1899

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, .

 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 
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 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)