* 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 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer

On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel ( born 1938 ) and Philippe ( 1940 – 1979 ).

Amélie Simone Mauresmo ; ( born 5 July 1979 ) is a French former professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1.

They had three children: Aaron David ( 1977 ), Daniel Robert ( 1979 ) and Laura Simone ( 1983 ).

* 1979 – Marco Bonura, Italian footballer

* 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Paolo Ginestra, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Nicola Campedelli, Italian footballer

* 1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer

* 1979 – Valerio Scassellati, Italian race car driver

* 1884 – Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player

This was one of several contributing factors in ending the covert relationship that the Italian Communist Party had with the KGB culminating with a total break in 1979.

Although there are many descriptions of people becoming dizzy and fainting while taking in Florentine art, especially at the Uffizi, dating from the early 19th century on, the syndrome was only named in 1979, when it was described by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, who observed and described more than 100 similar cases among tourists and visitors in Florence.

* 1979 – Salvatore Mastronunzio, Italian footballer

* December 3 – Nino Rota, Italian composer ( d. 1979 )

* February 26 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1979 )

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

With the demolition of the Masséna Casino in 1979, the Place Masséna became more spacious and less dense and is now bordered by red ochre buildings of Italian architecture.

If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Since 1979 Clarksburg has hosted the annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival held during Labor Day weekend.