* 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 ).

The term became popular again in Australia first, when George Giffen, in his memoirs ( With Bat and Ball, 1899 ), used the term as if it were well known.

* 1899 – George O ' Brien, American actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1899 – George O ' Hara, American actor ( d. 1966 )

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* 1899 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor ( d. 1981 )

* 1979 – George Brent, English actor ( b. 1899 )

* 1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor ( d. 1899 )

Most notable are the 1899 expeditions in Egypt by George A. Reisner and in Peru by archaeologist Max Uhle.

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* 1981 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, author, and poet ( b. 1899 )

In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore established the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic plays.

* October 16 – George O ' Hara, American actor ( born 1899 )

* May 26 – George Brent, Irish actor ( b. 1899 )

* September 23 – Dan George, First Nations actor ( b. 1899 )

* Article Baal ( PDF format ) by W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore in Encyclopædia Biblica, edited T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, MacMillan: London, 1899.

# George Harris, 1899 — 1912

In 1899, when China showed an interest in Aksai Chin, Britain proposed a revised boundary, initially suggested by George Macartney, which put most of Aksai Chin in Chinese territory.

On St Valentine's Day 1899 George Neller, a respected local man, died when his coat got caught in its machinery.

* 1898: A notice advertising sale of an area of land east of Cain's Lane says that " Earl Strafford " ( George Byng, 3rd Earl of Strafford ( 1830 – 1898 ) or Henry Byng, 4th Earl of Strafford ( 1831 – 1899 )) owned some adjacent land that in the 1819 map was marked as belonging to George Byng, Esq.

George West acquired ten paper mills situated along the Kayaderosseras Creek from 1862 to 1899 and became the largest manila paper manufacturer in the world.

* George Henry White, attorney, lived in Tarboro when elected in 1898 as last black from the 2nd Congressional District to the U. S. House of Representatives in the late 19th century before the disfranchising constitution was passed in 1899.