About the day » Saturday December 18, 1909Calender converter

• Aagje de Wit, Blokker
• Andreas Maria Vincentius Roolvink, Enschede
• Adriana Louisa Heijde de, Made en Drimmelen
• Albert Wessels, Zwolle († 1954)
• Adrianus Leonardus van de Ven, Berghem (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1975)
• Adrianus Pietersz X Gerritsen, Rotterdam († 1994)
• van der Laan, Exloermond (Odoorn) († 1909)
• Aartje Gelderblom, Nieuw Lekkerland
• Aagje Griffioen, Uithoorn, Gemeente Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, NEDERLAND († 1991)
• Ambiorix Gaspard CASTELEYN, Roeselare († 1909)

• Arend Hermanus HOFMEYR (45), Caledon
• Angenzia Maria Stuffers (75), Bangil Nederlands Indië
• Alida van der Pol (48), boskoop
• Anton Nijenhuis (41)
• Arend Lowijs (41), Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arend Lowijs (41), Tiendeveen (Beilen)
• Andries van de Kooij (66), Hoogland
• Alida van der Pol (48), Boskoop, Boskoop, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Alle Eelzes Kingma (77), Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adam Bijsterveld (89), Blokzijl

• 1907 » Bill Holland, American race car driver († 1984)
• 1907 » Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator († 2009)
• 1908 » Celia Johnson, English actress († 1982)
• 1908 » Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer († 1969)
• 1910 » Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire († 2010)
• 1911 » Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1912 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot († 2002)
• 1913 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1913 » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)

• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Jacob
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Antonius
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
• 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.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

The temperature on December 18, 1909 was between 0.5 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.