page_title: 1899
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1899 / Births / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Lillian Bounds Disney at Schiphol Airport, 1951
context_page_description: 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini 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. As of the start of 1899, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: February 2 – Herbie Faye, American actor (d. 1980)
  February 3
  Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil (d. 1970)
  Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966)
  Doris Speed, British actress (d. 1994)
  Mildred Trotter, American forensic anthropologist (d. 1991)
  February 4 – Virginia M. Alexander, African-American physician (d. 1949)
  February 6 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)
  February 7 – Earl Whitehill, American baseball player (d. 1954)
  February 10 – Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)
  February 15
  Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)
  Lillian Disney, American artist (d. 1997)
  Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)
  February 17
  Jibanananda Das, Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (d. 1954)
  Leo Najo, American baseball player (d. 1978)
  February 18 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (d. 1985)
  February 19 – Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, German scientist (d. 1961)
  February 22
  Joseph Le Brix, French aviator, naval officer (d. 1931)
  Margarito Flores García, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (d. 1927)
  George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
  Ian Clunies Ross, Australian scientist (d. 1959)
  Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
  February 23 – Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
  February 24 – Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (d. 1985)
  February 26
  Alec Campbell, Australian WWI soldier, last Australian Gallipoli veteran (d. 2002)
  Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
  February 27 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
caption: Lillian Disney
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