* 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 June 1979 the Misfits performed as openers for The Damned in New York City.

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

**** " City of the Damned " ( with Pat Mills and John Wagner, in # 9-16, 1979 – 1980 )

* Guyana: Cult of the Damned ( 1979 )

In 1979, after a chance meeting with The Damned drummer Rat Scabies, the band toured the UK as the Damned's support act.

Demolition Dancing ( 1994 ) was an album of live tracks recorded in 1979, two of which-" Shakin ' All Over " and " In A Rut "-featured members of The Damned.

* Workhouse Studios ( 14 May 1979 ): The Damned and Motörhead record two songs (" Over the Top " and " Ballroom Blitz ") for a planned single under the joint moniker " Motördamn ".

He was first active as a member of the Australian punk band The Saints ( playing on their second and third albums Eternally Yours and Prehistoric Sounds ) before joining British group The Damned and playing on Machine Gun Etiquette ( 1979 ).

* " Plan 9 Channel 7 ", a song on the 1979 album Machine Gun Etiquette by punk group The Damned

" Smash It Up " is a song by The Damned, released as a single in 1979.

In 1979 the song was covered by two bands, The Rezillos and The Damned.

* The Damned b-side of the single " Just Can't Be Happy Today " from Machine Gun Etiquette ( 1979 ) ( Lemmy of Motorhead on bass.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

Emlyn Williams was cast as Caligula in the never-completed 1937 film I, Claudius, and Courtney Love appeared as Caligula in a fake trailer for Gore Vidal's Caligula, ostensibly a remake of the 1979 film, but actually a parodic short film by conceptual artist Francesco Vezzoli.

With the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1974, the new Marxist government arrested Abuna Theophilos and secretly executed him in 1979.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

Even heavy metal music group Kiss jumped in with " I Was Made For Lovin ' You " ( 1979 ).

Of country music artists, Connie Smith covered Andy Gibb's " I Just Want to Be Your Everything " in 1977, Bill Anderson did " Double S " in 1978, and Ronnie Milsap covered Tommy Tucker's " High Heel Sneakers " in 1979.

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Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work ; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying " Once I stepped back, I liked the view " and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.

Will Jordan portrayed Sullivan in the films I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Buddy Holly Story, The Doors, Mr. Saturday Night, Down with Love, and in the 1979 TV movie Elvis.

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Gloria Gaynor ( born September 7, 1949 ) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits ; " I Will Survive " ( Hot 100 number 1, 1979 ), " Never Can Say Goodbye " ( Hot 100 number 9, 1974 ), " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )" ( Hot 100 number 42, 1980 ) and " I Am What I Am " ( R & B number 82, 1983 ).

In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right which contained her next disco hit, " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )", which featured Doc Severinsen of The Tonight Show fame, on trumpet solo.