* 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 ).

* May 11 – Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland ( b. 1899 )

One of the more notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland was Seán Lemass ( 1899 – 1971 ), who served as Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966.

Seán Francis Lemass ( 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971 ) was one of the most prominent Irish politicians of the 20th century.

* Seán Lemass ( 15 July 1899 – 11 May 1971 ), Fianna Fáil politician and third Taoiseach of Ireland from 1959 until 1966.

* 11 May-Seán Lemass, Fianna Fáil TD and founder member, Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach ( born 1899 ).

* 1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.

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

** Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist ( b. 1899 )

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

Clarence Rook, in his 1899 book, Hooligan Nights, claimed that the word came from Patrick Hoolihan ( or Hooligan ), an Irish bouncer and thief who lived in London.

His wife Elena died in 1897 and in 1899 he married Nina Boucicault ( Nina was a first cousin of her namesake, Nina Boucicault, the celebrated Irish stage and film actress ), who helped him entertain on a lavish scale.

James Augustine " Jimmy " O ' Dea ( 26 April 1899 – 7 January 1965 ) was an Irish actor and comedian.

Micheál Mac Liammóir ( 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978 ), born Alfred Willmore, was an English-born Irish actor, dramatist, impresario, writer, poet and painter.

The outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 was condemned by both Irish factions, their combined opposition helped to bring about a measure of understanding between them.

* Irish Department of Agriculture Act and Technical Instructors Act ( 1899 ) ( initiative of Horace Plunkett )

However, it was in the last decade of the century that the Irish theatre finally came of age with the emergence of George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde and the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre.

A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn.

In 1899 the Irish FA also changed its rules governing the selection of non-resident players.

On 4 March 1899 for the game against Wales, McAteer included four Irish players based in England.

The ninth Earl was elected an Irish Representative Peer in 1899.

The seventeenth Baron, son of the sixteenth, sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire South and was an Irish Representative Peer from 1893 to 1899.

He was an Irish Representative Peer from 1898 to 1937 and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Westmeath from 1899 to 1937.

He became interested in Irish nationalism after meeting Arthur Griffith in 1899, and contributed propaganda pieces to The United Irishman over subsequent years.

The government passed three major pieces of Irish legislation in four years: apart from the Local Government Act, these were the Land Law ( Ireland ) Act 1896 and the Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( Ireland ) Act 1899.

George Brent ( 15 March 1899 – 26 May 1979 ) was an Irish film and television actor in American cinema.