* 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

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

* Toño or Antonio Rodríguez Martínez ( born 1979 ), Spanish footballer, goalkeeper currently playing for Granada CF

# Pedro Zorrilla Martínez, 1973 – 1979

# Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 1979 – 1985

Gilberto Martínez Vidal ( born October 1, 1979 in Golfito, Costa Rica ) is a Costa Rican footballer.

* Antonio Rodríguez Martínez ( born 1979 ), Spanish footballer for Granada CF

* Eduardo Martínez Somalo ( 5 May 1979 – 23 March 1988 )

* 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish / Basque footballer

The party won 150, 000 votes in the Basque Country ( 15 %) and 22, 000 additional votes in Navarre ( 9 %) in its first Spanish general election in March 1979.

They first stood in 1979 obtaining their best results in the Basque autonomous community where they polled 15 % and won 3 seats.

Goikoetxea also played two games for the Basque Country national football team, in 1979 and 1988.

The 1978 constitution, accepted the particular Basque laws ( fueros ) In 1979 the Statute of Guernica was approved and Biscay, Araba and Gipuzkoa formed the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

This happened in Catalonia in 1978, in the Valencian Community in 1986, with a part of the Basque network in 1979, and with Majorcan Railways in 1994.

They were formed in 1979 in Salvatierra / Agurain, a small town in the Basque Country ( Spain ).

The Basque Government claims it as " the fastest game on Earth ", the record being 302 km / h or 187. 65 mi / h ( José Ramón Areitio at the Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island, USA on 3 August 1979 ).

Of Navarran Basque Carlist aristocracy, Jaime is the fourth of the five sons and one daughter of Amalio de Marichalar y Bruguera, 8th Count of Ripalda, ( Madrid, 13 May 1912-Madrid, 26 December 1979 ) and his wife ( m. Torrecilla de Cameros, La Rioja, 25 July 1957 ) María de la Concepción Sáenz de Tejada y Fernández de Boadilla ( Logroño, La Rioja, 3 January 1929 -).

From 1939 until 16 August 1979, the Basque did not play because of the dictatorship.