* 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 – Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer

* 1979 – Daniel Bierofka, German footballer

* 1979 – Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer

Daniel Ortega of the Marxist-Leninist movement called the Sandinista National Liberation Front seized power in Nicaragua in 1979 and faced armed opposition from the Contras supported by the United States.

On July 19, 1979, a new government was proclaimed under a provisional junta headed by 35-year-old Daniel Ortega and including Violeta Chamorro, Pedro's widow.

* 1979 – Daniel Henney, Korean-American model-actor

* 1979 – Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer

In the fall of 1979, at Reagan's request, Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham conceived a concept he called the High Frontier, an idea of strategic defense using ground-and space-based weapons theoretically possible because of emerging technologies.

Early in 1979, Hanks was cast in the lead role of Callimaco in the Riverside Shakespeare Company's production of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Mandrake, directed by Daniel Southern.

In 1979 Daniel Bricklin was using such a device when he decided to attempt to computerize it on the newly introduced personal computers.

Classic examples are The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ), Nosferatu ( 1922 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1939 ), The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1941 ) and the black and white scenes in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker ( 1979 ).

The article was originally published in 1974 in The Philosophical Review, and has been reprinted several times, including in The Mind's I ( edited by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter ), Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology ( edited by Ned Block ), Nagel's Mortal Questions ( 1979 ), The Nature of Mind ( edited by David M. Rosenthal ), and Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings ( edited by David J. Chalmers ).

The theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman, a professor at Princeton University's Department of Psychology, and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically more accurate description of preferences compared to expected utility theory.

* Kahneman, Daniel, and Amos Tversky ( 1979 ) " Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk ", Econometrica, XLVII ( 1979 ), 263-291.

When Dad's Army run ended in 1977, Lowe remained much in demand taking starring roles in television comedies such as Bless Me Father with Daniel Abineri ( 1978 – 81 ) as the mischievous Irish priest Father Charles Clement Duddleswell – quite a departure from the pompous characters that Lowe usually portrayed – and Potter ( 1979 – 80 ), as busybody Redvers Potter.

* Daniel Bălan ( born 1979 ), Romanian football ( soccer ) player

* Daniel Hay Whitehaven an illustrated history, Michael Moon, 1979 ISBN 0-904131-21-1

In 1979 Daniel Brélaz was elected to the National Council as the first Green MP on the national level.

The stat was invented in 1979 by Daniel Okrent.

Lustiger received episcopal consecration on the 8 December 1979 from Cardinal François Marty, with Archbishop Eugène Ernoult of Sens and Bishop Daniel Pézeril serving as co-consecrators.

* Daniel French ( footballer ) ( born 1979 ), English footballer

* Joseph Daniel McCarthy ( US Paralympian ) ( born 1979 ), three time US Paralympic swimmer

* Daniel Singer The Politics and the Pity The Nation, May 12, 1979.