* 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

* Dinusha Fernando ( born 1979 ), Sri Lankan cricketer

* 1979 – Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer

Also in 1979, she played the title role of Dana Lee, a North Dakota transfer student to L. A .' s San Fernando Valley in CBS's Survival of Dana.

After acquiring Fernando Valenzuela in the summer of 1979, the Dodgers assigned him to the Lodi Dodgers ( now the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes ) of the High-A level California League, where he posted a 1 – 2 record and a 1. 13 ERA in limited action.

In 1979, at the age of 15, Greg Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.

In 1979, the ministry relocated from the San Fernando Valley to a plot of land in Garden Valley, Texas, a crossroads community about west of Lindale, Texas.

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Luigi Longo ( 1946 – 1947 ), Palmiro Togliatti ( 1947 – 1964 ), Pietro Ingrao ( 1964 – 1972 ), Alessandro Natta ( 1972 – 1979 ), Fernando Di Giulio ( 1979 – 1981 ), Giorgio Napolitano ( 1981 – 1986 ), Renato Zangheri ( 1986 – 1990 ), Giulio Quercini ( 1990 – 1992 )

He won 17 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers and was the first of four consecutive Rookies of the Year for the Dodgers from 1979 – ( Steve Howe, Fernando Valenzuela, and Steve Sax were the others ).

Playacar was developed starting in 1979 by Mr. Fernando Barbachano's company: Compania Impulsora Turi ­ stica de Playa del Carmen, S. A., The development was later sold to Aircoa, an American Corporation, which later sold the development to SIDEK of the Martinez Huitron Family and more recently sold to Mr. Ernesto Echeverria.

The island of Fernando Pó had its name Africanized after him to Masie Ngueme Biyogo Island ; upon his overthrow in 1979, its name was again changed to Bioko.

As a four-year-old in 1979, Affirmed started the season with a third place in the Malibu Stakes and a second in the San Fernando Stakes.

* Libertad y Servidumbre en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX: ( los jornaleros utuadeños en vísperas del auge del café ), by Fernando Picó, published by Ediciones Huracan in 1979.

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

* Fernando " Fernandito " Murua-Drums ( 1979 – 2002 ).

1959 – 1979 by Fernando Fratarcangeli ( Coniglio 2005 )

The storyline was adapted from the 1979 memoirs of Fernando Gabeira, former member of revolutionary cell MR-8 and later a journalist and congressman in Brazil's Green Party.

* Dilhara Fernando ( born 1979 ), Sri Lankan cricketer

* Upekha Fernando ( born 1979 ), Sri Lankan cricketer

Bernson and Barbara Klein led the pack of sixteen candidates who in 1979 ran in Los Angeles City Council District 12, in the northwest San Fernando Valley, to succeed retiring Councilman Robert M. Wilkinson.

In 1979, Bueno joined Gerardo Vera's All-Stars, later recording a local hit called " Piel Canela " with Fernando Villalona.