About the day » Sunday September 3, 1899Calender converter

• Albertje van der Tuuk, Wedde († 1970)
• Alberta Van der Hoek, Uithuizen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert de Boer, Steenwijk
• Albéric Desiré Sillis, Hamme († 1954)
• Allegonda Arts, Malden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van Duijvenbode († 1981)
• Alice Maria Clementina Want, Temse († 1983)
• Anna Brantjes, Uitgeest,North Holland,Netherlands († 1976)
• Adriana van Bodegom, Spijkenisse
• Alexander Forceville, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1987)

• Abraham Cornelisse (68), Rotterdam
• Arrie Jans Slagter (56), Schutsloot, Wanneperveen, Nederland
• Abraham Cornelisse (68), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anthonie De Wit (0), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Driessen (15), Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Aloijsia Leijs (32), Ossendrecht
• Aleida Smits (79), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• August W. Schiereck (46)
• Barbertje Wortel (39), Zunderdorp
• Catharina van der Graaf (3), Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1900 » Percy Chapman, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland († 1986)
• 1901 » Eduard van Beinum, Dutch violinist, pianist, and conductor († 1959)
• 1905 » Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1905 » John Mills, New Zealand cricketer († 1972)
• 1907 » Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist, philosopher, and author († 1977)
• 1908 » Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic († 1988)

• 1857 » John McLoughlin, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1784)
• 1866 » Konstantin Flavitsky, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1877 » Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (b. 1797)
• 1883 » Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1818)
• 1886 » William W. Snow, American lawyer and politician (b. 1812)
• 1893 » James Harrison, Scottish-Australian engineer, journalist, and politician (b. 1816)
• 1906 » Mihály Kolossa, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1846)
• 1914 » Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1929 » John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician (b. 1840)
• 1936 » Nikita Balieff, Armenian-Russian puppeteer and director (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 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
• January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
• February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
• 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 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

The temperature on September 3, 1899 was about 14.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%.