About the day » Friday August 20, 1909Calender converter

• Abraham Pieter Koppenaal, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Mosterdijk, Sliedrecht († 1985)
• Aalt Puttenstein († 1975)
• Adrianus Stougje, Oudenhoorn
• * Maria Cornelia Voorn, Kortenhoef († 1994)
• Abel Dekker, Blijham, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• (l.l.) Post, Magele, den Ham († 1909)
• Adrianus Wouters, Rotterdam
• Adriana Maria Karhof, Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Albert Bunn Greene, Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri, United States († 1981)

• Carel Gerard Jozef ABSIL (74), Maastricht, Gemeente Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Aartje Steinmann (0), Woudenberg
• Albert FRANTZ TRAUTZ (49), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan (USA)
• Catharina Romme (79), Princenhage
• Albertus Hulsman (38), Heumen
• Antoon Johan Berends (0), Arnhem
• Coenraad Jacob Dyonis Cornelis de Witt (84), St. Ouen-le-Pin, Normandië
• Adriana Catharina van Hout (0), Valkenswaard
• Adriana Teuntje Korteland (1), Rotterdam
• Benjamin A Edwards (57)

• 1905 » Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombonist († 1964)
• 1905 » Jean Gebser, German linguist, poet, and philosopher († 1973)
• 1905 » Mikio Naruse, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1906 » Vidrik Rootare, Estonian chess player († 1981)
• 1908 » Al López, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1909 » Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player († 1978)
• 1909 » André Morell, English actor († 1978)
• 1910 » Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect and furniture designer, designed the Gateway Arch († 1961)
• 1912 » John H. Michaelis, American general († 1985)
• 1913 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neuropsychologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)

• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)

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 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• 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.
• August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
• December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 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 August 20, 1909 was between 14.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.