* 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

Rachael Leigh Cook ( born October 4, 1979 ) is an American actress, model, voice artist and producer, who is best known for her starring role in films She's All That ( 1999 ), Josie and the Pussycats ( 2001 ), and the television series Into the West and Perception, as well as being the voice behind various characters in Robot Chicken and Tifa Lockhart in the English version of Final Fantasy VII.

** 1979: Roman Polanski's film Tess with Nastassja Kinski ( Tess ), Leigh Lawson ( Alec ), and Peter Firth ( Angel ).

Joy Division would make a notable appearance at the Leigh Rock Festival in August 1979.

Janet Leigh ( middle ) with her daughters Kelly ( left ) and Jamie Lee Curtis ( right ) at the National Film Society convention in 1979.

* Rupert William Dudley Leigh, 4th Baron Leigh ( 1908 – 1979 )

He served as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Leigh from 1979 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election.

Christine Leigh Heyrman ( 1984 ) and Christopher Jedrey ( 1979 ) and others have been highly critical of Heimart's interpretation, arguing instead that The First Great Awakening was an essentially conservative movement and a continuation of other, earlier religious traditions.

* Leigh Kenyon ( b. 1979 ), former English footballer

It was developed by marimba player Leigh Howard Stevens during his studies at the Eastman School of Music in the 1970s, and codified in his 1979 book Method of Movement for Marimba.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Button Badge created by Cook ( circa 1979 ) for his band Disque Attack in which he played drums and for whom he was later lead vocalist.

* Leon Cook 1968 – 1979

In 1979, the company paid $ 1 million for Sphinx, a book by Coma author Robin Cook, and purchased The Wolfen, the story of a group of supernatural wolves advancing on New York City.

Cook and Brinkley first met in 1979 when he was modeling ; their paths also crossed a few times after that.

By 1979, the primary group's members were Cenac, Yvette " Lady E " Cook ( who would later marry Cozmo D ), Monique Angevin, and Bob " Chilly B " Crafton ( who would later marry Angevin ).

* James Cook ( American football ) ( 1888 – 1979 ), former NFL player

John Cleese had the opportunity to perform in " two-handers " ( skits for just two performers ) with two of his mentors: Jonathan Miller in 1977 and Peter Cook in 1979.

In 1979 he contested the Edinburgh Central seat for the Scottish Conservatives, but lost to Labour's Robin Cook.

The first school, James Cook Primary School, opened in 1979.

* Cook, Thomas D. and Campbell, Donald T. Quasi-Experimentation: Design & Analysis for Field Settings ( 1979 )

However, Cook and his associates ( Cook, Gruder, Hennigan, & Flay, 1979 ) responded by suggesting that previous studies failed to obtain the sleeper effect because the requirements for a strong test were not met.

* Cook, T. D., Gruder, C. L., Hennigan, K. M., & Flay, B. R., " History of the Sleeper Effect: Some Logical Pitfalls in Accepting the Null Hypothesis ", Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 86, No. 4, ( July 1979 ), pp. 662 – 679.

He starred opposite Barbara Cook in a revival of The King and I at the off-Broadway New York City Center, and in 1979 he was cast in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Month in the Country.

Sphinx is a 1979 novel by Robin Cook.

His father, Norman Cook, played collegiate basketball at the University of Kansas ( 1974 – 76 ) and professionally for the Boston Celtics ( 1979 – 80 ).

In 1979 investigative reporter Roger Cook used the dispute with De Paul to probe into Arden's controversial management style on BBC Radio 4's Checkpoint programme.

The Professionals were formed in 1979 by guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, both formerly of the Sex Pistols.

He was an All-American at Long Beach State, and won the U. S. Amateur in 1979, defeating John Cook.

However RRV was later isolated in humans following a series of epidemic polyarthritis outbreaks in Fiji, Samoa and the Cook Islands, during 1979.

In 1979, Cook produced 15 songs by Roky Erickson and the Aliens, which were released in 1980 on two LPs with different running orders, The Evil One and I Think Of Demons.

Christopher Michael " Chris " Pratt ( born June 21, 1979 ) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Harold Brighton " Bright " Abbott in the television series Everwood, the recurring character Winchester " Ché " Cook in season 4 of The OC, Andy Dwyer in the television series Parks and Recreation and for portraying baseball player Scott Hatteberg in the film Moneyball.