About the day » Friday August 18, 1899Calender converter

• Adolfo Preis, São Martinho, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1986)
• Aldert Nol Pover, Zd-Scharwoude
• Albert Alberts, Butler County, Iowa († 1904)
• Anna Helen SPEILMAN, Poland († 1975)
• Andries Stolk, Nieuw-Helvoet († 1994)
• Albertus Brink, Ruinen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Adrianus Lambertus Buijs, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Adriaan Dekker, Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Achille Remi CLARYS, Esen, 8600, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1979)
• Adriana Heesbeen, Rotterdam († 1905)

• Antje Jelles Jelsma (32), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham (Abram) Bakker (82)
• Anna Cornelia Heerkens (32), 's Hertogenbosch
• Allegonda Maria Brands (0), Tilburg
• Abraham Bakker (82)
• Abraham Tilly 'Abram' Peckham (80)
• Anna Maria Loon (38), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Loon (38), Rotterdam
• August Schwantje (0)
• Aaltje Bartelds (2), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1893 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager († 1985)
• 1893 » Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer († 1973)
• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)
• 1903 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer († 1983)
• 1904 » Max Factor, Jr., American businessman († 1996)

• 1850 » Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
• 1886 » Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795)
• 1919 » Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
• 1940 » Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Ernst Thälmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. 1900)
• 1950 » Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Jacoba
11. Aaltje
12. Grietje
13. Neeltje
14. Petronella
15. Geertruida
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• February 4 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
• February 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

The temperature on August 18, 1899 was about 17.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.