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1879 (MDCCCLXXIX ) was acommon year starting on Wednesday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1879th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 79th year of the19th century , and the 10th and last year of the1870s decade. As of the start of 1879, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests his first practical electric light bulb Grace Coolidge Otto Hahn Albert Einstein January 1 January 3 –Grace Coolidge ,First Lady of the United States (d.1957 )January 12 –Calbraith Perry Rodgers , American pioneer aviator, makes first transcontinental U.S. flight (d.1912 )January 20 –Ruth St. Denis , American dancer (d.1968 )January 28 February 6 –Magnús Guðmundsson , 3rd prime minister of Iceland (d.1937 )February 13 –Sarojini Naidu , Indian independence activist and poet (d.1949 )February 20 –Hod Stuart , Canadian professional ice hockey player (d.1907 )February 22 February 26 –Frank Bridge , English composer (d.1941 )March 6 –William P. Cronan , 19thNaval Governor of Guam (d.1929 )March 8 –Otto Hahn , German chemist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1968 )March 13 –Alfredo Kindelán , Spanish general and politician (d.1962 )March 14 –Albert Einstein , German-born physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1955 )March 18 –Emma Carus , American opera singer (d.1927 )March 20 –Maud Menten , Canadian biochemist and medical researcher (d.1960 )March 26 –Othmar Ammann , Swiss-born American engineer (d.1965 )March 27 Ahmad Nami Kartini Richárd Weisz Georgia Ann Robinson April 1 –Mary J. L. Black , Canadian librarian and suffragist (d.1939 )April 9 –Thomas Meighan , American actor (d.1936 )April 11 –Bernhard Schmidt , German-Estonian optician, inventor (d.1935 )April 16 –Gala Galaction , Romanian writer (d.1961 )April 20 April 21 April 26 –Owen Willans Richardson , British physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1959 )April 29 – SirThomas Beecham , English conductor (d.1961 )April 30 –Richárd Weisz , Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (d.1945 )[ 19] May 6 –Bedřich Hrozný , Czech orientalist, linguist (d.1952 )May 11 –Ahmad Nami , Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5thPrime Minister of Syria and 2ndPresident of Syria (d.1962 )May 12 May 16 –Gustaf Aulén , Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (d.1977 )May 19 May 20 –Hans Meerwein , German chemist (d.1965 )May 22 –Alla Nazimova , Russian-born American stage, film actress (d.1945 )May 25 –Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , Canadian-born British statesman and newspaper publisher (d.1964 )May 27 –Lucile Watson , Canadian-born American film, stage actress (d.1962 )May 28 –Milutin Milanković , Serbian scientist (d.1958 )June 3 –Raymond Pearl , American biologist (d.1940 )June 4 –Mabel Lucie Attwell , British illustrator (d. 1964)June 9 –Joseph Avenol , 2nd Secretary General of theLeague of Nations (d. 1952)June 7 –Knud Rasmussen , Danish polar explorer, anthropologist (d. 1933)June 10 –Rafael Erich , Prime Minister of Finland (d.1946 )June 13 June 23 –Huda Sha'arawi , Egyptian feminist (d.1947 )Emperor Taishō Joseph Wirth Joseph Lyons Emiliano Zapata July 1 –Léon Jouhaux , French labour leader, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize (d.1954 )July 5 July 9 –Ottorino Respighi , Italian composer, musicologist and conductor (d.1936 )July 15 –Joseph Campbell , Irish poet, lyricist (d.1944 )July 22 –Janusz Korczak (pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician and child pedagogist (b. 1878 or1879 ) (d.1942 )July 26 –Shunroku Hata , Japanese field marshal (d.1962 )July 28 –Lucy Burns , American women's rights campaigner (d.1966 )August 8 August 13 –John Ireland , English composer and organist (d.1962 )August 15 –Ethel Barrymore , American film and stage actress (d.1959 )August 21 –Claude Grahame-White , British aviation pioneer (d.1959 )August 23 –Yevgenia Bosch , Ukrainian politician (d.1925 )August 30 –Fritzi Scheff , Viennese-born American actress and singer (d.1954 )August 31 September 6 September 14 –Margaret Sanger , American birth control advocate (d.1966 )[ 20] September 15 –Joseph Lyons , 10thPrime Minister of Australia ,Premier of Tasmania (d.1939 )September 20 –Victor Sjöström , Swedish film actor, director (d.1960 )September 25 September 27 Max von Laue Leon Trotsky Paul Klee Prudencia Grifell October 2 –Wallace Stevens , American poet (d.1955 )October 3 –Warner Oland , Swedish-born American actor (d.1938 )October 5 –Francis Peyton Rous , American pathologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1970 )October 9 –Max von Laue , German physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1960 )October 15 –Jane Darwell , American actress (d.1967 )October 18 –Giovanni Marinelli , Italian Fascist political leader (d.1944 )October 21 October 25 –Fritz Haarmann , German serial killer (d.1925 )October 29 –Franz von Papen , German diplomat and politician; Chancellor (1932) and Vice-Chancellor (1933–34; under Adolf Hitler) (d.1969 )November 1 –Pál Teleki , 2-time prime minister of Hungary (d.1941 )November 4 –Will Rogers , Native American humorist (d.1935 )November 7 –Leon Trotsky , Russian revolutionary (d.1940 )November 9 –S. O. Davies , oldest post-war British MP (d.1972 )November 10 November 15 –Lewis Stone , American stage, film actor, known for playingJudge Hardy (d.1953 )December 4 –Nagai Kafu , Japanese writer (d.1959 )December 5 –Clyde Cessna , American aviator, aircraft designer, manufacturer (d.1954 )December 10 –E. H. Shepard , English artist, book illustrator (d.1976 )December 12 –Laura Hope Crews , American film, stage actress (d.1942 )December 18 –Paul Klee , Swiss artist (d.1940 )December 20 –Ion G. Duca , 35th prime minister of Romania (d.1933 )December 27 December 28 –Billy Mitchell , U.S. general, military aviation pioneer (d.1936 )December 29 –Florence Mary Taylor , Australia's first female architect (d.1969 )December 30 –Ramana Maharshi , Indiansage ,jivanmukta (d.1950 )Abdallah Beyhum , 10th prime minister of Lebanon (d.1962 )Ali Muhammad Shibli, Bengali revolutionary (d. unknown)[ 21] Heinrich Geissler SaintBernadette Soubirous Sarah Hale January 8 –Baldomero Espartero , Spanish general, regent and Prime Minister (b.1793 )January 24 –Heinrich Geißler , German physicist (b.1814 )January 26 –John Cadwalader , American jurist and politician (b.1805 )January 28 –Hugh M'Neile , Irish-born English Anglican priest. (b.1795 )February 11 –Honoré Daumier , French caricaturist and painter (b.1808 )[ 22] February 21 –Sher Ali Khan , ruler of Afghanistan (b.1825 )February 23 –Albrecht Graf von Roon , Prime Minister of Prussia (b.1803 )February 28 –Hortense Allart , French writer (b.1801 )[ 23] March 1 –Joachim Heer , Swiss politician (b.1825 )March 2 –John Eberhard Faber , German-born American pencil manufacturer (b.1822 )March 3 –William Kingdon Clifford , English mathematician and philosopher (b.1845 )March 10 –Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis , German prince (b.1843 )March 22 –Sir John Woodford , British army general and archaeologist (b.1785 )March 24 –Juan Antonio Pezet , Peruvian general and politician,President of Peru (b.1809 )March 27 March 29 –Chō Kōran , Japanese poet, painter (b.1804 )March 30 –Thomas Couture , French painter and teacher (b.1815 )April 12 –Richard Taylor , American Confederate general (b.1826 )April 16 –Bernadette Soubirous , FrenchRoman Catholic saint (b.1844 )April 19 –Clara Rousby , English actress (b.1848 )April 23 –Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti , Italian botanist (b.1799 )April 30 –Sarah Josepha Hale , American author (b.1788 )[ 24] May 5 –Félix Douay , French general (b.1816 )May 14 May 15 May 21 –Arturo Prat , Chilean lawyer and navy officer (b.1848 )May 24 –William Lloyd Garrison , American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer (b.1805 )June 1 –Napoléon, Prince Imperial , son of French EmperorNapoleon III (b.1856 )[ 5] June 3 –Frances Ridley Havergal , English religious poet (b.1836 )[ 27] June 7 –William Tilbury Fox , English dermatologist (b.1836 )[ 28] June 11 –William, Prince of Orange , heir to Dutch throne (b.1840 )Miguel Grau James Clerk Maxwell Louisa McCord July 7 –Béla Wenckheim , 8th prime minister of Hungary (b.1811 )July 17 –Maurycy Gottlieb , Polish painter (b.1856 )July 19 –Louis Favre , French engineer (b.1826 )August 14 –Ivan Davidovich Lazarev , Russian general (b.1820 )August 27 –Anđeo Kraljević , Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b.1807 )August 30 –John Bell Hood , American Confederate general (b.1831 )September 9 –John Dennis Phelan , American politician and jurist (b.1809 )September 17 –Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (b.1814 )September 26 –Sir William Rowan , British field marshal (b.1789 )September 30 –Francis Gillette , American politician (b.1807 )October 8 –Miguel Grau Seminario , Peruvian admiral (killed in action) (b.1834 )October 25 –Nachum Kaplan , Lithuanian rabbi (b.1811 )October 31 –Joseph Hooker , American general (b.1814 )November 5 –James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist (b.1831 )[ 29] November 23 –Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord , American political essayist (b.1810 )[ 30] December 2 –Ferdinand Lindheimer , German-born botanist (b.1801 )December 7 –Jón Sigurðsson , campaigner for Icelandic independence (b.1811 )December 24 –Anna Bochkoltz , German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b.1815 )^ "1879" .Co-Curate . 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