* 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 – 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

** Elena Sanz de Limantour ( 1922 – 1979 ), married in 1949 to Robert Borgs, and had issue:

Hurricane Bob made an appearance in 1979 but was quickly forgotten when Hurricane Elena made her way over the area in 1985 as a Category 3 storm.

* Tropical Storm Elena ( 1979 ), made landfall in Texas as a weak storm, causing $ 10 million in damage and two deaths

Population censuses have been taken in Azerbaijan under Russian / Soviet rule in 1897, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

* 1979 – Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper

* 1903 – Georgy Beriev, Russian aircraft designer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater

* 1900 – Sampson Sievers, Russian priest ( d. 1979 )

* 1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer

* 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast

* Aleksey Kuleshov ( b. 1979 ), a Russian volleyball player

The Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin: 1917 – 1929, 1979

* 1979 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2003 )

** Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer ( d. 1979 )

Peter Carl Fabergé – Goldsmith and Jeweller to the Russian Imperial Court – His Life and Work ( London 1979, Batsfords – later reprints available such as New York, Crescent Books, 1979 )

His most famous adventures feature in a 1979 film The Very Same Munchhausen by Russian director Mark Zakharov, which depicts Münchhausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him.

In 1979 Mark Zakharov shot a Russian film, based on a play by Grigori Gorin, The Very Same Munchhausen, relaying the story of the Baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane.

Robert Philip Hanssen ( born April 18, 1944 ) is a former American Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001.

It was then, in 1979, only three years after joining the FBI, that Hanssen began his career as a Soviet ( and later a Russian ) spy.

* August 18-Anatoly Kuznetsov, Russian dissident novelist ( died 1979 )

Roman Yurievich Lyashenko ( May 2, 1979 – July 6, 2003 ) was a Russian ice hockey player.

* Anastasia Grebenkina ( born 1979 ), Russian ice dancer

The Breslov Research Institute, founded in Jerusalem in 1979, publishes authoritative translations, commentaries and general works on Breslov Hasidut in the major languages spoken by modern-day Jewish communities: English, Hebrew, Spanish and Russian.

* December-Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist ( d. 1979 )

In 1979, on the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the PRC, the government of Deng Xiaoping denounced the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as a national failure ; and, in the 1980s, pursued pragmatic policies such as “ seeking truth from facts ” and the “ Chinese road to socialism ”, which withdrew the PRC from the high-level abstractions of ideology, polemic, and Russian Marxist revisionism ; the Sino-Soviet split had lost some political importance.