* 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

* Karl E. Schedl ( 1898 – 1979 ), Austrian zoologist, scientist ( de )

* Time After Time ( Alexander novel ), a 1979 science fiction novel by Karl Alexander

They only played one concert, at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Cuba on 3 March 1979, as part of the Havana Jam festival.

Between 1977 and 1979, he appeared in Steve Allen's PBS series, Meeting of Minds, portraying Martin Luther and Karl Marx.

Karl Shapiro ( 1913 – 2000 ), Randall Jarrell ( 1914 – 1965 ) and James Dickey ( 1923 – 1997 ) all wrote poetry that sprang from experience of active service. Together with Elizabeth Bishop ( 1911 – 1979 ), Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) and Delmore Schwartz ( 1913 – 1966 ), they formed a generation of poets that in contrast to the preceding generation often wrote in traditional verse forms.

Lieutenant Karl " Quax " Schnörrer ( 22 March 1919 – 25 September 1979 ) was a famous " ace " of the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

* Lee Bartlett, Karl Shapiro: A Descriptive Bibliography 1933-1977 ( New York: Garland, 1979 ).

* Pass the Pipe -- Karl Pitterson & Warrick Lyn production ( Island 1979.

Recorded Live at Karl Marx Theater, La Habana Cuba, March 3, 1979.

It is chaired by the President of the Bundestag ( or one of the Vice Presidents, if the President stands as a candidate-as was the case with Karl Carstens in 1979 ).

This work's importance was not noticed, as J. Trenn editor of the English edition published in 1979 writes, ' Fleck's pioneering monograph was published at almost the same time as Karl Popper's Logik der Forschung.

* 1979: Seasons Change ( Circle Records ( Germany ), with Karl Berger )

* Karl Anton ( 1898 – 1979 ), German film director, screenwriter and producer

In 1979 Brice again played Winnetou in a 14-part TV series called " Mein Freund Winnetou " ( My friend Winnetou – Winnetou le Mescalero ), which did not originate from Karl May material.

It was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a fundamentalist Protestant church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass.

* Weick, Karl E ( 1979 ).

* Karl Marx ( 1979 )

* Braeuer, Walter, „ Knies, Karl “, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 ( 1979 ), pp. 182 ( online copy )

* 1970s: Flemming Pedersen ( 1970 ), Niels Hagenau ( 1971 ), Eigil Nielsen ( 1971 ), Niels Sørensen ( 1974 ), Anders Sørensen ( 1974 ), Karl Aage Skouborg ( 1974 ), Torsten Andersen ( 1977 ), Klaus Nørregaard ( 1977 ), Henrik Agerbeck ( 1978 ), Ole Højgaard ( 1979 ), Finn Laudrup ( 1979 ), Ole Qvist ( 1979 ), Palle Hansen ( 1979 )

* Karl Morgan-American football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Oilers, Saskatchewan Roughriders ; coach, Alcorn State University ( defensive co-ordinator ), University of North Alabama ( defensive co-ordinator ) ( Class of 1979 )

Adam's discography includes Così fan tutte ( 1969 ), Fidelio ( 1969 and 1979 ), Der fliegende Holländer ( with Anja Silja, conducted by Otto Klemperer, 1968 ), Der Freischütz ( 1973 and 1985 ), Hänsel und Gretel ( 1970 ), Leonore ( with Edda Moser and Richard Cassilly, 1976 ), Die Meistersinger ( conducted by von Karajan, 1970 ), Parsifal ( as Amfortas, opposite René Kollo, 1975 ), Der Ring des Nibelungen ( conducted by Karl Böhm, 1966 – 67 ; and by Marek Janowski, 1980 – 1983 ), Tannhäuser ( 1968 – 69 ), Wozzeck ( 1970 and 1973 ), and Die Zauberflöte ( as Sarastro, 1968 ; elsewhere as the Sprecher ).