1899 is the year that the opening lines of "White Man's Burden", by Rudyard Kipling, who died in what year?
1936
Title: The White Man's Burden
Passage: "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" is a 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902), which invites the U.S. to assume colonial control of that country.  The poem was published in "The New York Sun" on 10 February 1899.
Title: 1899 in poetry
Passage: — Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden", first published this year
Title: Rudyard Kipling
Passage: Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Rudyard Kipling 1899 in poetry