Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Physicist
1
Jane Darwell (1879-1967)
Movie Actress
2
Billy Mitchell (1879-1936)
War Hero
3
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
4
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Movie Actor
5
Joe Hill (1879-1915)
Activist
6
Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974)
Film Producer
7
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)
Painter
8
Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)
9
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
10
Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959)
Stage Actress
11
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)
Civil Rights Leader
12
Max Schreck (1879-1936)
13
Mary Young (1879-1971)
14
Eric Campbell (1879-1917)
15
Patrick Pearse (1879-1916)
16
Sahan Dosova (1879-2009)
Supercentenarian
17
EM Forster (1879-1970)
Novelist
18
Louis Joseph Vance (1879-1933)
19
Grace Coolidge (1879-1957)
First Lady
20
Frieda Von Richthofen (1879-1956)
Family Member
21
Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
Poet
22
Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
23
Bunk Johnson (1879-1949)
Trumpet Player
24
Died in 1879
Birthdays by Month
Sydney Greenstreet (1879-1954)
25
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
26
Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
27
Bob Smith (1879-1950)
28
Miller Huggins (1879-1929)
Baseball Player
29
Lucy Burns (1879-1966)
30
Alla Nazimova (1879-1945)
Screenwriter
31
Tom Corliss (1879-1956)
32
Eily Malyon (1879-1961)
33
Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951)
Dancer
34
Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968)
35
Otto Hahn (1879-1968)
Chemist
36
Knud Rasmussen (1879-1933)
Explorer
37
Nancy Astor (1879-1964)
38
Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959)
39
Moonlight Graham (1879-1965)
40
Milutin Milankovic (1879-1958)
Environmentalist
41
Joseph Lyons (1879-1939)
World Leader
42
Emile Nelligan (1879-1941)
43
William Lord Wright (1879-1947)
44
Pants Rowland (1879-1969)
45
Othmar Ammann (1879-1965)
Engineer
46
Pablo González Garza (1879-1950)
47
Daniel J. Layton (1879-1960)
48
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