* 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

* Greensboro Child, documentary about the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the shadow it cast on the survivors.

A darker racial incident in 1979 was called the Greensboro massacre.

On November 3, 1979, some members of the NSWPP and a Ku Klux Klan group attacked a Communist Workers ' Party protest march in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The firm also won a civil verdict against members of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, and the Greensboro, North Carolina Police Department for the 1979 murder of five anti-Klan demonstrators.

The party is mainly remembered for the Greensboro Massacre of 1979.

The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

On November 3, 1979 a rally and march of industrial workers and Communists was planned in Greensboro against the Ku Klux Klan.

Codename GREENKIL: The 1979 Greensboro Killings.

* Remembering the 1979 Greensboro Massacre 25 years later – Broadcast by Democracy Now!

* Greensboro VOICES Contains oral histories pertaining to November 3, 1979.

In fact, using the techniques of the previous investigators, the FBI matched a gunshot recorded in Greensboro, NC in 1979 with the sound that was supposedly a shot from the grassy knoll-proving that the initial investigation's methods were invalid.

Following the 1979 " Greensboro Massacre " of anti-klan activists in 1979, " a number of previously antagonistic White Supremacist groups, including the Posse Comitatus and various Neo-Nazi and Klan factions, began having discussions about how they could formulate a common ideology.

A USA police Captain Trevor Hampton was involved in an incident at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina in November 1979 in USA :-

The minors returned to Greensboro in 1979, with a new entry in the Western Carolinas League.

Thomas Turner wrote in the late 1990s that .. ' ajor acts of violence, such as the killings that followed the ' Kasongo uprising ' in Bandundu Region in 1978, the killings of diamond miners in Kasai-Oriental Region in 1979, and, more recently, the massacre of students in Lubumbashi in 1990, continued to intimidate the population.

Ali Hassan Salameh (, ) ( 1940 – January 22, 1979 ) was the chief of operations — code name Abu Hassan — for Black September, the organization responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre and other attacks.

By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after food riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.

The two former presidents were later separately charged with mutiny and treason for their roles in the 1979 coup and the 1980 Gwangju massacre.

By January 1979, French support for Bokassa had all but eroded after riots in Bangui led to a massacre of civilians.

Emigration was triggered by such events as the Assyrian Genocide by the Turkish Ottoman Empire during First World War, the Simele massacre in Iraq ( 1933 ), the Islamic revolution in Iran ( 1979 ), Arab Nationalist Baathist policies in Iraq and Syria, the Al-Anfal Campaign of Saddam Hussein, and to some degree Kurdish nationalist policies in northern Iraq.

* ACTRA award for best radio documentary for coverage of the Jonestown massacre, 1979

OMON originated in 1979, when the first group was founded in preparation for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, to ensure that there were no terrorist attacks like the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.

While a prequel, Amityville II contradicts the opening of the 1979 film which shows the family massacre, and like the actual event they are all sleeping.

During the 1970s and the early 1980s, Israel suffered attacks from PLO bases in Lebanon, such as the Avivim school bus massacre in 1970, the Maalot massacre in 1974 ( where Palestinian terrorists massacred 21 school children ) and the attack led by Samir Kuntar in 1979.