About the day » Friday January 22, 1909Calender converter

• Albertus Jan van der Munnik, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1929)
• Aaltje Huisman, Avereest
• Anna Louise Hess, Warfordsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 1987)
• Anna Maria van der Leeuw, Den Haag
• Adrianus van Rooden, Heukelum, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)
• Anna Henrica Jacoba Clappers, Driel (Heteren), Gelderland, Nederland
• Angeline Hofman, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Alida Lokhorst, Renswoude, Utrecht, Nederland († 1960)
• Adriana Theresia van Ierlant, Tilburg
• * Frans Arien den Hartogh, Lexmond († 1996)

• Anna Girigoria Padua (64)
• Adolphe Léon HUET (67), Portbail, 50, Manche, Normandie, France
• Antonius van Leeuwen (45), Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Ristig (71), Morige (Wedde),, Groningen, Nederland, Nederland
• Alpha Ann Corum (80), Foster, Bates County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Vreugdenhil (0), Rotterdam
• Amelia VISKENS (64)
• Anthonij Duits (1), Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Wilt de (0), 's-Hertogenbosch, NB, Nederland
• Andries de Boer (71), Den Helder

• 1906 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet († 1936)
• 1907 » Dixie Dean, English footballer († 1980)
• 1907 » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer († 1995)
• 1908 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1908 » Prince Oana, American baseball player and manager († 1976)
• 1909 » Ann Sothern, American actress and singer († 2001)
• 1909 » Martha Norelius, Swedish-born American swimmer († 1955)
• 1909 » Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican racing driver, polo player, and diplomat († 1965)
• 1909 » U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General († 1974)
• 1911 » Bruno Kreisky, Austrian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria († 1990)

• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (b. 1859)
• 1927 » James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)

• 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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The temperature on January 22, 1909 was between -4.4 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.