* 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

* 1904 – Werner Forssmann, German physician Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1979 )

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

Werner Herzog honored the same film in his own version, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ( 1979 ).

* August 29 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1979 )

She then played Lucy in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake of Nosferatu ( 1979 ).

An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder who wanted her to play the lead in his film The Marriage of Maria Braun ( 1979 ).

He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including: Aguirre, the Wrath of God ( 1972 ), Nosferatu the Vampyre ( 1979 ), Woyzeck ( 1979 ), Fitzcarraldo ( 1982 ) and Cobra Verde ( 1987 ).

* Peer Raben – " Dark Chariot " ( Scenes 7 – 9, 12 – 13 ) from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle ( 1982 ) and " Sisyphos At Work " ( Scene 4 ) from Fassbinder's film The Third Generation ( 1979 )

* Werner Forßmann ( 1904 – 1979 ), physician, Nobel Prize for medicine in 1956

Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann ( 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979 ) was a physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine ( with Andre Cournand and Dickinson Richards ) for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization.

* 1979: The party gets back into government after its victory in the 1979 elections ; Pierre Werner becomes PM.

In 1979, Thorn went head-to-head with Werner, with the LSAP serving a supporting role to the DP.

Werner entered the Luxembourg government as Finance Minister in 1953, and was 19th and 21st Prime Minister from 1959 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1984.

* Partners in Hate — Werner Cohn ( includes the text of the petition signed by Chomsky in the fall of 1979 )

* Werner Scheler, Professor, Germany ( 1979 )

* a 1979 movie by Werner Herzog ( Woyzeck )

Werner Herzog's 1979 film Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht was a tribute to F. W.

In 1979 Werner Herzog filmed the movie Woyzeck in Telč.

Weibull died on October 12, 1979 in Annecy, France and is survived by great grandson, Timothy Werner, whose grandmother is Pia Weibull.

Later, Werner Herberg conducted limited surveys around the site in the 1970s, before the Soviet invasion of 1979 once again cut off outside access.

* La Troisième génération ( 1979, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder )-Hilde Krieger