1899
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1899 was the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade.
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Art and culture
- Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
- Heart of Darkness appears as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine.
- The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons
- Escal-Vigor
- The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
- L'Almanach du Père Ubu, illustré
- The Little Man Who Wasn't There by William Hughes Mearns
- Kryptádia Vol. 6
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Births
- July 7 - George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)
- September 13 - Anton Constandse, Dutch writer and anarchist (d. 1983)
- February 19 - Lucio Fontana, Italian-Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1968)
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ernest Hemingway
- Henri Michaux
- Léon Stynen
- Weegee
- Brassaï
- Frances Yates, British historian (d. 1981)
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Deaths
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