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1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade.
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
- January 17 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
February
- 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
- March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
April
- April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- April 29 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
May
- May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
- May 24 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)
June
July
- 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
- 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
- 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
- October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974)
November
- November 24 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (d. 1974)
- November 29 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (d. 1995)
December
- 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)