About the day » Monday August 9, 1909Calender converter

• Aaltje KWAKMAN
• Aaltje Posthumus († 1994)
• Aaltje Gosses Posthumus, Duurswoude († 1994)
• Afien Niks, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1929)
• Aaltje Kwakman, Volendam
• Adriana HOGENBIRK, Hilversum,North Holland,Netherlands († 1986)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Petrus Vermeer, Tilburg
• "Sylvia" Amélia Laura Regis de Oliveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil († 1970)
• Adrianus van der Zaan, Wilnis (UTR) The Netherlands († 1909)
• Weers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)

• Alphonsus Antonius Maria Cornelis Schellens- (16), Breda, Nederland
• Aukje van der Ploeg (49), Oostdongeradeel
• Absalom Anspach (81), Somerset, Perry Co.Ohio
• Andries Christoffel van der Bijl (55), SomersetWest (Zuid-Afrika)
• Adriana Maria Lambooij (68), Overbetuwe (Driel)
• Aaltje Moot (68), Bloemendaal
• Antje ten Wolde (73), Weststellingwerf
• Antonie Zuidhof (86), Deventer
• Anna van Bruggen (van Brugge) (63), Zevenbergen, Nederland
• Anna Maria BONGERS (70), Maastricht (NL/LI)

• 1905 » Leo Genn, British actor and barrister († 1978)
• 1909 » Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat († 1944)
• 1909 » Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Indian scholar, author, and academic († 1992)
• 1909 » Willa Beatrice Player, American educator, first Black woman college president († 2003)
• 1911 » Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer († 2001)
• 1911 » John McQuade, Northern Irish soldier, boxer, and politician († 1984)
• 1911 » William Alfred Fowler, American astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate († 1996)
• 1913 » Wilbur Norman Christiansen, Australian astronomer and engineer († 2007)
• 1914 » Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and director († 1963)
• 1914 » Tove Jansson, Finnish author and illustrator († 2001)

• 1886 » Samuel Ferguson, Irish lawyer and poet (b. 1810)
• 1910 » Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist, co-founded the Chin Woo Athletic Association (b. 1868)
• 1919 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (b. 1857)
• 1920 » Samuel Griffith, Welsh-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Queensland (b. 1845)
• 1932 » John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
• 1942 » Edith Stein, German nun and saint (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (b. 1893)
• 1945 » Harry Hillman, American runner and coach (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Robert Hampton Gray, Canadian lieutenant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
• 1946 » Bert Vogler, South African cricketer (b. 1876)

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 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
• April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
• December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
• 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 9, 1909 was between 15.3 °C and 26.5 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 29.1 mm of rain. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.