About the day » Friday July 2, 1909Calender converter

• Hunink († 1909)
• Adrianus Hubertus Marcus, Rotterdam
• Adriaan Scheele, Terneuzen (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1909)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Koldenhof, Wormen ( Apeldoorn,NLD ), Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)
• Jongbloets, Tilburg († 1909)
• Alix Davisard de Talairan, Paris 17e, 75056, France († 1989)
• Aaldert van der Weide, Zwinderscheveld († 1991)
• Agnès Marie Alexandrine Dadvisard de Talairan, Paris († 1989)
• Aart (Anton) van Scherpenzeel, Utrecht
• Alida Jacoba Wilhelmina van Dijk, Utrecht

• Antonius Wilhelmus de Rooij (1), Hoeven
• Abraham Hage (76), Bruinisse gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Antonius Doorakkers (29), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adolphine Octavie Victorine Sergoynne (19), Merchtem
• Anna Adriana Knook (64), Fijnaart en Heijningen (N.B.)
• Jongbloets (0), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana van den Berg (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Meertens (0), Hoek, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, Nederland
• KÖRVER (0), Kerkrade, Nederland
• Antonius Doorakkers (29), Tilburg (N-B)

• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)
• 1911 » Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager († 1964)
• 1913 » Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic († 1999)
• 1914 » Ethelreda Leopold, American actress († 1988)
• 1914 » Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator († 2004)
• 1914 » Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and engineer († 1990)

• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
• 1955 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (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.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.

The temperature on July 2, 1909 was between 9.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.