* 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 )

* 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.

* 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 ).

#*** Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 )

The second paragraph is largely derived and paraphrased from the words that Aradia, the messianic daughter of Diana, speaks to her followers in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, London: David Nutt ; various reprints.

* 1962 – Charles Laughton, English actor ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – Charles Best, Canadian scientist ( d. 1978 )

* 1899 – Charles Laughton, English actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician ( d. 1963 )

* 1809 – Charles Chiniquy, Canadian priest ( d. 1899 )

* Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte ( 1839 – 1899 ), grandson of Napoleon I's brother Lucien

For example, Doreen Valiente's text The Charge of the Goddess used materials from The Gospel of Aradia by Charles G. Leland ( 1899 ), as well as material from Aleister Crowley's writings.

The origins of this instruction have been traced to Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches.

* January 18 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician ( b. 1899 )

* April 3 – Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. ( b. 1899 )

* December 15 – Charles Laughton, English actor and director ( b. 1899 )

* March 31 – Charles Best, American-born medical scientist ( b. 1899 )

* August 26 – Charles Boyer, French actor ( b. 1899 )

* October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh, American paleontologist ( d. 1899 )

* February 27 – Charles C. Carpenter, American admiral ( d. 1899 )

Heston was born John Charles Carter, the son of Lilla ( née Charlton ; 1899 – 1994 ) and Russell Whitford Carter ( 1897 – 1966 ), a sawmill operator.

Poster by Charles Lucien Léandre | Charles Léandre, 1899.

* 1899: Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in the USA (" Apparatus for generating mechanical power ", Patent No. US635, 919 ).

Charles Laughton ( 1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962 ) was an English-born American stage and film actor and director.

* Charles Lamoureux ( 1834 – 1899 ), violinist