1899: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1899

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Birthdays

January 6 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
January 6 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
January 7 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
January 7 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
January 8 - Solomon Bandaranaike, Ceylonese Prime Minister (d. 1959)
January 11 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
January 12 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist
January 13 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
January 14 - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
January 15 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
January 17 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
January 17 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
January 20 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (d. 1990)
January 21 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
January 23 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
January 25 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
January 28 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
January 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist
February 3 - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
February 3 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
February 3 - Doris Speed, English actress (d.1994)
February 6 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
February 15 - Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
February 15 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
February 19 - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
February 20 - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman (d. 1992)
February 22 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
February 22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
February 22 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
February 23 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
February 26 - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
February 27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
March 1 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
March 4 - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
March 8 - Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984)
March 10 - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran
March 11 - Frederick IX of Denmark, Danish King (d. 1972)
March 13 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist
March 13 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
March 14 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
March 15 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
March 23 - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
March 25 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
March 28 - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
March 28 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr.
March 28 - Ernst Lindemann, German naval officer (d. 1941)
March 28 - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
March 29 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953)
March 30 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
April 3 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
April 11 - Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)
April 13 - Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993)
April 16 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
April 19 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
April 23 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist
April 24 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
April 27 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (d. 1994)
April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)
May 5 - Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) (d. 1982)
May 6 - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)
May 8 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
May 10 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
May 11 - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
May 12 - Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
May 14 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
May 14 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
May 15 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
May 20 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
May 20 - John Marshall Harlan II, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1971)
May 24 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
May 24 - Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
May 25 - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet
May 26 - Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
May 30 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
June 1 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
June 3 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)
June 4 - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
June 7 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973)
June 12 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist
June 13 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)
June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer
June 20 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943)
June 22 - Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (d. 1970)
June 26 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, (d. 1918)
June 27 - Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
June 30 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990)
June 30 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1971)
July 1 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
July 1 - Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
July 5 - Marcel Achard, French playwright
July 7 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
July 10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
July 10 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
July 11 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
July 15 - Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
July 17 - James Cagney, American actor (d.1986)
July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer
July 23 - Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1976)
July 24 - Chief Dan George, Meti actor (d. 1981)
July 29 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
July 30 - Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)
August 2 - Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
August 3 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
August 9 - P. L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)
August 12 - Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963)
August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (d. 1980)
August 19 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
August 24 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist
August 24 - Gaylord DuBois, American comic book writer (d. 1993)
August 26 - Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
August 27 - C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
August 27 - Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
August 28 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
September 1 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)
September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist
September 6 - Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966)
September 9 - Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (d. 1984)
September 9 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (d. 1984)
September 9 - Bruno E. Jacob, Founder of the National Forensics League (d. 1979)
September 11 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000)
September 11 - Philipp Bouhler, German nazi leader (d. 1945)
September 13 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)
September 14 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986)
September 20 - Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973)
September 21 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)
September 23 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977)
September 24 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
October 3 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
October 5 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg
October 11 - Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (d. 1964)
October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer
October 26 - Judy Johnson Hall of Fame baseball player in the Negro Leagues, (d. 1989)
October 29 - Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
November 3 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
November 4 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
November 11 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983)
November 13 - Iskander Mirza, First President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
November 15 - Avdy Andresson, Estonian statesman (d. 1990)
November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
November 17 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (d. 1971)
November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985)
November 19 - Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
November 19 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
November 21 - Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)
November 22 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
November 24 - Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (d. 1966)
November 26 - Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936)
November 29 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (d. 1988)
December 2 - John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)
December 2 - John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
December 2 - Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)
December 3 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
December 4 - Charles William, (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player
December 5 - Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues musician (d. 1965)
December 8 - John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987)
December 9 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
December 15 - Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
December 16 - Sir Noel Coward, English playwright
December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990)
December 22 - Gustav Gründgens, German actor (d. 1963)
December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)
December 29 - Nie Rongzhen, People's Liberation Army Chief of General Staff (d. 1992)
December 30 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001)
December 31 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (d. 1940)

Deaths

January 12 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
January 29 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
February 6 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
February 6 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, (b. 1874)
February 16 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)
February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
March 3 - William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
March 6 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
March 16 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
March 20 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
April 16 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875)
April 20 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
May 1 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
May 25 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
June 3 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825)
June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and military officer (b. 1833)
August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
September 17 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
October 28 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854)
October 30 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)
November 21 - Garret Hobart, Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
December 2 - Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (b. 1875)
December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)

Events

January 1 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
January 3 - The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
January 17 - The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
January 21 - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
January 23 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 4 - The Philippine-American War begins.
February 6 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris (1898), a peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
February 13 - Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
February 16 - President Félix Faure of France dies in office.
February 16 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.
February 24 - Western Washington University is established.
March 2 - In the state of Washington, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
March 4 - Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland
March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
April 8 - Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an electric chair.
April 11 - Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States.
April 18 - The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
May 8 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
June 12 - New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 peoples and injures around 200.
July 17 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 29 - The First Hague Convention is signed.
September 13 - Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
September 13 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m
October 11 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
October 11 - The Western League was renamed the American League.
October 12 - Boer republic of South Africa declares war with England.
November 2 - The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
December 10 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

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