* 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 – 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

Films featuring Quasimodo included Alice Guy's Esmeralda ( 1906 ), The Hunchback ( 1909 ), The Love of a Hunchback ( 1910 ) and Notre-Dame de Paris ( 1911 ).

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

Her subjects included several ultimately famous personages, and her subjects provided a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons at 27 Rue de Fleurus: " Ada " ( Alice B. Toklas ), " Two Women " ( The Cone Sisters, Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ), Miss Furr and Miss Skeene ( Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire ), " Men " ( Hutchins Hapgood, Peter David Edstrom, Maurice Sterne ), " Matisse " ( 1909, Henri Matisse ), " Picasso " ( 1909, Pablo Picasso ), " Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia " ( 1911, Mabel Dodge Luhan ), and " Guillaume Apollinaire " ( 1913 ).

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Jessie Alice " Jessica " Tandy ( 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994 ) was a British-born stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year career in the United States.

* Jean Alice ( 1882 – 1957 ), married Sir David Maughan ( 1873 – 1955 ) in 1909

Image: Alice Boughton-Dawn. jpg | Alice Boughton, Dawn, 1909

They had three children: Alice Lee in 1902, James Wideman Lee II in 1906, and Ivy Lee, Jr. in 1909.

Mary Alice was the wife of Frederick Massena Nelson ( January 1827-May 11, 1909 ) of Pomonkey, Charles County, Maryland.

In 1909, he married Dorothy Alice Margaret Augusta Grosvenor, daughter of Lord Henry George Grosvenor.

* John Lavery ( 1856 – 1941 ) The Artist's Studio: Lady Hazel Lavery with her Daughter Alice and Step-Daughter Eileen 1909 – 13

In 1909 Lavery married Hazel Martyn ( 1886 – 1935 ), an Irish-American known for her beauty and poise ; by her he had one daughter, Alice ( Mrs. Jack McEnery ).

From 1890 to 1908 Alice Stone Blackwell was the National American Woman Suffrage Association's recording secretary and in 1909 and 1910 one of the national auditors.

For the 1909 – 1910 school year, teachers included: Nellie Mae Pattison ( Higgs ), Mary S. Smith ( Aldine ), Alice Haley ( Aldine ), Fannie B. Smith ( Westfield ), Pinkis Ellisor ( Hartwell ), and Minerva Jones ( Hartwell ).

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;

Cy Young, who returned to Cleveland in 1909, was ineffective for most of his three remaining years and Addie Joss died from tubercular meningitis prior to the season.

The state's party bosses, however, rejected this compromise and the state legislature rejected the plan on three occasions in 1909 and 1910.

Haeckel studied under Karl Gegenbaur at the University of Jena for three years, earning a doctorate in zoology, before becoming a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, where he remained for 47 years, from 1862 to 1909.

In 1909, Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, an astronomer with a reputation as an egocentric contrarian, opined " that there is certainly one, most likely two and possibly three planets beyond Neptune ".

The franchise joined the National League in its sixth season in 1887 and was competitive from its early years, winning three National League titles from 1901 to 1903, playing in the very first World Series in 1903 and winning their first World Series in 1909 behind Honus Wagner.

Founded by German merchant Georg Wertheim ( 1857 – 1939 ), designed by architect Alfred Messel ( 1853 – 1909 ), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following 40 years, it ultimately possessed a floor area double that of the Reichstag, a 330-metre-long granite and plate glass facade along Leipziger Straße, 83 elevators, three escalators, 1, 000 telephones, 10, 000 lamps, five kilometres of pneumatic tubing for moving items from the various departments to the packing area, and a separate entrance directly from the nearby U-Bahn station.

Color photography by taking three separate plates was used by other pioneers, such as Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in the period 1909 through 1915.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

Cobb, following a move to right field, led the Tigers to three consecutive American League pennants from 1907 – 1909.

Between 1909 and 1912, Evinrude made thousands of his outboards and the three horse units were sold around the world.

In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 ° 23 ′ S, 97 geographical miles ( 112 statute miles, 190 km ) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time.

On 9 January 1909 Shackleton and three companions ( Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams ) reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88 ° 23 ′ S, a point only from the Pole.

Sparta has won six national titles ( 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1959 ) and three national cups ( 1958, 1962 and 1966 ).

In March 1909, Charles H. Workman assumed control of the theatre, producing three new pieces, including one by Gilbert himself, Fallen Fairies ( music by Edward German ).

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

Bull converted to Catholicism on February 20, 1909, and the two married three days later.

Marmaduke was incorporated on August 2, 1909, and had expanded to a fair-sized town by 1914 with two drugstores, three banks, three restaurants, a Methodist and Baptist church, two barber shops, a hotel, a boarding house, and two " dime stores ".

The Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium was established in 1909 about three miles ( 5 km ) south of Booneville.

Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan, Jr. ( 17 September 1828-20 May 1910 ), James C. Spencer ( 29 July 1828 – after 1990 ), and John Lathrop ( 6 March 1909 – May 1870 ), each of these three men took a quarter of the land.

The move began the first of February 1909, and continued for approximately three months.

Originally established as three separate townships of Dosey ( organized 1909 ), Keene ( organized 1920 ) and Belden ( organized 1921 ), the three townships merged in 1949 to form New Dosey.