About the day » Monday December 20, 1909Calender converter

• Adriaan Slager, Burgh († 2003)
• Adriana Hoedemaker, Nutley, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Blaak, Valthermond, Odoorn († 1984)
• Alberdina Maria(Dien) Gerrits, Overasselt, Nederland († 1998)
• Anna Klazina de Vries, Rottevalle († 1994)
• Adrianus Theodorus Compier, Vinkeveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Weusten, Vaals († 1910)
• Albertha de Gruijter, Schoonhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Adrianus Hendricus GRUIJTERS, Helmond (Noord Brabant) (NL)
• Andries Alexander Hermannus Haverkort, Vroomshoop († 1987)

• Anneus Reinders (75), Farmsum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Abraham van der Wagt (79), Utrecht
• Abraham Priem (74), ,, Oud-Vossemeer, Nederland
• Alberdina Sietzema (32)
• Antje Dirks Blok (79), Harlingen
• Adrianus van Seters (74), Stellendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anneus REINDERS (75), Farmsum, Groningen, Nederland
• 'Sophie'-Thérèse-Marie KOELMAN (84), Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Asta Berendina Top√©e (4), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Antonius Johannes Iking (0), Leerdam, Nederland

• 1902 » Prince George, Duke of Kent († 1942)
• 1904 » Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1984)
• 1904 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author († 1977)
• 1905 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 1992)
• 1907 » Paul Francis Webster, American soldier and songwriter († 1984)
• 1908 » Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer († 1994)
• 1909 » Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician († 2000)
• 1911 » Hortense Calisher, American author († 2009)
• 1914 » Harry F. Byrd Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician († 2013)
• 1915 » Aziz Nesin, Turkish author and poet († 1995)

• 1893 » George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1916 » Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1919 » Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)
• 1920 » Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)
• 1921 » Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852)
• 1927 » Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1929 » Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)
• 1935 » Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Antonius

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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 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 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.

The temperature on December 20, 1909 was between -0.8 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.