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.

He opened his boot business at Spanish Fort along the Chisholm Trail in 1879 with a $ 35 loan from the local barber.

The PSOE was founded on May 2, 1879 in the Casa Labra Pub ( city of Madrid ) by the historical Spanish workers ' leader Pablo Iglesias.

During the war Abd el-Krim was punished by the Spanish government for anticolonial activities including an alleged conspiracy with the German consul Dr. Walter Zechlin ( 1879 – 1962 ).

And in 1879, the Spanish garrison built a " floating " Naval Hospital on shallows guarding the eastern entrance to the Isabela Channel.

* Emilio Herrera Linares ( 1879 – 1967 ), Spanish military engineer ; president of the Spanish government-in-exile, 1960 – 1962

The Spanish Governor's palace was built in 1879 but was only completed in 1892.

Don Joaquín Baldomero Fernández-Espartero y Alvarez de Toro, 1st Prince of Vergara, 1st Duke of la Victoria, 1st Duke of Morella, 1st Count of Luchana, 1st Viscount of Banderas ( 27 February 1793 – 8 January 1879 ) was a Spanish general and political figure.

Initially mail was transported by a Spanish packet to and from Puerto Rico ; but in July 1867 the British picked up the mail contract, and packet letters are known using British stamps as late as 1879.

José Giral y Pereira ( 22 October 1879 – 23 December 1962 ) was a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic.

* Captain Jack White DSO ( 1879 – 1946 ), co-founder of the Irish Citizen Army who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War lived at 19 Harrington St. while he was developing the Citizen Army from 1913.

In 1879, a stretch of railroad track was completed which connected Puntarenas with the town of Esparza ( one of the country's earliest Spanish settlements, founded in 1554, a decade before the Central Valley began to be colonized ) where the oxcart trail came out of the mountains.

Spanish troops imprisoned Abd el-Krim in the kasbah from 1916 to 1917, after he talked with the German consul Dr. Walter Zechlin ( 1879 – 1962 ).

Escala de Jacobo ( Jacob ’ s Ladder ), 1879 watchtower, Spanish Church made up of coral stone, municipal building built on top of the hill, the Bartolina Mountain, Monument of Volunteer Guards ( WW II ), Aguinid Waterfalls ( Barangay Tangbo ), Hidden " Triple Drop " Waterfalls ( Barangay Bonbon ), Barangay Colase Marine Sanctuary, Ponong Hidden Lake, Balay ' g Sawa Falls in Calin-ay, Poblacion and the newly-asphalted Pedro Calderon Highway in the mountain barangays which now traverses the mountains of Samboan joining to the town of Oslob.

The name was eventually changed to Candijay and was organized during the Spanish regime and was then one of the 34 towns in the province in 1879 with a population of 5, 030.

Jose Eligio Ayala was born in Mbuyapey in the department of Paraguarí on 4 December 1879, son of Spanish Mariano Sisa and Paraguayan Manuela de Jesus Ayala.

Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera ( 1828 – 1879 ), Spanish writer and politician.

* Ángel Cabrera ( naturalist ) ( 1879 – 1960 ), Spanish zoologist

In 1879, Braulio Dueño Colon, a Puerto Rican musician and composer, composed the music for the Zarzuela ( a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance ) " Los Baños de Coamo " which was originally written by Genaro de Arazamendi.

The Spanish expedition in the Pacific officially ended in 1868, but the peace was not signed until 1879.

El Liberal was a Spanish liberal newspaper published in Madrid between 1879 and 1936.