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| cp=18th century
| c=19th century
| cf=20th century
| yp1=1896
| yp2=1897
| yp3=1898
| year=1899
| ya1=1900
| ya2=1901
| ya3=1902
| dp3=1860s
| dp2=1870s
| dp1=1880s
| d=1890s
| dn1=1900s
| dn2=1910s
| dn3=1920s
}}
1899 (''' MDCCCXCIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events
January
February
March
June
July
September
s during the Second Boer War]]
October
November
December
Unknown Dates
Births
January
- January 7 - Francis Poulenc , French composer (d. 1963 )
- January 11 - Eva LeGallienne , English actress (d. 1991 )
- January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller , Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1965 )
- January 15 - Goodman Ace , American actor, comedian, and writer (d. 1982 )
- January 17 - Al Capone , American gangster (d. 1947 )
- January 17 - Nevil Shute , English author (d. 1960 )
- January 30 - Max Theiler , South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1972 )
February
- February 3 - Doris Speed , English actress (d. 1994 )
- February 3 - Lao She , Chinese author (d. 1966 )
- February 6 - Ramon Novarro , Mexican actor (d. 1968 )
- February 7 - Earl Whitehill , baseball player (d. 1954 )
- February 15 - Georges Auric , French composer (d. 1983 )
- 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 26 - Max Petitpierre , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994 )
- February 27 - Charles Best , Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978 )
March
- June 1 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh , British mathematician (d. 1963 )
- June 2 - Lotte Reiniger , German-born silhouette animator (d. 1981 )
- June 3 - Georg Von Békésy , Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1972 )
- June 12 - Fritz Albert Lipmann , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1986 )
- June 13 - Carlos Chávez , Mexican composer (d. 1978 )
- June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata , Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972 )
- June 30 - Harry Shields , American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971 )
July
- July 5 - Marcel Achard , French play and scriptwriter (d. 1974 )
- July 7 - George Cukor , American film director (d. 1983 )
- July 10 - John Gilbert , American actor (d. 1936 )
- July 11 - E. B. White , American writer (d. 1985 )
- July 14 - Martha Mansfield , American actress (d. 1923 )
- July 15 - Sean Lemass , Taoiseach Of Ireland (d. 1971 )
- July 17 - James Cagney , actor (d. 1986 )
- July 21 - Hart Crane , American poet (d. 1932 )
- July 21 - Ernest Hemingway , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961 )
- July 22 - King Sobhuza II Of Swaziland (d. 1982 )
August
- December 2 - John Barbirolli , English conductor (d. 1970 )
- December 3 - Hayato Ikeda , Prime Minister Of Japan (d. 1965 )
- December 9 - Jean De Brunhoff , French writer (d. 1937 )
- December 15 - Harold Abrahams , British athlete (d. 1978 )
- December 16 - Noel Coward , English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973 )
- December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe , Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990 )
- December 25 - Humphrey Bogart , American actor (d. 1957 )
- December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo , Polish actor (d. 1943 )
- December 29 - Nie Rongzhen , Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992 )
Unknown date
Deaths
- January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco , Governor of California (b. 1831 )
- February 6 - Leo Von Caprivi , Chancellor Of Germany (b 1831
- February 16 - Félix Faure , President Of France (b 1841 )
- February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter , German-born news agency founder (b. 1816 )
- March 6 - Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii , Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. 1875 )
- June 3 - Johann Strauss, Jr. , Austrian composer (b. 1825 )
- June 10 - Ernest Chausson , French composer (b. 1855 )
- July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll , American politician (b. 1833 )
- August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , German chemist (b. 1811 )
- September 12 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II , American railway magnate (b. 1843 )
- November 21 - Garret A. Hobart , 24th Vice President Of The United States (b. 1844 )
- November 24 - Abdallahi Ibn Muhammad , Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846 )
- December 10 - King Ngwane V Of Swaziland (b. 1876 )
- December 22 - Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist (b. 1837 )
- William Henry Webb , American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816 )
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