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)
Albert Einstein
178
Listed In: Physicists
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')
Leon Trotsky
49
Birthdate: 7th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Bereslavka, Ukraine
Died: August 21, 1940
 3 
Emiliano Zapata
(Leading Figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920)
Emiliano Zapata
13
Listed In: Revolutionaries
Birthdate: 8th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Anenecuilco, Mexico
Died: April 10, 1919
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Will Rogers
(Vaudeville Performer, Humorist)
Will Rogers
7
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’)
E. M. Forster
8
Listed In: Writers
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)
Margaret Sanger
11
Listed In: Activists
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)
Sarojini Naidu
74
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: 13th February
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Hyderabad, India
Died: March 2, 1949
 8 
Emperor Taishō
(Emperor of Japan from 1912 to 1926)
Emperor Taishō
5
Listed In: Emperors & Kings
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')
Paul Klee
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Birthdate: 18th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland
Died: May 29, 1940
 10 
Sydney Greenstreet
(Actor)
Sydney Greenstreet
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Listed In: Actors
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))
Nancy Astor
3
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)
Kazimir Malevich
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Listed In: Artists
Birthdate: 23rd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: May 15, 1935
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Ethel Barrymore
5
Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 15th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: June 18, 1959
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Patrick Pearse
(Barrister and a Leader of the Easter Rising in 1916)
Patrick Pearse
5
Listed In: Activists
Birthdate: 10th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: May 3, 1916
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Otto Hahn
(Chemist)
Otto Hahn
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Listed In: Chemists
Birthdate: 8th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Frankfurt
Died: July 28, 1968
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Samuel Goldwyn
(Film Producer)
Samuel Goldwyn
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Birthdate: 17th August
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Warsaw
Died: January 31, 1974
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Billy Mitchell
(Military General)
Billy Mitchell
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: 29th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Nice, France
Died: February 19, 1936
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Max Schreck
(Actor)
Max Schreck
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Listed In: Actors
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’)
Alla Nazimova
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Birthdate: 3rd June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Yalta, Crimea, Russian Empire
Died: July 13, 1945
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Alma Mahler
(Austrian Composer & Socialite)
Alma Mahler
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Listed In: Composers
Birthdate: 31st August
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: December 11, 1964
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Joe Hill
(Songwriter, Trade unionist)
Joe Hill
1
Birthdate: 7th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Gävle
Died: November 19, 1915
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Wallace Stevens
(Modernist poet)
Wallace Stevens
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Listed In: Poets
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')
Jane Darwell
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Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 15th October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Palmyra, Missouri, United States
Died: August 13, 1967
 24 
Ramana Maharshi
(Indian Hindu Sage and Jivanmukta)
Ramana Maharshi
10
Listed In: Philosophers
Birthdate: 30th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tiruchuzhi, Virudhunagar, India
Died: April 14, 1950
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Edward Steichen
(Photographer)
Edward Steichen
2
Birthdate: 27th March
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Bivange
Died: March 25, 1973
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Symon Petlura
(Politician and Journalist)
Symon Petlura
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Birthdate: 22nd May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Poltava, Ukraine
Died: May 25, 1926
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Warner Oland
(Actor)
Warner Oland
1
Listed In: Actors
Birthdate: 3rd October
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bjurholm Municipality, Sweden
Died: August 6, 1938
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Vanessa Bell
(Painter)
Vanessa Bell
2
Listed In: Artists
Birthdate: 30th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: London
Died: April 7, 1961
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Norman Lindsay
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 22nd February
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Creswick, Australia
Died: November 21, 1969
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Ottorino Respighi
(Composer)
Ottorino Respighi
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: 9th June
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Bologna, Italy
Died: April 18, 1936
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Knud Rasmussen
(Greenlandic–Danish Polar Explorer and Anthropologist)
Knud Rasmussen
2
Listed In: Explorers
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)
Milutin Milanković
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 28th May
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Dalj, Croatia
Died: December 12, 1958
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Sara Allgood
(Actress)
Sara Allgood
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Listed In: Actresses
Birthdate: 29th November
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Died: September 13, 1950
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Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
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Listed In: Celebrities
Birthdate: 19th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Cheshire
Died: July 19, 1953
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William Beveridge
(British Economist and Liberal Politician)
William Beveridge
1
Birthdate: 5th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Rangpur, Bangladesh
Died: March 16, 1963
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Alfred Einstein
(Physicist)
Alfred Einstein
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: 14th March
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955
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Paul Poiret
(Grand couturier)
Paul Poiret
1
Birthdate: 20th April
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris
Died: April 30, 1944
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Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
(Aristocrat)
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
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Birthdate: 12th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Potsdam, Germany
Died: August 26, 1945
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Ruth St. Denis
(Dancer)
Ruth St. Denis
1
Listed In: Choreographers
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)
Lucy Burns
0
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)
Rube Foster
0
Listed In: Sportspersons
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)
E. H. Shepard
1
Listed In: Artists
Birthdate: 10th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: London
Died: March 24, 1976
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Vachel Lindsay
(Poet)
Vachel Lindsay
1
Listed In: Poets
Birthdate: 10th November
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Springfield, Illinois, United States
Died: December 5, 1931
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William Fox
(Film producer)
William Fox
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Birthdate: 1st January
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tulchva, Hungary
Died: May 8, 1952
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Alfred Korzybski
(Scholar who developed the field of General Semantics)
Alfred Korzybski
0
Listed In: Philosophers
Birthdate: 3rd July
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Warsaw
Died: March 1, 1950
 46 
Lois Weber
(Actress)
Lois Weber
0
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)
Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia
1
Listed In: Military Leaders
Birthdate: 14th May
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: October 30, 1956
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An Jung-geun
(Political activist)
An Jung-geun
2
Birthdate: 2nd September
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Haeju, North Korea
Died: March 26, 1910
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Clyde Cessna
(Aviator)
Clyde Cessna
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: 5th December
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Iowa, United States
Died: November 20, 1954
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Émile Nelligan
(Canadian Poet)
Émile Nelligan
1
Listed In: Poets
Birthdate: 24th December
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died: November 18, 1941