* 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 ).

* 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer ( d. 1974 )

** Erich Kästner, German author ( b. 1899 )

* Erich von dem Bach ( 1899 – 1972 ), SS officer

Emil Erich Kästner () ( 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974 ) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.

Erich Häßler ( April 22, 1899 – December 2, 2005 ) was a German pediatrician and academic from Leipzig, Saxony.

* 1831 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

" A Few Remembrances of Friedrich von Hayek ( 1899 – 1992 )", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 69 ( 1 ), pp. 1 – 4.

" Hayek, Friedrich A von ( 1899 – 1992 )," International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 6482 – 6486.

* Biography of F. A. Hayek ( 1899 – 1992 ) and papers at the Ludwig von Mises Institute

* 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1972 )

** Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1899 )

* February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

Paul Julius Freiherr von Reuter ( Baron De Reuter ) ( July 21, 1816 – February 25, 1899 ), a German-born British entrepreneur, pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting was a journalist and media owner, and the founder of the Reuters news agency, since 2008 part of the Thomson Reuters conglomerate.

It is the U. S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck ( North Dakota ).

On 18 March, Eckardstein asked Chamberlain to resume alliance negotiations, and although the Colonial Secretary reaffirmed his support, he was unwilling to commit himself, remembering von Bülow's rebuke in 1899.

In the 1899 novel Das dritte Geschlecht ( The Third Sex ) by Ernst Ludwig von Wolzogen, feminists are portrayed as " neuters " with external female characteristics accompanied by a crippled male psyche.

Von Arnim, " Quellenstudien zu Philo von Alexandria ," 1899, pp. 101 – 140 );

1899 – 1901 ); obituary notice in The Times, January 11, 1890 ; L. von Kobell, Conversations of Dr Doellinger ( tr.

Muttergottestor ( Aufnahme von 1899 )

For example, von Oettingen recorded 47 fatal and 174 nonfatal cases of methyl bromide intoxication between 1899 and 1952 ... Severe poisoning with some fatalities resulted from soil disinfection by injection of methyl bromide into greenhouse soil.

Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli (, born Georg Leo von Caprivi ; 24 February 1831 – 6 February 1899 ) was a German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany.

** Fredrik von Essen, acting ( 1899 )

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

By 1899, François was the Chief of Staff for the IV Corps, commanded by General der Infanterie Paul von Hindenburg and based in Magdeburg.