* 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

* Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff, by Sean K. Reynolds, included the full text of Gygax's three original 1979 Giant modules and details of eighteen new adventure sites in Geoff, linked together as an integrated campaign.

Sykes was the subject of Thames Television's This Is Your Life, broadcast on 25 December 1979 with guests including Sean Connery, Spike Milligan, Douglas Bader and Hattie Jacques.

* Sean Hopper ( born Sean Thomas Hopper, March 31, 1953, in San Francisco, California ) – keyboards, backing vocals ( 1979 – present )

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

* Sean Wirtz ( born 1979 ), Canadian figure skater

* A young Mycroft Holmes is the protagonist of a mystery-adventure " edited " by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright, Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes ( published in hardcover by Hawthorn Books in 1979 in the U. S. and by JM Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1980 in London ( ISBN 0-460-04483-4 ) and in paperback by Playboy Press in 1980 ).

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

Parts of the film The First Great Train Robbery ( 1979 ) starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland were filmed on the railway near Moate.

As a Northwest League franchise ( dating back to 1979 in Medford, Oregon ), the Canadians have had players such as José Canseco, Pat Britt, Rod Beck, Rickey Henderson, Scott Brosius, Jason Giambi, Tim Hudson, Nick Swisher, Jeremy Brown, Troy Glaus, Sammy Sosa, Jason Windsor, Joe Blanton, Rich Harden, Travis Buck, Sean Triplett, Danny Putnam, Dallas Braden and Miguel Tejada.

* Sean Connaughton, 1979, Secretary of Transportation for the State of Virginia ; former Administrator of the U. S. Maritime Administration

* Sean Mackin ( musician ) ( born 1979 ), American musician for the pop punk band Yellowcard

This was followed by the less successful Hanover Street ( 1979 ) which starred Harrison Ford, and the science fiction cult classic Outland ( 1981 ), which starred Sean Connery in a ' High Noon ' scenario set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons.

Six players have won the Smythe Trophy despite their team failing to win the Memorial Cup: Danny Groulx ( 2002 ), Chris Madden ( 1998 ), Cameron Mann ( 1996 ), Sean McKenna ( 1982 ), Bart Hunter ( 1979 ) and Barry Smith ( 1975 ).

* Sean Wirtz ( born 1979 ), figure skater who has also competed as Sean Kelly

* Highway ( Sean Delaney album ), 1979

The novel was later made into a 1979 film entitled The First Great Train Robbery directed by Crichton starring Sean Connery as Pierce, Donald Sutherland as Agar and Lesley-Anne Down as Miriam.

* Sean Drew ( 1979 – 1983 )

Michael Crichton's 1979 feature film, The First Great Train Robbery, is set in 1855, and includes a scene in which the character Edward Pierce ( portrayed by Sean Connery ) escorts Emily Trent ( Pamela Salem ) on a supposedly romantic ride along Rotten Row.

The band began in 1979 as The Serfers, a four-piece made up of Dan Stuart ( vocals / guitar ), Jack Waterson ( bass ), Van Christian ( drums, later of Naked Prey ) and Sean Nagore ( organ ), quickly replaced by Chris Cacavas.

He acted as music arranger on the Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones films Monty Python's The Life of Brian ( 1979 ) and Time Bandits ( 1981 ), the latter starring Sean Connery, and he also co-wrote the music for the stage musical Spamalot, as well as the music and the intro theme of the British series Captain Star.

Sean Parker ( born 1979 ) is an American entrepreneur who was a co-founder of the file-sharing computer service Napster and the first president of the social networking website Facebook.

She appeared in Starting Over ( 1979 ) which starred Burt Reynolds ; with Sean Connery in Outland ( 1981 ); and with Michael J.