The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a " Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde " on December 7, 1909.

Bogdanov was then involved with setting up Vpered, which ran the Capri Party School from August to December 1909.

* G. Jean-Aubry, “ Isaac Albéniz 1860 – 1909 ,” The Musical Times, Vol 58 No. 898, Musical Times Publications Ltd., December 1917 pgs 535 – 538.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

* Order of St. Anne, 3rd degree ( 1903 ) and 2nd degree ( 6 December 1909 )

Victor Borge ( ; 3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000 ),

The decade from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1909 is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, " the nineteen hundreds ", although this term can equally be used for the years 1900 – 1999.

* December 17 – Dana Andrews, American actor ( b. 1909 )

* December 13 – Heather Angel, English actress ( b. 1909 )

* December 23 – Reginald Miles Ansett, Australian businessman and aviator ( b. 1909 )

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.

In December 1909, Knollys thought the proposal to create peers or give the prime minister the right to do so " outrageous " and that the King should abdicate – the King did talk of doing so that winter, but this was probably a symptom of his illness.

In December 1909 Cobb returned and rendered his accounts for his Asia trip that year.

Leopold II (, ) ( 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909 ) was the King of the Belgians, and is chiefly remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State.

On December 17, 1909, Leopold II died at Laeken, and the Belgian crown passed to Albert, the son of Leopold's brother, Philip, Count of Flanders.

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

Following the death of his uncle, Leopold II, Albert succeeded to the Belgian throne in December 1909, since Albert's own father had already died in 1905.

** Zemio ca. 1872 established ; December 11, 1894 under Congo Free State protectorate, April 12, 1909 under French protectorate ; 1923 Sultanate suppressed

She married Arthur Grenbry Outhwaite on 8 December 1909 and thereafter was generally known as Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

Franz Scholz ( 10 December 1909 – 1 September 1998 ) was a German priest and professor of theology from Breslau, Silesia.

Among these was his son, David G. ( Dode ) MacKenzie, who, in December 1909, was shot ( possibly murdered ) in La Beau, South Dakota, while also working for Matador.

David Dean Rusk ( February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994 ) was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

During the election campaign Lloyd George talked of “ guarantees ” and Asquith ( in his Albert Hall Speech, December 1909 ) of “ safeguards ” which would be necessary before forming another Liberal government, but in fact the King informed Asquith that he would not even be willing to contemplate creating peers until after a second General Election.

Conan Doyle's article in the December 1920 issue of The Strand contained two higher resolution prints of the 1917 photographs, and sold out within days of publication.

Their last television appearance was on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on December 2, 2004.

His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories ( eight in some editions ) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the one-off title story ( September 1917 ), also called A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes under Reminiscences of Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Howard characters: Kull in " Exile of Atlantis " ( Savage Sword of Conan # 3, December 1974 ), and Bran Mak Morn in " Worms of the Earth " ( Savage Sword of Conan # 16, November 1975 ).

Conan II of Rennes ( c. 1033 – 11 December 1066 ) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death.

Baritsu is the name given to a form of martial art described by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of the Empty House ", the first of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, to explain how Holmes had managed to avoid falling into the Reichenbach Falls with Professor Moriarty as described in the story " The Final Problem ", first published in Strand Magazine in December 1893.

Nikolai performed with dream-pop duo Beach House during their appearance on Conan on December 20, 2010.

During the week of December 13 – 17, 2010, Conan has fallen behind in the weekly overnight Nielsen Ratings, averaging only 1. 3 million viewers, compared to NBC's The Tonight Show ( 4. 2 million ), CBS's Late Show ( 3. 6 million ), ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Air Commandant Dame Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle, Lady Bromet DBE, AE, WRAF, ADC ( 21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997 ) was best known as Jean Conan Doyle.

Vaughan performed on the episode of the TBS cable television show Conan that aired December 22, 2010.

* The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ( Ballantine Books, December 2003 )

The band performed on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien on December 23, 1994.

A two-part and thirty-seven page comic strip adaptation in black and white, adapted by Roy Thomas and penciled by Tim Conrad and Barry Windsor-Smith, was published by Curtis Magazines in December 1976 and February 1977, in issues # 16 and # 17 of The Savage Sword of Conan.

This iteration of Set, the malevolent primeval seven-headed serpent god of chaos, has its origins in Robert E. Howard's first Conan short story The Phoenix on the Sword, ( first published in Weird Tales, December 1932 ); this story introduces Thoth-Amon, a follower of " the serpent god Set ".

On February 5, 2007, the Slip made their national television debut on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, playing " Children of December ".

A revised version of Bounce premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater under the new name Road Show from October 28, 2008 through December 28, 2008, under the direction of John Doyle.

Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein | Doyle joined Danzig ( band ) | Danzig onstage during tours from 2004 to 2006 for half-hour sets of early Misfits songs. Doyle had meanwhile reunited with Glenn Danzig, joining Danzig onstage during performances in December 2004 to play guitar for 30-minute sets of old Misfits songs midway through the band's setlist.

Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn ( 28 May 1970 – 3 December 2002 ) was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999 – 2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Mental health issues were confronted in December 2002 when Yvonne Doyle developed schizophrenia ( which led to her taking a drug overdose in a failed suicide attempt ).

* December 9-Damhnait Doyle, pop singer

Damhnait Doyle ( born December 9, 1975 in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ) is a Canadian pop singer.

* Doyle, D., " Per Rectum: A History of Enemata ", Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Vol. 35, No. 4, ( December 2005 ), pp. 367 – 370.

In December 1955, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Desmond Doyle, and ordered that the children be returned to him and that his court costs were to be reimbursed by the government.

Ronald Leslie Doyle " Ron " Boswell ( born 9 December 1940 ), Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate since 5 March 1983, representing Queensland.

* December 11-Richard Doyle, illustrator ( b. 1824 )

* 17 December – Craig Doyle, television presenter.

A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer.

John Doyle ( 12 February 1930 – 29 December 2010 ) was an Irish sportsperson and politician, hailed as one of the best defenders in hurling and his county's most iconic player upon his death.

Doyle died on 28 December 2010 at the age of 80.

Doyle was buried at Holy Cross Abbey outside Thurles on 31 December 2010.

David Fitzgerald Doyle ( December 1, 1929 – February 26, 1997 ) was an American actor.

Christopher Doyle Snelling ( born December 3, 1981 in North Miami, Florida ) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder of Australian descent.

He was the youngest of four children, which included his brother Roy Blackwood ( December 24, 1900 – March 21, 1971 ), sister Lena Blackwood Cain ( December 31, 1904 – March 1, 1990 ), and brother Doyle Blackwood ( August 21, 1911 – October 3, 1974 ).