SELECT someid, highest_number, data
FROM test_1
INNER JOIN (SELECT someid sid, max(number) highest_number
FROM test_1
GROUP BY someid) t
ON (someid=sid and number=highest_number)
Unfortunately it is not look quite efficient. In Oracle it could be possible to user OVER clause without subqueries, but MySQL…
Update 1
If there are several instances of highest number this will returs also several data for each pair of someid and number.
To get the only row per each someid we should preaggregate the source table to make someid and number pairs unique (see t1 subquery)
SELECT someid, highest_number, data
FROM
(SELECT someid, number, MIN(data) data
FROM test_1
GROUP BY
someid, number) t1
INNER JOIN
(SELECT someid sid, max(number) highest_number
FROM test_1
GROUP BY someid) t2
ON (someid=sid and number=highest_number)
Update 2
It is possible to simplify previous solution
SELECT someid,highest_nuimber,
(select min(data)
from test_1
where someid=t1.someid and number=highest_nuimber)
FROM
(SELECT someid, max(number) highest_nuimber
FROM test_1
GROUP BY someid) t1
If we materialize unique pairs of someid and number than it is possible to use correlated subquery. Unlike a JOIN it would not produce additional rows if highest value of number is repeated several times.