* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States, in five volumes, Clarendon Press, 1896 – 1909.

* 1909 – Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur ( d. 1998 )

* 1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.

* 1998 – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's ( b. 1909 )

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

* Martha B. Gilbreth ( November 5, 1909 – November 15, 1968 ) ( age 59 ); married Richard E. Tallman ; four children ( Janet, Blair, Mary, Stephanie ).

* Farnell, Lewis Richard, The Cults of the Greek States, Volumes I-V, Clarendon Press, ( 1896 – 1909 ); cf.

* 1909 – First Intrauterine device described by Richard Richter.

The libretto drew on the legend of Myrrha while the music was inspired by Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1902 ) as well as Richard Strauss ' Elektra ( 1909 ).

This was the world's first council housing, and brothers Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont were brought up here .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions from 1876 to 1914 ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 126-32 accessed: 14 November 2006 </ ref > In 1909, the Bethnal Green Estate was built with money left by the philanthropist William Richard Sutton which he left for ' modern dwellings and houses for occupation by the poor of London and other towns and populous places in England '.< ref >< cite >< cite >

Dwight was laid out on 30 January 1854 by Richard Price Morgan, Jr. ( 17 September 1828-20 May 1910 ), James C. Spencer ( 29 July 1828 – after 1990 ), and John Lathrop ( 6 March 1909 – May 1870 ), each of these three men took a quarter of the land.

* Richard Watson Gilder ( 1844 – 1909 ), poet, author and editor of The Century Magazine.

* Richard N. Hackett ( 1866 – 1923 ), Congressional Representative 1907 – 1909.

( See also Margiad Evans Whistler ( 1909 – 58 ); Richard Hughes ( 1900 – 76 ); Alexander Cordell ( 1914 – 97 ).

Composer Richard Stein ( 1909 – 1992 ) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's " Johnny ( Is the Boy for Me )" was taken from Stein's 1937 song " Sanie cu zurgălăi " ( Romanian for " Sleigh with Bells ").

The couple had seven children: Bridget Amice Beaumont ( 1902 – 1948 ); Francis William Lionel Beaumont ( 1903 – 1941 ) ( father of John Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark ); Cyril John Astley Beaumont ( 1905 – 1973 ); Basil Ian Beaumont ( 1908 – 1909 ); Douce Alianore Daphne Beaumont ( 1910 – 1967 ); Richard Vyvyan Dudley Beaumont ( b. 1915 ); Jehanne Rosemary Ernestine Beaumont ( b. 1919 ).

The popular premier Richard McBride kept the Liberals to one seat in 1909 and then managed to shut them out in the 1912 election.

In 1909 he succeeded Siegfried Ochs as director of the Rühlscher Oratorienverein in Frankfurt-am-Mein and at 31 was appointed musical director of the municipal orchestra in Wiesbaden ; festivals of modern music ( Richard Strauss, Reger, Mahler, Delius and Arnold Schoenberg ) made Wiesbaden an internationally-renowned centre for music.

From 1909 – 1911, he studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his teachers were Richard Müller, Robert Sterl, Raphael Wehle, and Oskar Schindler.

* D. p. nigrippus, named in 1909 by Richard Haensch as forma: Danais archippus f. nigrippus, and is found in South-America south of Nicaragua

Richard Holmes believed the loan was never repaid, but Haig ’ s biographer Walter Reid believes the loan was probably repaid in 1909.

The Trouton – Noble paradox is essentially equivalent to a thought experiment called " right angle lever paradox ", first discussed by Gilbert Newton Lewis and Richard Chase Tolman in 1909.

* Richard Perry ( 1909 – 1982 ), writer / naturalist

* Richard Reader Harris ( KC ) ( 1847 – 1909 ), English barrister, counselor to Queen Victoria, Methodist minister

62 ( 1824 ) Antonin Dvořák attempted a half-hearted revival, using the instrument in his Czech Suite ( 1879 ), in which he specifies that an English horn ( cor anglais ) may be used instead, but the instrument was largely abandoned until Richard Strauss took it up once more in his operas Elektra ( 1909 ), Der Rosenkavalier, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Daphne, Die Liebe der Danae, and Capriccio, and several later works, including two wind serenades ( Happy Workshop and Invalid's Workshop ).

Strauss turned to a more conservative idiom in his own work after 1909 and at that point dismissed Schoenberg.

* Elektra ( opera ), a 1909 opera by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Hofmannsthal adapted from the above play

But Strauss wanted more: his next opera ( Elektra, 1909 ) was so " noisy " that cartoons appeared with Strauss directing an orchestra of animals.

* 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