* 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

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

* 1909 – Hans Erni, Swiss painter

* 1909 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist ( d. 1986 )

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment under the direction of Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at layers of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

* 1909 – Hans Carste, German pianist and conductor ( d. 1971 )

* November 3 – Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, Austrian-born art historian ( b. 1909 )

* 1909 Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden discover large angle deflections of alpha particles by thin metal foils

Beecham's presentation of A Mass of Life at the Queen's Hall in June 1909 did not inspire Hans Haym, who had come from Elberfeld for the concert, though Beecham says that many professional and amateur musicians thought it " the most impressive and original achievement of its genre written in the last fifty years " Some reviewers, nevertheless, doubted the popular appeal of Delius's music, while others were more specifically hostile.

Amphibians skulls, Hans Gadow, 1909 Amphibia and Reptiles

* Prof. Dr. Hans Wehr ( 1909 – 1981 ), Islam Scientist and Author of the leading Arabian-English dictionary ( also used for Wikipedia guidelines ).

* 1909: Hans and Erika Tietze

The Geiger – Marsden experiment ( also called the Gold foil experiment or the Rutherford experiment ) was an experiment to probe the structure of the atom performed by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909, under the direction of Ernest Rutherford at the Physical Laboratories of the University of Manchester.

The gold foil experiment was conducted under the supervision of Rutherford at the University of Manchester in 1909 by scientist Hans Geiger and undergraduate student Ernest Marsden.

Their first two children, daughter Hella ( 1909 – 1913 ) and son Hans ( 1911 – 1913 ) died early.

In 1909, he appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as the Night Watchman in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg ( opposite tenor Walter Hyde as David ), with Hans Richter conducting.

After von Osten died in 1909, Hans was acquired by several owners.

* Hans Fischinger, film director, brother of Oskar, born September 15, 1909 at Gelnhausen, lost 1944 in Serbia

Image: Emil Orlik Rollenportrait Hans Wassmann. jpg | Hans Wassmann as Nick Bottom ( 1909 )

With Jaffé, she had two children, Marianne ( born 1905 ) and Hans ( born 1909 ).

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE ( 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001 ) was an Austrian-born art historian who became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.

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While still an undergraduate he conducted the famous Geiger-Marsden experiment called the gold foil experiment in 1909 together with Hans Geiger under Rutherford's supervision.

Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen ( 16 February 1826 – 13 February 1909 ) was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle.