About the day » Saturday May 22, 1909Calender converter

• Alida Besse, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Wilhelmina Catharina Hoeks, Noordwijkerhout († 2010)
• Alojzija Bocek, Zbelovska Gora (SLO) († 1949)
• Spee, Neer († 1909)
• Pluim, Zwolle († 1909)
• Agatha Wilhelmina Catharina Hoeks, Noordwijkerhout
• Aaltjen Oldebeerlink, Radewijk († 1929)
• Aileen J. Wilson, North Dakota, United States († 1994)
• Maartje Apolonia Mathlener, Den Haag († 1990)
• Vermeulen, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)

• Albertus Hermanus van de Beek (1), Heerde (buurtschap 't Zuppelt)
• Alberdina Groenhuis (72), Groningen
• Anna Maria van den Heuvel (79), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Cornelia Borrenbergs (1)
• Aafje OOMS (38), Avenhorn, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• * Johan Sjudts Schipper (82), Amsterdam
• Albert BUTTER (0), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Pluim (0), Zwolle
• Albert Timmermans (0), Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
• Anna van Diemen (81), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1904 » Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor († 1989)
• 1905 » Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope († 1956)
• 1905 » Tom Driberg, British politician († 1976)
• 1907 » Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator († 1983)
• 1907 » Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer († 1989)
• 1908 » Horton Smith, American golfer and captain († 1963)
• 1909 » Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator († 1988)
• 1912 » Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2004)
• 1913 » Dominique Rolin, Belgian author († 2012)
• 1913 » Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter († 1986)

• 1868 » Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
• 1885 » Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
• 1901 » Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
• 1910 » Jules Renard, French author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)

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.
• February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on May 22, 1909 was between 11.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.