* 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

Publication of its design in 1909, and praise from influential American architect Ralph Adams Cram, helped establish Collegiate Gothic as the prevailing architectural style on American university campuses for decades.

* Futurist architecture 1909 Europe

Marinetti launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published for the first time on 5 February 1909 in La gazzetta dell ' Emilia, an article then reproduced in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism ( 1909 ), as it delineated the various ideals Futurist poetry should strive for.

When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti issued his Futurist Manifesto in 1909, he chose to contrast his movement with the supposedly defunct artistic sentiments of the Winged Victory: "... a race-automobile which seems to rush over exploding powder is more beautiful than the ' Victory of Samothrace '.

The Futurist Manifesto, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell ' Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909, then in French as " Manifeste du futurisme " in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

The publication of the " Futurist Manifesto ", 1909, on the front cover of the French daily newspaper Le Figaro was an audacious coup de théâtre that resulted in international notoriety.

Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism ( 1909 ).

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )

By 1909 after the failure of a syndicalist general strike in France, Sorel and his supporters left the radical left and went to the radical right, where they sought to merge militant Catholicism and French patriotism with their views-advocating anti-republican Christian French patriots as ideal revolutionaries.

Molinari went on to edit the Journal des Économistes, the publication of the French Political Economy Society, from 1881 until 1909.

* 1909 – French troops capture Abéché ( in modern-day Chad ) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.

It was not the world's first air force, because France's embryonic army air service, which eventually became the French Air Force ( Armée de l ’ Air ), was founded in 1909.

* The French Duel ( 1909, actor )

* 1909 – Jacques Canetti, French music executive and talent agent ( d. 1997 )

* 1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist ( d. 1975 )

* 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera ( original title: Le Fantôme de l ' Opéra ), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

* Several film adaptations of the story have been produced, including the early French language film Le Puits et le pendule in 1909 by Henri Desfontaines.

* August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher ( b. 1909 )

* October 31 – Marcel Carné, French film director ( b. 1909 )

* April 27 – Robert Velter, French cartoonist ( b. 1909 )

* June 24 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( b. 1909 )

* June 11 – Renée Vivien, British poet who wrote in French ( d. 1909 )

* February 8 – Ferdinand Ferber, a French Army captain and aviation pioneer ( d. 1909 )

* January 23 – Constant Coquelin, French actor, Cyrano de Bergerac ( d. 1909 )

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* French — Fourest, Georges: " The Blonde Negress " ( 1909 ); Klingsor, Tristan: " By Moonlight " ( 1908 ), " At the Fountain " ( 1913 ); Magre, Maurice: " The Two Pierrots " ( 1913 ); Rouault, Georges: Funambules ( 1926 ).

* French — Debussy, Claude: Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 1915 ; Debussy had considered calling it " Pierrot angry at the moon "); Popy, Francis: Pierrot Sleeps ( n. d .; violin and piano ); Salzedo, Carlos ( worked mainly in U. S. A .): " Pierrot is Sad ", from Sketches for Harpist Beginners, two series ( 1942 ; harp ); Satie, Erik: " Pierrot's Dinner " ( 1909 ; piano ).

Gabrielle Roy, ( March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983 ) was a French Canadian author.