Birthdays In History 1899

1899 Heinrich Nordhoff German engineer (d. 1968)

1899 Francis Poulenc French pianist and composer (d. 1963)

1899 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Sri Lankan lawyer and politician 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)

1899 Harald Tammer Estonian journalist and weightlifter (d. 1942)

1899 Eva Le Gallienne English-American actress director and producer (d. 1991)

1899 Pierre Bernac French opera singer and educator (d. 1979)

1899 Paul Hermann Müller Swiss chemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

1899 Carlos P. Romulo Filipino soldier and politician President of the United Nations General Assembly (d. 1985)

1899 Robert Maynard Hutchins American philosopher and academic (d. 1977)

1899 Nevil Shute English engineer and author (d. 1960)

1899 Clarice Cliff English potter (d. 1972)

1899 Kenjiro Takayanagi Japanese engineer (d. 1990)

1899 John Bodkin Adams British general practitioner and convict (d. 1983)

1899 Gyula Mándi Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1969)

1899 Alexander Tcherepnin Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1977)

1899 Martti Haavio Finnish poet and mythologist (d. 1973)

1899 Glen Kidston English racing driver and pilot (d. 1931)

1899 Hoyt Vandenberg U.S. Air Force general (d. 1954)

1899 Sleepy John Estes American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1977)

1899 Paul-Henri Spaak Belgian lawyer and politician 46th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1972)

1899 Günther Reindorff Russian-Estonian graphic designer and illustrator (d. 1974)

1899 Max Theiler South African-American virologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

1899 Café Filho Brazilian journalist lawyer and politician 18th President of Brazil (d. 1970)

1899 Virginia M. Alexander American physician and founder of the Aspiranto Health Home (d. 1949)

1899 Lonnie Johnson American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)

1899 Georges Auric French composer (d. 1983)

1899 Gale Sondergaard Danish-American actress (d. 1985)

1899 Jibanananda Das Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author (d. 1954)

1899 Arthur Bryant English historian and journalist (d. 1985)

1899 Lucio Fontana Argentinian-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)

1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1992)

1899 George O'Hara American actor and screenwriter (d. 1966)

1899 Erich Kästner German author and poet (d. 1974)

1899 Norman Taurog American director and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1899 Charles Herbert Best American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)

1899 Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski German SS officer (d. 1972)

1899 Peter Illing Austrian born British film and television actor (d. 1966)

1899 Emilio Prados Spanish poet and author (d. 1962)

1899 Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)

1899 James H. Douglas Jr. American lawyer and politician United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 1988)

1899 Ramón Muttis Argentine footballer (d. 1955)

1899 John Hasbrouck Van Vleck American physicist and mathematician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

1899 Pancho Vladigerov Bulgarian pianist and composer (d. 1978)

1899 K. C. Irving Canadian businessman founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)

1899 Panagiotis Pipinelis Greek politician Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1970)

1899 Ruth Page American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991)

1899 Dora Gerson German actress and singer (d. 1943)

1899 François Rozet French-Canadian actor (d. 1994)

1899 Francis Ponge French poet and author (d. 1988)

1899 Herbert Arthur Stuart German-Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1974)

1899 Gussie Busch American businessman (d. 1989)

1899 Buck Shaw American football player and coach (d. 1977)

1899 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Indian author playwright and screenwriter (d. 1970)

1899 Gustavs Celmiņš Latvian academic and politician (d. 1968)

1899 Hillel Oppenheimer German-Israeli botanist and academic (d. 1971)

1899 Alfred Blalock American surgeon and academic (d. 1964)

1899 Robert Casadesus French pianist and composer (d. 1972)

1899 Alfred Mosher Butts American architect and game designer created Scrabble (d. 1993)

1899 Harold Osborn American high jumper and decathlete (d. 1975)

1899 Osman Achmatowicz Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)

1899 Aleksander Klumberg Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958)

1899 George O'Brien American actor (d. 1985)

1899 Cemal Tollu Turkish lieutenant and painter (d. 1968)

1899 Randall Thompson American composer and academic (d. 1984)

1899 Bertil Ohlin Swedish economist and politician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

1899 Minoru Shirota Japanese physician and microbiologist invented Yakult (d. 1982)

1899 Oscar Zariski Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)

1899 Oscar Rabin Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1958)

1899 Walter Lantz American animator producer screenwriter and actor (d. 1994)

1899 Mary Petty American illustrator (d. 1976)

1899 Freeman Gosden American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)

1899 Alfred Gerrard English sculptor and academic (d. 1998)

1899 Arthur Q. Bryan American actor voice actor comedian and radio personality (d. 1959)

1899 Friedrich Hayek Austrian economist and philosopher Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)

1899 Jacques Heim French fashion designer (d. 1967)

1899 Charlotte Auerbach German-Scottish folklorist geneticist and zoologist (d. 1994)

1899 Pierre Victor Auger French physicist and academic (d. 1993)

1899 Earle Combs American baseball player and coach (d. 1976)

1899 Jean Étienne Valluy French general (d. 1970)

1899 Carmen de Icaza Spanish writer (d. 1979)

1899 Lothar Rădăceanu Romanian journalist linguist and politician (d. 1955)

1899 Aleksandr Deyneka Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1969)

1899 John Marshall Harlan II American lawyer and jurist (d. 1971)

1899 Jeralean Talley American super-centenarian (d. 2015)

1899 Henri Michaux Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984)

1899 Kazi Nazrul Islam Bengali poet author and flute player (d. 1976)

1899 Antonio Barrette Canadian lawyer and politician 18th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)

1899 Muriel McQueen Fergusson Canadian lawyer and politician Canadian Speaker of the Senate (d. 1997)

1899 Johannes Türn Estonian chess and draughts player (d. 1993)

1899 Douglas Abbott Canadian lawyer and politician 10th Canadian Minister of Defence (d. 1987)

1899 Irving Thalberg American screenwriter and producer (d. 1936)

1899 Lotte Reiniger German animator and director (d. 1981)

1899 Edwin Way Teale American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980)

1899 Georg von Békésy Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

1899 Otis Barton American diver engineer and actor designed the bathysphere (d. 1992)

1899 Theippan Maung Wa Burmese writer (d. 1942)

1899 Elizabeth Bowen Anglo-Irish author and critic (d. 1973)

1899 Eugène Lapierre Canadian organist composer and arts administrator (d. 1970)

1899 Ernst-Robert Grawitz German physician (d. 1945)

1899 Stanisław Czaykowski Polish racing driver (d. 1933)

1899 Yasunari Kawabata Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

1899 Fritz Albert Lipmann German-American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)

1899 Weegee Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1968)

1899 Carlos Chávez Mexican composer conductor and journalist founded the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (d. 1978)

1899 Helen Traubel American operatic soprano (d. 1972)

1899 Jean Moulin French soldier and engineer (d. 1943)

1899 Pavel Haas Czech composer (d. 1944)

1899 Richard Gurley Drew American engineer invented Masking tape (d. 1980)

1899 Michał Kalecki Polish economist and academic (d. 1970)

1899 Amédée Gordini Italian-born French race car driver and sports car manufacturer (d. 1979)

1899 Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)

1899 Juan Trippe American businessman founded Pan American World Airways (d. 1981)

1899 Madge Bellamy American actress (d. 1990)

1899 Thomas A. Dorsey American pianist and composer (d. 1993)

1899 Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek scholar and politician President of Greece (d. 1987)

1899 Marcel Achard French playwright screenwriter and author (d. 1974)

1899 Susannah Mushatt Jones American supercentarian (d. 2016)

1899 John Gilbert American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1936)

1899 Heiri Suter Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)

1899 Wilfrid Israel German businessman and philanthropist (d. 1943)

1899 Seán Lemass Irish soldier and politician 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)

1899 Ernst Scheller German soldier and politician 8th Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)

1899 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay Indian physician author poet and playwright (d. 1979)

1899 Hart Crane American poet (d. 1932)

1899 Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)

1899 Gustav Heinemann German lawyer and politician 3rd President of West Germany (d. 1976)

1899 Chief Dan George Canadian actor (d. 1981)

1899 Percy Hornibrook Australian cricketer (d. 1976)

1899 Walter Beall American baseball player (d. 1959)

1899 Gerald Moore English pianist (d. 1987)

1899 Raymond Mays English race car driver and businessman (d. 1980)

1899 Charles Bennett English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)

1899 Louis Chiron Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)

1899 Ezra Taft Benson American religious leader 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)

1899 P. L. Travers Australian-English author and actress (d. 1996)

1899 Ben Sealey Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1963)

1899 José Ramón Guizado Panamanian politician 17th President of Panama (d. 1964)

1899 Colleen Moore American actress (d. 1988)

1899 Albert Claude Belgian biologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)

1899 Paul Herman Buck American historian and author (d. 1978)

1899 C. S. Forester English novelist (d. 1966)

1899 Charles Boyer French-American actor singer and producer (d. 1978)

1899 Béla Guttmann Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 1981)

1899 Andrei Platonov Russian author and poet (d. 1951)

1899 James Wong Howe Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)

1899 Richard Arlen American actor (d. 1976)

1899 Frank Macfarlane Burnet Australian virologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

1899 Humphrey Cobb American author and screenwriter (d. 1944)

1899 Helen Creighton Canadian author and educator (d. 1989)

1899 Billy Rose American composer and manager (d. 1966)

1899 Neil Hamilton American stage film and television actor (d. 1984)

1899 Waite Hoyt American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1984)

1899 Bruno E. Jacob American academic founded the National Forensic League (d. 1979)

1899 Philipp Bouhler German politician (d. 1945)

1899 Jimmie Davis American singer-songwriter and politician 47th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2000)

1899 Anton Koolmann Estonian wrestler and coach (d. 1953)

1899 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian politician (d. 1938)

1899 Hans Swarowsky Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (d. 1975)

1899 Leo Strauss German-American political scientist philosopher and academic (d. 1973)

1899 Frederick Coutts Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)

1899 Elsie Allen Native American Pomo basket weaver (d. 1990)

1899 Tom C. Clark American lawyer and judge 59th Attorney General of the United States (d. 1977)

1899 Louise Nevelson American sculptor (d. 1988)

1899 William Dobell Australian painter (d. 1970)

1899 Bessie Braddock British politician (d. 1970)

1899 Udumalai Narayana Kavi Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)

1899 László Bíró Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985)

1899 Billy Butlin South African-English businessman founded Butlins (d. 1980)

1899 Ernest Haycox American author (d. 1950)

1899 Gertrude Berg American actress screenwriter and producer (d. 1966)

1899 Elda Anderson American physicist and health researcher (d. 1961)

1899 Bruce Catton American historian and author (d. 1978)

1899 Eddie Dyer American baseball player and manager (d. 1964)

1899 Piero Dusio Italian footballer businessman and racing driver (d. 1975)

1899 Adolf Brudes Polish-German racing driver (d. 1986)

1899 Salarrué Salvadoran writer and painter (d. 1975)

1899 Bernt Balchen Norwegian aviator (d. 1973)

1899 Teikō Shiotani Japanese photographer (d. 1988)

1899 Armand Thirard French cinematographer (d. 1973)

1899 Judy Johnson American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)

1899 Akim Tamiroff Georgian-American actor (d. 1972)

1899 Ralph Greenleaf American billiards player (d. 1950)

1899 Rezső Seress Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1968)

1899 Gleb Wataghin Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (d. 1986)

1899 Margaret Atwood Judson American historian and author (d. 1991)

1899 Yitzhak Lamdan Russian-Israeli journalist and poet (d. 1954)

1899 Kate Seredy Hungarian-American author and illustrator (d. 1975)

1899 Pat O'Brien American actor (d. 1983)

1899 Iskander Mirza Pakistani general and politician 1st President of Pakistan (d. 1969)

1899 Avdy Andresson Estonian-American soldier and diplomat Estonian Minister of War (d. 1990)

1899 Mary Margaret McBride American radio host (d. 1976)

1899 Douglas Shearer Canadian-American engineer (d. 1971)

1899 Eugene Ormandy Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (d. 1985)

1899 Howard Thurman American author philosopher and civil rights activist (d. 1981)

1899 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)

1899 Allen Tate American poet and critic (d. 1979)

1899 Alicja Kotowska Polish nun (d. 1939)

1899 Jobyna Ralston American actress (d. 1967)

1899 Harekrushna Mahatab Indian journalist and politician 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 1987)

1899 Hoagy Carmichael American singer-songwriter pianist and actor (d. 1981)

1899 Manuel dos Reis Machado Brazilian martial artist and educator (d. 1974)

1899 Ward Morehouse American author playwright and critic (d. 1966)

1899 Richard Hauptmann German-American murderer (d. 1936)

1899 Andrija Artuković Croatian Minister of Interior (d. 1988)

1899 Emma Morano Italian supercentenarian oldest Italian person ever (d. 2017)

1899 John Barbirolli English cellist and conductor (d. 1970)

1899 John Cobb English race car driver and pilot (d. 1952)

1899 Ray Morehart American baseball player (d. 1989)

1899 Hayato Ikeda Japanese politician 58th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)

1899 Howard Kinsey American tennis player (d. 1966)

1899 Karl-Günther Heimsoth German physician and politician (d. 1934)

1899 Charlie Spencer English footballer and manager (d. 1953)

1899 Arthur Leslie English-Welsh actor and playwright (d. 1970)

1899 John Qualen Canadian-American actor (d. 1987)

1899 Jean de Brunhoff French author and illustrator (d. 1937)

1899 Julio de Caro Argentinian violinist composer and conductor (d. 1980)

1899 DeFord Bailey American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (d. 1982)

1899 Harold Abrahams English sprinter lawyer and journalist (d. 1978)

1899 Peter Wessel Zapffe Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990)

1899 Martin Luther King Sr. American pastor missionary and activist (d. 1984)

1899 Martyn Lloyd-Jones Welsh preacher and physician (d. 1981)

1899 Gustaf Gründgens German actor and director (d. 1963)

1899 Helge Ingstad Norwegian explorer lawyer and politician 2nd Governor of Svalbard (d. 2001)

1899 Silvestre Revueltas Mexican violinist composer and conductor (d. 1940)

1899 Ramon Novarro Mexican-American actor singer and director (d. 1968)

1899 Max Petitpierre Swiss jurist and politician 54th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1994)

1899 E.D. Nixon American civil rights leader (d. 1987)

1899 Alan Arnett McLeod Canadian lieutenant Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)

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