* 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.

* 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

* 1909 – Nikolay Guryanov, Russian mystic and priest ( d. 2002 )

Between 1909 and 1912 he was a prominent critic of the Modernist Apollo magazine, befriended many Russian poets and writers of the Silver Age and was Nikolay Gumilev's second in his 1909 duel against Maximilian Voloshin.

* Nikolay Pavlovich Zadornov ( 1909 — 1992 ) a Russian writer.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992 ), also transliterated as Bogoliubov, was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and to the theory of dynamical systems ; a recipient of the Dirac Prize ( 1992 ).

Nikolay Bogolyubov was born on 21 August 1909 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire to Russian Orthodox Church priest and seminary teacher of theology, psychology and philosophy Nikolay Mikhaylovich Bogolyubov, and Olga Nikolayevna Bogolyubova, a teacher of music.

The first kibbutz, Degania, was founded by Russian socialists in 1909.

* 1967 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician ( b. 1909 )

* 1909 – Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer ( d. 1970 )

Color photography by taking three separate plates was used by other pioneers, such as Russian Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky in the period 1909 through 1915.

* 1855 – Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet ( d. 1909 )

The company included the best young Russian dancers, among them Anna Pavlova, Adolph Bolm, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina and Vera Karalli, and their first night on 19 May 1909 was a sensation.

Map of Tsaritsyn ( Volgograd ) City map, Russian edition on 1909

* Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok wrote a poem entitled Ravenna ( May – June 1909 ) inspired by his Italian journey ( spring 1909 ).

In February 1909, two orchestral works, the and ( Fireworks ) were performed at a concert in Saint Petersburg, where they were heard by Sergei Diaghilev, who was at that time involved in planning to present Russian opera and ballet in Paris.

Itō arrived at the Harbin Railway Station on October 26, 1909 for a meeting with Vladimir Kokovtsov, a Russian representative in Manchuria.

By the way, in 1909 – 1911, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky lived at this villa.

In 1908, Lenin wrote a philosophical work, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism ( published 1909 ), in which he criticized Machism and the views of " Russian Machists ".

A group of Russian children, 1909.

In 1909 Diaghilev took a company of Russian opera and ballet stars to Paris featuring Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova.

Adaptations of classic foreign plays included Beethoven by Louis Parker, an adaptation of the play by Réné Fauchois ( 1909 ); A Russian Tragedy, an English version by Henry Hamilton of the play by Adolph Glass ( 1909 ); and The Perfect Gentleman by W. Somerset Maugham, an adaptation of the classic Molière play, Le bourgeois gentilhomme ( 1913 ).

From 1909 to 1912 he studied at University College, Oxford in England, where he was a member of the Bullingdon club and established the Oxford University Russian Society.

Among later Russian symphonic poems, Sergei Rachmaninoff's The Rock shows as much the influence of Tchaikovsky's work as Isle of the Dead ( 1909 ) does its independence from it.

In 1909, Tupolev began studying aerodynamics under the Russian aviation pioneer N. E.

According to Russian sourсes the 105 M Mle 1909 was evaluated and found suitable for Russian use, but needed to be rebuilt to accept 107mm Russian ammunition and was never used by Russian army.