* 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

O ' Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from October 2, 1909 to 1912, during which time they had one son, Eugene O ' Neill, Jr. ( 1910 – 1950 ).

Of the major cosmetics firms, the largest is L ' Oréal, which was founded by Eugene Schueller in 1909 as the French Harmless Hair Colouring Company ( now owned by Liliane Bettencourt 26 % and Nestlé 28 %; the remaining 46 % is traded publicly ).

Eugene Bertram " Gene " Krupa ( January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973 ) was an American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.

Launched by a commission to illustrate L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose in 1897, his repertoire included many prestigious projects including Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood ( including 8 color plates ) ( 1904 ) ( see illustration ) and such traditional works as Arabian Nights ( including 12 color plates ) ( 1909 ).

The youths, aged 11 to 17, included John " Jacko " Behan ( born 1909 ), Richard " Richie " Britt ( born 1908 ), James M. " Duke " Coffey ( born 1911 ), Kenneth " Kenny " Davis ( born 1914 ), George Dorsey, Gerald " Mikis " Murphy ( born 1914 ), Francis " Stubbs " Shortt ( born 1908 ), and Eugene Thompson ( 1911-2001 ).

He fathered two sons with Belle: William Thomas Gilcrease, Jr., who was born on July 23, 1909 in Oklahoma and died on March 16, 1967 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, and Barton Eugene Gilcrease, who was born on April 12, 1911 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on September 25, 1991 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

Lieutenant Commander Eugene Kingsmill Esmonde VC DSO, F / Lt, RAF, Lt-Cdr ( A ) RN ( 1 March 1909 – 12 February 1942 ) was a distinguished pilot who was a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to members of Commonwealth forces.

Eugene Hugh Beaumont ( February 16, 1909 – May 14, 1982 ) was an American actor and television director.

* In 1909 she married her first husband, Eugene de Plumon, a French advocate.

* Eugène Lefebvre ( 1878 – 1909 ), French aviator, and the second person to be killed in airplane crash.

In 1909, the citizens of Berkeley adopted a new charter, and the Town of Berkeley became the City of Berkeley.

A minority of the exchanges ( i. e. distributors ) stayed outside the MPPC, and in 1909 these independent exchanges immediately began to fund new film producing companies.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

In January 1909, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and in a new trial before another judge ( Landis recused himself ), Standard Oil was acquitted.

In 1909 Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and Treasury Secretary Reinhold von Sydow attempted to pass a new budget boosting taxes in an attempt to reduce the deficit.

The opera introduced a new character called ' the dancing missionary ', who was to appear in several episodes of the comic strip during 1909, and the word whiffenpoof.

More work was published in 1909 by Geiger and Marsden and further greatly expanded work was published in 1910 by Geiger, In 1911-2 Rutherford went before the Royal Society to explain the experiments and propound the new theory of the atomic nucleus as we now understand it.

From the eleventh century they rested at the church of Saint Adalbert, now Saint Bartholomew, on the island in the Tiber in Rome ; in 1908 Pope Pius X permitted them to be translated to the new Cathedral at Nola, where they were reinterred on May 15, 1909.

Lovett undertook extensive research before formalizing plans for the new Institute, including visits to 78 institutions of higher learning across the world on a long tour between 1908 and 1909.

( 1909 ) its geology and volcanic succession have recently been re-analysed in the light of new discoveries.

After 1909, Washington was criticized by the leaders of the new NAACP, especially W. E. B.

In the late 1909, the Italian Darracq cars were selling slowly and a new company was founded named A. L. F. A.

Late 1909, the Italian Darracq cars were selling slowly and Stella, with the other Italian co-investors, founded a new company named A. L. F. A.

The first non-Darracq car produced by the company was the 1910 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Merosi, hired in 1909 for designing new cars more suitable to the Italian market.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

In 1909 he introduced his famous budget imposing increased taxes on luxuries, liquor, tobacco, incomes, and land, so that money could be made available for the new welfare programs as well as new battleships.

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.

" Innovations in the seminar-workshops included a new " neuro-relaxation " component, led by dancer and Institute editorial secretary Charlotte Schuchardt ( 1909 – 2002 ).

A new building was designed by Nangle and Nurzey in the Italianate style and built in 1909, just across from the Katoomba Court House.

A new main stand was added in 1909, the East stand was also covered this year and extended further two years later.

The share of warships from all delivered new constructions came to about 50 % in 1909 / 10 and increased to nearly 100 % in 1916 during wartimes.

Later, a young student from Bilbao named Juan Elorduy, who was spending Christmas 1909 in London, was charged by the club to buy 25 new shirts, but was unable to find enough.

The history of football in Ferrol is associated to the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors ,< ref >" SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands " ( 1909 ) The Manchester Guardian, 1st February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown ... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain ... Mr A J Campbell ... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard ... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager.