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1879
1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-March
May-December
unknown dates
Births
January-April
- January 3 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady
- January 12 - Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (d. 1968)
- January 13 - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs International
- January 28 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
- February 22 - J. N. Brønsted, physical chemist
- March 1 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
- March 8 - Otto Hahn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 (d. 1968)
- March 14 - Albert Einstein, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (d. 1955)
- March 26 - Othmar Ammann, engineer, Verrazano Narrows Bridge (d. 1965)
- March 30 - Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater
- April 20 - Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
- April 29 - Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (d. 1961)
May-December
- May 6 - Bedřich Hrzony´, Czech orientalist and linguist
- May 17 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
- May 19 - Nancy Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1964)
- May 19 - Viscount Waldorf Astor, British businessman and politician (d. 1952)
- May 22 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born stage and film actress (d. 1945)
- May 23 - Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman
- May 25 - Max Aitken, Statesman, newspaper baron (d. 1964)
- May 27 - Karl Bühler , psychologist (d. 1963)
- August 31 - Emperor Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan
- September 14 - Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate
- September 15 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1939)
- September 20 – Victor Sjöström, Sweedish film actor and director (d. 1960)
- October 2 - Wallace Stevens, American Poet (d. 1955)
- October 3 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
- October 21 - Joseph Canteloube French composer and singer
- October 29 - Leon Trotsky - Russian revolutionary
- November 10 - Patrick Pearse Irish patriot and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
- November 26 - Charles W. Goddard, playwright and screenwriter (d. 1951)
- December 3 - Nagai Kafu, Japanese writer
- December 18 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
- December 21 - Joseph Stalin - Soviet leader
- December 28 - Billy Mitchell - military aviation pioneer
Deaths
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