* 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 – 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

Ludwig-Musser, William F. Ludwig Senior and his brother Theodor Ludwig founded the Ludwig & Ludwig Co. in 1909 and patented the first workable bass drum pedal system, paving the way for what was to become the modern drum kit.

* F. Kurylo: " Ferdinand Braun Leben und Wirken des Erfinders der Braunschen Röhre Nobelpreis 1909 ", München: Moos Verlag, 1965.

In 1909, the Parisian newspaper Le Figaro published F. T.

* 1909 – Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director ( d. 2010 )

Historical remark: In its original form by F. Riesz ( 1909 ) the theorem states that every continuous linear functional A over the space C ( 1 ) of continuous functions in the interval can be represented in the form

* F. Riesz ( 1909 ).

In 1909, Frederick F. Russell, a U. S. Army physician, developed an American typhoid vaccine and two years later his vaccination program became the first in which an entire army was immunized.

That g ( 3 ) = 9 was established from 1909 to 1912 by Wieferich and A. J. Kempner, g ( 4 ) = 19 in 1986 by R. Balasubramanian, F. Dress, and J .- M. Deshouillers, g ( 5 ) = 37 in 1964 by Chen Jingrun, and g ( 6 ) = 73 in 1940 by Pillai.

** F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor ( b. 1909 )

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.

His most famous are the First Suite in E-flat for Military Band of 1909 and the Second Suite in F for Military Band of 1911 ( see also Hammersmith, below ).

* Sedwick, F. R. ( 1909 ).

*" Invercargill March " from New Zealand-Alex F. Lithgow, composed in 1909

David Dean Rusk ( February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994 ) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

started out as Botwell Mission in 1909, taking the name Hayes F. C.

* James J. P. McShane ( 1909 – 1968 ), Appointed U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia by President John F. Kennedy then named Chief Marshal in 1962

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

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

In 1908 or 1909, a town site was surveyed by C. F. H.

* Taylor, M. L., A Study of the Technique of C. F. Meyer's Novellen ( Chicago, 1909 )

To give the film as authentic a feel as possible, Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck studied the numerous photographs that were taken during the revolutionary years, the period between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from the people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

The Merriam Company issued a complete revision in 1909, Webster's New International Dictionary, edited by William Torrey Harris and F. Sturges Allen.

According to Stroud, on January 18, 1909, while he was away at work, an acquaintance of theirs, barman F. K. " Charlie " Von Dahmer, had allegedly failed to pay O ' Brien for her services.