* 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 Sonia brought a High Court action against Harrison who had in the meantime transferred 75 % of the company's voting stock to himself and had dissipated much of the value of the company.

* Cumbolo produced by Sonia Pottinger ( 1979 ), Virgin / Front Line

* International Herb produced by Sonia Pottinger ( 1979 ), High Note / Virgin

* 1979 in art-Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Delaunay

* Clarke, Sonia The Invasion of Zululand, Johannesburg, 1979.

* Sonia Sotomayor ( 1979 – 1984 ): Current Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Sonia Delaunay ( nėe Terk, November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979 ) was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes.

Sonia Delaunay died December 5, 1979, in Paris, aged 94.

* Castel, Albert E., The Presidency of Andrew Johnson ( 1979 ).

* When a Stranger Calls ( 1979 ) – Jill Johnson

In the chapter on Vietnam in The Frightened Country, his 1979 book on Australian foreign policy, Renouf bluntly suggested that Holt was in effect " seduced " by Johnson, and notes that the Johnson administration criticized the Holt government for not doing enough and repeatedly pressured Australia to increase its troop commitment in Vietnam.

In 1979, Gebhard ( with Alan B. Johnson ) published The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations of the 1938 – 1963 Interviews Conducted by the Institute for Sex Research.

In a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.

* 1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player

In Homosexuality in Perspective, published in 1979, Masters and Johnson viewed homosexuality as the result of blocks that prevented the learning that facilitated heterosexual responsiveness, and described a study of 54 gay men who were dissatisfied with their sexual orientation.

* 1979 – Casey Johnson, American model, actress, and author ( d. 2010 )

* 101 California Street, San Francisco, California ( Johnson / Burgee Architects ; 1979 – 1982 )

* Benita Johnson ( born 1979 ), Australian distance runner

In the 1979 NBA Draft, Los Angeles selected point guard Magic Johnson from Michigan State with the first overall pick.

McGeorge " Mac " Bundy ( March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996 ) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979.

Herschel Walker, a Johnson County native, played on the county's only state championship football team in 1979.

" The unsolved case of a mysterious object impacting a county sheriff's car on August 27, 1979 was featured ( see Val Johnson Incident ).

The Furnace Covered Bridge No. 11, Johnson Covered Bridge No. 28, Lawrence L. Knoebel Covered Bridge, Davis Covered Bridge, Kreigbaum Covered Bridge, Richards Covered Bridge, and Parr's Mill Covered Bridge No. 10 were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Norris Johnson, after investigating a panic at a 1979 Who concert concluded that the crowd was composed of many small groups of people mostly trying to help each other.

Big Joe Duskin displayed on his 1979 album, Cincinnati Stomp, a command of piano blues and boogie-woogie, which he had absorbed at first hand in the 1940s from Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson.

Previously, Johnson worked with Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, co-writing the songs " Blind Love " and " Can't Take It with You " with Dickie Betts, which appeared on their 1979 album, Enlightened Rogues.

By 1979, Johnson had become world champion by defeating Parlov, and Saad Muhammad felt he deserved a chance at the world title.

Other notable ( recording / touring ) project involvements are: ( 1979 ) Jeff Beck, ( 1979 ) Ron Wood's New Barbarians, ( 1981, 1983, 1990 ) Clarke / Duke Project with George Duke, ( 1984 ) with Miroslav Vitouš, ( 1989 ) Animal Logic with Stewart Copeland, ( 1993 – 94 ), A group with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee & Deron Johnson, ( 1995 ) The Rite of Strings with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and ( 1999 ) Vertu ’ with Lenny White and Richie Kotzen.

After the 1979 – 80 season, he was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics for Dennis Johnson where he played one season before heading to the New York Knicks.

* Guyana: Crime of the Century aka Guyana: Cult of the Damned ( 1979 )-Fictionalized exploitation film ( Depicted as " Reverend James Johnson ")