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Events from the year 1879 in Germany .
4 February – Wilhelm von Gayl , German politician (died 1945 )
25 February – Julius Falkenstein , German actor (died 1933 )
2 March – Johann Viktor Bredt , German jurist and politician (died 1940 )
8 March – Otto Hahn , German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry (died 1968 )
9 March – Agnes Miegel , German poet (died 1964 )
10 March – Hans Luther , German politician, briefly Chancellor of Germany (died 1962 )
12 March – Alfred Abel , German actor (died 1837 )
14 March – Albert Einstein , German-Swiss theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity (died 1955 )
27 April – Alfred Roth , German politician and writer (died 1948 )
31 May – F.W. Schröder-Schrom , German actor (died 1956 )
28 May – Albert Grzesinski , German politician (died 1948 )
6 September
9 October – Max von Laue , German physicist (died 1960 )
28 October – Martin Kirschner , German surgeon (died 1942 )
29 October – Franz von Papen , German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1969 )
1 November – Oskar Barnack , German inventor and German photographer (died 1936 )
14 December – Hermann Dietrich , German politician (died 1954 )
16 December – Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye , German fashion designer (died 1959 )
24 January – Heinrich Geißler , German physicist (born 1814
23 February – Albrecht von Roon , Prussian soldier and statesman, minister of War from 1859 to 1873, (born 1803 )
25 February – Karl Wilhelm von Willisen , Prussian general (born 1790 )
13 March – Adolf Anderssen , German chess master (born 1818 )
4 April – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803 )
11 May – Bernhard Wolff , German newspaper publisher (born 1811 )
15 May – Gottfried Semper , German architect (born 1803 )
5 June – August Krönig , German chemist and physicist (born 1822 )
7 September – George Westermann , German publisher (born 1810 )
23 August – Alexander Duncker , German publisher (born 1813 )
20 October – Bernhard Ernst von Bülow , German diplomat and politician (born 1815 )
1 December – Franz Ittenbach , German painter (born 1813 )[ 2]
^ Zimmermann, Moshe. Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Antisemitism . New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 71.
^ Williamson, George Charles (1913). "Franz Ittenbach" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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