* 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 – 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

Mateja Kežman ( Serbian Cyrillic: Матеја Кежман ; born 12 April 1979 in Belgrade ) is a retired Serbian football striker.

* 1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer

* 1979 – Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player

In Colombia, it was assembled in the actual motor plant of Mazda in Colombia, Compañía Colombiana Automotriz from 1979 to 1982 with 60 % Colombian parts and 40 % Serbian parts ( from the Zastava 750 ).

Despite the facts that a large number of 1960s rock bands, such as Crni Biseri, Daltoni, Elipse, and others performed rhythm and blues, and a large number of 1970s progressive and hard rock bands, such as Pop Mašina, YU grupa, Smak and Riblja Čorba, incorporated blues elemets into their music, the first Serbian blues band, Blues Kvintet, was formed in 1979.

Saint Iustin Popović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Jустин Поповић ) ( 6 April 1894, Vranje-7 April 1979, Ćelije Monastery, Lelić ) was an Eastern Orthodox theologian, archimandrite of the Ćelije Monastery, Dostoyevski scholar, a champion of anti-communism, a writer, and a critic of the pragmatic church ( ecclesiastical ) life.

* Igor Kovačić ( born 1979 ), Serbian canoer

* Dušan Bogdanović ( footballer ) ( b. 1979 ), Serbian footballer

* 1979 – Marco Bonura, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer

* 1979 – Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer

* 1979 – Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer

* Adrian Forbes ( born 1979 ), English footballer

* Adrian Mutu ( born 1979 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Neaga ( born 1979 ), Romanian footballer

* 1979 – Paul Gallacher, Scottish footballer

* 1979 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer

* 1979 – Marlon Harewood, English footballer

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

* 1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer

* 1979 – Matthew Upson, English footballer

* 1979 – Marios Elia, Greek-Cypriot footballer

* 1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer

* 1979 – Zhao Junzhe, Chinese footballer

* 1979 – Tobias Linderoth, Swedish footballer

* 1979 – Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer

* 1979 – Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer

* 1979 – Tim Cahill, Australian footballer

* 1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Gareth McAuley, Irish footballer