1909

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

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the 1900s.

Art, music, theatre, literature

• June 2 – Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides premieres in Paris. It stars Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova

Events

• March 31 – Construction of the RMS Titanic is started
• 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 1 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
• March 20 – Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
• May 27 – Dolores Hope, American singer
• 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 26 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
• September 21 – Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (d. 1972)
• Dokaji Abubakar, Nigerian politician
• Dauda Adegbenro, Nigerian politician (d. 1975)

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)nv:1901 – 1950