Famous Swiss People in History |

1445-03-16 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510)

1484-01-01 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)

1484-11-29 Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (d. 1551)

1484-12-28 Joachim Vadian [Vadianus] Swiss humanist, scholar and protestant reformer, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1551)

1493-11-11 Paracelsus, Swiss physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland (d. 1541)

1499-02-10 Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)

1504-07-18 Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland (d. 1575)

1505-02-05 Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)

1507-01-15 Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher (Koran), born in Basel (d. 1568)

1516-03-26 Conrad Gessner, Swiss physician and naturalist, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1565)

1524-09-07 Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologist, born in Baden, Switzerland (d. 1583)

1533-08-02 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1588)

1539-04-17 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (Strasbourg astronomical clock), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1584)

1539-06-13 Jost Amman, Swiss cartoonist, graphic artist and illustrator, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1591)

1540-10-01 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1617)

1552-02-28 Jost Bürgi [Jobst Bürg], Swiss clockmaker and mathematician, born in Lichtensteig, Switzerland (d. 1632)

1560-01-17 Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)

1576-06-06 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca (now Italy) (d. 1649)

1577-06-12 Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (Guldinus theorem), born in Mels, Switzerland (d. 1643)

1577-10-01 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint, born in Sigmaringen, Germany (d. 1622)

1593-09-25 Matthew Merian the Elder, Swiss engraver and bookseller, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1650)

1610-07-04 Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, Dutch-Swiss vice-admiral, born in Flushing, Netherlands (d. 1666)

1613-01-26 Johann Jakob Wolleb, Swiss organist, theologian and composer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1667)

1620-03-12 Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)

1623-10-17 Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)

1627-06-13 Fidel Molitor, Swiss composer, born in Wil, Switzerland (d. 1685)

1633-07-01 Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian, born in Bäretswil, Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1698)

1637-04-15 Valentin Molitor, Swiss composer, born in Rapperswil, Switzerland (d. 1713)

1639-09-17 Hans Herr, Swiss Mennonite bishop, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1725)

1645-12-27 Giovanni Antonio Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized in San Vittore, Switzerland (d. 1713)

1654-12-27 Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician known for his contributions to calculus, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)

1655-01-06 Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1705)

1657-03-01 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (reasonable orthodoxy), born in Basel, Swiss Confederacy (d. 1740)

1667-07-27 Jean Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1748)

1669-11-23 Johann K. Amman, Swiss-Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1724)

1672-08-02 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1733)

1687-10-21 Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)

1688-07-01 Johann Ludwig Steiner, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1761)

1693-03-05 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)

1695-02-06 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1726)

1700-02-08 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician, and physicist (10 time French Award), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1782)

1702-12-22 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer (Madame d'Epinay), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1789)

1704-07-31 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1752)

1707-04-15 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1783)

1708-10-16 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss experimental physiologist, biologist and author (Acadamy of Science), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1777)

1710-09-03 Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (first to study freshwater polyps or hydra), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1784)

1713-02-28 Louis-Auguste-Augustin d'Affry, Swiss general, military governor and ambassador serving French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, born in Versailles, France (d. 1793)

1713-09-18 Jean Allamand, Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1787)

1716-02-18 Gaspard Fritz, Swiss composer and violinist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1783)

1716-04-04 Johann Evangelist Schreiber, Swiss Baroque composer, born in Arth, Switzerland (d. 1800)

1718-08-11 Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial Governor of Quebec during American Revolutionary War, born in Yverdon, Switzerland (d. 1791)

1720-03-13 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer, born in Geneva (d. 1793)

1720-08-10 Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1789)

1721-11-22 Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-Canadian cartographer and statesman, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1824)

1722-05-22 Johannes Schmidlin, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1772)

1722-11-30 Théodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1761)

1724-08-27 John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American Continental Congressman, born in St. Gall, Switzerland (d. 1781)

1724-12-24 Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician, naturalist, and instructor of non-verbal deaf persons, born in Schaffhausen, Netherlands (d. 1811)

1725-03-29 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, Swiss composer, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1765)

1728-08-26 Johann Heinrich Lambert, French-Swiss scientist, mathematician and astronomer, 1st real proof that π is irrational, born in the Republic of Mudhouse (d. 1777)

1728-12-08 Johann Georg von Zimmermann, Swiss philosophical author and physician, born in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1795)

1740-02-17 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and geologist, born in Conches, Switzerland (d. 1799)

1740-10-20 Belle van Zuylen, Dutch-Swiss writer (Three Women), born at Castle Zuylen near Utrecht (d. 1805)

1741-10-30 Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss Neoclassical painter, born in Chur, League of God's House (now Switzerland) (d. 1807)

1741-11-15 Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher and founder of physiognomics, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1801)

1742-03-04 Johann Heinrich Egli, Swiss composer and violinist, born in Seegräben, Switzerland (d. 1810)

1746-01-12 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (Leonard & Gertrude), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1827)

1746-08-07 Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, German-Swiss classical scholar and historian, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1820)

1750-01-11 Johann Jakob Walder, Swiss politician and composer, born in Unterwetzikon, Switzerland (d. 1817)

1750-04-24 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1840)

1752-09-18 Johann Anton Sulzer, Swiss writer and composer, born in Rheinfelden, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1828)

1761-01-29 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician, Secretary of the Treasury (1801-14), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1849)

1766-04-22 Madame de Staël [Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein], French-Swiss author (De l’Allemagne), born in Paris (d. 1817)

1771-03-22 Heinrich D. Zschokke, German Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), born in Magdeburg, Prussia (d. 1848)

1773-04-22 Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, Swiss-Dutch army leader, born in Genève, Republic of Geneva (d. 1850)

1773-05-26 Hans Georg Nägeli, Swiss composer, born in Wetzikon, Switzerland (d. 1836)

1778-02-04 A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841)

1782-03-04 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)

1784-11-24 Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Swiss traveller and orientalist, 1st European to discover Petra and Abu Simbel, born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1817)

1786-04-18 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, Swiss composer, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1868)

1791-10-31 Ferdinand Huber, Swiss composer, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1863)

1791-11-11 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor, born in Olten, Switzerland (d. 1855)

1793-07-23 Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, Swiss composer, born in Arlesheim, Switzerland (d. 1859)

1796-02-01 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)

1796-10-23 Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1857)

1797-10-04 Jeremias Gotthelf [Albert Bitzius], Swiss writer (The Black Spider), born in Murten, Switzerland (d. 1854)

1799-04-12 Henri Druey, Swiss politician and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland, born in Faoug, Switzerland (d. 1855)

1801-05-31 Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1877)

1801-10-12 Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician, born in Lindau, Germany (d. 1873)

1802-02-19 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1881)

1803-02-15 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss-American immigrant on whose land the California gold rush began (New Helvetia, Sutter Mill), born in Kandern, Baden (d. 1880)

1803-02-20 Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Brugg, Switzerland (d. 1836)

1803-02-23 John Sutter, German-Swiss-American colonist who established Sutter's Fort in what is now Sacramento and where gold was first discovered in California, born in Kandern, Margraviate of Baden, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1880)

1803-07-20 Jakob Zeugheer, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1865)

1805-03-03 Jonas Furrer, Swiss lawyer and politician (first president of the Swiss Confederation), born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1861)

1806-10-28 Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, French-Swiss botanist, born in Paris (d. 1893)

1807-05-28 Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American naturalist and geologist, born in Haut-Vully, Switzerland (d. 1873)

1807-09-28 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss-American geologist, geographer and meteorologist, born in Boudevilliers, Switzerland (d. 1884)

1808-11-17 Alberich Zwyssig, Swiss monk and composer (Swiss psalm - Swiss National Anthem), born in Bauen, Switzerland (d. 1854)

1810-05-28 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter, etcher and lithographer (d. 1864)

1811-05-11 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1893)

1811-11-24 Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1890)

1812-01-08 Sigismond Fortune Francois Thalberg, Swiss pianist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1871)

1814-08-10 Henri Nestlé, German-Swiss industrialist (founder of Nestlé), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1890)

1815-12-22 Johann Jakob Bachofen, Swiss antiquarian & jurist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1887)

1817-03-27 Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist (famous for his work on plant cells), born in Kilchberg, Switzerland (d. 1891)

1817-07-06 Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and histologist (one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1905)

1818-05-25 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1897)

1819-02-20 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)

1819-07-19 Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss poet and novelist, born in Zurich (d. 1890)

1821-03-24 Rachel Félix, Swiss-born French actress in tragedies (mistress of Napoleon III), born in Mumpf, Switzerland (d. 1858)

1821-05-01 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1873)

1821-09-27 Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss writer (Grains de Mil), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1881)

1822-05-27 Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer, born in Lachen, Switzerland (d. 1882)

1823-11-25 (Heinrich) "Henry" Wirz, Swiss-American Confederate army officer (Commander of Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war facility), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1865)

1824-04-24 François Fournier, Swiss-French postage stamp forger, born in Croix-de-Rozon, Switzerland (d. 1917)

1825-10-11 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss writer, born in Zürich (d. 1898)

1827-06-12 Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's book author (Heidi), born in Hirzel, Switzerland (d. 1901)

1828-05-08 Henri Dunant, Swiss humanitarian, Founder of Red Cross (Nobel 1901), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1910)

1828-09-19 Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councilor, born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland (d. 1880)

1841-02-02 François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)

1841-08-25 Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, Thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1917)

1841-10-11 Friedrich Hegar, Swiss composer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1927)

1842-09-23 Karl Munzinger, Swiss conductor and composer, born in Balsthal, Switzerland (d. 1911)

1843-05-21 Charles-Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, born in Tramelan, Switzerland (d. 1914)

1844-06-14 Édouard Naville, Swiss Egyptologist (Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1926)

1845-04-24 Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919), born in Liestal, Switzerland (d. 1924)

1845-10-30 Gustav Weber, Swiss organist, choral conductor, and composer, born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland (d. 1887)

1845-12-23 Gustave Ador, Swiss politician and 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (1919), born in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1928)

1846-04-04 Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1929)

1847-04-16 Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, born in Wädenswil, Switerland (d. 1906)

1847-08-14 Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), born in Valangin, Sweden (d. 1922)

1848-05-25 Johann Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, music teacher, editor and publisher of liturgical music, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1924)

1848-09-01 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and entomologist, investigated structure of the brain, born in LaGracieuse, Switzerland (d. 1931)

1848-11-12 Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)

1849-05-22 Louis Perrier, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1913)

1850-02-17 Ludwig Bonvin, Swiss born composer who worked in America, born in Sierre, Switzerland (d. 1939)

1850-02-23 César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)

1852-06-28 Hans Huber, Swiss composer and pedagogue, born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau, Switzerland (d. 1921)

1853-03-14 Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter, born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1918)

1857-04-29 Édouard Rod, France-Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), born in Nyon, Switzerland (d. 1910)

1857-04-30 Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), born in Zollikon, Switzerland (d. 1940)

1857-11-26 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1913)

1858-06-18 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1931)

1858-08-06 Albert Fuchs, Swiss-German composer, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1910)

1860-09-10 Marianne Von Werefkin, Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter, born in Tula, Russia (d. 1938)

1862-03-04 Robert Emden, Swiss astronomer and physicist (book on Gas Spheres), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1940)

1862-09-01 Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer and theorist (Wagner Opera sets), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1928)

1862-11-29 Friedrich Klose, German-Swiss composer (König Elf), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1942)

1863-09-18 Hermann Kutter, Swiss Protestant theologian (founder of Christian Socialism in Switzerland), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1931)

1863-09-23 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss French bacteriologist (discovered bubonic plague bacillus), born in Aubonne, Switzerland (d. 1943)

1863-12-07 Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (Free Democratic Party), born in Scuol, Switzerland (d. 1952)

1864-06-21 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1945)

1864-12-27 Joseph Lauber, Swiss concert pianist and composer, born in Ruswil, Switzerland (d. 1952)

1865-02-04 Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1947)

1865-07-06 Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician, composer, and pedagogue (Dalcroze Eurythmics), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1950)

1865-12-28 Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and writer (Chaste Suzanna), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1925)

1866-09-20 Gustave Doret, Swiss composer, born in Aigle, Switzerland (d. 1943)

1866-09-23 Édouard Combe, Swiss composer, born in Aigle, Switzerland (d. 1942)

1866-12-12 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), born in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France (d. 1919)

1867-08-22 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)

1868-03-28 Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter and illustrator, born in Solothurn, Switzerland (d. 1961)

1868-09-06 Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council, born in Weinfelden, Switzerland (d. 1947)

1868-11-13 Pierre Maurice, Swiss composer, born in Allaman, Switzerland (d. 1936)

1870-03-13 Albert Meyer, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1929-38), born in Fällanden, Switzerland (d. 1953)

1870-04-28 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1926)

1870-07-10 Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), born in Poissy, France (d. 1953)

1872-03-08 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)

1873-05-21 Emil Ermatinger, Swiss literature historian, born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1953)

1873-08-22 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1935)

1873-12-25 Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-born American dairy educator (d. 1959)

1874-02-26 Carl Vogler, Swiss composer, born in Oberrohrdorf, Switzerland (d. 1951)

1874-04-19 Ernst Rüdin, Swiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1952)

1874-11-26 Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss-French author (Ecoute Israel), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1963)

1875-02-07 Walter Courvoisier, Swiss composer, born in Riehen, Switzerland (d. 1931)

1875-07-26 Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961)

1875-11-14 Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Conrad Pilater), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1944)

1875-12-15 Friedrich Niggli, Swiss composer, born in Aarburg, Switzerland (d. 1959)

1877-01-17 Hans Jelmoli, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1936)

1877-02-17 Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer of North Africa, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1904)

1877-02-24 Rudolph Ganz, Swiss-American pianist, conductor (St. Louis Symphony, 1921-27), composer, and educator (Chicago Musical College, 1928-54), born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1972)

1877-03-09 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist and biochemist, born in Oberuzwil, Switzerland (d. 1950)

1877-07-02 Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1946), born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1962)

1877-08-27 Ernst Wetter, Member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Töss, Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1963)

1877-09-26 Alfred Cortot, French-Swiss pianist and teacher, born in Nyon, Vaud, Switzerland (d. 1962)

1877-11-22 Joan Gamper, Swiss-Catalan businessman and founder of FC Barcelona, born in Winterthur, Switzerland (d. 1930)

1878-02-22 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)

1878-04-15 Robert Walser, Swiss writer, born in Biel (d. 1956)

1878-04-24 Jean Crotti, Swiss-French artist, born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland (d. 1958)

1878-08-18 Fritz Brun, Swiss pianist, composer and conductor (Bernischen Musikgesellschaft, 1906-41), born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 1959)

1878-09-24 Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (Le Petit Village), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1947)

1878-12-25 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss auto racer and co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Car Company, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland (d. 1941)

1879-01-01 Emile Argand, Swiss geologist (Dekbladen Theory), born in Eaux-Vives, Switzerland (d. 1940)

1879-03-26 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1965)

1879-07-05 Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor and composer (Tonhalle Orchestra), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1962)

1879-09-12 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, born in Lugano, Switzerland (d. 1944)

1879-09-30 Ernst Isler, Swiss organist and critic, born in Zurich (d. 1944)

1879-10-07 Joseph Bovet, Swiss composer and conductor (Fribourg folk music), born in Sâles, Switzerland (d. 1951)

1879-12-18 Paul Klee, Swiss-German abstract painter and educator at the Bauhaus (Twittering Machine), born in Münchenbuchsee Switzerland, (d. 1940)

1880-01-10 Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown and circus director, born in Loveresse, Canton of Bern (d. 1959)

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