* 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

A memorial plaque in Ashdown Forest, unveiled by Christopher Robin in 1979, commemorates the work of A.

The sci-fi sitcom Mork & Mindy also based a 1979 episode around the Denver Broncos cheerleaders with Mork ( Robin Williams ) trying out for the squad.

Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).

Robin Miriam Carlsson ( born 12 June 1979 ), better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist.

* Lewis, Robin Jared, E. M. Forster's Passages to India, Columbia University Press, New York, 1979.

* The Wicker Man ( 1979 ) – co-written with Robin Hardy, based on Shaffer's screenplay

Bob Clark's Sherlock Holmes mystery Murder by Decree was released in 1979 with " Duke of Clarence ( Eddy )" played by Robin Marshall.

Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie ( bass guitar ), both from Grangemouth, Scotland, formed the band in 1979.

In 1979, Robin Zander was informally approached to join British glam rockers Sweet after the departure of singer Brian Connolly.

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 ').

The bacterium had also been observed in 1979, by Australian pathologist Robin Warren, who did further research on it with Australian physician Barry Marshall beginning in 1981.

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.

Adapted from his novels for the BBC, this programme ran until 1979, and featured Liz Smith, Robin Bailey, John Comer and a young Stephen Rea.

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

* Robin Roberts, newscaster ( Pass Christian High School, Mississippi, Class of 1979 )

* Detective Comics ( Elongated Man ) # 426, 430, 436, 449 ( 1972 – 75 ); ( Batman ) # 457 ( 1976 ); ( Human Target ) # 484, 486, 493 ( 1979 – 80 ); ( Batgirl ) # 487 ( 1979 ); ( Batman and Robin ) # 500 ( 1981 )

He is mostly known for his " tough guy " and " geezer " roles, beginning with that of Carlin in the 1979 film Scum and as Will Scarlet in the cult television adventure series Robin of Sherwood.

* Robin Blackburn " A Fabian at the End of His Tether " ( New Statesman 14 December 1979, reprinted in Stephen Howe ( ed ) Lines of Dissent: Writings from the New Statesman 1913-88 London: Verso, 1988, pp284 – 96

Dimbleby anchored his first General Election Night results programme for the BBC in 1979, when he presented alongside Bob McKenzie, David Butler, Sir Robin Day, and Angela Rippon.

In 1979, just as Courtney was involved in a storyline involving a psychotic twin sister, Maggie, Robin Strasser joined the cast as Dorian Lord.

John Robin Warren AC ( born 11 June 1937 in Adelaide ) is an Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.

Sphinx is a 1979 novel by Robin Cook.

* The White Robin – 1979