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 )

* 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.

* April 10 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary ( b. 1879 )

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (; 8 August 1879 – 10 April 1919 ) was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz.

Eulalio Gutiérrez ( 1881 – 1939 ), flanked by Francisco " Pancho " Villa ( 1878 – 1923 ) and Emiliano Zapata ( 1879 – 1919 ).

Southeastern Arizona near Tombstone in 1887Tombstone, near the Mexican border, was formally founded in March 1879 and was a rapidly growing frontier mining boomtown.

Some were used by Maori warriors during the Musket Wars 1820s-1830s, having purchased them from European traders at the time, some were still in service during the Indian rebellion of 1857, and also by Zulu warriors, who had also purchased them from European traders during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, and some were sold to the Mexican Army who used them during the Texas Revolution of 1836 and the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848.

* Heriberto Jara Corona ( 1879 – 1968 ), Mexican revolutionary and politician

* Sylvanus William Godon ( 1809 – 1879 ), American naval officer who served in the Mexican – American and American Civil Wars

* 1936 – Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer ( b. 1879 )

* 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general ( d. 1879 )

* 1826 – Richard Taylor, American confederate general ( d. 1879 )

* Nikolai Matveyevich Tolstoy ( 1802 – 1879 ), full general of infantry, grandfather of Anna Vyrubova

** Richard Taylor, American Confederate general ( d. 1879 )

* March 11 – Henri Giraud, French general ( b. 1879 )

* February 19 – Billy Mitchell, U. S. general and military aviation pioneer ( b. 1879 )

* March 26 – An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of a Japanese resident general ( b. 1879 )

* November 13 – Joseph Hooker, American general ( d. 1879 )

* June 1 – John Bell Hood, American Confederate general ( d. 1879 )

In May 1879, the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway Co. ( StPM & M ) formed — with James J. Hill as general manager.

After partial launches under the names " human engineering " and " humanology ," Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski ( 1879 – 1950 ) fully launched the program as " general semantics " in 1933 with the publication of Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics.

Beauregard served as adjutant general for the Louisiana state militia, 1879 – 88.

In September and October 1879, Oglivy's company built a steam elevator with a capacity of 16, 000 bushels, a hotel, and a general store building in Airlie.

Indeed, a business directory from the fall of 1879 shows that Rushmore had a general store, a feed mill, an elevator, a hotel, a hardware store, a grocer, a lumber agent, a tinware dealer, a notion store, a jeweler, and two blacksmiths.

By 1877 Pollock included two general stores, a drug store, blacksmith shop, one hotel, a schoolhouse and a small depot for the Burlington & Southwestern Railroad with a town population of one hundred, and a United States Post Office was established in Pollock in 1879.

By 1879, a drugstore, livery stable, sawmill, and a few general stores were active in the community.

In parallel response to a general demand for better quality education, the Catholic Church set up Saint Joseph's Institution ( 1852 ) and Canossa Convent ( 1879 ), while Methodist missionaries founded the Anglo-Chinese School ( 1886 ) and Methodist Girls ' School ( 1887 ).

Joseph Hooker ( November 13, 1814 – October 31, 1879 ) was a career United States Army officer, achieving the rank of major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

He was Member of Parliament for Youghal from 1852 to 1865, and for Limerick from 1871 to 1879 ( at the 1852 general election he had also been elected for the English constituency of Harwich, but chose to sit for Youghal ).

William " Billy " Mitchell ( December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936 ) was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the U. S. Air Force.

Ferdo Livadić ( 1799 – 1879 ) wrote Notturno in F-sharp minor for piano as early as 1822, which is, along with John Field's compositions under the same name, one of the earliest examples of that type of piano miniatures in general.

When Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of the famed Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, expressed his desire to become a Jesuit to his father, the elder Sherman wrote a letter to McCloskey in 1879 telling him to dissuade his son from such a course of action.

Henri Honoré Giraud ( 18 January 1879 – 11 March 1949 ) was a French general who was captured in both World Wars, but escaped both times.