* 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

Other regular collaborators include actor Robert Silverman, art director Carol Spier, sound editor Bryan Day, film editor Ronald Sanders, his sister, costume designer Denise Cronenberg, and, from 1979 until 1988, cinematographer Mark Irwin.

* 1979 – Mark Twitchell, Canadian murderer

* 1979 – Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor

Milford composed the music for Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it as Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979.

* 1979 – Mark Burrier, American cartoonist

Subsequent ' numerologists ' including Lynn Buess ( 1978 ), Mark Gruner ( 1979 ), Kathleen Roquemore ( 1985 ), and Florence Campbell ( 1983 ), expanded on the use of numerology for assessing major aspects of personality and cyclical patterns in life.

* Girouard, Mark ( 1979 ): Life in the English Country House.

Minnelli was married to Mark Gero, a sculptor and stage manager, from December 4, 1979 until their divorce in January 1992.

Mark joined in 1979.

* Mark Seibold, 4-time World Horseshoe Pitching Champion 1966, 1969, 1979, 1986

* 1979: Apocalypse Now-Walter Murch, Mark Berger, Richard Beggs, Nat Boxer

Former players for the Dutch Masters include Scott Garrelts, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants ( was supposed to pitch the opener in the 1989 World Series, but an earthquake had other ideas ); Mark Scheiwe, drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1979 ( the same year Scott was drafted by the Giants ), but never making it to the big league because of injury ; and Ernie Westfield, who played in the Negro League and still represents them publicly.

* Girouard, Mark, The Victorian Country House ( 1979 ) Yale University Press

Most of its original members, including frontman singer / songwriter John Easdale, and guitarists Mark " Mr. E Boy " Englert and Chris Carter, graduated from Wayne Hills High School in 1979.

In the summer of 1979, Nelson led the latest group of his followers, Roger Gregory, Mark S. Miller and Stuart Greene, to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

As a result, Mark was sometimes called Afghan, a reference to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, sometimes dubbed the " forgotten war ".

1979 Paul Downes, Brian Dunnigan, Mark Fluitt,

In 1979 he portrayed Sir Gawain in Walt Disney's film adaptation of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Unidentified Flying Oddball, directed by Russ Mayberry, and co-starring Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody and Kenneth More.

His most famous adventures feature in a 1979 film The Very Same Munchhausen by Russian director Mark Zakharov, which depicts Münchhausen as a tragic character, struggling against the conformity and hypocrisy of the world around him.

In 1979 Mark Zakharov shot a Russian film, based on a play by Grigori Gorin, The Very Same Munchhausen, relaying the story of the Baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane.

Married to Life magazine photographer John Swope ( 1908 – 1979 ) for more than 35 years, she had a son, photographer Mark Swope, and a daughter Topo ( born 1948 ), who also became an actress.

By 1979, Phil Gould and Mark King were both based in London and became involved in Robin Scott's pop project M ( Gould played on the US number one single ' Pop Muzik ').

In late 1979, Phil Gould introduced Mark King and Mike Lindup to each other, and all of them began playing together in loose rehearsal sessions, developing their own jazz-funk fusion style.

Mark I models featured a range of four-cylinder engines with displacements from 1. 1 to 1. 6 L ( 1. 7 L in North America ( 1975 1. 5L ( 1471 ), 1976 – 77 1. 6 L, 1978 1. 5 L ( 1457 ), 1979 – 1981 1. 6 ( 1588 cc ), 1981 1. 7 ( 1715 cc ) USA models ), all featuring a single-overhead camshaft and two valves per cylinder.