Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

* Charles Brasch, notable New Zealand poet, editor, and cultural critic

The award was established by an anonymous group ( thought to have been instigated by Charles Brasch ) to be awarded each year to " writers of imaginative literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, biography, essays or literary criticism.

* 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

In 1909, at 16 years of age, Newby began regularly playing records on a small spark transmitter while a student at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, located in San Jose, California, under the authority of radio pioneer Charles " Doc " Herrold.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.

" Hermóðr | Hermod before Hela " ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman.

In 1909, Charles S. Peirce proposed a graphical notation of nodes and edges called " existential graphs " that he called " the logic of the future ".

An earlier attempt, the Harvard Classics ( 1909 ), was promulgated by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, whose thesis was the same as Carlyle's:

* April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet ( d. 1909 )

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

It was then at the Manhattan Opera House in 1909 with Luisa Tetrazzini, John McCormack, and Charles Gilibert, and again with Frieda Hempel and Antonio Scotti in the same roles at the Met on December 17, 1917.

DeWolfe Howe ( New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1909 ) – edited letters to his wife, Ellen Ewing Sherman, from 1837 to 1888.

* British — Bantock, Sir Granville: Pierrot of the Minute: Overture to a Dramatic Fantasy of Ernest Dowson ( 1908 ; see under England above ); Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Ballet Suite # 1, " Pierrot ", for String and Full Orchestra ( 1909 ).

* British — Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Pierrot and Pierrette ( 1909 ; libretto by Walter E. Grogan ).

Relatively few works of fiction have Tintagel as a setting: these include Anthony Trollope's short story Malachi's Cove and the Williamsons ' epistolary novel Set in Silver, 1909 ( by Charles and Alice Williamson ).

Sif ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman

The Ride of the Valkyrs ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman

A Brooklyn socialite and former wife of businessman Charles Duryea, she met Johnson at a car race in 1909.

* Charles Jones ( footballer born 1888 ) ( 1888 – after 1909 ), English-born football outside left who played for Birmingham and Bristol Rovers

In March 1909, Charles H. Workman assumed control of the theatre, producing three new pieces, including one by Gilbert himself, Fallen Fairies ( music by Edward German ).

" The Wolves Pursuing Sol and Mani " ( 1909 ) by John Charles Dollman | J. C. Dollman.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.

From 1909 to 1951, Charles G. Dawes lived in this Charles G. Dawes House | house at 225 Greenwood St. in Evanston, Illinois, which was built in 1894 by Robert Sheppard.

* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player

* 1958 – Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter

* 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.

* 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.

* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )

* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist

* 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, English naval officer ( d. 1855 )

* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1830 – Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )