About the day » Saturday December 18, 1909Calender converter

• Allen Valentine [K], Gitano, Jones County, Mississippi († 1909)
• Adrianus Willem Stolk, Rotterdam Z.H
• Alfred George Crombie, Tarnagulla, Victoria († 1994)
• Aagje de Wit, Blokker
• Albertus Pieter Gerrit Kuijken, Amsterdam († 1971)
• Ammerensia der Nederlanden, Den Haag († 1954)
• Albertus Henderikus Assen, Klooster, Coevorden
• Adriana Louisa Heijde de, Made en Drimmelen
• Adriana Maria van Heijst, Gorichem
• Aaltje van der Sluis, Hasselt († 2000)

• Alida van der Pol (48), Boskoop, Boskoop, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Adam Bijsterveld (89), Blokzijl
• Anthonie Hengstmengel (24), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Bresters (58), Groningen
• Arend Lowijs (40), Tiendeveen (Beilen)
• Angenzia Maria Stuffers (75), Bangil Nederlands Indië
• Adriana Flohil (73), Rotterdam
• Aagtje Veenstra (0), Surhuizum, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Ludovicus Hubertus Edmundus HOUTAPPEL (68), Maastricht (Limburg) (NL)
• Antonius Joseph Dupont (81), Rijckholt, Limburg, Nederland

• 1907 » Bill Holland, American race car driver († 1984)
• 1907 » Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator († 2009)
• 1908 » Celia Johnson, English actress († 1982)
• 1908 » Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer († 1969)
• 1910 » Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director († 1985)
• 1910 » Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire († 2010)
• 1911 » Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2008)
• 1912 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot († 2002)
• 1913 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1913 » Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)

• 1864 » José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
• 1869 » Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1880 » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
• 1892 » Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
• 1919 » John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1922 » Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
• 1936 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
• 1939 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)

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 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
• April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 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.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.

The temperature on December 18, 1909 was between 0.5 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 10.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.