* 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 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle ( b. 1900 )

* Yvonne Vendroux ( 1900 – 1979 ), wife of General Charles de Gaulle.

The first female full member was Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat in 1979.

Yvonne Mitchell ( 7 July 1915 – 24 March 1979 ) was an English stage, television, and film actor.

Yvonne Catterfeld ( born 2 December 1979 in Erfurt, Thuringia ) is a German singer, actress and TV host.

Despite the film's poor reputation, its title song was a considerable hit for singer Yvonne Elliman in 1979.

In the second half of 1979, Franchi performed his usual summer circuit, and appeared at Chicago's Mill Run Playhouse ; then back to the Front Row theater for a week with Dana Valery & comedian Mickey ShaughnessyFranchi became estranged from his wife, Yvonne, in 1978, and ( with their children now grown ) he moved back to his Manhattan apartment.

Catterfeld was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, then in East Germany, in 1979.

* 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter

* 1979 – Robert Hoyzer, German football referee

* 1979 – Markus Pröll, German footballer

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

* 1979 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist ( b. 1889 )

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* 1979 – René Renno, German footballer

* 1979 – Daniel Bierofka, German footballer

* 1979 – Andreas Voss, German footballer

* 1979 – Klaus Mainzer, German rugby player

He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha.

Herbert Marcuse (; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979 ) was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

* 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Michael Lorenz, German footballer

* 1979 – Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1904 )

* 1979 – Tim Coly, German rugby player

* 1979 – Friedrich Michau, German rugby player

* 1979 – Lucas Luhr, German race car driver

* 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( b. 1897 )

* 1979 – Bodo Sieber, German rugby player

* 1898 – Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher ( d. 1979 )