About the day » Tuesday July 18, 1899Calender converter

• Albertus Bernardus Watfriedus WELBERGEN, Groningen(Groningen)
• Alfons Leon Vanderbeke, Lotenhulle,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1970)
• Alida Bergsma († 1980)
• Albert Kramer, Bovensmilde, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Oskam, Utrecht (Vleutenseweg 33) († 1962)
• Adrianus Moester, Koog aan de Zaan,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Adriana van Heukelom, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Aleida DIETZ, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1954)
• Adriana Blok, 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana van Heukelom, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Christina Smeijers (84), Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Akke REINHART (0), Warffum Groningen Netherlands
• Child BIGGS (0), Barracks, Whittington
• Adriaan van Geloven (67), Tilburg Nederland
• Cornelia van Rooij (57), Mill en Sint Hubert
• (2) Cornelia Dekker (47), Egmond Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Aartje Grandia (65), Beesd, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berdina Bolle (60), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Reinhart (0), Warffum
• Amelia Willink (42)

• 1893 » David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier († 1968)
• 1895 » Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster († 1954)
• 1895 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina († 1991)
• 1897 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer († 1935)
• 1898 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg († 1942)
• 1900 » Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author († 1999)
• 1902 » Chill Wills, American actor († 1978)
• 1902 » Jessamyn West, American author († 1984)
• 1905 » Robert Elton Brooker, American business executive († 2000)

• 1863 » Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• 1884 » Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1887 » Dorothea Dix, American social reformer and activist (b. 1802)
• 1890 » Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
• 1892 » Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
• 1899 » Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
• 1916 » Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)

• 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 6 » Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
• February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• 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 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
• July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
• 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 July 18, 1899 was about 18.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%.