What Happened In April 1899 In History

Famous Birthdays on April in 1899

• 1st » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian politician and educator (d. 1968)
• 3rd » David Jack, English footballer and manager (d. 1958)
• 3rd » Maria Redaelli, Italian super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 4th » Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist (d. 1971)
• 5th » Alfred Blalock, American surgeon (d. 1964)
• 5th » Elsie Thompson, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
• 7th » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 11th » Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (d. 1975)
• 13th » Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
• 16th » Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and educator (d. 1988)
• 17th » Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (d. 1958)
• 17th » Dimitris Poulianos, Greek artist (d. 1972)
• 20th » Alan Arnett McLeod Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
• 21st » Randall Thompson, American composer (d. 1984)
• 22nd » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author (d. 1977)
• 23rd » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author (d. 1977)
• 23rd » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 23rd » Minoru Shirota, Japanese physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult (d. 1982)
• 24th » Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1986)
• 27th » Walter Lantz, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and actor (d. 1994)
• 29th » Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician, 10th Minister of National Defence (Canada) or Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 1987)
• 29th » Duke Ellington, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1974)
• 29th » Mary Petty, American illustrator (d. 1976)

Famous Deaths for April 1899

• 6th » Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 16th » Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)
• 20th » Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (b. 1820)

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