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.

His siblings were August ( 1872 – 1952 ), Johannes ( 1873 – 1937 ), Lilli ( 1879 – 1950 ) and Elisabeth, who died shortly after birth in c. 1880.

" Der Priester Johannes ", Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Classe der Koeniglichen Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipzig, 1879, Bd. VII, H. 8, S. 826 – 1028 ; 1883, Bd. VIII, H. I, S. 1 – 183, re-published by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 1980, ISBN 978-3-487-07013-1.

* Hanna Maria Sophie Gobat ( 1838 – 1922 ), married in 1859 Reverend Johannes Zeller ( 1830 – 1902 ), since 1879 leader of the Gobat School in Jerusalem,

They had eight children: Marie ( 1872 – 1947 ) married C. V. Prytz, Jens Warming ( 1873 – 1939 ), who became a professor in economy and statistics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College, Fro ( 1875 – 1880 ), Povl ( 1877 – 1878 ), Svend Warming ( 1879 – 1982 ), engineer at Burmeister & Wain shipyard, Inge ( 1879 – 1893 ), Johannes ( 1882 – 1970 ), farmer, and Louise ( 1884 – 1964 ).

79, for piano were written by Johannes Brahms in 1879 during his summer stay in Pörtschach, when he had reached the maturity of his career.

* E. Kautsch, Johannes Buxtorf der Ältere ( 1879 ).

* December 17-J. N. Brønsted ( born 1879 ), Danish physical chemist.

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Landsting ( one of two chambers of the Danish Parliament, the Rigsdagen ); but it is as a teacher at the university that he won his reputation.

Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen ( June 7, 1879 – December 21, 1933 ) was a Danish polar explorer and anthropologist.

** Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer ( b. 1879 )

August Bournonville ( 21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879 ) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer.

* Hans E. Lau ( 1879 – 1918 ), Danish astronomer

Before Koplik, the German internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ( 1833-1902 ) in 1874, the Danish physician N. Flindt in 1879, and the Russian Nil Filatov ( 1847-1902 ) in 1895, had observed equivalent phenomena.

* Peter Arnold Heise ( 1830 – 1879 ), Danish composer ( Drot og marsk, " King and Marshal ")

Hans-Emil Lau ( April 16, 1879 – October 16, 1918 ) was a Danish astronomer.

TDC A / S ( formerly Tele Danmark ) is a Danish telecommunications company dating back to 1879.

Peter Urban Gad ( 12 February 1879 – 26 December 1947 ) was a Danish film director.

The Bjerrum length ( after Danish chemist Niels Bjerrum 1879 – 1958

Bernhard Ernst von Bülow ( 2 August 1815 – 20 October 1879 ) was a Danish and German statesman.

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade ( Vejle, Denmark, November 29, 1879 – February 20, 1963, Assens ) was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music.

* August Bournonville ( 1805 – 1879 ), Ballet master of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1828 to 1879 and the most prolific choreographer Denmark has ever known.

** William S. Knudsen ( 1879 – 1948 ), Danish American automobile industry executive

* Bernhard Ernst von Bülow ( 1815 – 1879 ), Danish and German statesman.