* 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

* 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike.

* Flash ( pinball ), a 1979 Williams pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie

Only spent time with Sid Vicious ' mother Anne Ritchie, whom he had befriended after Vicious ' death in February 1979.

Sid Vicious ( born John Simon Ritchie ; 10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979 ) was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols.

* There was a Brazilian progressive rock group ( 1974 – 1979 ) called Vímana ( stress on the first syllable ) that, in spite of achieving little success, is particularly interesting because three of its former members later became music stars in Brazil: Lobão ( drummer ), Ritchie ( bassist ), Lulu Santos ( guitarist / vocalist ).

From 1979 to 1984, he was the bassist, lyricist and producer for Ritchie Blackmore's solo band, Rainbow, working on four of the group's studio albums.

Carey died of lung cancer at the age of eighty-three, less than a week after the death of Clint Ritchie, who played Asa's son Clint on One Life to Live from 1979 to 1998.

* Ritchie Neville ( born 1979 ), British boy band singer

Ritchie received the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year award in 1979.

* Axes, Chops & Hot Licks: the Canadian rock music scene by Ritchie York, ( Edmonton AB: Hurtig, 1971, 1979 ) ( ISBN 0-88830-052-2 )

* John Simon Ritchie ( 1957 – 1979 ), English musician better known as Sid Vicious

In the Bill of Rights cases Attorney General of Canada v. Lavell ( 1974 ) and Bliss v. Canada ( 1979 ), Supreme Court Justice Roland Ritchie had said only the application, and not the outcome, of the law must be equal, thereby necessitating an explicit guarantee of equality under the law ; and that legal benefits need not be equal, thereby necessitating an explicit guarantee of equal benefit of the law.

* Ron Ritchie, Progressive Conservative, 1979 – 1980

In 1979, Bonnet was chosen by Ritchie Blackmore to replace Ronnie James Dio as the vocalist of hard rock band Rainbow.

Ritchie Neville ( born Richard Neville Dobson on 23 August 1979 in Solihull, England ) is an English singer most noted for being a member of the successful boyband Five.

Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS ( 26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979 ), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.

Treen's eldest grandson, Jason Stewart Neville ( born May 21, 1979 ), was one of the founding members of the Green Party of Louisiana and ran unsuccessfully in 2003 for the Louisiana State Senate.

She co-founded the fashion house Zambesi with her husband, Neville Findlay, in 1979.

His comedy alter-ego Neville Purvis had his own television show in 1979.

In 1979, at the end of a series of Neville Purvis, he uttered the word " fuck " in the closing credits, being the first person on New Zealand Television to do so.

The Eastern Suburbs Railway was opened on 23 June 1979 by the Premier, Neville Wran.

In 1979, Butler was named the Australian of the Year, jointly with Neville Bonner.

* Richard Neville ( singer ) ( born 1979 ), British singer

In 1979 he appeared in Crown Court as Neville Griffiths QC, prosecuting the daughter of the Selsey family for harming her abusive father.