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1909
1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
January – March
April – June
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April 6 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
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April 27 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Muhammad V. He leaves the country the next day.
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June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
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June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
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June 9 – Alice Huyler Ramsey , a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
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June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
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June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts, United States.
July – September
October – December
Births
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January 1 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
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January 3 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
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January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
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January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (d. 1999)
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January 13 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934)
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January 15 - Jean Bugatti, automobile designer (d. 1939)
- January 15 - Gene Krupa, drummer (d. 1973)
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January 19 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
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January 22 - U Thant, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
- January 22 - Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001)
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February 3 - Simone Weil, philosopher (d. 1943)
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February 9 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
- February 9 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1955)
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February 11 - Joseph Mankiewicz, filmmaker (d. 1993)
- February 11 - Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor (d. 1959)
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February 15 - Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football player (d. 1966)
- February 15 - Miep Gies (Hermine Santrouschitz), Anne Frank friend, biographer
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February 24 - August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
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February 26 - King Talal, King of Jordan (d.1972)
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March 1 - David Niven, actor (d. 1983)
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March 2 - Mel Ott, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1958)
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March 4 - Harry Helmsley, real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
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March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1985)
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March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, author (d. 1983)
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March 24 - Clyde Barrow, half of American criminal duo (d. 1934)
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March 27 - Golo Mann, historian and publicist (d. 1994)
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April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish/American mathematician (d. 1984)
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April 30 - Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
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May 7 - Edwin H. Land, inventor and founder of Polaroid (d. 1991)
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May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician (d. 1978)
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May 15 - James Mason, British actor (d. 1984)
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May 19 - Bruce Bennett , actor
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May 30 - Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (d. 1986)
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June 14 - Burl Ives, singer (d. 1995)
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June 17 - Elmer Lee Andersen, governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
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June 20 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
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July 18 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan president (d. 1978)
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July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d. 1957)
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July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (d. 1993)
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August 9 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, lawyer, diplomat (d. 1944)
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August 25 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
- August 25 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
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August 26 - Jim Davis, actor (d. 1981)
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September 14 - Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989)
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September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanian politician (d. 1972)
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September 28 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
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October 14 - Bernd Rosemeyer, race car driver (d. 1938)
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October 24 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
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October 28 - Francis Bacon, British painter (d. 1992)
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November 4 - Skeeter Webb, Professional Baseball Player (d. 1986)
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November 10 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
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November 18 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d. 1976)
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November 23 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian, writer (d. 2000)
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November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician (d. 1945)
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November 27 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
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December 23 - Barney Ross, American boxing champion (d. 1967)
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Giulio Racah, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1965)
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Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
Deaths
Last updated: 10-18-2005 11:18:58
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