Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1909
January
February
March
April
May
June
- June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
- June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drives a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles, from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
- June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts, United States.
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
- January 3 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
- January 4 - J. R. Simplot, American businessman (d. 2008)
- January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
- January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- January 9 - Anthony Mamo, Maltese President (1974-1976) (d. 2008)
- January 13 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934)
- January 15
- January 16 - Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994)
- January 19 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- January 21 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
- January 22
- January 24 - Martin Lings, British Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
- February 1 - George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer and Songwriter
- February 3 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
- February 9
- February 11
- February 15
- February 16 - Hugh Beaumont (d. 1982)
- February 18 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)
- February 19 - Enrico Donati, Italian-born American painter (d. 2008)
- February 21 - Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor
- February 22 - Edmund Berkeley, American scientist (d. 1988)
- February 24 - August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
- February 26 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
March-April
- March 2 - Mel Ott, baseball player (d. 1958)
- March 4 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
- March 19 - Louis Hayward, South African-born actor (d. 1985)
- March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
- March 27 - Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
- April 6 - William M. Branham Christian minister (d. 1965)
- April 7 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
- April 8 - John Fante, American writer of Italian descent (d. 1983)
- April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-born mathematician (d. 1984)
- April 22 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 25 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- April 30
May-June
- May 6 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (d. 2004)
- May 7 - Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor (d. 1991)
- May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
- May 15 - James Mason, British actor (d. 1984)
- May 18 - Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 19 - Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian
- May 20 - Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (Manchester United) (d. 1994)
- May 23 - Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d. 1967)
- May 24 - Victoria Hopper, Blonde Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d. 2007)
- May 27 - Dolores Hope, American singer, wife of Bob Hope
- May 30 - Benny Goodman, American musician (d. 1986)
- June 3 - Ira D. Wallach, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
- June 6 - Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas (d. 1997)
- June 7 - Jessica Tandy, English actress (d. 1994)
- June 12 - Archie Bleyer, American song arranger & band leader (d. 1989)
- June 14 - Burl Ives, American singer (d. 1995)
- June 17 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
- June 20 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
- June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997)
July-August
- July 3 - Earl Butz, Former United States Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (d. 2008)
- July 11 - Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (d. 1999)
- July 18 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
- July 23 - John William Finn, World War II hero
- July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d. 1957)
- July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (d. 1993)
- August 9 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (d. 1944)
- August 10 - Leo Fender, One of the most influential people in the development of electrical instruments (d. 1991)
- August 25
- August 26 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
- August 31 - Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-born French journalist and political scientist (d. 2008)
September-October
- September 1 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
- September 7 - Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003)
- September 14 - Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989)
- September 15 - Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (d. 1982)
- September 17 - Ernie Koy, former baseball player (d. 2007)
- September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician (d. 1972)
- September 24 - Carl Sigman, American songwriter (d. 2000)
- September 28 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
- October 5 - Tony Malinosky, former baseball player
- October 10 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
- October 14 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
- October 19 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
- October 24 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
- October 27 - Henry Townsend, American blues musician (d. 2006)
- October 28 - Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
November-December
- November 4 - Skeeter Webb, baseball player (d. 1986)
- November 9 - Kay Thompson, American author and actress. (d. 1998)
- November 10 - Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
- November 18 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d. 1976)
- November 22 - Mikhail Mil, Russian constructor of Mil helicopters and founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant (d. 1970)
- November 23 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and writer (d. 2000)
- November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician (d. 1945)
- November 26 - Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994)
- November 27 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
- December 4 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)
- December 14 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1975)
- December 16 - Emil Mailho, former baseball player (d. 2007)
- December 20
- December 21 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
- December 22 - Alan Carney, American actor (d. 1973)
- December 23
- December 23 - Giulio Racah, Israeli mathematician and physicist (d. 1965)
Deaths
January - June
- January 8 - Harry Seeley, palaeontologist (b. 1839)
- January 10 - Charles Vernon Culver, US politician (b. 1830)
- January 12 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
- January 14 - Arthur William a Beckett, British journalist (b. 1844)
- January 15 - Saint Arnold Janssen (b.1837)
- February 17 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
- March 16 - Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton of Tatton, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal. (b. 1832)
- April 10 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1837)
- April 28 - Frederick Holbrook, Vermont governor (b. 1813)
- May 10 - Futabatei Shimei, author and translator (b. 1864)
- May 18 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (b. 1860)
- June 24 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
July - December
- July 18 - Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b. 1848)
- July 19 - Arai Ikunosuke, samurai (b. 1836)
- August 5 - Miguel Antonio Caro, Colombian political leader (b. 1843)
- August 15 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author (b.1866)
- August 27 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
- September 2 - Louis Delacenserie, Belgian architect (b. 1838)
- September 4 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist (b. 1865)
- September 27 - Gyula Donáth, sculptor (b. 1850)
- September 29 - Vladimir Vidrić, poet (b. 1875)
- October 26 - Ito Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
- November 9 - William Powell Frith, painter (b. 1819)
- December 10 - Red Cloud
- December 15 - Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
- December 17 - Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- December 26 - Frederic Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor (b. 1864)
- date unknown - Gideon T. Stewart, American educator and politician (b. 1824)
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