Famous Birthdays for Year 1899

Months in Year 1899: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 338

Jan 1st - Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer
Jan 1st - Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist (Po Zakonu)
Jan 1st - Raymond Loucheur, composer
Jan 2nd - Alexander Tcherepnin, St Petersburg Russia, composer
Jan 2nd - Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/sec-gen of NATO (1957-61)
Jan 6th - Phyllis Haver, Douglas KS, silent screen actress (What Price Glory)
Jan 7th - Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, Paris, composer/pianist (Les Biches)
Jan 7th - Kenneth Thomson, Pitts, actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant)
Jan 8th - Solomon WRD Bandaranaike, premier of Ceylon (1956-59)
Jan 11th - Eva Le Gallienne, English-American actress (d. 1991)
Jan 12th - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
Jan 12th - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
Jan 13th - Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
Jan 14th - Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo)
Jan 14th - Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985)
Jan 15th - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
Jan 17th - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
Jan 17th - Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
Jan 17th - Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
Gangster Al Capone (Jan 17th) Jan 17th - Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
Jan 19th - [John] Herbert Whitton Sumsion, organist/composer
Jan 20th - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer
Jan 20th - Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
Jan 22nd - Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
Jan 23rd - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
Jan 23rd - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
Jan 25th - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
Jan 26th - Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
Jan 27th - Granville English, composer
Jan 28th - Zilner T Randolph, jazz trumpeter/arranger
Jan 28th - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
Jan 30th - Max Theiler, English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)
Feb 2nd - Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
Feb 3rd - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street)
Feb 3rd - Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
Feb 3rd - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
Feb 3rd - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
Feb 6th - Ramon Novarro, [Jose RG Samaniegos], Durango Mexico, actor (Ben Hur)
Feb 7th - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
Feb 12th - Albert Huybrechts, composer
Feb 14th - John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
Feb 15th - Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
Feb 15th - Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
Feb 15th - Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
Feb 18th - Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II)
Feb 19th - Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
Feb 20th - Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways)
Feb 20th - Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
Feb 22nd - Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
Feb 22nd - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
Feb 22nd - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
Feb 23rd - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
Feb 23rd - Norman Taurog, American film director (d. 1981)
Feb 24th - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
Feb 25th - Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist
Feb 26th - Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
Feb 27th - Charles H Best, Maine, physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)
Feb 27th - Ian Keith, Boston MA, actor (Rochefort-3 Musketeers)
Feb 27th - Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer
Feb 27th - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)
Feb 28th - Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
Mar 1st - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
Mar 2nd - Pattie Maie Menzies, Australian dame
Mar 3rd - Alfred M Gruenther, US, commanding general (NATO, 1953-56)
Mar 3rd - Juri Olescha, writer
Mar 4th - Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
Mar 5th - Patrick Hadley, composer
Mar 8th - Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
Mar 8th - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)
Mar 10th - Finn Hoffding, composer
Mar 10th - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
Mar 11th - Frederick IX, [Christian FFMKWG], King of Denmark (1947-72)
Mar 13th - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
Mar 13th - Jan Lechoń, Polish poet (d. 1956)
Mar 14th - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
Mar 15th - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
Mar 18th - Lavrenti Beria, chief of Soviet secret police under Stalin
Mar 23rd - Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
Mar 25th - Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
Mar 25th - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
Mar 25th - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
Mar 26th - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
Mar 26th - William Baines, composer
Actress Gloria Swanson (Mar 27th) Mar 27th - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
Mar 28th - Harold B. Lee, American religious leader (d. 1973)
Mar 28th - August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive (d. 1989)
Mar 28th - Buck Shaw, American football coach (d. 1977)
Mar 30th - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
Mar 30th - Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, well known Bengali writer (d. 1970)
Apr 1st - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
Apr 3rd - Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
Apr 3rd - David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
Apr 4th - William Brann, cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23)
Apr 5th - William Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
Apr 7th - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)
Apr 11th - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
Apr 13th - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
Apr 13th - Alfred Moser Butts, game inventor (Scrabble)
Apr 13th - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
Apr 16th - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
Apr 17th - Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist
Apr 19th - George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
Apr 21st - Clement D'Hooghe, composer
Apr 21st - Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Trip to Nahant)
Apr 22nd - Martyn Green, London, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh)
Apr 23rd - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg, Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
Apr 24th - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
Apr 26th - Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, TX, actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)
Apr 29th - Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take "A" Train)
Apr 29th - Karl Yngve Skold, composer
Apr 29th - Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
Apr 30th - Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels)
Apr 30th - Lucie Mannheim, Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps)
May 3rd - Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
May 5th - Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
May 6th - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)
May 8th - Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
May 8th - [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
May 8th - Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959)
May 9th - Edward Pollock, saxophone/clarinet
May 10th - Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
May 10th - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
May 11th - Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
May 12th - Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
May 14th - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
May 14th - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
May 15th - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
May 17th - Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off)
May 19th - Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright
May 20th - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
May 20th - John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
May 20th - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
May 21st - Ilse Lagner, writer
May 21st - Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
May 24th - Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
May 24th - Henri Michaux, French poet (d. 1984)
May 25th - Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (d. 1976)
May 26th - Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian
May 26th - Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal
May 26th - Antonio Barrette, French Canadian politician (d. 1968)
May 31st - Leonid Leonow, writer
Jun 1st - Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
Jun 1st - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
Jun 2nd - Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)
Jun 3rd - Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961)
Jun 4th - Leo Spies, composer
Jun 4th - Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
Jun 7th - Elizabeth Bowen, Dublin, novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters)
Jun 10th - Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
Jun 11th - George Frederick McKay, composer