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• 1899–1962Charles LaughtonBritish actorJuly 1
• 1899–1973Noël CowardEnglish playwright, composer, actorDecember 16
• 1899–1972Frederik IXKing of Denmark from 1947 to 1972March 11
• 1899–1972Yasunari KawabataJapanese novelistJune 11
• 1899–1985E. B. WhiteAmerican authorJuly 11
• 1899–2017Emma MoranoItalian supercentenarianNovember 29
• 1899–1918Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of RussiaThird daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of RussiaJune 26
• 1899–1996P. L. TraversAustralian-British novelist, actress and journalistAugust 9
• 1899–1983George CukorAmerican film director and producerJuly 7
• 1899–1978Charles BoyerFrench-American actorAugust 28
• 1899–1976Kazi Nazrul IslamBengali poet, writer and musicianMay 25
• 1899–1973Leo StraussAmerican political philosopherSeptember 20
• 1899–1982Sobhuza IIKing of Swaziland from 1899 to 1982July 22
• 1899–1936Irving ThalbergAmerican film producerMay 30
• 1899–1981Hoagy CarmichaelAmerican composer, pianist, singer, actor and bandleaderNovember 22
• 1899–1963Francis PoulencFrench composer and pianistJanuary 7
• 1899–1943Jean MoulinFrench Resistance heroJune 20
• 1899–1969Iskander MirzaPakistani politician and military generalNovember 13
• 1899–1985Gale SondergaardAmerican actressFebruary 15
• 1899–1938Corneliu Zelea CodreanuRomanian fascist politicianSeptember 13
• 1899–1974Erich KästnerGerman author, poet and satiristFebruary 23
• 1899–1968Ramon NovarroMexican actorFebruary 6
• 1899–1985László BíróHungarian-Argentine inventorSeptember 29
• 1899–1938Suzanne LenglenFrench tennis playerMay 24
• 1899–1936John GilbertAmerican actor and film directorJuly 10
• 1899–1960Nevil ShuteEnglish novelistJanuary 17
• 1899–1974Miguel Ángel AsturiasGuatemalan writer and poet-diplomatOctober 19
• 1899–1972Paul-Henri SpaakBelgian politicianJanuary 25
• 1899–1966C. S. ForesterBritish novelistAugust 27
• 1899–1972Erich von dem Bach-ZelewskiGerman politician and SS generalMarch 1
• 1899–1972Akim TamiroffArmenian-American actorOctober 29
• 1899–1932Hart CraneAmerican poetJuly 21
• 1899–1982Cevdet SunayPresident of Turkey from 1966 to 1973February 10
• 1899–1976Gustav HeinemannPresident of West Germany from 1969 to 1974July 23
• 1899–1965Hayato IkedaPrime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964December 3
• 1899–1978Harold AbrahamsEnglish track and field athleteDecember 15
• 1899–1968WeegeeAmerican photographer and photojournalistJune 12
• 1899–1945Philipp BouhlerGerman senior Nazi Party functionarySeptember 11
• 1899–1990Peter Wessel ZapffeNorwegian philosopherDecember 18
• 1899–1951Andrei PlatonovRussian authorAugust 28
• 1899–1979Louis ChironMonégasque racing driverAugust 3
• 1899–1959S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1959January 8
• 1899–1981Chief Dan GeorgeChief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, actorJuly 24
• 1899–1981Lotte ReinigerGerman silhouette animator and film directorJune 2
• 1899–1983John Bodkin AdamsBritish physician and fraudsterJanuary 21
• 1899–1983Pat O'BrienAmerican actorNovember 11
• 1899–1973Elizabeth BowenIrish writerJune 7
• 1899–1963Gustaf GründgensGerman actorDecember 22
• 1899–1981Juan TrippeAmerican aviation entrepreneurJune 27
• 1899–1994Walter LantzAmerican animatorApril 27
• 1899–1945Ernst-Robert GrawitzGerman Nazi physician and SS-ObergruppenführerJune 8
• 1899–1981Norman TaurogAmerican film directorFebruary 23
• 1899–1980John Hasbrouck Van VleckAmerican physicist and mathematicianMarch 13
• 1899–1976James Wong HoweAmerican cinematographerAugust 28
• 1899–1991Eva Le GallienneAmerican actress and authorJanuary 11
• 1899–1984Henri MichauxBelgian-born French poet, writer and painterMay 24
• 1899–1988Colleen MooreAmerican actressAugust 19
• 1899–1984Martin Luther King Sr.American Baptist preacherDecember 19
• 1899–1972Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist and physicianJanuary 30
• 1899–1985Macfarlane BurnetAustralian virologistSeptember 3