Famous people born in 1899

The best-known people born in 1899, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
July 21 · d. 1961
Photo: Lloyd Arnold, Public domain
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)
August 24 · d. 1986
Photo: Grete Stern, Public domain
Alfred Hitchcock
British filmmaker (1899–1980)
August 13 · d. 1980
Photo: Ante Brkan, Public domain
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
April 22 · d. 1977
Photo: Walter Mori (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Huang Xianfan
Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
November 13 · d. 1982
Photo: unidentified photographer, Public domain
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
June 11 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Humphrey Bogart
American actor (1899–1957)
December 25 · d. 1957
Photo: WCCO (AM) , a CBS affiliate--the network where the program originated. This local affiliate intended, Public domain
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
May 8 · d. 1992
Photo: The original uploader was DickClarkMises at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan writer and diplomat (1899–1974)
October 19 · d. 1974
Photo: Dominique Roger, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
Fred Astaire
American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer (1899–1987)
May 10 · d. 1987
Photo: Studio publicity still, Public domain
James Cagney
American actor and dancer (1899–1986)
July 17 · d. 1986
Photo: Warner Bros. Studio (work for hire), Public domain
Gloria Swanson
American actress (1899–1983)
March 27 · d. 1983
Photo: RKO Studio, Public domain
Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
April 29 · d. 1974
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Erich Kästner
German children's writer (1899–1974)
February 23 · d. 1974
Photo: Basch, [...] / Opdracht Anefo, CC0
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
American physicist (1899–1980)
March 13 · d. 1980
Photo: JH_van_Vleck_and_HBG_Casimir,_1974.jpg : Unknown derivative work: Materialscientist, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Gustav Heinemann
German politician; President of Germany from 1969–1974 (1899–1976)
July 23 · d. 1976
Photo: Bauer, Georg, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Charles Laughton
British-American actor (1899–1962)
July 1 · d. 1962
Photo: Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain
George Cukor
American film director and producer (1899–1983)
July 7 · d. 1983
Photo: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Frederik IX of Denmark
King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972
March 11 · d. 1972
Photo: Elfelt & Co., CC BY 3.0
Chang Myon
South Korean politician (1899-1966)
August 28 · d. 1966
Photo: Chang_Myun.jpg : Unknown derivative work: Daffy123 , kaganer, Public domain
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist (1899-1985)
September 3 · d. 1985
Photo: Faingold, Denver, PDM-owner
Cevdet Sunay
5th President of the Republic of Turkey (1899–1982)
February 10 · d. 1982
Photo: F.N. Broers / Anefo, CC0
Max Theiler
South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)
January 30 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
April 23 · d. 1979
Photo: Gunnar Lantz, Public domain
Georg von Békésy
Hungarian physicist (1899–1972)
June 3 · d. 1972
Photo: The Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Suzanne Lenglen
French tennis player
May 24 · d. 1938
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
László Bíró
Hungarian-Argentine inventor (1899–1985)
September 29 · d. 1985
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgian politician (1899-1972)
January 25 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899–1963)
January 7 · d. 1963
Photo: Unattributed, Public domain
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist (1899-1965)
January 12 · d. 1965
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain

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January

January 8 · S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
January 11 · Eva Le Gallienne, British-American actress and author (1899–1991)
January 13 · Lev Kuleshov, Soviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)
January 14 · Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat (1899-1985)
January 17 · Nevil Shute, British writer and engineer (1899–1960)
January 27 · Béla Guttmann, Hungarian football player and manager (1899–1981)

February

February 3 · Lao She, Chinese writer, novelist and playwright (1899-1966)
February 3 · Café Filho, President of Brazil (1899-1970)
February 6 · Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (1899–1968)
February 15 · Gale Sondergaard, American actress (1899–1985)
February 15 · Georges Auric, French composer
February 23 · Norman Taurog, American film director (1899–1981)

March

March 1 · Ralf Törngren, Prime Minister of Finland (1899-1961)
March 3 · Yury Olesha, Russian writer (1899-1960)
March 13 · Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian musician (1899–1978)
March 19 · Aksel Sandemose, Danish-Norwegian author (1899–1965)
March 25 · Jacques Audiberti, French writer and poet (1899–1965)
March 27 · Francis Ponge, French writer (1899–1988)

April

April 9 · Hans Jeschonnek, German military officer and aircraft pilot (1899–1943)
April 13 · Alfred Schütz, American sociologist (1899–1959)
April 17 · Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian athletics competitor, coach and sportsperson (1899-1958)
April 19 · George O'Brien, American actor (1899–1985)
April 24 · Oscar Zariski, American mathematician (1899–1986)
April 27 · Walter Lantz, American animator (1899–1994)

May

May 5 · Nikolay Voronov, Soviet marshal (1899–1968)
May 22 · Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian and American composer
May 24 · Kazi Nazrul Islam, National poet of Bangladesh
May 24 · Henri Michaux, French painter, poet and writer (1899–1984)
May 25 · Pan Yuliang, Chinese painter (1895-1977)
May 30 · Irving Thalberg, American film producer (1899-1936)

June

June 2 · Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)
June 7 · Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist and diarist (1899–1973)
June 12 · Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist
June 20 · Jean Moulin, French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)
June 22 · Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (1899–1970)
June 26 · Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Russia (1899–1918); third daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

July

July 5 · Marcel Achard, French writer (1899-1974)
July 10 · John Gilbert, American actor and film director (1899–1936)
July 11 · E. B. White, American author (1899–1985)
July 13 · Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician, former president of the Hellenic Republic (1899–1987)
July 21 · Hart Crane, American writer (1899–1932)
July 22 · Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (1899-1982)

August

August 3 · Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver
August 9 · P. L. Travers, Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)
August 24 · Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician (1899-1985), President of Provisional Government of Algeria, president of the National Constitutional Assembly of Algeria
August 27 · C. S. Forester, British novelist, "Hornblower" author (1899–1966)
August 28 · Andrei Platonov, Russian author (1899–1951)
August 28 · Charles Boyer, French actor (1899–1978)

September

September 9 · Brassaï, Hungarian-French photographer (1899–1984)
September 11 · Philipp Bouhler, German general, head of Nazi Action T4 euthanasia program for children and the handicapped (1899–1945)
September 14 · Hal B. Wallis, American film producer and art collector (1898–1986)
September 18 · Ida Kamińska, Polish actress (1899-1980)
September 20 · Leo Strauss, History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
September 25 · Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian fascist politician; leader of the Iron Guard between 1927–1938 (1899–1938)

October

October 3 · Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist (1899-1965)
October 4 · Franz Jonas, seventh President of Austria (1899–1974)
October 5 · Georges Bidault, French politician (1899-1983)
October 22 · Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
October 29 · Akim Tamiroff, American actor (1899-1972)
October 30 · Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer and educator

November

November 4 · Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian racing cyclist (1899–1985)
November 13 · Iskandar Ali Mirza, Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
November 18 · Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor and violinist
November 22 · Hoagy Carmichael, American composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader (1899–1981)
November 24 · Soraya Tarzi, Princess Consort (1919-1926), later Queen Consort of King Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan (1926-1929)
November 29 · Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017)

December

December 2 · John Barbirolli, British conductor and cellist (1899-1970)
December 3 · Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
December 15 · Harold Abrahams, British sprinter (1899–1978)
December 16 · Noël Coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer (1899–1973)
December 18 · Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author (1899–1990)
December 22 · Gustaf Gründgens, German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)

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