What Happened In July 1899 - Historical Events 1899 July

Historical Events for July, 1899

17th » NEC known as NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
29th » The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 called First Hague Convention is signed.

1st » Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (d. 1993)
1st » Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (d. 1962)
1st » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (d. 1987)
5th » Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author (d. 1974)
7th » George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
10th » John Gilbert (actor) called John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
10th » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
11th » Wilfrid Israel, Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist, active in rescuing Jews from Nazi Germany (d. 1943)
11th » E. B. White, American author and poet (d. 1985)
15th » Seán Lemass, Irish politician, 4th Taoiseach e.g Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
17th » James Cagney, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1986)
18th » Ernst Scheller, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)
19th » Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1979)
21st » Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
21st » Ernest Hemingway, American author and journalist, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
23rd » Gustav Heinemann, German politician, 3rd List of German presidents known as President of West Germany (d. 1976)
24th » Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (d. 1981)
29th » Walter Beall, American baseball player (d. 1959)
30th » Gerald Moore, English pianist (d. 1987)