* 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

* Hélder Câmara, Brazil ( 1909 – 1999 ), Archbishop of Olinda and Recife

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara ( February 7, 1909, Fortaleza, Ceará, North East Brazil – August 27, 1999 Recife ) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

In 1989, von Trier's mother revealed on her deathbed that the man who he thought was his father was not, and that she had had a tryst with her former employer, Fritz Michael Hartmann ( 1909 – 2000 ), who descended from a long line of Roman Catholic classical musicians ( his grandfather was Emil Hartmann, his great grandfather J. P. E.

European ethnic groups and East Coast missionary groups constructed St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in 1874, the Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1905 and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine in 1909.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and St Ia was built in 1909 to a design by A. J. C. Scoles.

James Phillips, in ( The History of Pembrokeshire ) ( published 1909 ) records a find of Roman silver coins in Haverfordwest, the earliest dated coin a Valerian and the latest a Claudius Gothicus.

* Timothy Manning ( 1909 – 1989 ), Roman Catholic cardinal, third Archbishop of Los Angeles

* ( 1909 ) Roman Law in Medieval Europe

Saint Arnold Janssen, S. V. D., ( November 5, 1837 – January 15, 1909 ) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, and is venerated as a saint.

* 1909 – 10 William Warde Fowler The Religious Experience of the Roman People, ISBN 0-8154-0372-0

In 1909, two Roman coins were discovered in the park.

Past and present places of worship in Rye include St Mary's, the Anglican parish church with Norman origins ; St Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic church, rebuilt in 1929 ; a 1909 Baptist chapel in Cinque Ports Street, replacing the Rye Particular Baptist Chapel of 1754 ( which itself stood on the site of an older Quaker meeting house ); former Congregational and Independent churches ; and a Methodist chapel.

Excavations in 1875, 1903 and 1909 revealed the Roman structure and showed that it consisted of a double roadway between two square flanking guardroom towers.

* John Aloysius Morgan ( 1909 – 2008 ), Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

In 1907, entomologist C. L. Marlatt assigned Roman numerals to 30 different broods of periodical cicadas: 17 distinct broods with a 17-year life cycle, to which he assigned brood numbers I through XVII ( with emerging years 1893 through 1909 ); plus 13 broods with a 13-year cycle, to which he assigned brood numbers XVIII through XXX ( 1893 through 1905 ).

François Bérenger Saunière ( 11 April 1852 – 22 January 1917 ) was a Roman Catholic priest in the French village of Rennes-le-Château, in the Aude region, officially from 1885 until he was transferred to another village in 1909 by his bishop, a nomination he declined and subsequently resigned.

Father Aloysius H. Schmitt ( December 4, 1909 – December 7, 1941 ) was a Roman Catholic priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, who served as a chaplain in the United States Navy during World War II.

He then went to further his studies in Rome, where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology ( 1906 ) and Doctor of Sacred Theology ( 1909 ) from the Urban College of Propaganda and a Ph. D. from the Roman Academy ( 1908 ).

Nonetheless, Beatrice and Alfonso married in a Roman Catholic and Lutheran ceremony at Coburg on 15 July 1909.

Established in 1909, by the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits, the School of Law is located in downtown Chicago, within walking distance of the Water Tower ( only surviving downtown building of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire ), the John Hancock Center ( one of the tallest buildings in the United States ), Holy Name Cathedral and the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue.

* Father Aloysius Schmitt ( 1909 – 1941 ), Roman Catholic priest who died at Pearl Harbor

In 1902 he was ordained Roman Catholic priest, but in 1907-1908 and after 1909 he was pensioned, partly due to conflicts with his superiors.

* John Wright ( Bishop of Pittsburgh ) ( 1909 – 1979 ), Roman Catholic bishop in America