* 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 )

* 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 roster maneuvers failed to create a powerhouse Perfectos team, as St. Louis finished fifth in both 1899 and.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

Prior to the 1899 season, Frank Robison, the Spiders owner, bought the St. Louis Browns, thus owning two clubs simultaneously.

The roster maneuvers failed to create a powerhouse Perfectos team, as St. Louis finished fifth in both 1899 and 1900.

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

* Louis Hjelmslev ( 1899 – 1965 ) developed a formalist approach to Saussure's structuralist theories.

* June 22 – Louis Chiron, Monacan Grand Prix driver ( b. 1899 )

Gibbs succeeded in interesting his European correspondents in that work, which was translated into German ( then the leading language for chemistry ) by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1892 and into French by Henri Louis Le Châtelier in 1899.

An underwater photograph taken by Louis Boutan ( Banyuls-sur-Mer, south of France, 1899 ).

* Emil Frisk ( 1874-1922 ), professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, and the St. Louis Browns from 1899 to 1907.

In 1899, St. Louis Park became the home to the Peavey – Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator, the world's first concrete, tubular grain elevator which provided an alternative to combustible wooden elevators.

* Louis Adamic ( 1899 – 1951 ), Slovene-American author and translator.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

* Major League Baseball player Louis Francis " Chief " Sockalexis ( Cleveland Spiders outfielder, 1897 – 1899, career batting average. 313 ) was born on the reservation and is buried at St. Anne Church Cemetery.

The Renault corporation was founded in 1899 as Société Renault Frères by Louis Renault and his brothers Marcel and Fernand.

In 1899, the Spiders ' owners, the Robison brothers, bought the St. Louis Browns out of bankruptcy and changed their name to the Perfectos.

* Louis Adamic, 1899 – 1951 Slovenian-American novelist and journalist who wrote about American minorities and immigrants.

Taylor went to Syracuse, New York, for the 1899 season with his friend, mentor and manager, Louis " Birdie " Munger to sign a contract with E. C. Stearns Company.

* The adventures of Louis de Rougemont ( stories from Wide World Magazine, volume 3, May 1899 & June 1899, pp. 3 – 15 and pp. 115 – 131 ).

According to an affidavit given in 1934 by Louis Darvarich, a friend of Whitehead, the two men made a motorized flight together of about half a mile in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park in April or May 1899.

Louis Lartet ( 1840 – 1899 ) was a French geologist and paleontologist.

Obituary for Louis Lartet in Revue des Pyrénées 11 ( 1899 ): 601-2.