Major Events
- Jan 24 Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan
- Mar 6 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) is patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
- Oct 30 Battle of Ladysmith, Natal: Boers defeat the British, leading to the Siege of Ladysmith
- More 1899 Events
1899 in Sport
- Jun 3 W. G. Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days
- Oct 10 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
Al Capone
Lavrentiy Beria
Pieter Menten
E. B. White
Ernest Hemingway
Jorge Luis Borges
Fred Astaire
George Cukor
James Cagney
Alfred Hitchcock
Noël Coward
Humphrey Bogart
Ina Boyle
Duke Ellington
Eugene Ormandy
Hoagy Carmichael
Leo Diegel
Suzanne Lenglen
Clarence KummerMore People Born in 1899
Fun Fact About 1899
1st known use of the word "automobile", appears in an editorial in The New York Times
Robert Bunsen
Ernest RenshawMore 1899 Deaths
Famous Weddings in 1899
- Feb 10 Future US President Herbert Hoover (24) marries college sweetheart Lou Henry (24) in Monterey California
- Aug 24 American businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess (29ish), until her death in 1910
- Nov 9 US Admiral of the Navy George Dewey (61) weds Mildred McLean Hazen at the rectory St. Paul's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.
Nicholas II
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Wilhelm II
William McKinley