About the day » Tuesday September 28, 1909Calender converter

• Adeline Jeanne Marie BOONE, Turnhout, 13040, Antwerpen, Belgique († 1962)
• Aaltje Harmens Meinema, Ternaard
• Abraham Willem Paschen, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1987)
• Aldegonda Theodora Cornelia Nelissen, Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Albertus Kunst, Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1983)
• Achille FOUCART, Tongres Limbourg,, Belgique († 1919)
• Adrianus Johannes van de Logt, Etten-Leur († 1971)
• Albertus Antonius Maria Wever, Utrecht († 1945)
• Adrianus Maas, Poederoijen (Gld.) († 1909)
• Alida Elisabeth Groot, Harenkarspel

• Adriana Cornelia Verkaik (0), Krimpen aan den IJssel
• Adriana Johanna Tromer (72), Rhoon
• Berendina Catharina Voogdgeert (0), Enschede
• Arie van Rosse (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abel Klaas HEMMINGA (76), nieuw beerta
• Arnoldus Petrus Groenewegen (0), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Romeijn (75), Valburg, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Catharina Digna Carels van Ommen (80), Auburn Cayuga, new York, Verenigde Staten
• Anselmus Boons (81), Meerhout, België
• Antonius Kevenaar (kleermaker) (53), Rotterdam

• 1903 » Haywood S. Hansell, American general († 1988)
• 1905 » Max Schmeling, German boxer († 2005)
• 1907 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist († 1931)
• 1907 » Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician († 1997)
• 1909 » Al Capp, American author and illustrator († 1979)
• 1910 » Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines († 1997)
• 1910 » Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician († 1942)
• 1913 » Alice Marble, American tennis player († 1990)
• 1913 » Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator († 2007)
• 1914 » Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer († 2014)

• 1891 » Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
• 1899 » Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
• 1914 » Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
• 1915 » Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
• 1918 » Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
• 1918 » Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
• 1925 » Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
• 1935 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)

• 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.
• January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• 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.
• 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 September 28, 1909 was between 8.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.