* 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 Catterfeld, German singer and actress

* 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.

** Elena Sanz de Limantour ( 1922 – 1979 ), married in 1949 to Robert Borgs, and had issue:

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

* Xavier de le Rue ( born 1979 ), a snowboarder

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

In January 1979 General de Division Boyenge Mosambay Singa was named as both military region commander and Region Commissioner for Shaba.

* 1895 – Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician ( d. 1979 )

Common practice was codified in the de facto standards FORTH-79 and FORTH-83 in the years 1979 and 1983, respectively.

His books included Le Dernier Roman du Monde ( 1971 ), Portrait des 9 ( 1975 ), The Cosmographical Lobster ( 1976 ), Poésie Sonore Internationale ( 1979 ), Les Riches Heures de l ' Alphabet ( 1992 ) and Graphpoemesmachine ( 2006 ).

* 1979 – Leire Martínez, Basque singer-songwriter ( La Oreja de Van Gogh )

* 1979 – Josué Anunciado de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

* 1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet ( d. 1979 )

Notable translations of the New Testament based on these most recent critical editions include the Revised Standard Version ( 1946, revised in 1971 ), La Bible de Jérusalem ( 1961, revised in 1973 and 2000 ), the Einheitsübersetzung ( 1970, final edition 1979 ), the New American Bible ( 1970, revised in 1986 ), the Traduction Oecuménique de la Bible ( 1988, revised in 2004 ), and the New Revised Standard Version ( 1989 ).

* 1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress

* Cyr Descamps, Contribution à la préhistoire de l ' Ouest-sénégalais, Paris, Université de Paris, 1972, 345 pages ( Thèse de 3 < sup > e </ sup > cycle publiée en 1979, Dakar, Travaux et Documents Faculté des Lettres: 286 pages

* Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews David de Sola Pool, New York: Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1979

* Karl E. Schedl ( 1898 – 1979 ), Austrian zoologist, scientist ( de )

Saddam formally rose to power in 1979, though he had been the de facto head of Iraq for several years prior ( see Succession ).

He was the de facto leader of Iraq some years before he formally came to power in 1979.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.