About the day » Friday January 15, 1909Calender converter

• ALICE MARIE DE CALUWAERT, MEERDONK,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Hendrikus Jantinus Ten Cate, Kerkenveld
• Adrianus Petrus de Jong, Dongen († 1981)
• Afien Heijkoop, Voorburg († 2001)
• Aloysia Pauline Kleiss, Muenster, Cooke, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1995)
• Aaltje van de Mheen, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Nederland († 1981)
• Abraham van Wel, Monster († 1989)
• Hendrik Pals, Emmen
• * Albertus Martinus Vogels, Gemert († 1993)
• Aafke Bakker, Pieterzijl († 1984)

• Anna Maria Hendrika van Beers (11), Abcoude-Baambrugge, Utrecht, Nederland
• Angélique de Penfentenyo de Kervéréguin (72)
• Ardrina van der Steen (60), Oirschot, Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• ALEJANDRA Delgado (69), Porfirio Díaz, Coahuila, México
• Arnold Janssen (71), Steyl, 5935, Niederlande
• Arie van Tuijl (1), Utrecht
• Aaltje Peters (65), Wormerveer, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Jans Sloot (64)
• Arnoldus Janssen (71), Steyl, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Wilmina Kuipers (60), Almelo Stad, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland

• 1907 » Janusz Kusociński, Polish runner and soldier († 1940)
• 1908 » Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 2003)
• 1909 » Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor († 1973)
• 1909 » Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer († 1939)
• 1912 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1996)
• 1913 » Alexander Marinesko, Ukrainian-Russian lieutenant († 1963)
• 1913 » Eugène Brands, Dutch painter († 2002)
• 1913 » Lloyd Bridges, American actor († 1998)
• 1913 » Miriam Hyde, Australian pianist and composer († 2005)
• 1914 » Stefan Bałuk, Polish general († 2014)

• 1885 » Leopold Damrosch, German-American composer and conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 » Fanny Kemble, English actress (b. 1809)
• 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
• 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)

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.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
• May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

The temperature on January 15, 1909 was between -0.3 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.