* 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

In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.

On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated Earl Mountbatten of Burma in County Sligo.

* The last Grand Master of the Order, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( 1900 – 1979 ), was killed by the Provisional IRA on 27 August 1979.

Nicholas Timothy Charles Knatchbull ( 18 November 1964 – 27 August 1979 ), murdered, aged 14, by an IRA bomb.

Lady Brabourne was in the boat which was blown up by the IRA off the shores of Sligo in August 1979, killing her fourteen-year-old son Nicholas ; her father ; her mother-in-law, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne ; and fifteen-year-old Paul Maxwell, a boat-boy from County Fermanagh.

On 27 August 1979, 18 British Army soldiers were killed by a Provisional IRA ambush at Narrow Water Castle ( see Narrow Water ambush ).

On 19 April 1979, Agnes Wallace ( 40 ), a prison officer, was shot dead and three colleagues were injured in a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) gun and grenade attack outside the prison.

On 12 May 1979 An Phoblacht published extracts from a secret British Ministry of Defence intelligence document which contained a detailed analysis of the Provisional IRA and the situation in Northern Ireland.

The wedding took place two months after the assassination of his grandfather, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, by an IRA bomb which also killed 3 others, including his youngest brother, Nicholas Knatchbull ( 1964 – 1979 ), and his grandmother, the Dowager Lady Brabourne ( 1897 – 1979 ).

He recorded one of the last interviews with Lord Mountbatten before he was assassinated by the IRA in 1979, and even spent six weeks in Ford Open Prison to make a half hour documentary.

Nicholas Knatchbull and local teenager Paul Maxwell, were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in August 1979.

In 1979 there was a rooftop protest over visiting rights staged by IRA prisoners.

Nicholas Timothy Charles Knatchbull ( 18 November 1964 – 27 August 1979 ), killed, aged 14, by a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb.

Lord Brabourne was in the boat which was blown up by the IRA off the shores of Sligo in 1979, killing his father-in-law Lord Mountbatten of Burma, who lived in a nearby estate, his fourteen-year-old son Nicholas Knatchbull, his mother, the Dowager Baroness Brabourne, and a local boy, Paul Maxwell, from County Fermanagh.

A nephew, Francis McGirl, was charged but acquitted of the murder of Lord Mountbatten, who was killed by the IRA when his boat was bombed off the Sligo coast in 1979.

* 1979 – A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by famed " Nazi hunters " Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France.

* 1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster.

The Mossad later found Ali Hassan Salameh in Beirut and killed him on 22 January 1979 with a remote-controlled car bomb.

artillery gun ; 1975 ), W82 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1978 ), B83 ( modern strategic bomb ; 1979 ), W87 ( Peacekeeper / MX ICBM ; 1982 ), and W80 ( Tomahawk GLCM ; 1978 ).

Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars ( 1979 ), was a box office bomb.

He was killed by a car bomb in Beirut on 22 January 1979.

Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a magnetic car bomb fitted with a ball bearing tilt switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier at 2: 58 p. m. as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.

He was murdered in a terrorist bomb explosion in Ireland on 27 August 1979 and was buried in the abbey following a full state funeral in Westminster Abbey.

In 1977 the regiment arrived in West Berlin again, and then in 1979 once more in the midst of the volatile situation in Northern Ireland, they lost Guardsman Paul Fryer to a booby trap bomb.

Dutto was killed on 21 March 1979 in a car bomb attack by an unknown perpetrator.

Additionally, some elements of the mini-series were used by writer Geoff Johns in a JSA story arc, bringing some elements of this story into continuity ( including Starman helping to develop the atom bomb, the McCarthy hearings black listing the JSA-though a variation of this appeared in the final issue of the Justice Society's run in Adventure Comics in 1979 ).

In 1979 the number of FLNC attacks increased ; in a two-month period from January to the beginning of March there were over 115 bomb attacks on the island.

On 6 May 1979 the FLNC managed to bomb 20 banks in Paris and on 30 May more banks were damaged by explosions.

* 1979 – Sold out July 31 appearance by Supertramp on their " Breakfast in America " tour cancelled due to bomb threat

A bomb exploded in a postman's bag on a bicycle in the village in 1979.

The explosion was caused by a car bomb hidden in a stolen 1979 Holden Commodore.

Nevertheless, it had acceded to the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, and since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has disclosed most of the information on its nuclear weapons program, and according to international inspections and the ensuing International Atomic Energy Agency report, South Africa could not have constructed such a nuclear bomb until November 1979, two months after the " double flash " incident.

Saajid Muhammad Badat ( born March 28, 1979 ) is a British student who was sentenced to a 13-year prison term for planning to blow up an aircraft with a bomb hidden in his shoe.

The biggest single loss of life for British troops in the conflict came at Narrow Water, where eighteen British soldiers were killed in a PIRA bomb attack on 27 August 1979, on the same day Lord Mountbatten of Burma was assassinated by the PIRA in a separate attack.