* 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

* 1915 – Jon Hall, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Jon Leicester, American baseball player

* 1979 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer

* 1979 – Jon Garland, American baseball player

* A 1979 play titled The Biko Inquest, written by Norman Fenton and Jon Blair.

Talbot Jon ( Rushton illustrations only ) ( Kaye And Ward, 1979 )

The New Zealand show A Week Of It ran from 1977 to 1979, hosted by Ken Ellis, and featuring comedians David McPhail, Peter Rowley and Chris McVeigh and comedian / musicians Jon Gadsby and Annie Whittle.

Surf music's " 2nd Wave " began in 1979 with the release of the first Jon & the Nightriders record.

A Certain Sacrifice is the singer Madonna's first movie, made in September 1979, written and directed by Stephen Jon Lewicki.

The books were adapted for radio and television a number of times, most successfully with former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee taking the lead role from 1979 to 1981 on ITV ; originally produced in the UK, but later in New Zealand

Iceland again honored Jon Sigurðsson on its issue marking the independent republic established on 17 June 1944 ( and again on the 150th anniversary of his birth on 17 June 1961 and the centenary of the deaths of Sigurðsson and his wife, Ingibjorg Einarsdóttir, in 1979 ).

The 1979 BBC Television Shakespeare version starred Jon Finch as Henry IV, David Gwillim as Prince Hal, Anthony Quayle as Falstaff and Tim Pigott-Smith as Hotspur.

* Jon Peter Lewis ( born 1979 ), American singer and songwriter

A law in 1921 replaced hanging with the gas chamber, which was used from the 1928 execution of Gee Jon to the 1979 execution of Jesse Bishop, both at Nevada State Prison.

Jon Peter Lewis ( born November 7, 1979, Lincoln, Nebraska ) is an American singer and songwriter, and was one of the finalists on the third season of the reality / talent-search television series American Idol.

* 1979: Jon D. Franklin, Baltimore Evening Sun, for ' Mrs. Kelly's Monster ', " an account of brain surgery.

After a six-month layoff, Pope and Staples rebuilt the band, adding Sharon Smith, Jon Cessine, Bucky Berger, Patricia Cullen and Terry Wilkins to the line-up at various points in 1978 and 1979.

* Jon McGraw ( b. 1979 ), American football player in the National Football League

In 1979, at the age of eleven, Jon attended a Kiss concert with his father.

Formed by Mark Stewart ( lyrics, vocals ), Jon Waddington ( guitar ), Gareth Sager ( guitar ), Simon Underwood ( bass ) and Bruce Smith ( drums, percussion ), they issued their debut single, " She is Beyond Good and Evil " on Radar Records in March 1979.

It was the brain child of the head of Licensing and Business Affairs at Virgin records ( 1979 – 1990 ) – Stephen Navin, and General Manager ( 1983-1988 ) – Jon Webster.

With Herbert von Karajan, he also recorded Fidelio ( opposite Jon Vickers, 1970 ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1978 ), Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1978 ), Parsifal ( with Peter Hofmann, 1979 – 1980 ), Die Zauberflöte ( as Sarastro, 1980 ), and Der fliegende Holländer ( to Dunja Vejzovic's Senta, 1981 – 1983 ), as well as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ( with Janet Perry, 1983 ).

* Culture and Crisis in Britain in the 30s, 1979 ( with Jon Clark, David Margolies and Carole Snee )

Jon Hall ( February 23, 1915 – December 13, 1979 ) was an American film actor best known for playing the title characters in Invisible Agent and The Invisible Man's Revenge.