1909 (
MCMIX) was a
common year starting on
Friday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on
Thursdayof the 13-day-slower
Julian
calendar).
Events of 1909
January
See also January 1909
February
See also February 1909
March
See also March 1909
April
See also April 1909
May
See also May 1909
June
- 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.
July
See also July 1909
August
See also August 1909
September
See also September 1909
October
See also October 1909
November
See also November 1909
December
See also December 1909
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 (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)
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
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)
July–August
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)
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)
Deaths
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)
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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