1909

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.

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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  Gabrielle Roy, 1945.

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  Héctor José Cámpora

– Ethel Caterham, British 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)