* 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

Though covered in 1979 by a new bridge and tons of rip-rap, " Sketoe's hole " remains a local attraction, and was immortalized by Alabama writer Kathryn Tucker Windham in her 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.

* Kathryn E. Granahan née O ' Hay ( 1894 – 1979 ), American Democratic U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 32nd Treasurer of the United States

Kathryn Jane Fletcher ( born 20 December 1979 ) was president of the UK National Union of Students between 2004 and 2006, the first to be elected from a political slate clearly to the left of Labour Students, who had held the position for most of the previous twenty years.

* Kathryn Koob, class of 1960, one of the 52 Americans held hostage in the US Embassy in Iran from November 1979 until January 1981.

* Kathryn Bigelow ( 1979 )-screenwriter, film director, producer and two time Academy Award winner for The Hurt Locker ( 2009 ).

His siblings include: Kathryn Kennedy ( 1897-1974 ) aka Sis Kennedy, who married Joseph O ' Malley ( 1893-1985 ) who was the uncle of Walter Francis O ' Malley ( 1903-1979 ), the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1950 to 1979 ; Mary Frances Kennedy ( 1898-1982 ); Josephine Kennedy ( 1899-1900 ) aka Sarah Kennedy ; Thomas Kennedy ( 1901-1972 ); James Gerard Kennedy I ( 1902-1903 ); and Joseph Kennedy ( 1905-1983 ).

Kathryn Elizabeth “ Katie ” Douglas ( born on May 7, 1979 in Indianapolis, Indiana ) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever in the WNBA.

Kathryn Felicia Day ( born June 28, 1979 ) is an American actress and writer.

Ní Dhoireann credits Kathryn Price NicDhàna with originating the term “ Celtic Reconstructionist ”; however, NicDhàna credits her early use of the term to a simple extrapolation of Margot Adler's use of the term " Pagan Reconstructionists " in the original, 1979 edition of Drawing Down the Moon.

After selling fruit for two vintages to Mount Eden Vineyards in Saratoga, Kathryn established her brand and winery in 1979.

Apocalyptic Spirituality: Treatises and Letters of Lactantius, Adso of Montier-en-Der, Joachim of Fiore, the Franciscan Spirituals, Savonarola ( New York, 1979

It was not until 1988 — with the 1979 to 1987 Lancer now departed — that the Mirage-based Lancer eschewed the Fiore suffix.

Thus, with the rear-wheel drive Lancer as introduced in 1979 and the front-wheel drive Lancer Fiore, Mitsubishi had two similarly sized models competing in the same market segment, sometimes even while sharing the Lancer badge.

* 1979 – Kyle Watson, American mixed martial artist

* 1979 – Corey Patterson, American baseball player

* 1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Barbara Luddy, American actress ( b. 1908 )

* 1979 – Jason Momoa, American actor

* 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Rashard Lewis, American basketball player

* 1979 – Sean Costello, American singer and musician ( d. 2008 )

* 1979 – Carl Edwards, American race car driver

* 1979 – D. J. Houlton, American baseball player

* 1979 – Dave Douglas, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter )

* 1979 – Kelis, American singer-songwriter

* 1979 – Deanna Nolan, American basketball player

* 1979 – Jesse Carmichael, American musician ( Maroon 5 )

* 1979 – Ruth Riley, American basketball player