* 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

* September 12 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian Army officer and businessman ( b. 1909 )

However, Sigmund Feist ( 1909 ) rejects the theory on etymological grounds, as does Albert Morley Sturtevant ( 1951 ) on the grounds of major difficulties, and their points have led Bruce Lincoln ( 1977 ) to comment that " there is no reason whatever to contend that nagl-does not have its usual meaning of " nail " and that Naglfar is anything other than the nail-ship, just as Snorri describes it.

* George Bruce ( 1909 – 2002 ): Poet of the Scottish literary renaissance

* September 12-Albert Bruce Matthews, commander of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War ( born 1909 )

* Bruce Medal ( 1909 )

In Ace of Spies, biographer Robin Bruce Lockhart recounts Reilly's alleged involvement in obtaining a newly developed German magneto at the first Frankfurt International Air Show (" Internationale Luftschiffahrt-Ausstellung ") in 1909.

Sonora Smart married John Bruce Dodd ( 1870-1945 ), one of the original founders of Ball & Dodd Funeral Home, and had a son, Jack Dodd, born in 1909.

According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, around 1909 – 1910:

The first Boy Scout troop in America is claimed to have been organized in Pawhuska, in May 1909 by John F. Mitchell.

A. Mitchell Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915.

* Arthur Mitchell ( physician ) ( 1826 – 1909 ), antiquary, commissioner of Lunacy

* " Ace in the Hole ," a 1909 jazz standard written by George D. Mitchell & James E. Dempsey

Mitchell John “ M. J .” Frankovich ( also known as Mike Frankovich ) ( September 29, 1909 – January 1, 1992 ) was an American film producer

In 1909, Canadian astronomer Samuel A. Mitchell identified this star as a spectroscopic binary, although he was unable to split the absorption lines of the components.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

* 1909 – Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer and English rugby union player ( d. 1990 )

* 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.

* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.

* 1909: Greek Town, a successful Greek immigrant community in South Omaha, Nebraska is burnt to the ground and its residents are forced to leave town.

In 1909 an administrative centre and residence were established at King Edward Point on South Georgia, near the whaling station of Grytviken.

* 1909 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.

Bryce Courtenay's novel Jessica tells in the history a case brought in a New South Wales court against the Aboriginal Protection Board challenging the Aboriginal Protection Act of 1909 in order to return two children from Cootamundra Girls Home for Aboriginal children to the aboriginal mother.

* 1909 ( as South Melbourne ) – defeated Carlton 4. 14 ( 38 ) to 4. 12 ( 36 )

* July 28 – Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1909 )

* May 12 – Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia ( d. 1909 )

* Gerald Bond ( 1909 – 1965 ), South African Test cricketer

He also has a South African spider named after him, Araneus drygalskii ( Strand, 1909 ), based on material collected on the Gauss expedition.

* South Africa Act 1909

Once the North Pole had been reached in 1909, several expeditions attempted to reach the South Pole.

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.