page_title: 1899
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1899 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Studio publicity portrait for film You'll Never Get Rich (1941).
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: May 3 – Aline MacMahon, American actress (d. 1991)
  May 6 – Billy Cotton, British entertainer, bandleader (d. 1969)
  May 8
  Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality (d. 1959)
  Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
  May 10
  Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)
  Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
  May 12 – Indra Devi, Baltic-born yogi, and actress (d. 2002)
  May 15 – Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
  May 17 – Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (d. 1979)
  May 18 – Ronald Armstrong-Jones, Welsh barrister (d. 1966)
  May 20 – John Marshall Harlan II, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1971)
  May 23 – Jeralean Talley, American supercentenarian (d. 2015)
  May 24
  Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
  Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi national poet (d. 1976)
  May 26 – Ruth Bird, English historian and schoolteacher. (d. 1987)
  May 30 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
caption: Fred Astaire
exif: {}