About the day » Thursday December 9, 1909Calender converter

• Aleida Johanna ter Weele, Driene, Lonneker, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1996)
• Albertus Boddema, Veendam († 2005)
• Adrianus de Vries, Wageningen († 1994)
• Alida Neeltje VELDHOEN, Zegwaart
• Adrianus Jacobus Antonius Ebbelaar, Bussum
• Albartha Jantina IDEMA, Workum Friesland Netherlands († 2003)
• Anna DE ROO, Assen, Drenthe, NEDERLAND († 1910)
• Adrianus Jacobus (Ad) Ebbelaar, Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Idema, Workum,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland († 2003)
• Aaltina Mulder, Harkema-Opeinde, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• Aleida Maria de Boer (14), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus van Wessel (0), Didam
• Bote Winsemius (72), Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• baaltje KARDUX (77), nieuwe tonge
• Alberta Geziena ter Braak (0), Noord Eschmarke (Lonneker)
• Antonie Reatsch (68), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Sileon (1), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Angèlique Joseph De Le Plancque (87), Lille, 59000, France
• Arnoldus Platel (77), Zwolle
• Bernardus Antonius Vogels (63), Den Haag

• 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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

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.