* 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

* 1925 – Jean-Guy Cardinal, Canadian politician ( d. 1979 )

The Four Cardinal Principles ( Chinese: 四项基本原则, pinyin: sì xiàng jīběn yuánzé ) were stated by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and are the four issues for which debate was not allowed within the People's Republic of China.

* Henry VIII ( BBC & Time-Life Films ) ( 1979 ) as Cardinal Wolsey

* Cardinal Agostino Casaroli ( 1914 – 1998 ), Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, Cardinal Secretary of State ( 1979 – 1990 ).

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.

Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, credited Ginzburg, and his 1979 letter, as having been instrumental in the Vatican's decision to open these archives.

He has won many of the big races in Modifieds including the Lancaster 200 ( 1978, 1981 ), Race of Champions ( 1972-Trenton, 1978-Pocono ), the Stafford 200 ( 1978 ), the Trenton Dogleg 200 ( 1979 ), the Thompson 300, the Spring Sizzler ( 1980-Stafford Speedway ), Oswego Classic ( 1981 ), Cardinal Classic ( 1975-Martinsville Speedway ), Oxford 250 ( 1980, 1981 ), as well as many other modified events.

Under head coach Larry Kennan Cardinal fans responded when he delivered a 6-3-2 club in 1979, his first season with the team.

After acquiring the Bailey Drug Company in 1979, it began wholesaling drugs as Cardinal Distribution, Incorporated.

" Cardinal Ratzinger ( who later became Pope Benedict XVI ) credited Ginzburg, and his 1979 letter, as having been instrumental in the Vatican's decision to open these archives.

In 1979 the two countries agreed — via the Act of Montevideo — to allow Pope John Paul II to mediate the dispute through the good offices of Cardinal Antonio Samoré, his special envoy.

The school was named after Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter, Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Toronto since 1979, a strong supporter of education and a distinguished patron of the arts.

Kung was secretly named a Cardinal ( in pectore ) in the consistory of 1979 by Pope John Paul II, while serving a life sentence for counter-revolutionary activities.

He was a member of the Chinese Communist Party from 1937 to 1957, when he was expelled for " rightist views " and from 1979 to 1987, when he was expelled as an opponent of the Four Cardinal Principles by Deng Xiaoping.

In the consistory of June 30, 1979 in Vatican City Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal Priest of the titular church of Mary Immaculate of Tiburtino.

* The Boer War, Thomas Pakenham, Cardinal, 1979, ISBN 0-7474-0976-5

Jean-Marie Villot ( October 11, 1905 – March 9, 1979 ) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Lyon from 1965 to 1967, Prefect of the Congregation for Council from 1967 to 1969, Vatican Secretary of State from 1969 to 1979, and Camerlengo from 1970 to 1979.