About the day » Tuesday November 23, 1909Calender converter

• Aaltje de Boer, Meeden
• Alida Kind, Oude Niedorp
• Adriana Jacqueline de Jonge, Kraksaän
• Emo, Saint Sylvain (F) († 1909)
• Aaltje Eikendal, Apeldoorn-Beekbergen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)
• van Velzen, Soest († 1909)
• Aart Cornelis Buis, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 1956)
• Abraham Klein, Den Haag (ZH NL)
• Adrianus Petrus de Boer, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Alida Catharina Hovestad, Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Aaltien Ottens (72), Buinen (Drenthe)
• Albert Jacobus BRUGMAN (75), Asch (gemeente Buren)
• Adriaan Bosmans (84), Hilvarenbeek
• Baukje Arjens Palsma (61), Ginneken en Bavel, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Jacobus Brugman (75), Asch,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Huberta Adriana Zijlmans (0), Raamsdonkveer
• Alexander Shaw (54)
• Aaltje de Kruif (81), Vleuten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bastiaan Groenendijk (71), IA, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Koning (68), Wirdum

• 1905 » K. Alvapillai, Sri Lankan civil servant († 1979)
• 1906 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet († 1989)
• 1907 » Lars Leksell, Swedish physician and neurosurgeon († 1986)
• 1907 » Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB († 2014)
• 1908 » Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright († 2006)
• 1909 » Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author († 2000)
• 1912 » George O'Hanlon, American actor and screenwriter († 1989)
• 1914 » Donald Nixon, American businessman († 1987)
• 1914 » Wilson Tucker, American projectionist and author († 2006)
• 1915 » John Dehner, American actor († 1992)

• 1890 » William III of the Netherlands (b. 1817)
• 1899 » Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded White Star Line (b. 1837)
• 1905 » John Burdon-Sanderson, English physiologist and academic (b. 1828)
• 1910 » Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862)
• 1927 » Miguel Pro, Mexican priest and martyr (b. 1891)
• 1934 » Giovanni Brunero, Italian cyclist (b. 1895)
• 1937 » George Albert Boulenger, Belgian-English zoologist and botanist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Jagadish Chandra Bose, Bangladeshi-Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (b. 1858)
• 1937 » Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-Slovene cantor and poet (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Stanley Argyle, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1867)

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 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.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
• August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

The temperature on November 23, 1909 was between -5.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.