Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1899
Birthdays January 6 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960) January 7 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941) January 7 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963) January 11 - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991) January 12 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979) January 13 - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) 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 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist 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 22 - Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943) February 22 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966) February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) February 23 - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981) March 1 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972) March 10 - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran March 13 - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956) 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 - August Anheuser Busch, Jr. March 30 - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970) April 3 - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958) April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) April 19 - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985) April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977) May 5 - Freeman Gosden, American radio comedian (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy) (d. 1982) 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 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976) 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 30 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936) June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981) June 3 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972) June 7 - Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (d. 1973) June 13 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978) June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer June 26 - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, (d. 1918) June 30 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (d. 1990) 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 17 - James Cagney, American actor (d.1986) July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932) July 21 - Ernest Hemingway , American writer 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 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 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 11 - Jimmie Davis, composer (d. 2000) September 13 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938) September 14 - Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (d. 1986) September 23 - Tom C. Clark, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1977) October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950) October 3 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966) 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 4 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985) November 11 - Pat O'Brien, American film actor (d. 1983) November 19 - Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979) 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) December 2 - John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952) December 2 - Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989) 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 16 - Sir Noel Coward, English playwright 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 31 - Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (d. 1940)
Deaths January 12 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816) February 6 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831) June 3 - Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (b. 1825) June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855) July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr. 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.
