About the day » Sunday May 9, 1909Calender converter

• Alice Louise VILAIN, Mouscron, 54007, Hainaut, Belgique († 1991)
• Adriana Maria Wilhelmina Francisca van Son, Valkenswaard
• Alphonsius Josephus Vergult, Hingene († 1972)
• Abraham Pieter Overduin, Zaltbommel
• Akke Faber, Hennaarderadeel
• Afred Reefman, Almelo (Stad)
• Aaltje Flik, Ruinen
• Albertje Braakman, Geeserveld, Oosterhesselen
• de Bruin, Alphen († 1909)
• Albert Eggens, Gees († 1993)

• Anna Helena - Anna Janning (58), Rühlertwist, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Apollonia Groenewoud (69), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Bernard Asselman (2), Oldenzaal
• Cathalijntje Risseeuw (77), Oostburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Anna Elisabeth Meuwissen (50), St. Joost
• Cathalintje Risseeuw (77), Oostburg gem. Sluis Zld. NL
• Carolus Serneels (75), Booischot
• Anthonia van Toorenburg (81), Breukelen Nijenrode
• Annie E {Gannon} Kelly (27), Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
• Catharina Maria Josephina Hermans (0), Maastricht,Gemeente Maastricht,Limburg,Nederland

• 1906 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator († 1988)
• 1907 » Baldur von Schirach, German politician († 1974)
• 1907 » Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer († 1978)
• 1907 » Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author († 1976)
• 1909 » Don Messer, Canadian violinist († 1973)
• 1909 » Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building († 1990)
• 1911 » Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer († 2005)
• 1912 » Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist († 1990)
• 1912 » Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor († 1963)
• 1912 » Per Imerslund, Norwegian-German soldier and author († 1943)

• 1889 » William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
• 1906 » Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)

• 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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• 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.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• 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.
• October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The temperature on May 9, 1909 was between 2.3 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.