October 10, 1979

1979Kangta, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor^[†]

An Chil-hyun, known professionally as Kangta, is a South Korean singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, actor and radio personality. He is well known as a member of boy band H.O.T. He is also an executive of SM Entertainment since 2005 and the chief producer of Kreation Music Rights's label Smashhit since 2023.

1979Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player^[†]

Nicolás Alejandro Massú Fried, nicknamed El Vampiro, is a Chilean tennis coach and a former professional player. A former world No. 9 in singles, he won the singles and doubles gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He is the only man to have won both gold medals at the same Games since the re-introduction of Olympic tennis in 1988, and they were the first two Chile's Olympic gold medals. Massú also reached the final of the 2003 Madrid Masters and won six singles titles. He was the coach of 2020 US Open champion and former world No. 3 Dominic Thiem from 2019 to 2023. He is currently the coach of Hubert Hurkacz.

1979Mýa, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress^[†]

Mya Marie Harrison, known professionally as Mýa, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and actress. She was born in Washington D.C. and studied ballet, jazz, and tap dance as a child. Her career began in television as a dance posse member on BET's Teen Summit. She signed with University Records, an imprint of Interscope Records to release her first album Mya (1998). The album was led by her first single, "It's All About Me", which peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. Her subsequent collaborative singles, "Ghetto Supastar " and "Take Me There" were also met with commercial success.

1979Joel Przybilla, American basketball player^[†]

Joel Przybilla is an American former professional basketball player who played the center position for 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

1979Christopher Evans, English psychologist, computer scientist, and author (born 1931)^[†]

Christopher Riche Evans was a British computer scientist and author.

1979Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and conductor (born 1886)^[†]

Paul Marie-Adolphe Charles Paray was a French conductor, organist and composer. After winning France's top musical award, the Prix de Rome, he fought in the First World War and was a prisoner of war for nearly four years. He held a succession of chief conductorships, including those of the Lamoureux and Colonne Orchestras in Paris and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra in Monaco. For ten years from 1952 he was chief conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with which he made a celebrated series of recordings for Mercury Records' "Living Presence" series, many of which have been digitally released in the 21st century.