What Happened In August 1899 - Historical Events 1899 August

Historical Events for August, 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)