1899

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1860s  1870s  1880s  – 1890s –  1900s  1910s  1920s
Years:	1896 1897 1898 – 1899 – 1900 1901 1902

Events

• January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
• June 19 - The United Kingdom and Egypt begin ruling Sudan together.

Date unknown

• Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
• The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina

Births

January

Al Capone

• January 17 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)

February

Cevdet Sunay

Erich Kästner

• February 10 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)
• February 17 – Priscilla Bonner, American film actress (d. 1996)
• February 23 – Erich Kästner, German children's writer (d. 1974)

March

Gloria Swanson

• March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)

April

Vladimir Nabokov

Duke Ellington

• April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
• April 29 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)

May

Fred Astaire

Kazi Nazrul Islam

• May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
• May 24 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)

July

Konstantinos Tsatsos

George Cukor

E. B. White

James Cagney

Ernest Hemingway

Sobhuza II of Swaziland

Gustav Heinemann

• July 1 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1987)
• July 7 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
• July 11 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
• July 17 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
• July 21 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (d. 1961)
• July 22 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland, King of Swaziland (d. 1982)
• July 23 – Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of Germany (d. 1976)

August

Alfred Hitchcock

Chang Myon

Charles Boyer

• August 13 – Alfred Hitchcock, English movie director (d. 1980)
• August 28 – Chang Myon, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 1966)
• August 28 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)

September

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

• September 3 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian physician and virologist (d. 1985)
• September 23 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor
• September 26 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)

October

Franz Jonas

• October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974)

November

Zalman Shazar

• November 24 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (d. 1974)
• November 29 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (d. 1995)

December

Hayato Ikeda

Humphrey Bogart

• December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
• December 19 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist preacher (d. 1984)
• December 25 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)