* 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

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

* Bornat, Richard, Understanding and Writing Compilers: A Do It Yourself Guide, Macmillan Publishing, 1979.

* Richard F. Lovelace, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism, ( Grand Rapids, Mich .: American University Press, 1979 ), ISBN 0-8028-1750-5

* 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( b. 1902 )

* 1979 — Richard F. Post ( Deputy Associate Director of Magnetic Fusion Energy at UC Lawrence Livermore Laboratories )

* 1947 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor ( d. 1979 )

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

* 1979 – Richard Sims, Zimbabwean cricketer

In 1979 Richard S. Likes filed patent * 4, 307, 343.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

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 ).

* Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979.

They include " Indiscreet ( 1958 ), John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Richard Fleischer's The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Airport ( 1970 ), Woodstock ( 1970 ), Carrie ( 1976 ) and More American Graffiti ( 1979 ).

* 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer

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.

* Buckle, Richard, Diaghilev, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979

* Richard C. Clark, former United States Senator from Iowa, 1973 – 1979

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US president Richard Nixon visited the country in 1972, restoring relations between the two countries, although diplomatic ties were not established until 1979.

* June 28 – Richard Rodgers, American composer ( d. 1979 )

Also, Richard Edwards showed in 1979 that although hierarchy in organisations has remained constant, additional forms of control ( such as technical control via email monitoring, call monitoring ; bureaucratic control via procedures for leave, sickness etc.

Range encoding is an entropy coding method defined by G. Nigel N. Martin in a 1979 paper, which effectively rediscovered the FIFO arithmetic code first introduced by Richard Clark Pasco in 1976.