Steven C. Patten, 1979, Canadian journal of philosophy.

* Deborah Cooper – backing vocals ( 1977 – 1979 )

* Border Cop ( 1979 ) as Frank Cooper

After the 1979 season, Martin got into a fight with marshmallow salesman Joseph Cooper at a hotel in Minneapolis.

* Ross, John R .; & Cooper, William E. ( 1979 ).

She then supervised the scripts of the films The Champ ( 1979 ), The Frisco Kid ( 1979 ), The Hunter ( 1980 ), The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper ( 1981 ), Caveman ( 1981 ), Clue ( 1985 ), Marie ( 1985 ), and No Way Out ( 1987 ).

His wife, Betty Cooper Hearnes, began her own political career as a state representative in 1979, serving until 1988.

* Alice Cooper — July 30, 1977, with The Climax Blues Band and February 19, 1979, with The Babys

* Located in Hollywood's " backyard ", the Coliseum and Sports Arena are frequently used as locations for commercials for numerous national and international companies, television series and major motion pictures including 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, the 2008 video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles, the 2001 film Ali, multiple editions of the Rocky series, the 1974 Alice Cooper film Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper, the 1979 film North Dallas Forty, and the 1980 film Roadie.

One combat pistol drill is the El Presidente drill, developed by Jeff Cooper in the 1970s and published in the January / February 1979 issue of American Handgunner magazine.

Edwards frequently worked with fellow comedian Eric Sykes, acting in the short films written by Sykes, The Plank ( 1967 ) which also starred Tommy Cooper, alongside Arthur Lowe and Ronnie Barker in the remake of The Plank during 1979 and in Rhubarb ( 1969 ), which again featured Sykes.

Glenn Ballard succeeded Mr. Cooper in 1979 when Cooper retired.

* Brothers and Sisters as Suzy Cooper ( 12 episodes, 1979 )

On 9 August 2006, the Daily Telegraph reported that Cooper had written to No 10 saying that some of her constituents were ' appalled ' by the idea that such a divisive figure as Lady Thatcher-who was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990-could be given a state funeral.