* 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

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom in 1979.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kiribati from the United Kingdom in 1979.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.

* Panitia Nasional Penyelenggara Peringatan HUT Kemerdekaan RI ke-XXX ( National Committee on 30th Indonesian Independence Anniversary ), 1979, 30 Tahun Indonesia Merdeka ( I: 1945-1949 ) ( 30 Years of Independent Indonesia ( Part I: 1945-1949 ), Tira Pustaka, Jakarta

Two leaders from the opposing parties, the Popular Democratic Party and the Puerto Rican Independence Party, charged that after a December 1979 meeting between the two, the Governor, then considered as a lifelong Republican, began campaigning to deliver the 41 Democratic Party convention votes of the island for President Jimmy Carter ’ s ( D ) nomination for the presidency ( ironically, Carter ’ s opponent for the nomination was Senator Kennedy ).

His speech to the nation on India's Independence Day ( 15 August 1979 ) was very prophetic in which he identified Pakistan's nuclear ambition as a major threat to India.

In 1979 the wing moved to the USS Independence ( CV-62 ), followed by the USS Forrestal ( CV-59 ) from 1986 to 1991.

In 1979, channel 12 moved to its current home on Independence Mall, first in the old Living History Center museum and theatre ( which was also used for Nickelodeon game shows such as Double Dare and the Bill Cosby revival of You Bet Your Life ) before it was transformed into their current building in 1999 as part of the redevelopment of the Independence Mall area.

The Agreement ( signed in December 1979 ) covered the Independence Constitution, pre-independence arrangements, and a ceasefire.

They again modified their name to the current Esteghlal () meaning ' Independence ', after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the club was confiscated by the newly established Islamic government and put under the control of the Physical Education Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (), a governmental organization, and change its name to Esteghlal (), ' Independence ' in Persian.

To confuse matters, self-governing Southern Rhodesia referred to itself simply as " Rhodesia " from 1964 to 1979, and in 1965 issued the Unilateral Declaration of Independence under that name.

* Rhodesia — Unilateral Declaration of Independence, unrecognised state — 1965 – 1979 ( self-declared republic from 1970 );

In January 1979 the HBSSA was granted its Certificate of Independence.

After high school, Billings established his own company ( Energy Research Corp, later Billings Energy Corp ) in his hometown of Provo, Utah, in 1972, which he later moved to Independence, Missouri ( 1979 ), to take advantage of the steady supply of byproduct hydrogen near Kansas City, as well as to be in closer proximity to the hydrogen city he was planning to build in the state of Iowa.

The party was created through a split in the National Progressive Party, which was the first party to rule after Independence in 1979.

Independence Hall was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site on October 24, 1979.

* Independence Day Award ( 1979 )

He followed it with the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of Independence.

Art Finley served as Master of Ceremonies for San Francisco's official celebration of Independence Day for fourteen of the years between 1960 and 1979.