Famous People Born in 1879

• Coolidge, Grace (January 3)

  First Lady to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge

• Einstein, Albert (March 14)

  Creator of the theory of relativity

• Klee, Paul (December 18)

  Post-impressionist Swiss painter of The Twittering Machine

• Mitchell, William "Billy" (December 29)

  "Father of the U.S. Air Force"

• Rogers, Will (November 4)

  Rope-tricking humorist who never met a man he didn't like

• Sanger, Margaret (September 14)

  Co-founder of what became Planned Parenthood

• Schreck, Max (September 4)

  Star of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu

• Stalin, Joseph

  The dictatorial leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1928 to 1953

• Stevens, Wallace (October 2)

  The poet and insurance man who wrote "The Emperor of Ice Cream"

• Trotsky, Leon (November 7)

  V.I. Lenin's right-hand man

• Zapata, Emiliano (August 8)

  The great peasant hero of the Mexican Revolution

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