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.
- March 26 - the first electric tram in Moscow.
- Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
- August/early September-The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina
Births
February
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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)
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)
July
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- 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
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- September 3 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian physician and virologist (d. 1985)
- September 26 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
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)
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