Famous People Born In 1879
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Discover the most famous people born in 1879. The list includes people like Albert Einstein, Leon Trotsky, Margaret Sanger, Sarojini Naidu, Paul Klee and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, philosophers, composers and artists born in 1879. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
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Albert Einstein(One of the Greatest Physicists of All Time, Best Known for Developing the Theory of Relativity)
Birthdate: 14th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ulm, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955
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Leon Trotsky(Russian Marxist Revolutionary Who Developed a Variant of Marxism Which Has Become Known as 'Trotskyism')
Birthdate: 7th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Bereslavka, Ukraine
Died: August 21, 1940
Birthdate: 8th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Anenecuilco, Mexico
Died: April 10, 1919
Birthdate: 4th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Oologah, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
Died: August 15, 1935
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E. M. Forster(English Author Known for His Novels: ‘A Room with a View’, ‘Howards End’ and ‘A Passage to India’)
Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Marylebone, London, United Kingdom
Died: June 7, 1970
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Margaret Sanger(Birth Control Activist Who Opened the First Birth Control Clinic in the United States)
Birthdate: 14th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Corning, New York, United States
Died: September 6, 1966
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Sarojini Naidu(Indian Political Activist, Poet and 1st Governor of United Provinces)
Birthdate: 13th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Hyderabad, India
Died: March 2, 1949
Birthdate: 31st August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japann
Died: December 25, 1926
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Paul Klee(Swiss-born German Artist Whose Work Exhibited Shades of 'Expressionism', 'Cubism', and 'Surrealism')
Birthdate: 18th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
Died: May 29, 1940
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Sydney Greenstreet
(Actor)
Birthdate: 27th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Sandwich, Kent, England
Died: January 18, 1954
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Nancy Astor(Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton (1919-45))
Birthdate: 19th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Danville, Virginia, United States
Died: May 2, 1964
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Kazimir Malevich(Russian Avant-Garde Artist and Founder of the ‘Suprematism’ Art Movement)
Birthdate: 23rd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: May 15, 1935
Birthdate: 15th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 18, 1959
Birthdate: 10th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: May 3, 1916
Birthdate: 8th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Frankfurt
Died: July 28, 1968
Birthdate: 17th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Warsaw
Died: January 31, 1974
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Billy Mitchell
(Military General)
Birthdate: 29th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Nice, France
Died: February 19, 1936
Birthdate: 6th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Died: February 20, 1936
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Alla Nazimova(Actress, Director, Producer Best Known for Her Film ‘Salome’)
Birthdate: 3rd June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire
Died: July 13, 1945
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Alma Mahler
(Austrian Composer & Socialite)
Birthdate: 31st August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: December 11, 1964
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Joe Hill
(Songwriter, Trade unionist)
Birthdate: 7th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Gävle
Died: November 19, 1915
Birthdate: 2nd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: August 2, 1955
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Jane Darwell
(Known for Playing the 'Matriarch of the Joad family' in the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ & the 'Bird Woman' in ‘Mary Poppins')
Birthdate: 15th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Palmyra, Missouri, United States
Died: August 13, 1967
Birthdate: 30th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tiruchuzhi, Virudhunagar, India
Died: April 14, 1950
Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bivange
Died: March 25, 1973
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Symon Petlura
(Politician and Journalist)
Birthdate: 22nd May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Poltava, Ukraine
Died: May 25, 1926
Birthdate: 3rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bjurholm Municipality, Sweden
Died: August 6, 1938
Birthdate: 30th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London
Died: April 7, 1961
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Creswick, Australia
Died: November 21, 1969
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Ottorino Respighi
(Composer)
Birthdate: 9th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Bologna, Italy
Died: April 18, 1936
Birthdate: 7th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ilulissat, Greenland
Died: December 21, 1933
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Milutin Milanković
(Serbian Climatologist Who Gave the Explanation of Earth's Climate Changes, Which Partly Explained the Ice Ages)
Birthdate: 28th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Dalj, Croatia
Died: December 12, 1958
Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: September 13, 1950
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Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
Birthdate: 19th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cheshire
Died: July 19, 1953
Birthdate: 5th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rangpur, Bangladesh
Died: March 16, 1963
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Alfred Einstein
(Physicist)
Birthdate: 14th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955
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Paul Poiret
(Grand couturier)
Birthdate: 20th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris
Died: April 30, 1944
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Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
(Aristocrat)
Birthdate: 12th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Died: August 26, 1945
Birthdate: 20th January
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: July 21, 1968
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Lucy Burns
(Suffragist, women's rights activist)
Birthdate: 28th July
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Died: December 22, 1966
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Rube Foster
(Former Baseball pitcher, Founder of Negro National League)
Birthdate: 17th September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Calvert, Texas, United States
Died: December 9, 1930
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E. H. Shepard
(Artist, Illustrator, Painter)
Birthdate: 10th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: London
Died: March 24, 1976
Birthdate: 10th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Springfield, Illinois, United States
Died: December 5, 1931
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William Fox
(Film producer)
Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tulchva, Hungary
Died: May 8, 1952
Birthdate: 3rd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Warsaw
Died: March 1, 1950
Birthdate: 13th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died: November 13, 1939
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Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
(Military Personnel)
Birthdate: 14th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: October 30, 1956
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An Jung-geun
(Political activist)
Birthdate: 2nd September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Haeju, North Korea
Died: March 26, 1910
Birthdate: 5th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Iowa, United States
Died: November 20, 1954
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Émile Nelligan
(Canadian Poet)
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died: November 18, 1941