* 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 ).

Arthur Quirk Bryan ( May 8, 1899 – November 18, 1959 ) was a United States comedian and voice actor, remembered best for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Gamble on the radio comedy Fibber McGee & Molly and for creating the voice of the Warner Brothers cartoon character Elmer Fudd.

* Elmer Keith ( 1899 – 1984 ), firearms cartridge designer and author

* March 26 – Ian Keith, American actor ( b. 1899 )

Keith, agent of the Central Coal and Coke Company in Kansas City, Missouri, began buying virgin timber in the fall of 1899.

In 1899, Keith lost $ 1. 5 million when Hoadley and Co., a New York City broker, went bankrupt.

Chiquita Brands International, Inc. is the final name in a long list of companies whose ultimate origin was the United Fruit Company, formed in 1899 by the merging of the Boston Fruit Company and various fruit exporting concerns controlled by Minor C. Keith.

* 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.