1909

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the last year of the aughts 1900s.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1906 1907 1908 – 1909 – 1910 1911 1912

Events

March 31 – Construction of the RMS Titanic is started
April 6 – Robert Peary arrived in the north pole.
April – The Adana massacre takes place in the Ottoman city of Adana
June 29 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia
The first model of the Model T is sold
The pH scale is developed.
Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss doctor, won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

January 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (d. 1994)
February 9 – Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 1955)
March 20 – Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
May 27 – Dolores Hope, American singer
June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (d. 1997)
June 10 – Errol Flynn, American actor (d. 1959)
August 10 – Leo Fender, American guitar maker (d. 1991)
August 26 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1966)
September 21 – Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (d. 1972)
Dokaji Abubakar, Nigerian politician
Dauda Adegbenro, Nigerian politician (d. 1975)

Deaths

February 17 – Geronimo, Native American leader (b. 1829)
December 17 – Léopold II of Belgium, King of Belgium (b. 1835)
January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)

Art, music, theatre, literature

June 2 – Michel Fokine's Les Sylphides premieres in Paris. It stars Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova

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