Birthday
- 1879: Karl Harbacher (Actor)
- 1879: Hans Werckmeister (Director)
- 1879-01-01: William Fox (Producer)
- 1879-01-01: Fritz Greiner (Actor)
- 1879-01-03: Olga Roderick (Actor, Archive footage)
- 1879-01-15: Ernest Thesiger (Actor)
- 1879-01-25: Rupert Julian (Director)
- 1879-01-26: Hugo Riesenfeld (Original Music Composer, Music, Original Music)
- 1879-01-29: Emilia Unda (Actor)
- 1879-02-05: Edward Rigby (Actor)
- 1879-02-12: Urban Gad (Director, Screenplay, Author)
- 1879-02-25: Julius Falkenstein (Actor)
- 1879-03-09: David Landau (Actor)
- 1879-03-12: Alfred Abel (Actor)
- 1879-03-24: Elis Ellis (Actor, Director, Screenplay)
- 1879-05-23: George Rosener (Actor, Screenplay)
- 1879-05-27: Lucile Watson (Actor)
- 1879-05-28: Henri-Pierre Roché (Novel)
- 1879-05-31: F.W. Schröder-Schrom (Actor)
- 1879-06-03: Harry Fischbeck (Director of Photography)
- 1879-06-08: George Lessey (Actor)
- 1879-06-13: Lois Weber (Director, Screenplay, Actor)
- 1879-06-22: Guido Seeber (Director of Photography, Director, Producer)
- 1879-06-30: Walter Hampden (Actor)
- 1879-07-23: Georg John (Actor)
- 1879-08-05: Roberto Roberti (Director)
- 1879-08-15: Ethel Barrymore (Actor)
- 1879-09-06: Max Schreck (Actor)
- 1879-09-20: Victor Sjöström (Director, Actor, Screenplay)
- 1879-09-28: Benjamin Christensen (Actor, Director, Author)
- 1879-10-03: Warner Oland (Actor)
- 1879-10-15: Jane Darwell (Actor)
- 1879-10-16: Karl Etlinger (Actor)
- 1879-10-31: Sara Allgood (Actor)
- 1879-11-04: Will Rogers (Actor)
- 1879-11-05: Lewis Stone (Actor)
- 1879-12-07: Gunnar Tolnaes (Actor)
- 1879-12-09: Joseph Stalin (Archive footage)
- 1879-12-27: Sydney Greenstreet (Actor)
- 1879-12-30: Mary Forbes (Actor)
Alfred Abel
Victor Sjöström