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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 6Primary
sources and year books Events[edit] January–February[edit] Main articles: January 1909 and February 1909 William Taft 27th President of the
United States ·
January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence
of Panama. ·
January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to
the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton,
arrives at the farthest southreached by any
prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back, due to diminishing
supplies.[1] ·
January 16 – Shackleton's expedition
claims to have found the magnetic South Pole[2] (but
the location recorded may be incorrect). ·
January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic sinks,
the day after a collision with SS Florida. In the first recorded
use of the CQD emergency radio signal for a large
passenger vessel, one person, a male passenger, is lost on the Republic.[3] ·
January 28 – The last United States troops leave Cuba,
after being there since the Spanish–American War of 1898. ·
February 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation
of bakelite hard
thermosetting plastic. ·
February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People is founded in New York, New York. March–April[edit] Main articles: March 1909 and April 1909 ·
March 4 – William Howard Taft is sworn
in, as the 27th President of the United States. ·
March 10 – The Anglo-Siamese
Treaty of 1909 is signed in Bangkok. ·
March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter, becoming
the first radio broadcaster. ·
March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Bahá'í Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, at this time within the Ottoman Empire. ·
March 31 – Serbia accepts Austrian control
over Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
April 4 – The association football team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil. ·
April 6 – Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and four Inuit explorers, Ootah,
Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah, come within a few miles of the North Pole.[4] ·
April 11 – The city of Tel Aviv (known in its first year
as Ahuzat Bayit)
is founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of Jaffa. ·
April 13 (March 31 by Eastern
reckoning) – A countercoup begins
in the Ottoman Empire. ·
April 14 – Adana massacre: Ottoman Turks kill 15,000–30,000 Armenian Christians, in the Adana Vilayet. ·
April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. ·
April 19 – The Anglo-Persian
Oil Company (modern-day BP)
is incorporated. ·
April 27 – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and
succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V. He is sent to the Ottoman port
city of Thessaloniki (Selanik) the next day. May–June[edit] Main articles: May 1909 and June 1909 ·
May 13–30 – The first Giro d'Italia bicycle
race starts and finishes in Milan; Luigi Ganna is
the winner. ·
May 19 – Russian ballet is brought to the
Western world, when the Ballets Russes opens
a tour produced by Sergei Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Châtelet in
Paris, with 55 dancers, including Vaslav Nijinsky.[5] ·
June 2 – French forces capture Abéché, capital of
the Wadai Empire in
central Africa. ·
June 15 – Representatives from England,
Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket
Ground, and form the Imperial
Cricket Conference. July–August[edit] Main articles: July 1909 and August 1909 July 25: Louis Blériot crosses
the English Channel ·
July 16 – A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah of
the Qajar Dynasty to
abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds to leave
Persia for Imperial Russia,
reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of
Russia in regaining the throne. ·
July 25 – Louis Blériot is
the first man to fly across the English Channel (thus a large open body
of water) in a heavier-than-air craft. ·
July 25–August 2 – "Tragic Week":
The city of Barcelona experiences
a workers' uprising. ·
August 2 – The United
States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first
military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright brothers. ·
August 8 – Max Heindel formally
founds the Rosicrucian
Fellowship in Seattle, Washington. ·
August 12 – The Indianapolis
Motor Speedway opens in the United States. September–October[edit] Main articles: September 1909 and October 1909 ·
September 4 – Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to
receive railroad concessions in Manchuria. ·
October 8 – An earthquake in the Zagreb area leads Andrija Mohorovičić to identify
the Mohorovičić discontinuity. ·
October 12 – The association football team Coritiba is
founded in Curitiba, Brazil. ·
October 13 – An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans
and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. ·
October 26 – Itō Hirobumi,
four time Prime Minister of
Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General
of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at
the Harbin Railway
Station in Manchuria. November–December[edit] Main articles: November 1909 and December 1909 ·
November 18 – In Nicaragua, 500 revolutionaries (including 2
Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya.
The United States responds by sending 2 warships. ·
December 4 – Montreal Canadiens,
a well known professional ice hockey club in Canada, is founded.[6] ·
December 14 – New South Wales
Premier Charles Wade signs
the Seat
of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer
of State land to the Commonwealth, to create the Australian Capital
Territory. ·
December 19 – The association football team Borussia Dortmund is
founded in Dortmund, Germany. ·
December 23 – King Albert I of Belgium succeeds
his uncle, Leopold II (died December 17), on the throne. ·
December 28 – The first manned
heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made at East London,
by French aviator Albert Kimmerling, in a Voisin 1907 biplane.[7] Undated[edit] ·
Karl Landsteiner, Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper discover the polio virus. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992) ·
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader
(d. 1959) ·
January 2 – 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) ·
Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (d. 2008) ·
Patrick Peyton, American priest, saint
(d. 1992) ·
January 13 – Marinus van der
Lubbe, Dutch communist convicted of setting fire to the German
Reichstag building in 1933 (d. 1934) ·
Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile
designer (d. 1939) ·
Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973) ·
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) ·
Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat, race-car driver,
and polo player (d. 1956) ·
Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001) ·
U Thant, Burmese United Nations Secretary
General (d. 1974) ·
January 24 – Martin Lings, British Islamic scholar
(d. 2005) ·
January 25 – Robert Rex, 1st Premier of Niue (d. 1992) ·
January 28 – Colin Munro MacLeod,
Canadian-American geneticist, medical researcher (d. 1972) ·
January 30 – Saul Alinsky, American community organizer
(d. 1972) February[edit] ·
February 1 – George Beverly Shea,
American gospel singer, songwriter (d. 2013) ·
February 3 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943) ·
February 6 – Aino Talvi,
Estonian actress (d. 1992) ·
Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (d. 1995) ·
Amedeo Guillet,
Italian army officer (d. 2010) ·
Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian (d. 2014) ·
Harald Genzmer,
German composer (d. 2007) ·
Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born Brazilian
actress, singer (d. 1955) ·
Giulio Racah,
Israeli mathematician, physicist (d. 1965) ·
Dean Rusk, American politician (d. 1994) ·
Max Baer, American boxer, actor (d. 1959) ·
Joseph Mankiewicz,
American filmmaker (d. 1993) ·
February 12 – Zoran Mušič,
Slovene painter (d. 2005) ·
Miep Gies,
Austrian-born Dutch humanitarian (d. 2010) ·
Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer
(d. 1966) ·
Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982) ·
Jeffrey Lynn, American actor, film producer
(d. 1995) ·
Matti Järvinen,
Finnish athlete (d. 1985) ·
Wallace Stegner,
American writer (d. 1993) ·
February 19 – Enrico Donati,
Italian-born American painter (d. 2008) ·
February 20 – Heinz Erhardt, German comedian, musician,
entertainer, actor, and poet (d. 1979) ·
February 21 – Hans Erni, Swiss
painter, sculptor (d. 2015) ·
February 22 – Edmund Berkeley, American scientist
(d. 1988) ·
February 24 – August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971) ·
February 25 – Geoffrey Dummer,
English electrical engineer (d. 2002) ·
February 26 – King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972) ·
February 28 – Stephen Spender, English writer (d. 1995) March[edit] ·
March 4 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate
entrepreneur (d. 1997) ·
March 7 – Roger Revelle,
American scientist, scholar (d. 1991) ·
March 12 – Virginia McLaurin,
American community service volunteer ·
March 19 ·
Jean Brachet,
Belgian chemist (d. 1988) ·
Louis Hayward, South African-born actor
(d. 1985) ·
March 22 ·
Milt Kahl, American animator (d. 1987) ·
Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983) ·
March 24 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw, member
of Barrow Gang (d. 1934) ·
March 26 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician,
38th President of
Argentina (d. 1980) ·
March 27 – Golo Mann,
German historian (d. 1994) ·
March 28 – Nelson Algren, American author (d. 1981) ·
March 29 – Moon Mullican,
American country music singer (d. 1967) April[edit] ·
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) ·
Eudora Welty, American author (d. 2001) ·
April 22 ·
Rita Levi-Montalcini,
Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012) ·
Spyros Markezinis, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000) ·
Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist
(d. 2001) ·
April 24 ·
Bernhard Grzimek, German zoo director,
zoologist (d. 1987) ·
April 25 – William Pereira, American architect
(d. 1985) ·
April 26 ·
Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002) ·
Rodney Collin, British writer (d. 1956) ·
April 30 ·
Queen Juliana of the
Netherlands (d. 2004) ·
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor
(d. 1992) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Yiannis Ritsos,
Greek poet, activist (d. 1990) ·
May 4 – Howard Da Silva, American actor (d. 1986) ·
May 6 – Loyd Sigmon,
American amateur radio broadcaster (d. 2004) ·
May 7 – Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor
(d. 1991) ·
May 10 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978) ·
May 15 ·
James Mason, British actor (d. 1984) ·
Clara Solovera,
Chilean folk musician (d. 1992) ·
May 16 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960) ·
May 17 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater
(d. 1976) ·
May 18 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995) ·
May 19 – Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian
(d. 2015) ·
May 23 – Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d. 1967) ·
May 24 – Victoria Hopper, Canadian stage, film
actress and singer (d. 2007) ·
May 26 ·
Matt Busby, Scottish football manager
(d. 1994) ·
Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico (d. 1969) ·
Papa Charlie McCoy,
American Delta blues musician,
songwriter (d. 1950) ·
May 27 ·
Dolores Hope, American singer,
philanthropist (d. 2011) ·
Guillermo León
Valencia, President of
Colombia (d. 1971) ·
Donald Trumbull, American special effects artist (d. 2004) ·
May 30 – Benny Goodman, American musician (d. 1986) ·
May 31 – John
Spencer-Churchill, English painter, sculptor and a stockbroker
(d. 1992) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli
philologist, Hebrew linguist (d. 1971) ·
June 3 – Ira D. Wallach, American businessman,
philanthropist (d. 2007) ·
June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas
(d. 1997) ·
June 7 – Jessica Tandy, English actress (d. 1994) ·
June 10 – Mary Field, American film actress (d. 1996) ·
June 12 ·
Archie Bleyer, American song arranger, band
leader (d. 1989) ·
Tom Steele,
Scottish-born actor, stuntman (d. 1990) ·
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) ·
Robb White, American writer (d. 1990) ·
June 21 – Pok Shau-fu,
Chinese journalist and politician (d. 2000) ·
June 22 ·
Infanta Beatriz of Spain, (d. 2002) ·
Katherine Dunham, American dancer,
choreographer, and songwriter (d. 2006) ·
June 23 – Li Xiannian,
President of the People's Republic of China (d. 1992) ·
June 24 – William
Penney, Baron Penney, English mathematician, physicist (d. 1991) ·
June 25 – Marguerite Viby, Danish actress (d. 2001) ·
June 26 ·
Mavis Thorpe Clark,
Australian novelist, writer (d. 1999) ·
Colonel Tom Parker,
Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997) ·
Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and
producer (d. 1985) ·
June 27 – Giuseppe Ballerio, Italian football player (d. 1999) ·
June 28 – Eric Ambler, British author (d. 1998) ·
June 30 – Juan Bosch,
43rd President of the Dominican Republic (d. 2001) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Antonina Pirozhkova, Russian civil engineer, writer
(d. 2010) ·
July 2 – Gil English, American professional baseball
third baseman (d. 1996) ·
July 5 ·
Douglas MacArthur II,
American diplomat (d. 1997) ·
Douglas Dodds-Parker, British politician and
administrator (d. 2006) ·
July 6 ·
Oscar Alende,
Argentine politician (d. 1996) ·
Eric Reece, 32nd Premier of Tasmania
(d. 1999) ·
July 7 ·
Billy Herman, American second baseman and
manager (d. 1992) ·
Richard
Turnbull, British colonial governor (d. 1998) ·
Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (d. 1976) ·
July 8 – Ike Petersen, American football back
(d. 1995) ·
July 9 – Juan Yustrich,
Argentine football goalkeeper (d. 2002) ·
July 11 ·
Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998) ·
Song Renqiong,
Chinese political, military leader (d. 2005) ·
July 12 ·
Joe DeRita,
American comedian (d. 1993) ·
Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese
photographer, illustrator (d. 2010) ·
July 13 ·
Raili Halttu, Finnish
sprinter (d. 2006) ·
Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer
(d. 1999) ·
Souphanouvong,
1st President of Laos (d. 1995) ·
July 14 ·
Francis Brian Shorland, New Zealand organic chemist
(d. 1999) ·
Alejandro Morera Soto, Costa Rican football player
(d. 1995) ·
July 15 ·
Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (d. 2000) ·
Vera Shlakman,
American economist, professor (d. 2017) ·
July 16 ·
Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist
(d. 1996) ·
Teddy Buckner, American jazz trumpeter
(d. 1994) ·
Bernard Gadney,
English rugby union footballer (d. 2000) ·
July 18 ·
Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Minister for Foreign
Affairs (d. 1989) ·
Mohammed Daoud Khan,
5th Prime
Minister of Afghanistan and 1st President of
Afghanistan (d. 1978) ·
Harriet Nelson, American singer, actress
(d. 1994) ·
July 19 – Balamani Amma,
Indian poet (d. 2004) ·
July 20 ·
Sigfrid Heyner, Swedish
swimmer (d. 1995) ·
Clyde Roberts, American college football
player (d. 2004) ·
July 21 – Egidio Armelloni,
Italian gymnast (d. 1997) ·
July 22 – Licia Albanese,
Italian-born American operatic soprano (d. 2014) ·
July 23 – John William Finn,
American WWII hero (d. 2010) ·
July 26 – Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979) ·
July 28 – Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d. 1957) ·
July 30 – C. Northcote
Parkinson, British historian, author (d. 1993) August[edit] ·
August 8 ·
Charles
Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham,
English cricketer, politician and 9th Governor-General
of New Zealand (d. 1977) ·
Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1987) ·
August 9 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German
lawyer, diplomat (d. 1944) ·
Leo Fender, American guitar inventor,
manufacturer (d. 1991) ·
Richard J. Hughes,
American politician, 45th Governor of New
Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
(d. 1992) ·
Claude Thornhill, American pianist,
arranger, composer, and bandleader (d. 1965) ·
August 18 – Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist,
fisheries scientist (d. 1998) ·
August 25 – Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971) ·
August 26 – Jim Davis,
American actor (d. 1981) ·
August 30 – Marguerite Allan, British actress (d. 1994) ·
August 31 – Ferenc Fejtő,
Hungarian-born French journalist, political scientist (d. 2008) September[edit] ·
September 1 – E. Herbert Norman,
Canadian diplomat (d. 1957) ·
September 7 – Elia Kazan, Turkish-born film director
(d. 2003) ·
September 10 – Irakli Abashidze, Georgian poet, literary
scholar, and politician (d. 1992) ·
Peter Scott, British ornithologist and
painter (d. 1989) ·
Andreas Tzimas,
Greek communist politician, Resistance leader (d. 1972) ·
Phil Arnold, American actor (d. 1968) ·
Jean Batten, New Zealand-born aviator
(d. 1982) ·
Jan van Aartsen,
Dutch politician (d. 1992) ·
September 19 – Ferdinand
Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer, businessman (d. 1998) ·
September 21 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician (d. 1972) ·
September 24 – Carl Sigman,
American songwriter (d. 2000) ·
September 26 – Bill France, Sr., American race car driver,
businessman, and co-founder of NASCAR (d. 1992) ·
September 28 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979) ·
September 29 – Vasco Bergamaschi,
Italian road racing cyclist (d. 1979) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Everett Sloane, American actor (d. 1965) ·
October 4 – Murray Chotiner, American political
consultant (d. 1974) ·
October 7 – Tony Malinosky,
American baseball player (d. 2011) ·
October 8 – Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, Prime Minister
of Poland (d. 1992) ·
Robert F. Boyle, American production
designer, art director (d. 2010) ·
Max Simon Ehrlich,
American writer (d. 1983) ·
October 13 – Herblock, American editorial cartoonist
(d. 2001) ·
October 14 – Bernd Rosemeyer,
German race car driver (d. 1938) ·
October 17 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981) ·
October 18 – Norberto Bobbio,
Italian philosopher of law and political sciences (d. 2004) ·
October 20 – Carla Laemmle, American actress (d. 2014) ·
October 24 – Bill Carr,
American athlete (d. 1966) ·
October 25 – Whit Bissell, American actor (d. 1996) ·
October 27 – Henry Townsend,
American musician (d. 2006) ·
October 28 – Francis Bacon,
Irish-born British painter (d. 1992) November[edit] ·
November 6 – Elizabeth
Douglas-Home, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
(d. 1990) ·
November 9 – Kay Thompson, American author, actress
(d. 1998) ·
November 10 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian
(d. 1970) ·
November 13 – Vincent Apap,
Maltese sculptor (d. 2003) ·
November 16 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad,
Indian Islamic leader (d. 1982) ·
November 18 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d. 1976) ·
November 22 – Mikhail Mil, Russian helicopter manufacturer
(d. 1970) ·
November 23 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian, novelist
(d. 2000) ·
November 24 – Gerhard Gentzen, German
mathematician (d. 1945) ·
November 26 – Eugène Ionesco,
Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994) ·
November 27 – James Agee, American writer (d. 1955) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Marion Dönhoff,
German journalist (d. 2002) ·
December 4 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995) ·
December 5 – Bobbie Heine Miller,
South African tennis player (d. 2016) ·
December 7 – Arch Oboler, American actor, playwright,
screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director (d. 1987) ·
December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks
Jr., American actor, naval officer (d. 2000) ·
December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum,
American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) ·
Vagn Holmboe, Danish
composer (d. 1996) ·
Vakkom Majeed, Indian freedom fighter, politician
(d. 2000) ·
December 21 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer,
journalist (d. 1992) ·
Alan Carney, American actor (d. 1973) ·
Patricia Hayes, British character actress,
comedian (d. 1998) ·
December 27 – Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland
(d. 2003) ·
December 29 – Thomas Beck,
American actor (d. 1995) Date unknown[edit] ·
Cecil
Williams (anti-apartheid activist), English-South African theatre
director, anti-apartheid activist (d. 1979) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Mollie Evelyn
Moore Davis, American poet, writer, and editor (b. 1844) ·
January 8 – Harry Seeley, British palaeontologist
(b. 1839) ·
Julia Colman, American temperance educator,
activist, editor and writer (b. 1828) ·
Charles Vernon
Culver, American politician (b. 1830) ·
January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864) ·
Arthur William à
Beckett, British journalist (b. 1844) ·
Zinovy Rozhestvensky,
Russian admiral (b. 1848) ·
January 15 – Saint Arnold Janssen, German Catholic priest
(b. 1837) ·
January 22 – Hattie Tyng Griswold,
American author (b. 1842) ·
January 24 – Petre S. Aurelian, 19th Prime Minister of
Romania (b. 1833) ·
January 27 – Benoît-Constant
Coquelin, French theatrical actor (b. 1841) February[edit] ·
February 5 – Alexandre
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist
(b. 1842) ·
February 8 – Catulle Mendès, French poet (b. 1841) ·
February 17 – Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829) ·
February 20 – Paul Ranson,
French painter (b. 1864) ·
February 26 – Caran d'Ache,
French political cartoonist (b. 1858) March[edit] ·
March 6 – Gustaf af Geijerstam,
Swedish novelist (b. 1858) ·
March 16 – Wilbraham
Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal
(b. 1832) ·
March 24 – John Millington
Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871) ·
March 25 – Ruperto Chapí,
Spanish composer (b. 1854) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Sir Marshal Clarke, British colonial
administrator (b. 1841) ·
April 3 – Pascual Cervera y Topete,
Spanish admiral (b. 1839) ·
April 8 – Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (b. 1840) ·
April 10 – Algernon
Charles Swinburne, English poet (b. 1837) ·
April 13 – Sir Donald Currie, British shipping magnate
(b. 1825) ·
April 14 – Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman,
10th President of
Argentina (b. 1844) ·
April 19 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer,
ethnologist (b. 1836) ·
April 28 – Frederick Holbrook,
Vermont governor (b. 1813) May[edit] ·
May 2 – Manuel Amador
Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833) ·
May 4 – Helen Marr Hurd, American teacher and poet
(b. 1839) ·
May 9 – Augusta Jane Evans,
American author of Southern literature (b. 1835) ·
May 10 – Futabatei Shimei,
Japanese author, translator (b. 1864) ·
May 12 – Hugh Henry Gough, British general, Victoria
Cross recipient (b. 1833) ·
May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, American banking executive (b. 1847) ·
May 18 ·
Isaac Albéniz,
Spanish composer (b. 1860) ·
George Meredith, English novelist, poet
(b. 1828) June[edit] ·
June 14 – Afonso Pena, 6th President of Brazil (b. 1847) ·
June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett,
American writer (b. 1849) July[edit] ·
July 8 – Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, French general (b. 1830) ·
July 9 – Kasimir Felix Graf von Badeni, 13th
Minister-President of Cisleithania (b. 1846) ·
July 11 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer,
mathematician (b. 1835) ·
July 18 – Carlos, Duke of
Madrid (b. 1848) ·
July 19 – Arai Ikunosuke,
Japanese samurai (b. 1836) ·
July 22 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet
(b. 1844) August[edit] ·
August 5 – Miguel Antonio Caro,
Colombian political leader (b. 1843) ·
August 8 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint (b. 1842) ·
August 14 – William
Stanley, British inventor, engineer (b. 1829) ·
August 15 – Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author (b. 1866) ·
August 27 – Emil Christian
Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842) September[edit] ·
September 2 – Louis Delacenserie, Belgian architect (b. 1838) ·
September 4 – Clyde Fitch, American dramatist (b. 1865) ·
September 5 – Louis Bouveault,
French chemist (b. 1864) ·
September 7 – Eugène Lefebvre,
pioneer French aviator (b. 1878) ·
September 22 – Captain Ferdinand Ferber, French Army officer,
pioneer aviator (b. 1862) ·
September 27 – Gyula Donáth,
Hungarian sculptor (b. 1850) ·
September 29 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (b. 1875) October[edit] ·
October 13 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia,
Spanish anarchist (executed) (b. 1859) ·
October 19 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist,
physician (b. 1835) ·
October 26 – Itō Hirobumi,
1st Prime Minister of
Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841) November[edit] ·
November 9 – William Powell Frith, English painter (b. 1819) ·
November 18 – Renée Vivien Scottish/American poet
(b. 1877) December[edit] ·
December 10 – Red Cloud, Sioux warrior (b. 1822) ·
December 14 – Agustí Querol Subirats,
Spanish sculptor (b. 1860) ·
December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist, composer (b. 1852) ·
December 17 – King Leopold II of
Belgium (b. 1835) ·
December 16 – Lina Morgenstern, German writer, educator,
feminist and pacifist (b. 1830) ·
December 18 – Grand
Duke Michael Nikolaevich, Russian royal
(b. 1832) ·
December 26 – Frederic Remington,
American cowboy artist, sculptor (b. 1864) Date unknown[edit] ·
Martha Foster
Crawford, American writer and missionary (b. 1830) ·
Gideon T. Stewart,
American educator, politician (b. 1824) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun ·
Medicine – Emil Theodor Kocher ·
Peace – Auguste
Marie François Beernaert and Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles
de Constant References[edit] 1.
^ Morris, Charles (1909). Finding the North Pole.
W. E. Scull. pp. 448–49. 2.
^ "The Magnetic South Pole". Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution, Magnetics Group, Ocean Bottom
Magnetology Laboratory. Retrieved 2013-08-07. 3.
^ "CQD" Radio Broadcast,
April, 1924, pp. 449-455. 4.
^ "North Pole." The
Explorer's Club. Accessed 5 Feb 2014. 5.
^ Eksteins, Modris (2000). Rites of Spring: The Great War and
the Birth of the Modern Age. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 25–26. 6.
^ "1909-1910 Season - Description, pictures,
highlights and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens". ourhistory.canadiens.com.
Retrieved 2018-07-13. 7.
^ South African Power Flying Association - 1910 to 1920 -
Early Flying in South Africa Archived August 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. (Accessed on 26 November
2016) Primary sources and year books[edit] ·
New International year book: 1909 Further reading[edit] ·
Gilbert,
Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997);
global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 185 – 205. |
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