* 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

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.

By 1909, Minnie Marx successfully managed to assemble her sons into a low-quality vaudeville singing group.

Between 7 February 1907 and February 18, 1909 above the last group of families Boers.

A group of Russian children, 1909.

The cafe is part of a group of shops that were built in 1909 on land purchased by William Newlind in 1886.

) Franklin Roosevelt was part of the Old Gold Salvage group of 1909 and kept up with news and developments for most of his life.

In 1909, to ensure the financial stability of the Philharmonic, a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by two women, Mary Seney Sheldon and Minnie Untermyer, formed the Guarantors Committee and changed the Orchestra's organization from a musician-operated cooperative to a corporate management structure.

A group with the same name campaigned from 1906 in the UK, resulting in the Trade Boards Act 1909.

In 1909, Hulme left the Poets ' Club and started meeting with Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme referred to as the " Secession Club "; they met at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems.

The American poet Ezra Pound was introduced to the group in April 1909 and found that their ideas were close to his own.

In 1909 " Billy " Milne learned of a small group of boys at the First Baptist Church in Barre, who were already members of the Boys Brigade, he offered them an alternative to their routine of marching and drills.

As I now recall a group of boys from our First Baptist Church headed by a young man just over from the " old country " and already interested in scouting as it was than known in England, decided to form a troup and in the month of October of the year 1909 we organized such a troup, with this young man William Foster Milne as our leader.

Watson's place was taken in the original group by Billy Bowen ( born 3 January 1909 d. 27 September 1982 ), and Jones was replaced by Cliff Givens ( who was replaced eventually by Herb Kenny, Bill's twin brother, consequently born on the same date and died 11 July 1992 ).

After World War II Dr. Kurt Eissler ( 1909 – 1999 ) and a small group of psychoanalysts who knew Sigmund Freud personally, including Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, Bertram Lewin and Hermann Nunberg, decided to preserve Freud's letters and papers in a single archive.

In 1909 the Poppes convened a group of students and others from Porto Alegre to a meeting on April 4, 1909, at 141 Redenção Avenue ( now 1025 Avenue João Pessoa ) with the objective of founding a new football club.

The British Bristol group of Town-class cruisers ( 1909 ) were a departure from previous designs ; with turbine propulsion, mixed coal and oil firing and a 2 inch protective armoured belt as well as deck.

This group was also at times known as The Nation criticism, from More's time editing The Nation from 1909.

The group incorporated Indianapolis Motor Speedway company on March 20, 1909 with a capitalization of $ 250, 000, with Fisher and James Allison in for $ 75, 000 apiece and Frank Wheeler and Arthur Newby on board for $ 50, 000 each.

In 1909 and 1910 a small group of families who were evicted from Jasper National Park by the federal government to enable the creation of the park.

The Radisson Hotels group, starting with the Radisson hotel in Minneapolis in 1909, is also named after him.

The club was founded on 19 December 1909 by a group of young men unhappy with church-sponsored Trinity Youth, where they played football under the stern and unsympathetic eye of the local parish priest.

This group, greatly influenced by socialist ideals, established the first kibbutz, Degania, in 1909 and formed self-defense organizations, such as Hashomer, to counter increasing Arab hostility and to help Jews to protect their communities from Arab bandits.