* 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 )

* 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 ).

* Delta Sigma Phi, a social fraternity established in 1899

Beginning in 1899, the United States Army built a pack trail from Valdez, on the south coast of Alaska, to Eagle, northeast of Big Delta, a distance of about.

Phi Kappa Psi was the first fraternity on campus, founded May 23, 1890, while Kappa Delta, the first sorority at WVU, was established in 1899.

Delta Sigma Phi ( ΔΣΦ, also known as DSP or Delta Sigs or Delt Sigs or D-Sigs or Digs ) is a fraternity established at the City College of New York in 1899 and is a charter member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference.

In response, they organized the first chapter of Delta Sigma Phi on December 10, 1899.

Between 1899 and 1904, he also served as the Chief Inspector of antiquities for the Delta and Middle Egypt ( Howard Carter, who was Chief Inspector at Luxor was his opposite ).

Alpha Sigma Tau ( ΑΣΤ ) is a national Panhellenic sorority founded on November 4, 1899, at Michigan State Normal College ( now Eastern Michigan University ).

As valedictorian of the class of 1899, Mary Annette Anderson became the first African American woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Published in 1899, the Semicentennial Biographical Catalogue of the Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America contained biographies of the members of Zeta Psi from 1847 to 1900 and historical information about each chapter.

* Robertson Howard ( 1847 – 1899 ), American attorney, editor, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity

In continuous publication since 1899, its mission is to connect Chi Omegas to the national organization by promoting our common experiences, communicating the state of the Fraternity, affirming our values and purposes, highlighting our success stories, and providing resources for the development of women.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:

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.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

: Theorem ( A. Korselt 1899 ): A positive composite integer is a Carmichael number if and only if is square-free, and for all prime divisors of, it is true that ( where means that divides ).

* 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed " The Filipino Thermopylae ", is fought.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

* 1899 – Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.

* 1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

* 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.

The projectile is fired by the burning of the propellant ; small arms projectiles very rarely contain explosives, and such ammunition is banned by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.

After Cantor's 1884 hospitalization, there is no record that he was in any sanatorium again until 1899.

* 1899: In Budapest is a 1. 5 km long test track with three-phase electric power for electric railways put into operation.

The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States built in 1899 in architecture | 1899 is made of and decorated in wood.

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 ) was an American actor and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

* 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.