* 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

Leading modern poets are Kostis Palamas, and Constantine P. Cavafy, as well as George Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis, winners of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963 and 1979, respectively.

Constantine play a long-suffering anti-organized-crime agent in Walt Disney's caper film The North Avenue Irregulars ( 1979 ), where he appeared alongside Edward Herrmann and Cloris Leachman.

Karamanlis served in New Democracy's organisational and ideological sectors from 1974 to 1979 and from 1984 to 1989.

* 1979 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Since the Mid-Manhattan Expressway that would have connected the route to New York's Interstate 495 ( Long Island Expressway ) was canceled, Interstate 495 officially became New Jersey Route 495 in 1979 with signs being changed in 1989.

IIn 1979, the term was used by Dawkins and Krelos to refer to the exageration of pre-existing signs induced by social parasites, noting the manipulation of baby birds ( hosts ) from these, to illustrate the effectiveness of those signals

Named after Al Pearlman — a Philadelphia Democratic City Councilman at Large elected in 1975, 1979, and 1983 and unsuccessful candidate for a Democratic State Senator nomination in 1982 — its purpose was protest Pearlman's practice of campaigning through wooden signs, nailed to telephone poles far taller than any person and not removed after elections.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

There were impressive indicators of economic growth between 1972 and 1979: the government budget expanded some 540 percent, whereas exports as well as per capita income increased a full 500 percent.

Self-government was achieved in 1979, and full sovereignty in 1986, under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.

In 1979, Gorbachev was promoted to the Politburo, the highest authority in the country, and received full membership in 1980.

Grigorii Permjakov developed the concept of the core set of proverbs that full members of society know, what he called the " paremiological minimum " ( 1979 ).

Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.

As an associated state of the United Kingdom from 1967 to 1979, St. Lucia had full responsibility for internal self-government but left its external affairs and defense responsibilities to the United Kingdom.

This interim arrangement ended on February 22, 1979, when St. Lucia achieved full independence.

In 1979 foreign owners were dispossessed and received compensation from their own governments and a date was set for full independence.

Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar.

Continuing as an analyst until 1979, Smith left the network as the Roone Arledge era was beginning at ABC News and full retirement age approached.

He sold out a fifteen-date UK tour in Spring 2008 during which he performed his 1979 number one album Replicas in full, and all the Replicas-era music including B-sides.

* Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff, by Sean K. Reynolds, included the full text of Gygax's three original 1979 Giant modules and details of eighteen new adventure sites in Geoff, linked together as an integrated campaign.

* Westcott, William Wynn ( 1885 ) Rosicrucian Thoughts on the Ever-Burning Lamps of the Ancients ( pamphlet ) G. Kenning, London ; reprinted in 1979 by David Medina, London, ISBN 0-9505859-2-0 ; see full text from The Alchemy Web Site

The nation gained full independence in 1979.

Chuck Tanner who managed the World Series winning 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates said about James that " He's full of shit, and you be sure to tell him that.

When President Jimmy Carter in 1979 broke off relations with the ROC in order to establish relations with the PRC, Congress responded by passing the Taiwan Relations Act that maintained relations, but stopped short of full recognition of the ROC.

However, she did not decide to stay full time in New York until her marriage to Martin Scorsese ( 1979 – 1982 ).

Israel maintains full diplomatic relations and open borders with two of its Arab neighbours, Egypt and Jordan, after signing peace treaties in 1979 and 1994 respectively.

Israel has full diplomatic relations with Egypt since the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in 1979.

A US adaptation pilot episode called Beane's of Boston aired on 5 May 1979 on CBS, but it didn't make it through a full season.

This led to a videotex system called Captain (" Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information Network "), created by NTT in 1978, which went into full trials from 1979 to 1981.

This act was amended on January 3, 1980 by Public Law 96-184, " The National Capital Transportation Amendment of 1979 " ( also known as the Stark-Harris Act ), which authorized additional funding of $ 1. 7 billion to permit the completion of of the system as provided under the terms of a full funding grant agreement executed with WMATA in July 1986, which required 25 % to be paid from local funds.

Deng promoted Zhao to a position as an alternate member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 1977, and as a full member in 1979.