About the day » Sunday January 22, 1899Calender converter

• Albert Henry Mullett, Walworth, England († 1963)
• Opperman, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aale Meester, Terwispel, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• Anje Maria van der Tuuk
• Adriana Scheele, Hoek († 1914)
• Alberdina Wilhelmina Kaasjager, Rotterdam
• Alberdina van der Heide, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alberdina Wilhelmina Kaasjager, Rotterdam,Rotterdam,Zuid Holland,Nederland († 1922)
• Adriana Scheele, Hoek, Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1914)
• Ale Meester, Opsterland, Terwispel

• Ann Louis d' Inio (72)
• Adriana Boven (62), Amsterdam
• *Christina Kil (1), Woensdrecht, Brabant
• Adrianus Obels (34), Steenbergen
• Allegonda Sophia Alegonda Orie (77), Leeuwarden
• Antonius Peeters (70), Zandvliet
• Adriana Mos (9), den Haag
• Aaltje van Kooten (66), Jaarsveld, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltjen Zand Scholten (59), Diepenveen (O)
• Antonia Seraphina Madou (81), Keiem

• 1897 » Dilipkumar Roy, a Bengali Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist. († 1980)
• 1897 » Rosa Ponselle, American operatic soprano († 1981)
• 1898 » Denise Legeay, French actress († 1968)
• 1898 » Ross Barnett, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi († 1987)
• 1898 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1899 » Martti Haavio, Finnish poet and mythologist († 1973)
• 1900 » Ernst Busch, German actor and singer († 1980)
• 1902 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler, coach, and academic († 1970)
• 1903 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic († 1966)
• 1904 » George Balanchine, Georgian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet († 1983)

• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)

• 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 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
• March 30 » German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
• May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
• November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

The temperature on January 22, 1899 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.