About the day » Saturday September 4, 1909Calender converter

• († 2000)
• Anna Gerarda Maria Zuijderwijk, Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bruijn, Twisk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Henderika Kolk, Surhuisterveen, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1996)
• Anna Cornelia Bosse, Ouder Amstel
• Agnes Bathel Cunningham, New Zealand († 1988)
• Aaltje Bomer, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Gerarda Maria Zuijderwijk, Monster, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Anna Johanna Bruijniks, Gouda († 1995)
• Adriana Aalje van Leeuwen, Rotterdam

• Adrianus van der Hoeven (63), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Dansberg (86), Rotterdam
• Adriaantje Robol (90), Pernis
• Anna Maria Coenjaerts, Vaals (L
• Antonius Straasheijm (77), Roosendaal
• Adriaan Boei (79), Kapelle
• Angele ALBRECHT (4), Quesnoy-sur-Deûle, France
• Andrew de Vries (26)
• Adrianus van der Hoeven (63), 's-Gravenzande, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Hendricus Arns (2), Zevenaar

• 1905 » Mary Renault, English-South African author († 1983)
• 1905 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox († 2003)
• 1906 » Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1907 » Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor († 1991)
• 1908 » Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer († 1999)
• 1908 » Richard Wright, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet († 1960)
• 1909 » Eduard Wirths, German physician († 1945)
• 1910 » Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer († 1993)
• 1912 » Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1999)
• 1912 » Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator († 2004)

• 1852 » William MacGillivray, Scottish biologist and ornithologist (b. 1796)
• 1864 » John Hunt Morgan, American general (b. 1825)
• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)

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.
• January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on September 4, 1909 was between 7.5 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.