1899
1899 was a Common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).
Events January February March June July September October December Unknown Dates Births January-March 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 ) 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 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 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 , Greek-born musician (d. 1962 ) March 28 - Harold B. Lee , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973 ) April-June April 1 - Gustavs Celmins , Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968 ) April 7 - Robert Casadesus , French pianist (d. 1972 ) 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 , American cartoonist (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 ) May 10 - 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 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 August-October November-December November 15 - 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 ) 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 ) Unknown date Deaths January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco , Governor of California (b. 1831 ) February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter , German-born news agency founder (b. 1816 ) 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 (d.1844 ) November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad , Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846 ) December 22 - Dwight L. Moody , American evangelist (b. 1837 ) William Henry Webb , American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816 )