page_title: 1899
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1899 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: Studio publicity photo of actor James Cagney.
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: July 1
  Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician (d. 1993)
  Charles Laughton, English-American stage, film actor (d. 1962)
  Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (d. 1987)
  July 4 – Austin Warren, American literary critic, author, and professor of English (d. 1986)
  July 5 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, scriptwriter (d. 1974)
  July 6 – Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian, Last remaining American born in the 1800s (d. 2016)
  July 7
  George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)
  Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (d. 1961)
  July 10 – John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)
  July 11
  Frank R. Walker, American admiral (d. 1976)
  E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
  July 12 – E. D. Nixon, African-American civil rights leader and union organizer (d. 1987)
  July 15 – Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
  July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene Expressionist, Realist and Symbolist painter, printmaker, art teacher, photographer and filmmaker (d. 1989)
  July 17 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
  July 18 – Floyd Stahl, American collegiate athletic coach (d. 1996)
  July 20 – Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf, American botanist and agronomist (d. 1989)
  July 21
  Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
  Ernest Hemingway, American author, journalist (d. 1961)
  July 22 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
  July 23 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (d. 1976)
  July 24 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor, writer and tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation (d. 1981)
  July 29
  Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
  Alice Terry, American film actress (d. 1987)
caption: James Cagney
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