1909

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1906 1907 1908 – 1909 – 1910 1911 1912

Events

• March 31 – Construction of the RMS Titanic is started
• April 6 – Robert Peary arrived in the north pole.
• April – The Adana massacre takes place in the Ottoman city of Adana
• June 29 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia
• The first model of the Model T is sold
• The pH scale is developed.
• Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

• January 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (d. 1994)
• February 9 – Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 1955)
• March 20 – Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• May 27
  • Dolores Hope, American singer (d. 2011)
  • Juan Vicente Pérez, Supercentenarian Venezuelan man fourth-oldest verified man ever (d. 2024)
• June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (d. 1997)
• June 10 – Errol Flynn, American actor (d. 1959)
• August 10 – Leo Fender, American guitar maker (d. 1991)
• August 21

1909 Media

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  July 25: Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel

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  Cropped screenshot of Dana Andrews from the trailer for the film State Fair

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  Photograph of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater in 1960

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  Danish American comedian Victor Borge, photographed outside of Hotel D'Angleterre in Copenhagen, DK, on a grey cloudy day in 1990

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  Publicity photo of Ann Sothern from the television program The Ann Sothern Show.

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  Oe Thant op doorreis op Schiphol tijdens persconferentie, Oe Thant * * 1 juli 1963

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  Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the United States 1961–1969

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  Presentatie boek "Herinneringen aan Anne Frank" van Miep Gies in het Anne Frankhuis in Amsterdam; Miep Gies * * 5 mei 1987

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  Héctor José Cámpora

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  Guillermo León Valencia

– Ethel Caterham, English supercentenarian

• August 26 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
• September 21 – Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (d. 1972)

Deaths

• February 17 – Geronimo, Native American leader (b. 1829)
• December 17 – Léopold II of Belgium, King of Belgium (b. 1835)
• January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)