About the day » Monday August 23, 1909Calender converter

• Anthonia Maria van der Bijl, Vinkeveen en Waverveen, Netherlands († 1936)
• Adrianus Brokking, Jaarsveld
• Adrianus Cornelis de Jong, Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Anthonius Janszen, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Margaretha Muijs, Amsterdam († 1985)
• Albert Benjamin Johnson, Sedro Woolley († 1988)
• Agatha Catharina Weijmer, Alkmaar († 1949)
• Adrianus Cornelis de Jong, Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1970)
• Alfred Marion Stanley, Oregon, VS († 1989)
• Anthonia Maria van der Bijl, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1936)

• Dirkje Machiels van der Plas (41), Katwijk
• Arie Lagerwaard (1), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje van Lavieren (0), Kedichem
• Catharina Maria Theunissens (56)
• Amélie DEHEZ (61), MALMEDY, Liège, Belgique
• Dirkje van der Plas (41), Katwijk
• Dominicus Boons (85), Meerhout, België
• Daniël Hocke (77), den Haag, prov. Zuid Holland
• Dirk Martinus van der Gugten (0), Katwijk
• Ann KIMMINS (70), Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1905 » Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor († 1951)
• 1905 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist († 1982)
• 1906 » Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master († 2017)
• 1908 » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator († 2008)
• 1909 » Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire († 1970)
• 1910 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier († 2009)
• 1911 » Betty Robinson, American sprinter († 1999)
• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1912 » Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver († 2008)

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

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 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
• 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.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 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.
• December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.

The temperature on August 23, 1909 was between 7.1 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.