About the day » Wednesday September 29, 1909Calender converter

• Amelia Ruysen, Zepperen, België († 1997)
• Aartje REIJERKERK, Puttershoek († 2004)
• Aaldert Boelens, schoonoord gem. Sleen († 1919)
• Adriaan Michael VERSCHUEREN, Weelde, Ravels, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Aantje Teuntje Dubbeldam, Gorinchem,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Alberdina Kerkdijk, Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland († 1910)
• Aeilko Patje, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland († 1920)
• Adriana van der Weegen, Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• alphonsine marie FRANÇOIS, Ville en Selve (F-51) († 1986)
• Adrianus Johannes Verboven, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland

• Antonius Jacobus Ligthart (2), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna Petronella MULERT TOT DE LEEMCULE (93), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Petronella Mulert Tot De Leemcule (93)
• Adrianus Dekker (73), Gouda
• Arend Baardslag (25), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arnold Alexander Brutel de la Rivière (46)
• Abraham Eeuwes de Vries (81), Ameland
• Annie Deans **** (39), New Logan, Dalziel, Lanark, Scotland
• Arend Ludolf van Hasselt (61), Oosterbeek
• Aafke Snel (70), Den Helder

• 1904 » Greer Garson, English-American actress († 1996)
• 1907 » Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman († 1998)
• 1907 » George W. Jenkins, American businessman, founded Publix († 1996)
• 1908 » Eddie Tolan, American sprinter and educator († 1967)
• 1910 » Bill Boyd, American singer and guitarist († 1977)
• 1910 » Virginia Bruce, American actress († 1982)
• 1911 » Charles Court, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia († 2007)
• 1912 » Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian director and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1913 » Stanley Kramer, American director and producer († 2001)
• 1913 » Trevor Howard, English actor († 1988)

• 1900 » Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
• 1902 » Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1840)
• 1902 » William McGonagall, Scottish poet and actor (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Winslow Homer, American painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1836)
• 1913 » Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the diesel engine (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Lawrence Weathers, decorated WWI Australian soldier (b. 1890).
• 1925 » Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1851)
• 1927 » Arthur Achleitner, German journalist and author (b. 1858)
• 1927 » Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)

• 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 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 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.
• May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
• August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.

The temperature on September 29, 1909 was between 8.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.