Born in 1879

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• 1879–1968Otto HahnGerman nuclear chemist and Nobel laureateMarch 8
• 1879–1935Will RogersCherokee humorist and entertainer from Indian Territory, U.S.November 4
• 1879–1926Symon PetliuraUkrainian military leaderMay 10
• 1879–1916Patrick PearseIrish revolutionaryNovember 10
• 1879–1967Jane DarwellAmerican actressOctober 15
• 1879–1964Alma MahlerAustrian composerAugust 31
• 1879–1973PeriyarIndian social activist and politicianSeptember 17
• 1879–1936Max SchreckGerman actorSeptember 6
• 1879–1955Wallace StevensAmerican poetOctober 2
• 1879–1945Alla NazimovaRussian-American actressJune 3
• 1879–1972James F. ByrnesAmerican politicianMay 2
• 1879–1949Henri GiraudFrench military officerJanuary 18
• 1879–1964Nancy Astor, Viscountess AstorBritish politicianMay 19
• 1879–1954Sydney GreenstreetBritish and American actorDecember 27
• 1879–1936Ottorino RespighiItalian composer and musicologistJuly 9
• 1879–1960Max von LaueGerman physicistOctober 9
• 1879–1952William FoxHungarian-American film producerJanuary 1
• 1879–1958Milutin MilankovićSerbian scientist and professorMay 28
• 1879–1952Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-SchwerinQueen of Denmark (1912–1947) and IcelandDecember 24
• 1879–1953Francis PicabiaFrench painter and writerJanuary 22
• 1879–1915Joe HillSwedish-American labor activistOctober 7
• 1879–1939Joseph LyonsPrime Minister of Australia from 1932 to 1939September 15
• 1879–1925Boris SavinkovRussian revolutionary and writerJanuary 19
• 1879–1964Max Aitken, 1st Baron BeaverbrookAnglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writerMay 25
• 1879–1962Hans LammersGerman jurist and Nazi politicianMay 27
• 1879–1936Billy MitchellUnited States Army generalDecember 29
• 1879–1925Fritz HaarmannGerman serial killerOctober 25
• 1879–1973Edward SteichenLuxembourgish-American photographerMarch 27
• 1879–1956Joseph WirthChancellor of Germany from 1921 to 1922September 6
• 1879–1933Knud RasmussenGreenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologistJune 7
• 1879–1950Alfred KorzybskiPolish-American scholar and philosopherJuly 3
• 1879–1954Vivian WoodwardEnglish footballerJune 3
• 1879–1953Lewis StoneAmerican actorNovember 15
• 1879–1963William BeveridgeBritish Liberal politician, economist, and social reformerMarch 5
• 1879–1947Huda Sha'arawiEgyptian feminist leaderJune 23
• 1879–1961Thomas BeechamBritish conductor and impresarioApril 29
• 1879–1945Dwight F. DavisAmerican politician and tennis playerJuly 5
• 1879–1938Warner OlandSwedish-American actorOctober 3
• 1879–1962Shunroku HataJapanese military officer and war criminalJuly 26
• 1879–1966Lucy BurnsAmerican suffragistJuly 28
• 1879–1924Edwin MontaguBritish politicianFebruary 6
• 1879–1959Owen RichardsonBritish physicistApril 26
• 1879–1959Wanda LandowskaPolish harpsichordist and pianistJuly 5
• 1879–1954Léon JouhauxFrench trade unionist and activistJuly 1
• 1879–1920Terence MacSwineyIrish writer and politicianMarch 28
• 1879–1947Johannes Nicolaus BrønstedDanish physical chemistFebruary 22
• 1879–1970Francis Peyton RousAmerican scientistOctober 5
• 1879–1960Maud MentenCanadian physician and chemistMarch 20
• 1879–1953Annie KenneyBritish suffragetteSeptember 13
• 1879–1934Hans HahnAustrian mathematicianSeptember 27
• 1879–1944Paul PoiretFrench fashion designerApril 20
• 1879–1962John IrelandBritish composer and music teacherAugust 13
• 1879–1941Frank BridgeEnglish composer and violistFebruary 26
• 1879–1961Ernest ThesigerEnglish actorJanuary 15
• 1879–1931Vachel LindsayAmerican poetNovember 10
• 1879–1934Carlos ChagasBrazilian doctor and scientistJuly 9
• 1879–1968Ruth St. DenisAmerican modern dancerJanuary 20
• 1879–1952Bedřich HroznýCzech archeologist, linguist and orientalistMay 6
• 1879–1947Sándor GarbaiPrime Minister of Hungary in 1919March 27
• 1879–1959Kafū NagaiJapanese writer, editor and translatorDecember 3