* 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.

* 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 )

* 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 ).

* Charlie Jones ( footballer born 1899 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ), Welsh international footballer whose clubs included Oldham, Nottingham Forest and Arsenal

* Charlie ( parrot ) ( born 1899 ), name of a pet possibly owned by Winston Churchill

Charlie ( allegedly hatched c. 1899 ), also known as Charlie the Curser, is a female Blue-and-yellow macaw living at Heathfield Nurseries, a pet sanctuary in Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom.

In 1899, Charlie Thompson, a sales representative, supposedly dropped a tray of samples he was showing a client in Leicester, mixing up the various sweets.

* Charlie Gibson ( 1920s catcher ) ( 1899 – 1990 ), Major League Baseball catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, 1924

Ellis was born in Springfield, Illinois, on July 23, 1899, to Charlie Ellis and Carrie Farro Ellis.

Charlie Hall ( 19 August 1899 – 7 December 1959 ) was a film actor.

Charles " Charlie " Jones ( 12 December 1899 – April 1966 ) was a Welsh international footballer.

* 1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England, United Kingdom.

When it opened its doors in 1899, NMU enrolled thirty-two students who were taught by six faculty members utilizing rented rooms in Marquette City Hall.

Nichols Panama Canal Collection at the Linda Hall Library Archival collection of maps, blueprints, photographs, letters, and other documents, collected by Aurin B. Nichols, an engineer who worked on the canal project through from 1899 until its completion.

This statue of Benjamin Franklin donated by Justus C. Strawbridge to the City of Philadelphia in 1899 now sits in front of College Hall ( University of Pennsylvania ) | College Hall.

Lennox, Old City Hall was completed in 1899 and has been functioning as a municipal building ever since.

On 21 November 1899, at a banquet in St. George's Hall, Windsor Castle, Chamberlain reiterated his desire for an agreement between Britain and Germany to Wilhelm II.

The piece was first performed at St James's Hall, London, on 19 June 1899, conducted by Hans Richter.

Earle Bryan Combs, born May 13, 1899 at Pebworth in Owsley County, played baseball for the New York Yankees from 1924 to 1935 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970.

Brimfield Town Hall, 1899

Early schools established in Macon were Johnson College ( Methodist ), 1866 ; St. James Academy and St. Agnes Hall ( Episcopal ), 1875 and 1884 ; outstanding Blees Military Academy, 1899 ; and south at College Mound, noted McGee ( Presbyterian ) College, 1853.

It housed business establishments, including the second-ever JCPenney store ( then called the Golden Rule Store ), financial institutions, local and county governmental buildings including Eureka City Hall ( 1899 ) and a Juab County Courthouse ( 1892 ), various churches, and the meeting places for numerous labor, social, and fraternal organizations.

In 1899 Hertz gave a Delius concert in St. James's Hall in London, which included Over the Hills and Far Away, a choral piece, Mitternachtslied, and excerpts from the opera Koanga.

St James's Hall, London, the venue for Delius's first London concert, May 1899

Of the May 1899 concert at St. James's Hall, London, The Musical Times reviewer remarked on the rawness of some of the music, but praised the " boldness of conception and virile strength that command and hold attention.

In 1899 came the Technical Schools and the Co-operative Society Hall.

In 1899, Guglielmo Marconi opened the world's first " wireless " factory under the name The Marconi Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company in Hall Street employing around 50 people.

" New York's new solar system ": Tammany Hall revolves around Richard Croker | Boss Croker in this 1899 cartoon in Puck ( magazine ) | Puck.

Roxbury Town Hall in 1899, built in 1810

The Presbyterian ( Church of Ireland ) congregation established their Blackrock parish in 1895 and met in the Blackrock Town Hall until they built St. Andrew's Church on Mount Merrion Avenue in 1899.

Coburn Hall in 1899

In 1898 she began attending Mary Institute, but switched rapidly to Hosmer Hall in 1899, where she finished in 1903.

( Prior to the Singer Building, the 29-story, 391 feet ( 119 m ) tall Park Row Building, completed in 1899, was the tallest building in New York City, and briefly held the title of " Tallest Office Building in the World " until being surpassed in 1901 by the Philadelphia City Hall, at 548 ft ( 167 m ) tall including the statue.

In 1899 William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, bought Hall i ' th ' Wood as a memorial to Samuel Crompton inventor of the spinning mule.