* 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 ).

* 1981 – Norman Taurog, American director ( b. 1899 )

* April 7 – Norman Taurog, American film director ( b. 1899 )

In 1899, Northern Pacific Railway developer Nelson Bennett began laying track from the town of Fairhaven, northwest on Bellingham Bay, and real estate developer Norman R. Kelley platted a new town of Sedro on high ground a mile northwest of Cook's site.

* William Hunt, The English Church: From its Foundation to the Norman Conquest ( 597-1066 ), Volume I of a 7 volume set by various authors, AMS Press, New York, reprint, originally published in 1899 by Macmillan, London, hardcover, 444 pages

Pollock ( 1891, + 3-2 = 3 ), Emanuel Lasker ( 1892 / 93, + 2-6 = 2 ), Jacob Halpern ( 1893, + 5-3 = 1 ), Adolf Albin ( 1894, + 10-7-8 ), Dawid Janowski ( 1898, + 2-7 = 4 ; 1899, + 4-2 = 0 and + 4-2 = 1 ; 1916, + 2-7 = 2 ), Borislav Kostic ( 1915, + 2-7 = 5 ), and Norman T. Whitaker ( 1916, + 6-1 = 0 ).

In 1899, mountaineer J. Norman Collie named the mountain after Hugh Stutfield, who climbed with Collie during his exploration of the Canadian Rockies.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

Their son, Norman Chandler ( 1899 – 1973 ), also became publisher of the newspaper.

Thornton was incorporated into the city of Bradford in 1899, but was mentioned in the Domesday Book of the 11th century, when it had been laid waste by William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, punishment for an uprising against the Norman invaders of 1066.

Norman Harvey VC ( 6 April 1899 – 16 February 1942 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Norman Eckley Edsall ( 3 June 1873 – 1 April 1899 ) was a sailor in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War.

Originally known as Albion Motor Car Company Ltd, the company was founded in 1899 by Thomas Blackwood Murray and Norman Osborne Fulton ( both of whom had previously been involved in Arrol-Johnston ) they were joined a couple of years later by John F Henderson who provided additional capital.

* 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 )

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 – 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.