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). [edit] Events of 1909 [edit] January See also January 1909
[edit] February See also February 1909 See also March 1909 See also April 1909 See also May 1909 - See also June 1909
- 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 3 female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for 59 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.
- June 26 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
See also July 1909 [edit] August See also August 1909 [edit] September See also September 1909 [edit] October See also October 1909 [edit] November See also November 1909 [edit] December See also December 1909 [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] 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 (d. 2008)
- 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 7 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (d. 1995)
- February 9
- February 11
- February 15
- February 16 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (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)
[edit] March–April - 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)
- March 28 – Nelson Algren, American Author (d. 1981)
- April 6 – William M. Branham, American Christian minister (d. 1965)
- April 7 – Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
- April 8 – John Fante, Italian-American writer (d. 1983)
- April 13 – Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-born mathematician (d. 1984)
- April 22 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 25 – William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
- April 30
[edit] May–June - May 1 – Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet and activist (d. 1990)
- May 6 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (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 15 – Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (d. 1992)
- May 17 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (d. 1976)
- May 18 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)
- May 19 – Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian
- May 20 – Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (d. 1994)
- May 23 – Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d. 1967)
- May 24 – Victoria Hopper, Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d. 2007)
- 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 19 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (d. 1948)
- June 20 – Errol Flynn, Australian-born actor (d. 1959)
- June 26 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997)
[edit] July–August [edit] September–October - September 1 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
- September 7 – Elia Kazan, Turkish-born film director (d. 2003)
- September 14 – Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989)
- September 15 – Jean Batten, New Zealand-born aviator (d. 1982)
- September 19 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (d. 1998)
- 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 4 – Murray Chotiner, American political consultant(d. 1974)
- October 7 – Herblock, American editorial cartoonist (d. 2001)
- 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 musician (d. 2006)
- October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish painter (d. 1992)
[edit] November–December - 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 helicopter manufacterer (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 9 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor and Naval officer (d. 2000)
- December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
- December 20
- December 21 – Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (d. 1992)
- December 22 – Alan Carney, American actor (d. 1973)
- December 22 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress & comedian (d. 1998)
- December 23 – Giulio Racah, Israeli mathematician and physicist (d. 1965)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 8 – Harry Seeley, British palaeontologist (b. 1839)
- January 10 – Charles Vernon Culver, American 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, German Catholic priest (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)
- March 24 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
- April 10 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1837)
- April 28 – Frederick Holbrook, Vermont governor (b. 1813)
- May 10 – Futabatei Shimei, Japanese author and translator (b. 1864)
- May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, American banking executive (b. 1847)
- May 18
- June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
[edit] July–December - July 18 – Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b. 1848)
- July 19 – Arai Ikunosuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1836)
- August 5 – Miguel Antonio Caro, Colombian political leader (b. 1843)
- August 14 – William Stanley, inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
- 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 7 – Eugene Lefebvre, pioneer French aviator (b. 1878)
- September 22 – Captain Ferdinand Ferber, French Army officer and pioneer aviator (b. 1862)
- September 27 – Gyula Donáth, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1850)
- September 29 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (b. 1875)
- October 26 – Ito Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841)
- November 9 – William Powell Frith, English painter (b. 1819)
- November 18 – Renee Vivien Scottish/American poet (b.1877)
- December 10 – Red Cloud, Sioux warrior
- December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
- December 17 – Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- December 26 – Frederic Remington, American cowboy artist and sculptor (b. 1864)
- date unknown – Gideon T. Stewart, American educator and politician (b. 1824)
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