* 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

With Richard Lewontin, Gould wrote an influential 1979 paper entitled, " The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm ", which introduced the architectural term " spandrel " into evolutionary biology.

In 1979, Laguna Beach was described as " a paradise, an inexhaustible source of inspiration " by artist Marco Sassone, one of the many artists who made the " idyllic " town home since the 1920s.

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It is best known for having been an early label of Adam and the Ants, releasing their debut album Dirk Wears White Sox in November 1979 ( which in January 1980 was the first ever Number One on the UK Independent Albums Chart and in February 1981 became a UK Top 20 album ) as well as singles Zerox in June 1979 and Cartrouble in March 1980, the latter being not only a Number One on the UK Independent Singles Chart but also the debut collaboration between Adam Ant and Marco Pirroni following the departure of the original Ants to form Bow Wow Wow.

* Secretary: Mario Pannunzio ( 1956 – 1959 ), Leopoldo Piccardi ( 1959 – 1962 ), Bruno Villabruna ( 1962 – 1963 ), Marco Pannella ( 1963 – 1967 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1967 – 1968 ), Mauro Mellini ( 1968 – 1969 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1969 – 1970 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1970 – 1971 ), Angiolo Bandinelli ( 1971 – 1973 ), Giulio Ercolessi ( 1973 – 1974 ), Gianfranco Spadaccia ( 1974 – 1976 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1976 – 1978 ), Jean Fabre ( 1978 – 1979 ), Giuseppe Rippa ( 1979 – 1980 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1980 – 1981 ), Marco Pannella ( 1981 – 1983 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1983 – 1984 ), Giovanni Negri ( 1984 – 1988 ), Sergio Stanzani ( 1988 – 1989 )

* Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Marco Pannella ( 1976 – 1978 ), Emma Bonino ( 1978 ), Marco Mellini ( 1979 ), Marco Pannella ( 1979 ), Adelaide Aglietta ( 1979 – 1982 ), Emma Bonino ( 1982 – 1983 ), Marco Pannella ( 1983 – 1984 ), Roberto Cicciomessere ( 1984 ), Francesco Rutelli ( 1984 – 1988 ), Giuseppe Calderisi ( 1988 – 1992 ), Marco Pannella ( 1992 – 1994 )

* 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Paolo Ginestra, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Nicola Campedelli, Italian footballer

* 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer

* 1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver

* 1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer

* 1884 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player

This was one of several contributing factors in ending the covert relationship that the Italian Communist Party had with the KGB culminating with a total break in 1979.

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

* 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer

* December 3 – Nino Rota, Italian composer ( d. 1979 )

* February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1979 )

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

With the demolition of the Masséna Casino in 1979, the Place Masséna became more spacious and less dense and is now bordered by red ochre buildings of Italian architecture.

If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Since 1979 Clarksburg has hosted the annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival held during Labor Day weekend.