About the day » Wednesday November 17, 1909Calender converter

• adriana cornelia ligthart, hooge-zwaluwe († 2004)
• Anigje de Lange, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland († 1910)
• Andrew Peter Buteyn, Waupun, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Andrew(Andy) Buteyn, Waupun, Dodge, Wisconsin (USA) († 1980)
• Aaltje Pater, Vroomshoop, den Ham, Overijssel, Nederland († 1910)
• Annigje Huisman, Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1958)
• Albert van Hell, Asd († 1995)
• Anna Louisa Henrietta Maria Spaendonck van, Tilburg, NB, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriana Anna Sitton, Rotterdam († 1910)
• Albertus Wiggers

• Adriaan Sonnevijlle (14), Cadzand, Zeeland, NL
• Andreas Moors (23), Vlodrop, Roerdalen
• Berendina Kuiphuis (32), Ootmarsum
• Antje Kruijer (73), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Auguste Francesca Caroline Aloysia van Schönborn-Buchheim (64), Wenen
• Cornelia Jansen (44), Den Haag
• Clara Fluth (50), Midland Township, Lyon County, Iowa
• "Anna" Marie Auguste Franziska Caroline Aloisia von Schönborn (64), Wien, Autriche
• Pallemans (65), Berendrecht(België)
• Crouet (0), Maubert-Fontaine, Ardennes, France

• 1902 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1995)
• 1904 » Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect († 1988)
• 1905 » Arthur Chipperfield, Australian cricketer († 1987)
• 1905 » Astrid of Sweden († 1935)
• 1905 » Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor († 1967)
• 1906 » Rollie Stiles, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1906 » Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company († 1991)
• 1907 » Israel Regardie, English occultist and author († 1985)
• 1911 » Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior († 1974)
• 1916 » Shelby Foote, American historian and author († 2005)

• 1891 » José María Iglesias, Mexican politician and interim President (1876-1877) (b. 1823)
• 1897 » George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (b. 1847)
• 1905 » Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (b. 1817)
• 1910 » Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (b. 1886)
• 1917 » Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1840)
• 1922 » Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (b. 1865)

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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• 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 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• 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.
• 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 average temperature on November 17, 1909 was 2.8 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.