About the day » Tuesday December 19, 1899Calender converter

• Abraham Spijer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertus van de Kleut, Barneveld († 1975)
• Aimée Amélie dite Julia Brisart, Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium
• ... Prince, Middelburg († 1899)
• Alice Tanis, Illinois († 1974)
• Adriaan van Holst, Rotterdam († 1967)
• "Elisabeth" Betje Betje, Amsterdam, NL († 1985)
• Albertha de Haan, Diepenveen
• Agatha Catharina Koelet, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1900)
• Alice TANIS Pdr, US-IL († 1974)

• Adrianus Nouwens (71), Middelbeers
• Alodie DEDESSUSLEMOUTIER (51), Houtaing,Province du Hainaut,Walloon Region,BELGIQUE
• Anna Cornelia Van den Broeck (76), Antwerpen,, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus van Buitenen (74), Delft
• Anna Helena Sandel (81), Hesepertwist, Duitsland
• Amelia M. Taylor (40), Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America
• Aaltje de Haas (82), Aartswoud
• Adriana van Berkel, Liempde
• Anna Adriana Cornelia Schildt (59), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Hugo Loth (69), Paramaribo

• 1894 » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman († 1978)
• 1895 » Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator († 1989)
• 1899 » Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist († 1984)
• 1901 » Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and manager († 1974)
• 1901 » Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author († 1963)
• 1901 » Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber († 2002)
• 1902 » Ralph Richardson, English actor († 1983)
• 1903 » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)
• 1905 » Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist († 1995)
• 1905 » Irving Kahn, American businessman († 2015)

• 1878 » Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 » Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
• 1915 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)

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.
• 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.
• June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
• July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
• 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 December 19, 1899 was about -6.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%.