1909: On this day in history

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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1909

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Birthdays

January 1 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
January 1 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
January 1 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
January 3 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
January 5 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
January 5 - Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-U.S. sculptor
January 8 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
January 8 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
January 9 - Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
January 13 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)
January 14 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
January 15 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
January 15 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
January 19 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
January 21 - Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
January 22 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
January 22 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
January 22 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
January 24 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
January 24 - Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
January 28 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
February 1 - George Beverly Shea, Canadian singer
February 2 - Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
February 3 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)
February 3 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
February 7 - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
February 7 - Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (d. 1995)
February 9 - Heather Angel, British actress (d. 1986)
February 9 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian actress (d. 1955)
February 9 - Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (d. 1994)
February 9 - Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
February 11 - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
February 11 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director (d. 1993)
February 12 - Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (d. 1945)
February 15 - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
February 15 - Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d. 1966)
February 16 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982)
February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995)
February 16 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
February 18 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)
February 24 - August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971)
February 26 - King Talal of Jordan, (d. 1972)
February 26 - Fanny Cradock, English food writer and broadcaster (d. 1994)
February 28 - Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995)
March 2 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
March 4 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d.1997)
March 7 - Léo Malet, French writer
March 9 - Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
March 18 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
March 19 - Louis Hayward, British actor (d. 1985)
March 19 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d. 1983)
March 24 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
March 27 - Golo Mann, German historian (d. 1994)
March 27 - Ben Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
March 28 - Nelson Algren, American writer (d. 1981)
April 1 - Eddy Duchin, American popular pianist & bandleader (d. 1951)
April 5 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)
April 6 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
April 6 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
April 7 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
April 13 - Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001)
April 17 - Alain Poher, French politician (d. 1996)
April 22 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist
April 22 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
April 25 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
April 29 - Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
April 30 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, (d. 2004)
April 30 - F. E. McWilliam,Irish sculptor, (d. 1992)
May 1 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet
May 6 - Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (d. 2004)
May 7 - Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
May 9 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
May 10 - Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
May 11 - Ellis R Dungan, American born Indian film director (d. 2001)
May 11 - Herbert Murrill, English composer (d. 1952)
May 15 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
May 16 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960)
May 18 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (d. 1995)
May 19 - Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
May 21 - François-Albert Angers, Quebec economist (d. 2003)
May 24 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
May 25 - Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999)
May 25 - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (d. 1970)
May 26 - Sir Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1994)
May 26 - Nikolay Guryanov, Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (d. 2002)
May 26 - Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (d. 1969)
May 28 - Red Horner, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
May 30 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
May 31 - Aurore Gagnon, French Canadian victim of child abuse (d. 1920)
June 1 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (d. 1986)
June 7 - Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (d. 1974)
June 7 - Peter W. Rodino, American politician (d. 2005)
June 7 - Jessica Tandy, English-born actress (d. 1994)
June 14 - Burl Ives, American musician (d. 1995)
June 16 - Archie Fairley Carr, biologist (d. 1987)
June 17 - Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004)
June 17 - Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor (d. 2004)
June 19 - Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
June 20 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959)
June 22 - Maurice Adler, American film producer (d. 1960)
June 23 - David Lewis, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1981)
June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
June 28 - Eric Ambler, English writer (d. 1998)
July 1 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
July 12 - Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
July 12 - Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999)
July 18 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
July 18 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
July 18 - Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
July 20 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (d. 1969)
July 20 - Eric Rowan, Former South African cricketer (d. 1993)
July 22 - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
July 26 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
July 26 - Vivian Vance, American actress (d. 1979)
July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (d. 1993)
August 4 - Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988)
August 4 - Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
August 8 - Bill Voce, England cricketer (d. 1984)
August 9 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
August 10 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
August 12 - Richard Bare, American director
August 15 - Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader (d. 1973)
August 17 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
August 18 - Gérard Filion, French Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
August 20 - Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978)
August 21 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
August 22 - Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000)
August 22 - Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992)
August 22 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
August 23 - Syd Buller, England First Class Cricketer and English test umpire (d. 1970)
August 24 - Ronald Grieveson, South African cricketer (d. 1998)
August 25 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d. 1993)
August 25 - Michael Rennie, English actor (d. 1971)
August 26 - Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
August 26 - Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)
August 26 - Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976)
August 27 - Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
August 27 - Lester Young, American musician (d. 1959)
September 1 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
September 4 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (d. 1945)
September 5 - Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)
September 6 - Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1993)
September 7 - Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (d. 2003)
September 12 - Donald MacDonald, O.C.
September 14 - Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
September 15 - C.N.Annadurai, Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu
September 19 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (d. 1998)
September 24 - Gerard Cio³ek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
September 26 - Bill France, Sr.
September 28 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979)
October 1 - Maurice Bardèche, French fascist
October 1 - Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
October 7 - Anni Blomqvist, Finnish novelist (d. 1990)
October 7 - Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician
October 9 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
October 10 - Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director
October 13 - Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
October 13 - Herbert Block, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
October 14 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938)
October 14 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
October 15 - Robert Trout, American reporter (d. 2000)
October 15 - Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer (d. 2002)
October 18 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and legal theorist (d. 2004)
October 19 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
October 19 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
October 20 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
October 23 - Zellig Harris, American linguist (d. 1992)
October 24 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
October 28 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 1992)
October 30 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (d. 1966)
November 3 - James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
November 4 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
November 4 - Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
November 10 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
November 11 - Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
November 18 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
November 19 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
November 22 - Mikhail Mil, Russian aviation designer (d. 1970)
November 23 - Nigel Tranter, British historian and writer (d. 2000)
November 26 - Frances Dee, American actress (d. 2004)
November 26 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born french playwright (d. 1994)
November 27 - James Agee, American writer (d. 1955)
November 27 - Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967)
November 30 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
December 4 - Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)
December 8 - Gratien Gélinas, French-Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1999)
December 9 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
December 10 - Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
December 11 - Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991)
December 11 - John Wyer, English sports car racing team manager (d.1989)
December 12 - Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
December 14 - Edward Tatum, American geneticist
December 19 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
December 20 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000)
December 21 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
December 22 - Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)
December 31 - Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2000)

Deaths

January 12 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
January 15 - Arnold Janssen missionary, (b. 1837)
January 17 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
February 17 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
March 12 - Joe Petrosino, NYPD lieutenant (b. 1860)
March 24 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
April 9 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
April 10 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)
April 13 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
May 18 - George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
May 18 - Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
May 20 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
June 10 - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
June 24 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
July 11 - Simon Newcomb, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
August 15 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
August 27 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)
September 4 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)
September 9 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
October 13 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (b. 1849)
October 16 - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
October 26 - Hirobumi Ito, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1841)
November 10 - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
November 10 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
December 11 - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
December 17 - Léopold II of Belgium, (b. 1835)
December 26 - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)

Events

January 1 - Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
January 5 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 25 - Richard Strauss' opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
January 27 - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 20 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 23 - The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
February 24 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
March 18 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
March 23 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
March 30 - The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
March 31 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
April 6 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson allegedly reach the North Pole.
April 9 - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
April 18 - Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
April 19 - Joan of Arc receives beatification.
April 27 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
May 13 - The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 7 - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
July 25 - Louis Bl¨¦riot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
August 6 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
August 18 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
August 24 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
August 30 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 7 - Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
November 2 - Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
November 13 - Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
November 18 - Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
November 26 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
December 4 - 1st Grey Cup game was played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.
December 31 - Manhattan Bridge opens.

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