About the day » Thursday December 9, 1909Calender converter

• Anna Petronella (Anne) de Groot, Warmenhuizen († 1995)
• Anna DE ROO, Assen, Drenthe, NEDERLAND († 1910)
• Adriana Huson, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna C. Kooistra, Hancock (Stevens), Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Albertus Boddema, Veendam († 2005)
• Alvira A Brinker, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Albertha Idema, Workum,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 2003)
• Anna Petronella de Groot, Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Aafje Heneweer, Alkmaar
• Albertus Boddeman († 2005)

• Andries van der Meijden (61), Hardinxveld
• Antonie Reatsch (68), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aleida Maria de Boer (14), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Alberdina Derks Bosman (0), Hoogeveen
• Arie te Kulve (0), Amersfoort {UT}
• baaltje KARDUX (77), nieuwe tonge
• Alberta Geziena ter Braak (0), Noord Eschmarke (Lonneker)
• Catharina Jacomina Lindhout (5), Oud Vossemeer gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Cornelia Maria van Groesen (0), Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina van Dalen (40), Velp, Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1904 » Robert Livingston, American actor and singer († 1988)
• 1905 » Dalton Trumbo, American author, screenwriter, and blacklistee († 1976)
• 1906 » Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist († 1983)
• 1906 » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL († 1992)
• 1909 » Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American captain, actor, and producer († 2000)
• 1911 » Broderick Crawford, American actor († 1986)
• 1911 » Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman († 2007)
• 1912 » Jim Turnesa, American golfer († 1971)
• 1912 » Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1994)
• 1914 » Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant († 1996)

• 1887 » Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader
• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)

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 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.
• 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.
• June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 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.

The temperature on December 9, 1909 was between -2.6 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.