Curated category
1899 births
- Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
- Humphrey BogartHumphrey DeForest Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City. His father Belmont worked as a cardiopulmonary surgeon while his mother Maud earned…
- Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was born on the 21st of July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He grew up as the second of six children to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and…
- Duke EllingtonOn the 29th of April 1899, Edward Kennedy Ellington entered the world in Washington, D.C., born to James and Daisy Ellington.
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
- Irving ThalbergIrving Thalberg was born with a heart condition so severe that doctors predicted he would die before turning thirty, yet he went on to become the most…
- Friedrich HayekFriedrich August von Hayek was born on the 8th of May 1899 in Vienna to a family that valued scholarship. His father worked as a medical doctor for the…
- Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was born in the village of Merkheuli, near Sukhumi, within the Kutais Governorate of the Russian Empire.
- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family. His father Vladimir Sergeyevich Kuleshov studied art at the Moscow School of Painting…
- Wilfrid IsraelWilfrid Berthold Israel was born on the 11th of July 1899 into a wealthy Anglo-German Jewish family. He attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium in…
- Bruce CattonCharles Bruce Catton was born on the 9th of October 1899 in Petoskey, Michigan. He grew up in Benzonia, a small town where his father served as headmaster of…
- D. P. Roy ChoudhuryDevi Prasad Roy Choudhury entered the world on the 15th of June 1899 at Tejhat in Rangpur. This region belonged to undivided Bengal within British India…