About the day » Monday March 20, 1899Calender converter

• Alphonse Marie Joseph Mol, Breda (Breda) (Noord-Brabant)
• Alida PAMA, Rotterdam († 1901)
• Alberdina Spaan, Scheemda
• Griffioen, Mijdrecht
• Ada Pearl Boyd, Mount Salem, Ontario, Canada († 1981)
• Adrianus Slingerland, Lekkerkerk
• Alida Adriaantje de Jong, Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Eldert Houthuis, Rotterdam
• Anna Martin, Paroisse de St-Léonard, New-Brunswick, Canada († 1977)
• Adrianus Slingerland, Lekkerkerk, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• Albert Grootvelt (83), Scheveningen
• Akke Meyer (78), sneek (friesland)
• Adriana Elisabeth Smit (79), Leiden
• Adriana van den Dorpel (89), s Gravenpolder
• Adriana van Amersfort (0), Tilburg Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje Schrieken (78), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gijsbertus van der Horst (78), Lienden
• Albert Reinhold Schallkowski (40), Port de Paix (Haïti)
• Albert Grootveld (83), Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage)
• Aalbert Grootveld (83), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter († 1974)
• 1895 » Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author († 1981)
• 1898 » Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist († 1954)
• 1900 » Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician († 1942)
• 1903 » Edgar Buchanan, American actor († 1979)
• 1904 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author († 1990)
• 1905 » Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer († 1949)
• 1906 » Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City († 2001)
• 1906 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader († 1975)
• 1907 » Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator († 1990)

• 1874 » Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 » Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 » Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 » Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 » Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)

• 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 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
• 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 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
• September 13 » Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
• September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
• December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

The temperature on March 20, 1899 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%.