1909

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 - 1909 - 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

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Births

• January 1 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator
• February 11 - Joseph Mankiewicz.
• February 9 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress;
• February 11 - Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor.
• April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, American mathematician.
• April 30 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
• July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author.

Deaths

• May 19 - Isaac Albéniz, aged 48, Spanish composer
• December 17 - Leopold II of Belgium

Events

• July 25: Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
• Change of US presidency from Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) to William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Hamid II (1876-1909) to Mehmed V (Resad) (1909-1918)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Guglielmo Marconi, Carl Ferdinand Braun
• Chemistry - Wilhelm Ostwald
• Medicine - Emil Theodor Kocher
• Literature - Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
• Peace - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Constant, Baron De Constant De Rebecque