* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1909 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor ( d. 1992 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist ( d. 1959 )

* 1909 – V. K. Gokak, Indian writer ( d. 1992 )

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907 – 08 and 1909.

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

* 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer ( d. 1984 )

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1909 – Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader ( d. 1973 )

* 1909 – Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor ( d. 1995 )

* 1909 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian army officer and businessman ( d. 1991 )

* 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.

* 1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1992 )

* 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and pianist ( d. 1909 )

* 1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

* 1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1909 – Leila Danette, American actress

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

In 1909 it was given the status of a Priory and that of an Abbey in 1937.

** Runners-up ( 8 ): 1902, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1921, 1937, 1960, 2002

The hottest temperature recorded in Williams was in 1909 ; the coldest temperature recorded was in 1937.

Composer Richard Stein ( 1909 – 1992 ) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's " Johnny ( Is the Boy for Me )" was taken from Stein's 1937 song " Sanie cu zurgălăi " ( Romanian for " Sleigh with Bells ").

A. Kraft in 1842, 1858 and 1859 ; Børresen in 1846, 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1862 ; Didrichsen from 1853 to 1857, 1863 to 1870, 1878 to 1879 and 1883 to 1888 ; Jacobsen in 1889 ; Hanssen-Sunde from 1893 to 1899 ; Sannerud from 1906 to 1909 and in 1917 ; and C. B. Hanssen in 1933, 1936 and 1937.

Others considered Curzio Malaparte and Melchior Wańkowicz ( with their championing of the effect of minor detail imbued with the force of a metaphor ) to have been Kapuściński's literary models and stylistic precursors within a genre that in Poland had previously such eminent exponents as Ksawery Pruszyński ( 1907 – 1950 ), Zbigniew Uniłowski ( 1909 – 1937 ), and Maria Sten ( 1917 – 2007 ).

George Washington Donaghey ( July 1, 1856-December 15, 1937 ) was the 22nd Governor of the U. S. state of Arkansas from 1909 to 1913.

He went on to write several books, including Complete Science of Wrestling ( 1909 ), Fitness and Your Self ( 1937 ), Consciousness and Character: True Definitions of Entity, Individuality, Personality, Nonentity ( 1937 ), The Way To Live In Health and Physical Fitness ( 1941 ), and The Three Memories and Forgetfulness: What They Are and What Their True Significance is in Human Life.

: 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1915, 1927, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1960, 1967

It was extended to Phillip St in 1909, Todman Ave in 1912, and then to its final terminus down Todman Ave in 1937.

He composed hymns in the Greenlandic language, which were published in 1909, 1930, 1937, and 1945.

** 1894 – 95, 1895 – 96, 1897 – 98, 1899 – 00, 1900 – 01, 1901 – 02, 1902 – 03, 1903 – 04, 1907 – 08, 1909 – 10, 1919 – 20 1921 – 22, 1926 – 27, 1928 – 29, 1935 – 36, 1937 – 38, 1949 – 50, 1951 – 52, 1957 – 58, 1958 – 59, 1961 – 62, 1963 – 64, 1967 – 68, 1973 – 74

Professor Erskine was an English professor at Columbia from 1909 and 1937, and Amherst.

He Zizhen ( September 1909 – April 19, 1984 ) was the third wife of Mao Zedong from May 1930 to 1937.

In 1909 Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ( then NWFP ) was constituted and in 1937, Peshawar district was bifurcated into Peshawar and Mardan districts.

His other awards include the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1909 and Sylvester Medal in 1937, the London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal in 1926.

WAFL Premierships: ( 29 total ) 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1957, 1965, 1974, 1979, 1985, 1992, 1994, 1998

The line was then extended to Phillip Street in 1909, Todman Avenue in 1912, and then to its final terminus down Todman Avenue, West Kensington in 1937.

Marie had five children during this marriage, though only the first two were indisputably fathered by her husband: their first-born was oceanographer Franz-Joseph Ludwig Georg Maria, Count Larisch of Moennich, Baron of Ellgoth and Karwin ( 1878 – 1937 ), followed by Marie Valerie ( 1879 – 1915 ), Marie Henriette ( 1884 – 1907 ), Georg ( 1886 – 1909 ), and Friedrich Karl ( 1894 – 1929 ).

Lyle Hagler Boren ( May 11, 1909 – July 2, 1992 ) was a U. S. Democratic Party politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma, serving from 1937 to 1947 and was defeated for renomination in 1946.

** Winners 1909, 1937

Having joined the Kaiserliche Marine in 1909, Wenneker twice served as German Naval Attaché to Japan, first from 1935 to 1937 and again from 1940 to 1945.