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, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade.

1899 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1899 MDCCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2652
Armenian calendar	1348 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6649
Bahá'í calendar	55–56
Balinese saka calendar	1820–1821
Bengali calendar	1306
Berber calendar	2849
British Regnal year	62 Vict. 1 – 63 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2443
Burmese calendar	1261
Byzantine calendar	7407–7408
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4595 or 4535     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4596 or 4536
Coptic calendar	1615–1616
Discordian calendar	3065
Ethiopian calendar	1891–1892
Hebrew calendar	5659–5660
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1955–1956
- Shaka Samvat	1820–1821
- Kali Yuga	4999–5000
Holocene calendar	11899
Igbo calendar	899–900
Iranian calendar	1277–1278
Islamic calendar	1316–1317
Japanese calendar	Meiji 32 (明治３２年)
Javanese calendar	1828–1829
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4232
Minguo calendar	13 before ROC 民前13年
Nanakshahi calendar	431
Thai solar calendar	2441–2442
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 2025 or 1644 or 872     — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 2026 or 1645 or 873

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

Al Capone

• January 17 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)

February

Cevdet Sunay

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)

March

Gloria Swanson

• March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)

April

Vladimir Nabokov

Duke Ellington

• April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
• April 29 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)

May

Fred Astaire

Kazi Nazrul Islam

• May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
• May 24 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)

June

July

Konstantinos Tsatsos

George Cukor

E. B. White

James Cagney

Ernest Hemingway

Sobhuza II of Swaziland

Gustav Heinemann

• 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

Alfred Hitchcock

Chang Myon

Charles Boyer

• 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

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

• 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

Franz Jonas

• October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974)

November

Zalman Shazar

• November 24 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (d. 1974)
• November 29 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (d. 1995)

December

Hayato Ikeda

Humphrey Bogart

• 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)