Famous People Born in 1899

Birthdays 1 - 200 of 380

Al Capone (1899-1947)

Jan 17 American gangster (Chicago bootlegging), born in Brooklyn, New York

Jan 17 Nevil Shute [Norway], English-Australian novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice), born in London, England (d. 1960)
Jan 17 Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educational philosopher (University of Chicago), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1977)
Jan 17 Roel Houwink, Dutch writer and poet (1 Man Without Character), born in Breda (d. 1987)
Jan 19 Herbert Sumsion, English organist and composer (Gloucester cathedral), born in Gloucester, England (d. 1995)
Jan 20 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer, born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka (d. 1990)
Jan 21 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian pianist and composer, born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1977)
Jan 21 Lido Manetti [Arnold Kent], Italian-born American actor (Quo Vardis), born in Florence (d. 1928)
Jan 22 Guido Kisch, Czech-American Jewish historian (Jews in medieval Germany), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1985)
Jan 23 Glen Kidston, British aviator & racing driver, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1931)
Jan 23 Joseph Nathan Kane, American non-fiction writer & journalist (Famous Firsts), born in NYC, New York (d. 2002)
Jan 25 "Sleepy" John Estes, American blues musician, born in Ripley, Tennessee (d. 1977)
Jan 26 Wyllis Cooper, American TV narrator (Volume One), born in Pekin, Illinois (d. 1955)
Jan 27 Béla Guttmann, Hungarian soccer midfielder (4 caps; MTK Hungária, Hakoah Wien) and coach (Benfica, AC Milan, FC Porto; Hungary, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, Portugal), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1981)
Jan 27 Granville English, American composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1968)
Jan 27 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, Finnish composer, born in Pyhtää (d. 1976)
Jan 28 Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
Jan 28 Zilner Randolph, American jazz trumpeter, arranger, and music educator, born in Dermott, Arkansas (d. 1994)
Jan 30 Max Theiler, South African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), born in Pretoria (d. 1972)
Feb 1 Al Watrous, American golfer (British Open 1926 runner-up), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 1983)
Feb 2 Benny Rubin, American actor and comedian (Benny Rubin Show), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1986)
Feb 3 Doris Speed, British actress dubbed 'The Queen Mother of Soap' (Coronation Street), born in Manchester, England (d. 1994)
Feb 3 Forrest DeBernardi, American basketball player (hall of fame 1961), born in Nevada, Missouri (d. 1970)
Feb 3 João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970)
Feb 3 Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
Feb 6 Ramon Novarro [Jose Samaniegos], Mexican-American actor (Ben-Hur, Mata Hari), born in Durango, Mexico (d. 1968)
Feb 7 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader (First Secretary of the Latvian SSR, CPSU Politburo member), born near Zālīte, Latvia (d. 1983)
Feb 12 Albert Huybrechts, Belgian composer, born in Dinant, Belgium (d. 1936)
Feb 14 John Herman Randall Jr., American philosopher (Western Man), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 1980)
Feb 14 Lovro von Matačić, Croatian conductor & composer (Bruckner Medal), born in Sušak, Croatia (d. 1985)
Feb 15 Gale Sondergaard, American actress (The Letter, Road to Rio), born in Litchfield, Minnesota (d. 1985)
Feb 15 Georges Auric, French composer (one of Les Six), born in Lodève, Hérault, France (d. 1983)
Feb 15 Lillian Disney, wife of animator Walt Disney, born in Spalding, Idaho (d. 1997)
Feb 18 Arthur Bryant, English historian (King Charles II), born in Dersingham, England (d. 1985)
Feb 19 Louis "Kid Shots" Madison, American jazz cornetist (WPA Brass Band; Eureka Brass Band), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1948)
Feb 19 Yury Olesha, Russian novelist (d. 1960)
Feb 20 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and heir (Pan Am Airways), born in Roslyn, New York (d. 1992)
Feb 20 Leon Woizikowsky, Polish dancer (Ballets Russes, 1916-29), ballet master and teacher, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1975)
Feb 22 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
Feb 22 Dwight Frye, American actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein), born in Salina, Kansas (d. 1943)
Feb 22 George O'Hara, American silent era screenwriter and actor (The Sea Beast, The Grapes of Wrath), born in NYC, New York (d. 1966)
Feb 23 Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)
Feb 23 Norman Taurog, American film director (Skippy), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1981)
Feb 24 Jacob Presser, Dutch historian and writer (Ashes in the Wind), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1970)
Feb 25 Leo Weisgerber, German linguist (organicist theory), born in Metz, German Empire (d. 1985)
Feb 26 Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)
Feb 27 Charles Best, American-Canadian medical scientist and co-discoverer of insulin, born in West Pembroke, Maine (d. 1978)
Feb 27 Ian Keith, American actor (Abraham Lincoln, Queen Christina, Cleopatra, 3 Musketeers), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1960)
Mar 1 Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (d. 1972)
Mar 2 Harald Søltoft Agersnap, Danish cellist, pianist, conductor, and composer (Royal Danish Theatre, 1931-66), born in Vinding, Denmark (d. 1982)
Mar 2 Pattie Menzies, Australian wife of PM Robert Menzies, born in Alexandra, Australia (d. 1995)
Mar 3 Alfred Gruenther, American general (NATO commander 1953-56), born in Platte Center, Nebraska (d. 1983)
Mar 3 Yuri Olesha, Russian writer, born in Jelisawetgrad, Russian Empire (d. 1960)
Mar 4 Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
Mar 5 Patrick Hadley, English composer (La Belle Dame sans merci; The Hills), pedagogue, and conductor, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1973)
Mar 6 Jay C Flippen, American actor (Jet Pilot, The Killing, Thunder Bay), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1971)
Mar 8 Elmer Keith, American firearms enthusiast and author (Guns & Ammo), born in Missouri (d. 1984)
Mar 8 Eric Linklater, British novelist and poet (Blue Swallows), born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (d. 1974)

Ina Boyle (1899-1967)

Mar 8 Irish composer (Glencree; The Magic Harp), born in Bushey Park, County Wicklow, Ireland

Mar 10 Finn Høffding, Danish composer (Karlsvognen), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1997)
Mar 10 Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
Mar 11 Frederick IX, King of Denmark (1947-72), born at Sorgenfri Palace, Denmark (d. 1972)
Mar 13 Jan Lechoń [Leszek Józef Serafinowicz], Polish poet, born in Warsaw, Congress Poland (d. 1956)
Mar 13 John Van Vleck, American physicist, mathematician, and Nobel Laureate who pioneered the modern quantum mechanical theory of magnetism, born in Middletown, Connecticut (d. 1980)
Mar 13 Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist, composer (Vardar Rhapsody; Song to Peace), and pedagogue, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1978) [1]
Mar 14 K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
Mar 22 Ruth Page, American ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev; Pygmalion), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1991)
Mar 23 Dora Gerson, German-Jewish actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (Caravan of Death), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1943)
Mar 25 Bella Spewack, Hungarian-American playwright (Kiss Me Kate), born in Bucharest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1990)
Mar 25 Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
Mar 25 Jacques Audiberti, French poet and playwright (Race of Men), born in Antibes, France (d. 1965)
Mar 26 James B. Connant, American chemist, President of Harvard and diplomat, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
Mar 26 William Baines, English composer, born in Hornbury, England (d. 1922)

Gloria Swanson (1899-1983)

Mar 27 American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly) and producer, born in Chicago, Illinois

Mar 28 August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr., American brewing magnate (chairman Anheuser-Busch 1946-75) and baseball executive (owner St. Louis Cardinals 1953-89), born in St Louis (d. 1989)
Mar 28 Buck Shaw, American College Football HOF coach (NC State, Nevada, Santa Clara, California, Air Force; NFL: SF 49ers; NFL Championship 1960 Philadelphia Eagles), born in Mitchellville, Iowa (d. 1977)
Mar 28 Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, Head of Latter-day Saints, born in Clifton, Idaho (d. 1973)

Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953)

Mar 29 Soviet politician and head of the NKVD secret service, born in Merkheuli, Russian Empire

Mar 30 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
Apr 1 Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968)
Apr 1 Lida Durdikova, Czech children's author (Children with extinguished eyes) and publisher (Père Castor), born in Prague (d. 1955)
Apr 3 David Jack, English footballer (scored 267 goals from 521 appearances), born in Bolton, Lancashire, England (d. 1958)
Apr 4 Carmel Myers, American stage and silent and sound screen actress (Ben-Hur; Svengali), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1980)
Apr 4 William Brann, South African cricketer (South African batsman v England 1922-23), born in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province (d. 1953)
Apr 5 William Hornby Steer, Conservative Party politician and barrister (d. 1993)
Apr 7 Robert Casadesus, French concert pianist and composer (Symphony No. 7 - "Israel"), born in Paris (d. 1972)
Apr 9 James Smith McDonnell, American aviator and engineer, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1980)

Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)

Apr 11 African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, born in Montgomery, Alabama

Apr 12 Chief Thundercloud [Victor Daniels], Cherokee actor (The Lone Ranger; Colt .45), born in Muskogee, Indian Territory (d. 1955)
Apr 13 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, Soviet composer, born in Odessa (d. 1934)
Apr 13 Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game inventor (Scrabble), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1993)
Apr 13 Alfred Schütz, Austrian-American architect and philosopher, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1959)
Apr 16 Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, born in Bergaliszki (d. 1988)
Apr 17 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), born in Kirkham, Lancashire, England (d. 1994)
Apr 19 George O'Brien, American actor (Sunrise: A Song of Two Human), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1985)
Apr 21 Clement D'Hooghe, Belgian composer, born in Temse, Belgium (d. 1951)
Apr 21 Randall Thompson, American composer (Trip to Nahant), born in NYC, New York (d. 1984)
Apr 22 Martyn Green, British actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Iceman Cometh), born in London, England (d. 1975)

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)

Apr 22 Russian-American novelist (Lolita, Ada), born in St Petersburg, Russia

Apr 23 Minoru Shirota, Japanese microbiologist and fouder of the Yakult Honsha beverage company, born in Tatsuoka, Nagano (d. 1982)
Apr 24 Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (algebraic geometry), born in Kobrin, Russian Empire (d. 1986)
Apr 26 Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, American actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail), born in Decatur, Texas (d. 1962)

Leo Diegel (1899-1951)

Apr 27 American golfer (PGA C'ship 1928-29), born in Detroit, Michigan

Apr 29 Edward "Duke" Ellington, American bandleader, composer and pianist ("Take the A Train"; "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1974)
Apr 29 Natalie Talmadge, American actress (Our Hospitality), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1969)
Apr 29 Yngve Sköld, Swedish composer, born in Vallby, Södermanland County, Sweden (d. 1992)
Apr 30 Lucie Mannheim, German actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1976)
May 2 George Hamilton Combs, American politician and TV and radio commentator (Through the Curtain), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1977)
May 3 Aline MacMahon, American actress (Backdoor to Heaven), born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
May 5 (Adolphe) Paul Barbarinan American jazz drummer (King Oliver; Red Allen Sextet; Onward Brass Band), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1969)
May 5 Freeman Gosden, American writer and actor (The Amos 'n' Andy Show, Calvin and the Colonel), born in Richmond, Virginia (d. 1982)
May 6 Billy Cotton, British bandleader and entertainer, born in Smith Square, London (d. 1969)
May 8 Arthur Q Bryan, American voice actor, comedian and radio personality (Beulah, The Devil Bat), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1959)
May 8 Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-British economist (Road to Serfdom, 1974 Nobel Prize for Economics ), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1992) [1]
May 8 Fritz van Hall, Dutch sculptor and WWII resistance fighter, born near Semarang, Dutch East Indies (d. 1945)

Fred Astaire (1899-1987)

May 10 American stage and screen tap dancer, singer ("Night And Day"; "Cheek To Cheek"; "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and actor (Royal Wedding; Easter Parade; Swingtime), born in Omaha, Nebraska

May 11 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
May 12 Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
May 14 Earle Combs, American Baseball HOF center fielder (9 × World Series 1927, 28, 32, 36–39, 41, 43; New York Yankees), born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1976)
May 14 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
May 14 Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek folk singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Tinos, Greece (d. 1977)
May 15 Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
May 17 Ralf Harolde, American actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1974)
May 20 Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
May 20 Estelle Taylor, American actress (The Ten Commandments), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1958)
May 20 John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer, jurist and 91st Supreme Court Justice (1955-71), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1971)
May 20 Lydia Cabrera, Cuban anthropologist and ethnographer of Cuban folklore and Afro-Cuban culture, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1991) [1]
May 21 Ralph Sanford, American actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
May 24 Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and writer (Miserable Miracle), born in Namur, Belgium (d. 1984)
May 24 Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (French C'ships 1925-26, Wimbledon 1919-23, 25), born in Paris, France (d. 1938)
May 25 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, born in Asansol, Burdwan, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1976)
May 26 Antonio J. Barrette, French Canadian politician, premier of Quebec, born in Joliette, Quebec, Canada (d. 1968)
May 26 Otto E. Neugebauer, Austrian-American mathematician and historian, born in Innsbruck, Austria-Hungary (d. 1990)

Pieter Menten (1899-1987)

May 26 Dutch war criminal, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands

May 30 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (MGM), born in Booklyn, New York (d. 1936)
May 31 Ilse Lagner, German antiwar writer, born in Breslau (d. 1987)
May 31 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer, born in Moscow (d. 1994)
Jun 1 Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
Jun 1 Werner Janssen, American conductor and composer (New Years Eve in NY), born in NYC, New York (d. 1990)
Jun 2 Eric Jan Hanussen [Hermann Steinschneider], Austrian astrologist, clairvoyant, illusionist, and speaking tutor to Hitler, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1933)
Jun 2 Royal Beal, American actor (Death of a Salesman), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
Jun 2 Tan Malaka, Indonesian philosopher and founder (Indonesian Communist), born in Limapuluh Koto, Dutch East Indies (d. 1949)
Jun 3 Georg von Bekesy, Hungarian-American physician and physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physioloy or Medicine 1961 for work on the inner ear), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1972)
Jun 4 Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (New Gourna Village), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1989)
Jun 4 Leo Spies, Russian-born German composer, born in Moscow (d. 1965)
Jun 7 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (The Death of the Heart, Encounters), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1973)
Jun 7 John Hawkes, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship singles, doubles, mixed doubles 1926), born in Geelong, Victoria (d. 1990)

Noel Wien (1899-1977)

Jun 8 American aviation pioneer (Wien Air Alaska), born in Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin

Jun 10 Raoul Salan, French Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), born in Roquecourbe, France (d. 1984)
Jun 11 George Frederick McKay, American composer, born in Harrington, Washington (d. 1970)
Jun 11 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist (Thousand Cranes) and Nobel laureate (1968), born in Osaka (d. 1972)
Jun 12 Anni Albers, German-American textile artist and printmaker (1st textile artist to exhibit solo at MOMA), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1994)
Jun 13 Carlos Chávez, Mexican conductor and composer (Sinfonía india), born in Mexico City (d. 1978)
Jun 16 Helen Traubel, American soprano, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)
Jun 16 Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (Doubleday)
Jun 18 James Ralph Darling, English Australian teacher and head of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, born in Tonbridge, England (d. 1995)
Jun 18 John Warburton, British actor (Saratoga Trunk, King Rat, Cavalcade), born in Maghull, Liverpool, England (d. 1981)
Jun 19 George Călinescu, Romanian literature (Enigma Otilei), born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1965)
Jun 20 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist and composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1965)
Jun 20 Jean Moulin, French hero of the Résistance during World War II, born in Béziers, France (d. 1943)
Jun 21 Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer killed during the Holocaust, born in Brno, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
Jun 22 Dorothy Devore, American actress (Narrow Street, Senior Daredevil), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1976)
Jun 22 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist, born in Łódź, Russian Poland (d. 1970)
Jun 22 Richard Gurley Drew, American inventor (created masking tape and cellophane at 3M), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1980)
Jun 23 Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, Russian composer, born in Balta, Ukraine (d. 1958)
Jun 24 Bruce Marshall, Scottish writer (Father Malachy's Miracle), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1987)
Jun 25 Arthur Tracy [Avrom Tracovutsky], Ukrainian-American radio personality, vocalist, and accordion player (The Street Singer), born in Kamenetz-Podolsky, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1997)
Jun 26 Maria Nikolaevna, 3rd daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, born in Peterhof Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1918)
Jun 27 Juan Trippe, American airline pioneer and entrepreneur (Pan Am founder), born in Sea Bright, New Jersey (d. 1981)
Jun 29 Lester Vail, American actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1959)
Jun 30 František Tomášek, 34th Archbishop of Prague and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, born in Studénka, Austria-Hungary (d. 1992)
Jun 30 Madge Bellamy [Margaret Derden Philpott], American actress (White Zombie, The Iron Horse), born in Hillsboro, Texas (d. 1990)
Jul 1 "Georgia" Tom [Dorsey], American blues and gospel pianist, songwriter ("Peace In The Valley"), and evangelist, born in Villa Rica, Georgia (d. 1993)
Jul 1 Cavan O'Connor, British singer (I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1997)

Charles Laughton (1899-1962)

Jul 1 English actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus), born in Scarborough, England

Jul 1 Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"
Jul 1 Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician and 2nd President of Greece (1975-1980), born in Athens, Greece (d. 1987)
Jul 3 Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, Ukrainian composer, born in Verkhnodniprovsk, Ukraine (d. 1958)
Jul 3 Ludwig Guttmann, German-British neurologist, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the Paralympics), born in Tost, Prussia, German Empire (now Toszek, Poland) (d. 1980)
Jul 3 Otto Reinhold, German composer, born in Erzgebirge (d. 1965)
Jul 5 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, African-American social activist (NYC cabinet), born in Marshalltown, Iowa (d. 1990)
Jul 5 Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, Chilean composer, born in La Cruz, Chile (d. 1987)
Jul 5 Marcel Achard, French playwright (Jean de la Lune), born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, France (d. 1974)

George Cukor (1899-1983)

Jul 7 American film director (My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story, The Wizard of Oz), born in NYC, New York

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