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

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

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

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

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 ).

: 1899: Byron Curtis

* Richard Geoffrey Gordon Byron, 12th Baron Byron ( 1899 – 1989 )

In 1899 he married Judith Blunt, 16th Baroness Wentworth, daughter of the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and his wife Anne, 15th Baroness Wentworth and great-granddaughter of Lord Byron ( see the Baron Wentworth for earlier history of this title ).

Byron Foulger ( born 27 August 1899 in Ogden, Utah ; died 4 April 1970 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film character actor with a familiar face who appeared in hundreds of movies and dozens of television programs.

* 1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier ( d. 1899 )

* 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – George O ' Brien, American actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1932 – Hart Crane, American writer ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )

* 1981 – Norman Taurog, American director ( b. 1899 )

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

* 1899 – Aleck " Rice " Miller, American musician ( d. 1965 )

* 1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player ( d. 1989 )

* 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist ( d. 1899 )

* 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor ( b. 1899 )

* 1992 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir ( b. 1899 )

* 1969 – Madge Blake, American actress ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – Norman Taurog, American film director ( d. 1981 )

* 1899 – Dwight Frye, American actor ( d. 1943 )

* 1899 – George O ' Hara, American actor ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress ( d. 1985 )

American Mutoscope and Biograph was the first known company to use this, for the Jeffries-Sharkey fight on November 3, 1899.

* 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist ( d. 1899 )

* 1975 – Howard Hill, American archer ( b. 1899 )

Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.