* 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.

Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He < sup > 2 +</ sup > ions.

The first mention of an arcological structure might be in H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes, published in 1899.

The first group arrived in 1898 and throughout late 1898 to early 1899 Western Bahá ’ ís sporadically visited ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

In 1899 the British Isles touring side returned to Australia for the first time since the unofficial tour of 1888.

They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.

Following the purchase of of prime pampas wheat fields, Bunge & Born established Centenera, their first food processing plant, in 1899.

Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 – 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

The French navy, an extensive user of torpedo boats, built its first torpedo boat destroyer in 1899, with the Durandal-class ' torpilleur d ' escadre '.

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

In his famous series of lectures Talks to Teachers on Psychology, published in 1899 and now regarded as the first educational psychology textbook, James defines education as " the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior ”.

The first cinema in Poland ( then occupied by the Russian Empire ) was founded in Łódź in 1899, several years after the invention of the Cinematograph.

American Mutoscope and Biograph was the first known company to use this, for the Jeffries-Sharkey fight on November 3, 1899.

* 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.

The Finns called the integration policy " the first period of oppression, 1899 – 1905.

After 1899 Finnish-Russian relations worsened, and plans for disengagement from Russia or sovereignty for Finland were drawn up for the first time.

In 1899, the banana industry in Honduras was growing rapidly and the peaceful transfer of power from Policarpo Bonilla to General Terencio Sierra would mark the first time in decades that such a constitutional transition had taken place.

It was first published as a three-part serial, February, March, and April of 1899, in Blackwood's Magazine ( February 1899 was the magazine's 1000th issue: special edition ).

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In 1899, Carter was appointed the first chief inspector of the Egyptian Antiquities Service ( EAS ).

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.