* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1899 )

* Haliotis walallensis Stearns, 1899 – the northern green abalone or flat abalone – synonym: Haliotis fulgens var.

* 1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist ( d. 1988 )

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

* 1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor ( d. 1959 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author ( d. 1951 )

* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* Alfred Sisley ( 1839 – 1899 )

* 1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter ( b. 1839 )

* 1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, American entrepreneur ( d. 1899 )

* 1839 – Alfred Sisley, Anglo-French artist ( d. 1899 )

* 1874 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, ( d. 1899 )

* October 15 – Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( d. 1899 )

* Alfred Hitchcock ( 1899 – 1980 ), " Hitch " was a popular nickname for him

In 1899, Alfred Dreyfus ' second trial in Rennes caused a national commotion.

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* Anna, codename of Alfred Frenzel ( 1899 – 1968 ), a Czechoslovakian spy

In 1917, the Free Society for the Psychological Study of the Child, to whom Binet became a member in 1899 and which prompted his development of the intelligence tests, changed their name to La Societe Alfred Binet, in memory of the renowned psychologist.

* Alfred Schütz ( 1899 – 1959 ) developed a phenomenology of the social world on the basis of everyday experience that has influenced major sociologists such as Harold Garfinkel, Peter Berger, and Thomas Luckmann.

Roys of Wroxham, dubbed the world's largest village store, was founded in Coltishall by Alfred Roy in 1895, with a second store opening in Hoveton in 1899.

Alfred Schütz ( 13 April 1899, Vienna-20 May 1959, New York City ) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology, and who is " gradually achieving recognition as one of the foremost philosophers of social science of the century ".

* Alfred M. Best ( 1876 – 1958 ), actuary who founded the A. M. Best Company, Inc. in 1899.

His only son Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha committed suicide in 1899, so the title Duke of Edinburgh again became extinct upon the elder Alfred's death in 1900.

Alfred Picard appointed Daniel Mérillon, the head of the French Shooting Association as president of this organization in February 1899.

Alfred's only son, also named Alfred, committed suicide in 1899, so when Duke Alfred died in 1900, he was succeeded by his nephew the Duke of Albany, the sixteen-year-old son of Queen Victoria's youngest son, Leopold.

In scope his work covered a wide range of physical inquiry, but, as Marie Alfred Cornu remarked in his Rede lecture of 1899, the greater part of it was concerned with waves and the transformations imposed on them during their passage through various media.

* Alfred Hitchcock ( 1899 – 1980 ), film director

The movement and the journal were founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois in 1899, as a nationalist and anti-Semitic reaction against the intervention of left-wing intellectuals on the behalf of Alfred Dreyfus.

The Duke of Edinburgh ( who later became the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ) had only one son, Prince Alfred, who would have probably inherited the title of Earl of Kent, among his father's other titles, had he not died before his father in 1899.