Year (''' MDCCCXCIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Friday
"Calendar in year 1899 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1899
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the 12-day-slower Julian Calendar ).
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Although popular belief holds this year as the last of the Nineteenth century, 1900 was in fact technically the true last year.
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- , a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
- October 30 - Augusta, KY Augusta High School Building is completed. Augusta Methodist College shuts down.
- November 4 - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
- November 8 - The Bronx Zoo opens.
- November 16 - Lithuania n doctor, poet, and national hero Vincas Kudirka dies of Tuberculosis at age 40.
- , termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
- --- During the New Moon on December 2-3, 1899, a near-grand Conjunction of the Classical Planets and several Binocular Solar System bodies occurred. The Sun , Moon , Mercury , Mars and Saturn were all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction were Uranus (technically visible unaided in Pollution -free skies), Ceres and Pallas .
- December 16 - A.C. Milan , one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
- December 16 - Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure.
- December 26 - Battle Of Mafeking begins.
- December 31 - A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the last time this has happened.
- January 1 - Jack Beresford , British olympist (d. 1977 )
- January 6 - Heinrich Nordhoff , German automotive engineer, managing director of Volkswagen (d. 1968 )
- 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 )
- --- Nevil Shute , English author (d. 1960 )
- January 21 - John Bodkin Adams , suspected British Serial Killer (d. 1983 )
- January 30 - Max Theiler , South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1972 )
- February 3
- --- Doris Speed , British actress (d. 1994 )
- --- Lao She , Chinese author (d. 1966 )
- February 6 - Ramón Novarro , Mexican actor (d. 1968 )
- February 7 - Earl Whitehill , baseball player (d. 1954 )
- February 15
- --- Georges Auric , French composer (d. 1983 )
- --- Gale Sondergaard , American actress (d. 1985 )
- February 22
- --- George O'Hara , American actor (d. 1966 )
- --- Dechko Uzunov , Bulgarian painter (d. 1986 )
- --- Ian Clunies Ross , Australian scientist, first chair of CSIRO (d. 1959 )
- February 23 - Erich Kästner , German writer (d. 1974 )
- February 26
- --- Alec Campbell , Australian solider who fought in the Battle Of Gallipoli (d. 2002 )
- --- Max Petitpierre , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994 )
- February 27 - Charles Best , Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978 )
- March 11 - King Frederick IX Of Denmark (d. 1972 )
- March 13 - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- March 18 - Jean Goldkette , French-born musician (d. 1962 )
- March 24 - Dorothy C. Stratton , director of the SPARS during World War II (d. 2006 )
- March 27 - Gloria Swanson , American actress (d. 1983 )
- March 28 - Harold B. Lee , eleventh president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973 )
- March 29 - Lavrenty Beria , Soviet official (d. 1953 )
- April 1 - Gustavs Celmins , Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968 )
- April 7 - Robert Casadesus , French pianist (d. 1972 )
- April 21 - Percy Lavon Julian , American scientist (d. 1975 )
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-born writer (d. 1977 )
- April 23 - Bertil Ohlin , Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- April 24 - Oscar Zariski , Russian mathematician (d. 1986 )
- April 27 - Walter Lantz , animated character (d. 1994 }
- April 29 - Duke Ellington , American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974 )
- May 8 - Friedrich Hayek , Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992 )
- May 10
- --- Fred Astaire , American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987 )
- --- Dimitri Tiomkin , Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979 )
- May 12 - Indra Devi , Baltic-born yogi and actress (d. 2002 )
- May 15 - Jean-Etienne Valluy , French general (d. 1970 )
- May 24 - Suzanne Lenglen , French tennis player (d. 1938 )
- 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 27 - Juan Trippe , airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (d. 1981 )
- June 30 - Harry Shields , American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971 )
- 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 15 - Seán Lemass , Taoiseach Of Ireland (d. 1971 )
- July 17 - James Cagney , American actor (d. 1986 )
- July 21
- --- Hart Crane , American poet (d. 1932 )
- --- Ernest Hemingway , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961 )
- July 22 - King Sobhuza II Of Swaziland (d. 1982 )
- August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson , thirteenth president of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994 )
- August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock , British film director (d. 1980 )
- August 24
- --- Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer (d. 1986 )
- --- Albert Claude , Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1983 )
- August 29 -
- --- Lyman Lemnitzer , American general (d. 1988 )
- --- Rufino Tamayo , Mexican painter (d. 1991 )
- --- August 30 - Ray Arcel , American boxing trainer, was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (d. 1994 )
- September 1 - Andrei Platonovich Klimentov , Russian-born writer of the Soviet period (d. 1951 )
- September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet , Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1985 )
- September 9
- --- Brassaï , French photographer (d. 1984 )
- --- Waite Hoyt , baseball player (d. 1984 )
- September 13 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian fascist politician, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938 )
- September 21 - Frederick Coutts , the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986 )
- October 1 - Ernest Haycox , American writer (d. 1950 )
- October 3 - Gertrude Berg , American actress (d. 1966 )
- October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias , Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974 )
- October 20 - Evelyn Brent , American actress (d. 1975 )
- November 15
- --- Avdy Andresson , Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. 1990 )
- --- Iskander Mirza , first President Of Pakistan (d. 1969 )
- November 17 - Douglas Shearer , film sound engineer (d. 1971 )
- November 18 - Eugene Ormandy , Hungarian conductor (d. 1985 )
- November 21 - Jobyna Ralston , American actress (d. 1967 )
- 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 )
- ''date unknown'' - Friedrich Panse , German psychiatrist (d. 1973 )
: ''See also .''
- July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr. , American writer (b. 1832 )
- 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 )
- September 17 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury , industrialist (b. 1842 )
- October 2 - Percy Pilcher , aviation pioneer & glider pilot, (b. 1866 )
- October 30 - William Henry Webb , American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816 )
- 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 )
: ''See also .''
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