Year '1899' ('
MDCCCXCIX') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Friday [1]
of the 12-day-slower
Julian calendar).
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Although popular belief holds this year as the last of the Nineteenth century,
1900 was in fact technically the true last year.
Events of 1899
January - March
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January 1
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★ End of
Spanish rule in
Cuba.
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Queens and
Staten Island merge with
New York City.
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January 6 -
Lord Curzon becomes
Viceroy of India.
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January 10 -
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is founded at
Illinois Wesleyan University in
Bloomington, Illinois.
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January 17 -
United States takes possession of
Wake Island.
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January 19 -
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
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January 21 -
Opel Motors opens for business.
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January 22 - The leaders of six
Australian colonies meet in
Melbourne to discuss the confederation of
Australia as a whole.
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January 24 -
Rubber heel patented by
Humphrey O'Sullivan.
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February 2 - The
Australian Premiers' Conference held in
Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (
Canberra) should be located between
Sydney and Melbourne.
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February 4 -
Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila.
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February 6 -
Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the
United States and
Spain is ratified by the
United States Senate.
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February 12-
14 -
Great Blizzard of 1899: Freezing temperatures and
snow extend well south into North America, including southern
Florida. Many areas in the
Southeast United States achieve all-time record minimum temperatures that hold for decades, if not to the present day. It is the latest in a series of disasters to Florida's
citrus industry.
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February 14 -
Voting machines are approved by the
U.S. Congress for use in federal
elections.
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February 16 -
Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur established. The first football club in Iceland.
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March 1 - In
Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of
Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
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March 2 - In
Washington State, USA,
Mount Rainier National Park is established.
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March 4 -
Cyclone ''Mahina'' sweeps in north of
Cooktown,
Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
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March 6
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Felix Hoffmann patents
Aspirin.
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Bayer registers
aspirin as a trademark.
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March 8 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for
Eintracht Frankfurt is founded
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March 20 - At
Sing Sing,
Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an
electric chair.
April - June
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June 12 - A
tornado completely destroys the town of
New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200
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June 22–
June 27 - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by
A. E. J. Collins.
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June 25 - Three
Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government under the
Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the
Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication.
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June 27 The paperclip was first patented by
Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.
[1]
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June 30 -
Mile-a-Minute Murphy earned his famous nickname this day after he became the first man to ride a bicycle for one mile in under a minute on
Long Island.
July - September
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July 17
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★ America's first
juvenile court is established in
Chicago.
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NEC Corporation is organized as the first
Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
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★ The
French Bretonnet-
Braun mission is destroyed in the
battle of Togbao, in
Chad, by the warlord
Rabih az-Zubayr.
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July 19 -
The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2).
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July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the
Hague Convention.
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September 13 -
Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of
Mount Kenya.
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September 19 -
Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.
October - December
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October 11 -
Second Boer War begins: In
South Africa, a war between the
United Kingdom and the
Boers of the
Transvaal and
Orange Free State erupts.
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October 30 -
Augusta, KY Augusta High School Building is completed.
Augusta Methodist College shuts down.
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November 4 - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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November 8 - The
Bronx Zoo opens.
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November 16 -
Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero
Vincas Kudirka dies of
tuberculosis at age 40.
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December 2 -
Philippine-American War: The
Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
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★ During the
new moon on December 2-3, 1899, a near-grand
conjunction of the
classical planets and several
binocular Solar System bodies occurred. The
Sun,
Moon,
Mercury,
Mars and
Saturn were all within 15° of each other, with
Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and
Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction were
Uranus (technically visible unaided in
pollution-free skies),
Ceres and
Pallas.
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December 16 -
A.C. Milan, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
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December 16 -
Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure.
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December 26 -
Battle of Mafeking begins.
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December 31 - A large standing stone at
Stonehenge falls over, the last time this has happened.
Undated
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David Hilbert creates the modern concept of
geometry with the publication of his book ''Grundlagen der geometrie''.
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Gordon Douglas is ordained as a
Buddhist monk in
Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the
Theravada tradition.
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International Council of Nurses is founded.
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San Pellegrino is first bottled.
★ The significance of
oracle bones is discovered.
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Kmart is founded.
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North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of
Manteo, which was originally laid out as the
Dare county seat in
1870.
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Scott Joplin composes
Maple Leaf Rag, known as one of the most famous
ragtime pieces of all time.
Births
January - June
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January 1 -
Jack Beresford, British olympist (d.
1977)
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January 6 -
Heinrich Nordhoff, German automotive engineer, managing director of
Volkswagen (d.
1968)
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January 7 -
Francis Poulenc, French composer (d.
1963)
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January 11 -
Eva LeGallienne, English actress (d.
1991)
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January 12 -
Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1965)
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January 15 -
Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian, and writer (d.
1982)
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January 17
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Al Capone, American gangster (d.
1947)
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Nevil Shute, English author (d.
1960)
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January 21 -
John Bodkin Adams, suspected British
serial killer (d.
1983)
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January 30 -
Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1972)
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February 3
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Doris Speed, British actress (d.
1994)
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Lao She, Chinese author (d.
1966)
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February 6 -
Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d.
1968)
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February 7 -
Earl Whitehill, baseball player (d.
1954)
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February 15
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Georges Auric, French composer (d.
1983)
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Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d.
1985)
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February 22
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George O'Hara, American actor (d.
1966)
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Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d.
1986)
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Ian Clunies Ross, Australian scientist, first chair of
CSIRO(d.
1959)
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February 23 -
Erich Kästner, German writer (d.
1974)
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February 26
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Alec Campbell, Australian solider who fought in the
Battle of Gallipoli (d.
2002)
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Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d.
1994)
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February 27 -
Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d.
1978)
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March 11 - King
Frederick IX of Denmark (d.
1972)
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March 13 -
John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1980)
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March 18 -
Jean Goldkette, French-born musician (d.
1962)
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March 24 -
Dorothy C. Stratton, director of the
SPARS during
World War II (d.
2006)
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March 27 -
Gloria Swanson, American actress (d.
1983)
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March 28 -
Harold B. Lee, eleventh president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1973)
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March 29 -
Lavrenty Beria, Soviet official (d.
1953)
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April 1 -
Gustavs Celmins, Latvian fascist leader (d.
1968)
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April 7 -
Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d.
1972)
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April 21 -
Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (d.
1975)
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April 22 -
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (d.
1977)
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April 23 -
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
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April 24 -
Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (d.
1986)
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April 27 -
Walter Lantz, animated character (d.
1994}
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April 29 -
Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d.
1974)
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May 8 -
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1992)
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May 10
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Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d.
1987)
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Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d.
1979)
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May 12 -
Indra Devi, Baltic-born yogi and actress (d.
2002)
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May 15 -
Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d.
1970)
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May 24 -
Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d.
1938)
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June 1 -
Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (d.
1963)
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June 2 -
Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (d.
1981)
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June 3 -
Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1972)
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June 12 -
Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1986)
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June 13 -
Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d.
1978)
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June 14 -
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1972)
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June 27 -
Juan Trippe, airline entrepreneur and pioneer,
Pan Am founder (d.
1981)
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June 30 -
Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist (d.
1971)
July - December
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July 5 -
Marcel Achard, French play and scriptwriter (d.
1974)
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July 7 -
George Cukor, American film director (d.
1983)
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July 10 -
John Gilbert, American actor (d.
1936)
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July 11 -
E. B. White, American writer (d.
1985)
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July 15 -
Seán Lemass,
Taoiseach of Ireland (d.
1971)
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July 17 -
James Cagney, American actor (d.
1986)
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July 21
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Hart Crane, American poet (d.
1932)
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Ernest Hemingway, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1961)
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July 22 - King
Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d.
1982)
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August 4 -
Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.
1994)
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August 13 -
Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (d.
1980)
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August 24
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Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d.
1986)
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Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1983)
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August 29 -
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Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (d.
1988)
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Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d.
1991)
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August 30 -
Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer, was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (d.
1994)
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September 1 -
Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, Russian-born writer of the Soviet period (d.
1951)
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September 3 -
Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1985)
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September 9
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Brassaï, French photographer (d.
1984)
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Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d.
1984)
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September 13 -
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian fascist politician, leader of the
Iron Guard (d.
1938)
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September 21 -
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of
The Salvation Army (d.
1986)
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October 1 -
Ernest Haycox, American writer (d.
1950)
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October 3 -
Gertrude Berg, American actress (d.
1966)
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October 19 -
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1974)
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October 20 -
Evelyn Brent, American actress (d.
1975)
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November 15
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Avdy Andresson, Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d.
1990)
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Iskander Mirza, first
President of Pakistan (d.
1969)
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November 17 -
Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer (d.
1971)
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November 18 -
Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d.
1985)
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November 21 -
Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d.
1967)
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December 2 -
John Barbirolli, English conductor (d.
1970)
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December 3 -
Hayato Ikeda,
Prime Minister of Japan (d.
1965)
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December 9 -
Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (d.
1937)
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December 15 -
Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d.
1978)
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December 16 -
Noel Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d.
1973)
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December 18 -
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d.
1990)
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December 25 -
Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d.
1957)
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December 28 -
Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d.
1943)
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December 29 -
Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (d.
1992)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d.
1973)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 23 -
Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b.
1831)
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February 6
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Leo von Caprivi,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1831)
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★ Prince
Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b.
1874)
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February 16 -
Félix Faure,
President of France (b.
1841)
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February 25 -
Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b.
1816)
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March 6 -
Princess Kaiulani of
Hawaii, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b.
1875)
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April 5 -
T. E. Ellis, Welsh politician (b.
1859)
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June 3 -
Johann Strauss, Jr., Austrian composer (b.
1825)
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June 10 -
Ernest Chausson, French composer (b.
1855)
July - December
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July 18 -
Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b.
1832)
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July 21 -
Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician (b.
1833)
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August 16 -
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b.
1811)
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September 12 -
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (b.
1843)
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September 17 -
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (b.
1842)
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October 2 -
Percy Pilcher, aviation pioneer & glider pilot, (b.
1866)
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October 30 -
William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b.
1816)
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November 21 -
Garret A. Hobart, 24th
Vice President of the United States (b.
1844)
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November 24 -
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b.
1846)
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December 10 - King
Ngwane V of Swaziland (b.
1876)
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December 22 -
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b.
1837)
: ''See also .''
Notes
1.
"Calendar in year 1899 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1899
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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