* 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

* 1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player

Donald Corey Patterson ( August 13, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia ) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

Corey Antoine Maggette (; born November 12, 1979 ) is an American professional basketball player with the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

It originated in the Patterson stadium also known as " The Sugar Dome " as Dalton Hilliard led the Lumberjacks to the Louisiana State Championship game in 1979 where they lost to John Curtis 28-0. The Lumberjacks went to the Louisiana State Championship game on December 10, 2010, but lost to Parkview Baptist 24-20.

The Patterson Covered Bridge No. 112 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

On June 19, 1979, he lost the North American Championship to Pat Patterson, who unified the title with the fictional " South American Championship " to become the first ever Intercontinental Champion.

Following the title's introduction in 1979, Pat Patterson became the inaugural champion on September 15, 1979.

The inaugural champion was Pat Patterson, who became champion after unifying his North American Championship with a " South American Heavyweight Championship " in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 1979.

Patterson remained on One Life to Live until 1970, when his character Joe Riley was presumed dead ; he returned to the show in 1972 and remained the romantic lead until 1979, when he left due to his unhappiness with the direction the show took after Doris Quinlan left to produce NBC's troubled serial The Doctors.

In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and write Cadillac Desert, which was first published in 1986.

It was only in 1976, under manager Jackie Hutton and his assistant Jackie Patterson, that Cliftonville experienced a " revolution in fortune " which peaked on 28 April 1979 in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park.

* Daniel W. Patterson ( 1979 ), The Shaker Spiritual, Princeton University Press.

The SLOSS debate ensued as to the extent to which smaller reserves shared species with one another, leading to the development of nested subset theory by Bruce Patterson and Wirt Atmar in the 1980s and to the establishment of the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project ( BDFFP ) near Manaus, Brazil in 1979 by Thomas Lovejoy and Richard Bierregaard.

In 1979, Patterson debuted in the then World Wide Wrestling Federation, working as a heel, under the tutelage of manager The Grand Wizard.

In September 1979, Patterson allegedly won a tournament held in Rio de Janeiro, unifying the WWF North American Championship with the South American Championship to create the WWF Intercontinental Championship in the process.

( In later years, Patterson apparently made an inside joke for " smark " fans by wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend " Rio de Janeiro 1979 " while on camera.

Cerner was founded in 1979 by Neal Patterson, Paul Gorup, and Cliff Illig, who were colleagues at Arthur Andersen.

Patterson is best known for his prominent role in the Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence starting in 1979 with the election of Adrian Rogers as Convention President.