About the day » Monday January 25, 1909Calender converter

• Adrianus van de Luijtgaarden, Rucphen
• Imke Stel, Termunten († 1996)
• Albertus Bijkerk, Zeist
• "Suzanne" Jeanne Marie Formon, château d'Uzage, Huismes, Indre-et-Loire, France († 1992)
• Albert Gangelhof, Emmen
• Abraham Pont, Leiden
• Adrianus Windhorst, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Albertus Heere, Egmond aan Zee († 1981)
• Adrienne BERTHOMIER, Nouallé Maupertuis,86,F
• Aaltje Jacomina lbrink, Apeldoorn († 2006)

• Aaltje Hansen (79), Siddeburen
• Wielders, Tiel
• Anna Berdina Louisa Noijons (45), Haarlem
• Adriana Maria Schalken (79), Waspik, Provincie Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Titus Zdislau Prins Czartorysky-Klewan (51), Sielec, L'vov, Oekraine
• Anna Maria Tecla Morjöner (0), Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Seldenrijk (59), Westbroek,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Koele (6), Doornspijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Graveland (80), Gouda
• Anna Maria Catharina Veltman (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1905 » Margery Sharp, English author and educator († 1991)
• 1905 » Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal († 1985)
• 1906 » Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer († 1976)
• 1908 » Hsieh Tung-min, Taiwanese politicians and Vice President of the Republic of China († 2001)
• 1910 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education († 1984)
• 1913 » Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China († 2010)
• 1913 » Luis Marden, American photographer and journalist († 2003)
• 1913 » Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor († 1994)
• 1914 » William Strickland, American conductor and organist († 1991)
• 1915 » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, actor and producer († 1989)

• 1881 » Konstantin Thon, Russian architect, designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (b. 1794)
• 1884 » Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
• 1891 » Theo van Gogh, Art dealer, the brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. 1857)
• 1900 » Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)
• 1907 » René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
• 1908 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
• 1908 » Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
• 1910 » W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit and academic (1860)
• 1912 » Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
• 1925 » Juan Vucetich, Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer (b. 1858)

• 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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
• 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 25, 1909 was between -9.5 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.