Year (''' MDCCCLXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Monday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - E. M. Forster , English writer (d. 1970 )
- January 3 - Grace Coolidge , First Lady Of The United States (d. 1957 )
- January 10 - Bobby Walker , Hearts and Scotland Footballer, Record Cap Holder for 25 years(d. 1930 )
- January 12 - Ray Harroun , American race car driver (d. 1968 )
- January 13 - Melvin Jones , American founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961 )
- January 28 - Francis Picabia , French painter and poet (d. 1953 )
- February 22 - J. N. Brønsted , Danish chemist (d. 1947 )
- February 26 - Frank Bridge , English composer (d. 1941 )
- March 8 - Otto Hahn , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968 )
- March 14 - Albert Einstein , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
- March 26 - Othmar Ammann , Swiss-born engineer (d. 1965 )
- March 27 - Edward Steichen , Luxembourgeois-born painter/photographer (d. 1973 )
- March 30 - Coen De Koning , Dutch speed skater (d. 1954 )
- April 16 - Gala Galaction , Romanian writer (d. 1961 )
- April 20 - Paul Poiret , French couturier (d. 1944 )
- April 26 - Owen Willans Richardson , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959 )
- April 29 - Sir Thomas Beecham , English conductor (d. 1961 )
- May 6 - Bedřich Hrozny´ , Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952 )
- May 17 - Simon Petlyura , Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926 )
- May 19
- --- Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor , American-born politician (d. 1964 )
- --- Viscount Waldorf Astor , British businessman and politician (d. 1952 )
- May 22 - Alla Nazimova , Ukrainian-born stage and film actress (d. 1945 )
- May 23 - Dezső Lauber , Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966 )
- May 25 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , Canadian-born statesman and newspaper publisher (d. 1964 )
- June 3 - Raymond Pearl , American biologist (d. 1940 )
- June 10 - Rafael Erich , Prime minister of Finland (d. 1946 )
- July 1 - Léon Jouhaux , French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954 )
- July 5 - Wanda Landowska , Polish harpsichordist (d. 1959 )
- July 22 - Janusz Korczak ( Henryk Goldszmit ), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist (possibly born in 1878 ) (d. 1942 )
- August 8 - Emiliano Zapata , Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919 )
- August 13 - John Ireland , English composer (d. 1962 )
- August 15 - Ethel Barrymore , stage & film actress (d. 1959 )
- August 21 - Claude Grahame White , British aviation pioneer, (d. 1959 )
- August 31 - Emperor Taishō , 123rd Emperor Of Japan (d. 1926 )
- September 2 - An Jung-geun , assassin of the Japanese politician Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910 )
- September 6 - Joseph Wirth , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1956 )
- September 14 - Margaret Sanger , American birth control advocate (d. 1966 )
- September 15 - Joseph Lyons , the Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1939 )
- September 20 - Victor Sjöström , Swedish film actor and director (d. 1960 )
- October 2 - Wallace Stevens , American poet (d. 1955 )
- October 3 - Warner Oland , Swedish-born actor (d. 1938 )
- October 5 - Francis Peyton Rous , American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1970 )
- October 9 - Max Von Laue , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960 )
- October 21 - Joseph Canteloube , French composer and singer (d. 1957 )
- October 29 - Franz Von Papen , Chancellor Of Germany (d. 1969 )
- November 4 - Will Rogers , American humorist (d. 1935 )
- November 7 - Leon Trotsky , Russian revolutionary (d. 1940 )
- November 10 - Vachel Lindsay , American poet (d. 1931 )
- November 10 - Patrick Pearse , Irish patriot (d. 1916 )
- December 12 - Laura Hope Crews , stage & film actress (aunt PittyPat), (d. 1942 )
- November 26 - Charles W. Goddard , playwright and screenwriter (d. 1951 )
- December 3 - Nagai Kafu , Japanese writer (d. 1959 )
- December 10 - Jouett Shouse , American politician (d. 1968 )
- December 18 - Paul Klee , Swiss artist (d. 1940 )
- December 28 - Billy Mitchell , U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (d. 1936 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Joseph Campbell , Northern Irish poet and lyricist (d. 1944 )
- --- Robert Wilson Lynd , Northern Irish essayist and writer (d. 1949 )
- --- Francis "Frank" Mcgee , ice hockey superstar (d. 1916, Battle Of The Somme )
: ''See also .''
- January 8 - Baldomero Espartero, Prince Of Vergara (b. 1793 )
- February 11 - Honoré Daumier , French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808 )
- February 23 - Albrecht Graf Von Roon , Prime Minister Of Prussia (b. 1803 )
- February 25 - Charles Peace , British criminal (executed) (b. 1832 )
- March 1 - Joachim Heer , Swiss politician (b. 1825 )
- March 2 - John Eberhard Faber , pencil manufacturer (b. 1822 )
- March 30 - Thomas Couture , French painter and teacher (b. 1815 )
- April 30 - Sarah Josepha Hale , American author (b. 1788 )
- June 1 - Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial , son of French Emperor Napoleon III (b. 1856 )
: ''See also .''
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