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.

* July 12 – Mazo de la Roche, author ( born 1879 )

Mazo de la Roche ( January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961 ), born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

Image: Claude Monet-Camille Monet sur son lit de mort. JPG | Camille Monet on her deathbed, 1879, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris.

* 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Brazilian Romantic poet, painter and caricaturist ( b. 1806 )

The city's main newspaper is the Tribune de Genève, with a readership of about 187, 000, a daily newspaper founded on 1 February 1879 by James T. Bates.

Gyula Count Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka ( 3 March 1823 – 18 February 1890 ) was a Hungarian statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary ( 1867 – 1871 ) and subsequently as Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary ( 1871 – 1879 ).

In 2010, a woman bought Renoir's 1879 Paysages bords de Seine at a Shenandoah Valley flea market for just US $ 7 as part of a boxed lot.

Samarium was discovered in 1879 by the French chemist Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran and named after the mineral samarskite from which it was isolated.

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In 1879, the German mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as " the living together of unlike organisms.

A first Novel Les Révoltés de la Bounty ( The Mutineers of the Bounty ) was published by Jules Verne in 1879.

Tramway de Nice began operating horse-drawn trams in 1879.

Edmond de Goncourt modeled his acrobat-mimes in his The Zemganno Brothers ( 1879 ) upon them ; J .- K. Huysmans ( whose Against Nature would become Dorian Gray's bible ) and his friend Léon Hennique wrote their pantomime Skeptical Pierrot ( 1881 ) after seeing them perform at the Folies Bergère.

* Bouché-Leclercq, Auguste, Histoire de la divination dans l ' Antiquité, volumes I-IV, Paris ( 1879 – 1882 )

Napoléon, Prince Imperial, ( Full name: Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph, 16 March 1856 – 1 June 1879 ), Prince Imperial, Fils de France, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo.

His first real success was as the elderly Marquis de Pontsablé in Madame Favart, in which he toured towards the end of 1879.

In 1879 his demand for the indictment of the de Broglie ministry brought him prominence.

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.

In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists.

* Le Coffret de santal ( 1873 and 1879 )

Francis Picabia (; born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia, 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953 ) was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.

* Dictionnaire de l ' Académie française (" 7th edition "), Paris, 1879

A post office opened in his store on February 25, 1879, with Arie de jong as the first postmaster.

George's other daughter was Anna Angela George, ( b. 1879 ), who would become mother of both future dancer and choreographer, Agnes de Mille and future actress Peggy George, ( who was born Margaret George de Mille ).