* 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 ).

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

* 1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

* 1899 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1899 – William Dobell, Australian painter ( d. 1970 )

* April 23 – P. L. Travers, Australian writer ( b. 1899 )

* November 10 – Syd Coventry, Australian footballer ( b. 1899 )

* Austin Woodbury ( 1899 – 1979 ), Australian Catholic philosopher

* Croft, Julian ( 2000 ) ' Norway, Nevil Shute ( 1899 – 1960 )' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

The earliest specific Australian reference is a printed recipe from between 1899 and 1907.

* Charles Lee ( Australian politician ), Minister for Justice ( New South Wales ), 1898 – 1899, and Secretary for Public Works, 1899

At the end of 1897 he was sent to the Australian Station to command, where in 1899 it fell to him to manage the tensions with Germany and the USA over the Samoan Islands, earning him his promotion to captain.

The bird has been depicted on postage stamps in Palau and the Solomon Islands, and has also appeared as a character in Australian children's literature, such as Dot and the Kangaroo ( 1899 ), Blinky Bill Grows Up ( 1935 ), and Willie Wagtail and Other tales ( 1929 ).

* James Smith ( Australian rules footballer ) ( 1899 – 1974 ), Australian rules footballer for Richmond Football Club

In the Australian state of Queensland, the power to arrest is granted by s. 546 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Code Act 1899.

Drysdale, William Dobell ( 1899 – 1970 ), Eric Thake ( 1904 – 1982 ) and the cartoonist Paul Rigby ( 1924 – 2006 ) helped to shape the visual archetype of the plain, hearty Australian.

The Australian Labor Party was the world's first elected socialist party when the party won the 1899 Queensland state election.

On 1 December 1899 Anderson Dawson of the Australian Labor Party became the Premier of Queensland, Australia, forming the world's first parliamentary socialist government.

* Richard Deodatus Poulett Harris ( 1817 – 1899 ), English / Australian educator

* John Campbell Ross ( 1899 – 2009 ), at the time of his death Australia's oldest man and the last Australian veteran of the First World War

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, ( 3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985 ), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology.

* John Farnsworth Hall ( born 1899 ), Australian conductor and violinist