page_title: 1879
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1879 / Births / January–March
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Albert Einstein in Princeton, NJ, soon after he fled Germany.
context_page_description: 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1879th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 879th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1879, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: 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, Scottish footballer (d. 1930)
  January 12
  Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
  Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American pioneer aviator, made first transcontinental U.S. flight (d. 1912)
  January 13 – Melvin Jones, American founder of Lions Clubs International (d. 1961)
  January 20 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
  January 28
  Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (d. 1966)
  Francis Picabia, French painter, poet (d. 1953)
  February 6 – Magnús Guðmundsson, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1937)
  February 13 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian independence activist and poet (d. 1949)
  February 22
  J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (d. 1947)
  Norman Lindsay, Australian painter (d. 1969)
  February 26 – Frank Bridge, English composer (d. 1941)
  March 3 – József Klekl, Slovene writer, journalist (d. 1936)
  March 6 – William P. Cronan, 19th Naval Governor of Guam (d. 1929)
  March 8 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
  March 14 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
  March 18 – Emma Carus, American opera singer (d. 1927)
  March 20 – Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist and medical researcher (d. 1960)
  March 26 – Othmar Ammann, Swiss-born engineer (d. 1965)
  March 27
  Sándor Garbai, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
  Edward Steichen, Luxembourgeois-born painter, photographer (d. 1973)
  March 30 – Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (d. 1954)
caption: Albert Einstein
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