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Agar was born in Buenos Aires, to a Scottish father and American mother. Her father was the head of a family business selling windmills and agricultural machinery to Argentina. [4] At a young age, Agar became fascinated by pictures by Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham. Before attending school, she grew up in her family villa, Quinta la Lila ...
Pages in category "1899 births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 6,036 total. ... Jimmy Armstrong (footballer, born 1899) Thomas ...
Golf tee patent, granted December 12, 1899. George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard.He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of an early composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber (specifically, gutta-percha) tubing.
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of ...
8 Born 1860–1869. 9 Born 1870–1879. 10 Born 1880–1889. 11 Born 1890–1899. 12 See also. Toggle the table of contents. List of American artists before 1900. Add ...
August 13 is the 225th day of the year ... 1868 – The 8.5–9.0 M w Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum ... Irish-born American social activist ...
1 April – John Ferguson Nisbet, Scottish journalist and writer (born 1851) [23] 24 May – William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, law lord (born 1817) 5 June – Margaret Anna Cusack, religious sister (born 1829 in Ireland) 9 August – Edward Frankland, chemist (born 1825) 26 August – Walter Simon Andrews, policeman (Whitechapel murders) (born ...
March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825) May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822) July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828) August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834) November 13 – José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)