* 1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor

* 1979 – Aaron Paul, American actor

* 1979 – Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter

* 1979 – Paul Gallacher, Scottish footballer

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

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 ).

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.

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 ).

He was an important member of the secretive Cambridge Apostles ; Paul Levy wrote Moore: G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles ( 1979 ) about this connection.

* 1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

* 1979 – Jermaine Paul, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1979 – Paul Weel, Australian race car driver

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

* 1897 – Paul Alverdes, German writer ( d. 1979 )

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

* 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

* 1979 – Paul Burchill, English wrestler

* 1979 – Paul Robinson, English footballer

* 1888 – Paul Popenoe, American activist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – F. Paul Wilson, Wheels Within Wheels

On successive Sundays during October, 1960, Paul Ferris ( a non-Catholic ) wrote articles in the Observer depicting clergymen of the Church of England, the Church of Rome and the Nonconformist Church.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

Paul wrote that Jesus was " born of a woman, born under the law " and " as to his human nature was a descendant of David " in the Epistle to the Galatians and the Epistle to the Romans.

Paul K. Davis wrote that " Caesar's victory took him to the pinnacle of power, effectively ending the Republic.

It is more likely that the epistle was written some time before the Jerusalem council, and that teachers came from Jerusalem to Antioch teaching the need for it after Paul wrote his epistle to the Galatians, churches from the first missionary journey, addressing this issue.

In 2007 President Paul W. Gooch wrote that Gate House undertook an " escalating series of actions " that were " defiant " and " disparaging of women ", in response to Gate members constructing a 2. 5-metre snow penis and placing a cooked pig's head in an Annesley bathroom.

Paul Gooch wrote that these traditions gave Gate House an " ethos " that contradicted his vision of residence life.

Paul the Apostle, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, " If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.

That the assessment of the contemporary situation advanced by John Paul II is not binding on the faithful was confirmed by Cardinal Ratzinger when he wrote in 2004 that,

One explanation for the origin of obligatory celibacy is that it is based on Christ's example and on the writings of Paul, who wrote of the advantages celibacy allowed a man in serving the Lord, Celibacy was popularized by the early Christian theologian Origen and Augustine.

John Paul II did not reveal this cardinal's identity prior to his death, or in the 15-page testament he wrote during his papacy and which was released after his death.

Historian Paul K. Davis wrote, " Having defeated Eudes, he turned to the Rhine to strengthen his northeastern borders-but in 725 was diverted south with the activity of the Muslims in Acquitane.

It does not appear that St. Paul had visited this city when he wrote his Epistle to the Colossians (, ), since he tells Philemon of his hope to visit it upon being freed from prison ( see Philemon 1: 22 ).

Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.

The Apostle Paul wrote an entire epistle, Galatians, antagonistic to the teachings of a Jewish sect that claimed adherence to the teachings of both Jesus and Moses ( cf.

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, " Take Five ", which is in 5 / 4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out.

At the request of Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System in 1983 and wrote the first implementation.

Paul Hindemith wrote a rhythmically challenging Double Bass Sonata in 1949.

According to tradition, Saul / Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter while he was in prison in Rome ( around AD 62 ).

It could mean that he received word of the further development and growth of the church in Ephesus, and if Paul — co-founder of that church --- wrote the letter, this illuminates his follow-up: " I do not cease to give thanks for you ..."