About the day » Thursday December 23, 1909Calender converter

• Aiko Overkamp, Westerbroek (gemeente Hoogezand) († 1911)
• Alberta Claina Maaswinkel, IJsselstein, Utrecht, NL
• Annigje Veth, Rotterdam
• Alicia Louisa Jeanne Maria Geldens, Nieuwpoort, 8620 West-Vlaanderen, België
• Albertus Pels, Borgerhout (B)
• Anna Gertrudis Maria van Haasteren, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Andreas Bernardus Schutte, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Steen, Etten-Leur
• * Johanna Catharina Petronella Vugts, Helmond († 2000)
• Anna Catharina Groenland, Alkmaar

• Adrianus Verhagen (89), Brielle
• Anna Maria Winkel (19), Den Helder
• Albert Franklin Willis (3), Garvin County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Winkel (19), Den Helder
• Aleida Stoffer (1), Ermelo
• Antonius Hendrikus Cornelis Merceij (0), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Tjebbes Oostindiër (35), Pieterzijl
• Arend Oostindie (35), Pieterzijl (Grijpskerk-Gr)
• Aaldert Veldhuizen (13), Vledder, Vledderveen {veld}
• Adriaan Smolders (79), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1902 » Norman Maclean, American author and academic († 1990)
• 1907 » Avraham Stern, Polish Zionist leader († 1942)
• 1907 » James Roosevelt, American general and politician († 1991)
• 1907 » Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet († 2005)
• 1908 » Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer († 2002)
• 1910 » Kurt Meyer, German general († 1961)
• 1911 » James Gregory, American actor († 2002)
• 1911 » Niels Kaj Jerne, English-Danish physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1912 » Anna J. Harrison, American organic chemist and academic († 1998)
• 1912 » Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America († 1999)

• 1884 » John Chisum, American businessman and poker player (b. 1824)
• 1889 » Constance Naden, English poet and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1902 » Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (b. 1821)
• 1906 » Mdungazwe Ngungunyane Nxumalo, last emperor of the Gaza Empire (b. c.1850)
• 1912 » Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, Turkish lieutenant and educator (b. 1906)
• 1931 » Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)
• 1946 » John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (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 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.
• May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
• August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
• 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.
• December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The temperature on December 23, 1909 was between 9.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 14.7 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.