Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

* 1803 – Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

However conservative forces crushed BZNS in a 1923 coup and assassinated its leader, Aleksandar Stamboliyski ( 1879 – 1923 ).

* 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter ( b. 1793 )

* 1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.

* 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer ( d. 1931 )

* 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( d. 1950 )

* 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general ( d. 1919 )

* 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress ( d. 1959 )

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

* 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot ( d. 1959 )

* 1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor ( d. 1879 )

* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

* 1879 – Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist ( d. 1962 )

* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )

* 1879 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

Andreas Aagesen ( 5 August 1826 – 26 October 1879 ) was a Danish jurist.

* 1879 – Raden Ayu Kartini, Indonesian national heroine ( d. 1904 )

* 1879 – Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian centenarian and circus performer ( d. 1984 )

* 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1879 )

* 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1879 )

* Bill Bachrach ( 1879 – 1959 ), American swim coach known as " Bach "

Charles Louis Napoléon ( 1808 – 1873 ), son of Louis Napoléon, was president of France in 1848 – 1852 and emperor in 1852 – 1870, reigning as Napoléon III ; his son, Eugène Bonaparte ( 1856 – 1879 ), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa.

* Cyril Scott ( 1879 – 1970 ) English

Cyril Meir Scott ( 27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970 ) was an English composer, writer, and poet.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia by brothers E. Irvin and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market toilet paper sold on a roll.

Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land ( January 8, 1879 – November 27, 1971 ) was an officer in the United States Navy, noted for his contributions to naval architecture, particularly in submarine design.

Luxton's Liberal network supported Norquay against Scott in 1878 and 1879, but was subsequently marginalized by the Norquay government.

In 1879, Thomas Scott ( not to be confused with another person of the same name who was executed by Louis Riel's provisional government in 1870 ) and Joseph Royal attempted to introduce partisan politics into the province.

* John Work Scott ( 1807 – 1879 ), seventh president of Washington College

* George Arbuthnot Scott ( 1879 – 1927 ), Cricketer

In 1879, he ran for the Manitoba legislature in the riding of Winnipeg against Thomas Scott, the leader of the opposition to John Norquay's government.

The 1879 election was unusual even by the standards of early Manitoba politics, in that both Norquay and Scott claimed the support of a majority of elected members after the results were announced.

On 8 April 1879 during an attack on Morosi's Mountain, South Africa, Sergeant Scott volunteered to throw time-fuse shells as hand grenades over a wall of stone barricades from behind which the enemy were bringing heavy fire to bear on the Colonial troops.

* Lord Francis George Montagu Douglas Scott ( 1 November 1879 – 26 July 1952 ), married 11 February 1915 Lady Eileen Nina Evelyn Sibell Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound ( daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto and Lady Mary Caroline Grey ) and had issue

Scott was mayor of Orangeville from 1879 – 1880, and in 1884-85 served as the first Mayor of Regina.

Scott continued to work at the War Office until 1879, when he finally decided to earn his living entirely by writing.

She had a brother called Bill and a sister called Grace Scott was born at Glendon, near Singleton, New South Wales, fifth of eight children of Helenus Scott ( 1802 – 1879 ) and his wife Sarah Ann née Rusden.

He returned to Kansas and settled in Fort Scott, Bourbon County and was again elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Kansas in 1879 and served until his death in Fort Scott, Kansas, April 10, 1882 ; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

William Percival Crozier ( 1 August 1879 – 16 April 1944 ) was a British journalist and editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1932, when he succeeded Ted Scott, who had died in a sailing accident, until his death in 1944.