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What Happened In August 1899 In History

Historical Events for August, 1899

  • 10th » the Norwegian football club Viking FK is founded.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1899

  • 1st » Raymond Mays, English race car driver (d. 1980)
  • 2nd » Charles Bennett (screenwriter) known as Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • 3rd » Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
  • 4th » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
  • 9th » P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (d. 1996)
  • 12th » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1963)
  • 13th » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (d. 1980)
  • 13th » Soledad Mexia, Mexican–American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
  • 14th » Evelyn Kozak, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
  • 19th » Charlie Hall (actor) e.g Charlie Hall, English-American actor (d. 1959)
  • 19th » Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
  • 24th » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian-Swiss author, poet, and critic (d. 1986)
  • 24th » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
  • 24th » Gaylord DuBois, American author (d. 1993)
  • 25th » Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (d. 1978)
  • 26th » Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)
  • 27th » C. S. Forester, Egyptian-English author (d. 1966)
  • 27th » Byron Foulger, American actor (d. 1970)
  • 28th » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1978)
  • 28th » Andrei Platonov, Russian author (d. 1951)

Famous Deaths for August 1899

  • 7th » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (b. 1837)
  • 16th » Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)

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