* 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

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The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

* 1979 – 80 Jonathan " Bert " Wardlaw

Part of the crop was destroyed by hurricanes in 1979 and 1980, and 1979 – 80 production was only 670, 000 bags ( 40, 200 tons ).

During 1979 – 80, the Wings left the Olympia for Joe Louis Arena.

Mountbatten expressed his feelings towards the use of nuclear weapons in combat in his article " A Military Commander Surveys The Nuclear Arms Race ", which was published shortly after his death in International Security in the winter of 1979 – 80.

The Iran hostage crisis of 1979 – 80 marked a major turning point in the use of the term " fundamentalism ".

* 80 Blocks from Tiffany's ( 1979 ) – A rare glimpse into late ' 70s New York towards the end of the infamous South Bronx gangs.

Banks had a short career in management with Alliance Premier League side Telford United, he spent the 1979 – 80 season before being sacked after losing to a cup match against a team lower down the table.

He joined Chelsea, then in the Second Division, before the 1979 – 80 season, initially as assistant manager to Danny Blanchflower.

| 1979 – 80 || 19 || 3 || 1 || 0 || colspan =" 2 "|—|| colspan =" 2 "|—|| 20 || 3

Between 1979 and 1985, U. S. development aid fell from 80 % of the total to 6 %.

Botham did this in the Centenary Test in Bombay in 1979 – 80 ( 114, 6 / 58 and 7 / 48 ), the last match before he became England captain.

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Despite major signings, including Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey, and Ray Wilkins, the team failed to achieve any significant results ; they finished in the top two in 1979 – 80 and lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final.

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

In his first NHL season, 1979 – 80, Gretzky was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as the League's Most Valuable Player ( the first of eight in a row ) and tied for the scoring lead with Marcel Dionne with 137 points.

It is called " Spain's own Tehran ", similar to the 1979 – 80 Iran American U. S. Embassy Hostages of Americans.

Nicks wrote and recorded demos for the solo project during Tusk sessions in 1979 and the Tusk world tour of 1979 – 80.

The first version (" OS-9 Level One "), which dates back to 1979 – 80, was written in assembly language for the Motorola 6809 CPU, and provided a single 64 KB address space in which all processes ran.

He served as minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1979 – 80 ), Finance ( 1978 – 79 ), Instruction, Industry, State trades, and Mail and Telecommunications.