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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in the flat above his parents' leased greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, which was then part of Essex (now on the outskirts of East London). He was the son of greengrocer and poulterer, William Edgar Hitchcock (1862–1914) and Emma Jane (née Whelan; 1863–1942).
A. Erik Aaes; Olaf Aarvold; Karl Aas; Ferhat Abbas; Frank Abbatemarco; Marjorie Abbatt; Douglas Abbott; Joan Stevenson Abbott; Abdul Malek Yusuf; Abdullah bin Ali bin Jabber Al Zayed
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 ...
1868 – The 8.5–9.0 M w Arica earthquake struck southern Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing 25,000+ deaths and a destructive basin wide tsunami that affected Hawaii and New Zealand. 1889 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for ...
Wanda Gentil-Tippenhauer was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where her father Louis (1867-1959), a German scientist had been living since 1897. There he worked as the city's chief engineer: he was responsible in particular for the construction of the first narrow-gauge railway in the country. [2] Wanda's mother was Antonina Wiktoria née Rosicka.
13 November – Bede (died 735) is declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII, the only Englishman so named. [ 16 ] 15 November – the American Line 's SS St. Paul becomes the first ocean liner to report her imminent arrival by wireless telegraphy when Marconi 's station at The Needles contacts her 66 nautical miles off the coast of England.
The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, KG, PC, JP (13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845, Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869, and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.