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1909 (MCMIX common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
The number
1909 is a
hyperperfect number , because the sum of its proper
divisors (23 and 83) is a divisor of
n -1 (18*106 = 1908). The next year to be a hyperperfect number will be 2133, but then not again until
3901 .
Nineteen 09 is also the name of a designhouse in the UK.[1]
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December
3 Deaths
3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates
4 Nobel Prizes
Events January
February March April May June June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle .
June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 9 - Alice Huyler Ramsey , a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey , became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California .
June 15 - Representatives from England , Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference .
June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal , which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts , United States .
July August September October November December Undated Births January-February January 1 - Barry Goldwater , American politician (d. 1998 ),aged 89
January 3 - Victor Borge , Danish entertainer (d. 2000 ),aged 91
January 4 - J. R. Simplot , American businessman
January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (d. 1994 ),aged 85
January 8 - Willy Millowitsch , German actor (d. 1999 ), aged 90
January 9 - Anthony Mamo , Maltan President (1974-1976)
January 13 - Marinus van der Lubbe , Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d. 1934 ), aged 25
January 15
January 16 - Clement Greenberg , American art critic (d. 1994 ), aged 85
January 19 - Hans Hotter , German bass-baritone (d. 2003 ), aged 94
January 22
January 24 - Martin Lings , British Islamic scholar (d. 2005 ), aged 96
February 1 - George Beverly Shea , American gospel singer and Songwriter
February 3 - Simone Weil , French philosopher (d. 1943 ), aged 34
February 9
February 11
February 15
February 18 - Wallace Stegner , American writer (d. 1993 ), aged 84
February 21 -Hans Erni , Swiss painter and sculptor
February 24 - August Derleth , American writer (d. 1971 ), aged 62
February 26 - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972 ), aged 63
March-April March 2 - Mel Ott , baseball player (d. 1958 )
March 4 - Harry Helmsley , American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997 )
March 19 - Louis Hayward , South African-born actor (d. 1985 )
March 22 - Gabrielle Roy , Canadian author (d. 1983 )
March 24 - Clyde Barrow , American outlaw (d. 1934 )
March 27 - Golo Mann , German historian (d. 1994 )
April 7 - Robert Charroux , French writer (d. 1978 )
April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam , Polish-born mathematician (d. 1984 )
April 22 - Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 25 - William Pereira , American architect (d. 1985 )
April 30
May-June May 7 - Edwin H. Land , American camera inventor (d. 1991 )
May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter , American musician (d. 1978 )
May 15 - James Mason , British actor (d. 1984 )
May 18 - Fred Perry , English tennis player (d. 1995 )
May 19 - Nicholas Winton , British humanitarian
May 20 - Matt Busby , Scottish football manager (Manchester United ) (d. 1994 )
May 23 - Hugh E. Blair , American linguist (d. 1967 )
May 24 - Victoria Hopper , Blonde Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d. 2007 )
May 27 - Dolores Hope , American singer, wife of Bob Hope
May 30 - Benny Goodman , American musician (d. 1986 )
June 3 - Ira D. Wallach , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007 )
June 6 - Isaiah Berlin , Russian historian of ideas (d. 1997 )
June 7 - Jessica Tandy , English actress (d. 1994 )
June 12 - Archie Bleyer , American song arranger & band leader (d. 1989 )
June 14 - Burl Ives , American singer (d. 1995 )
June 17 - Elmer Lee Andersen , Governor of Minnesota (d. 2004 )
June 20 - Errol Flynn , Australian actor (d. 1959 )
June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker , Dutch-born celebrity manager (d. 1997 )
July-August September-October September 1 - E. Herbert Norman , Canadian diplomat (d. 1957 )
September 7 - Elia Kazan , Hungarian-born film director (d. 2003 )
September 14 - Peter Scott , British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989 )
September 15 - Jean Batten , New Zealand aviator (d. 1982 )
September 17 - Ernie Koy , former baseball player (d. 2007 )
September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah , Ghanian politician (d. 1972 )
September 24 - Carl Sigman , American songwriter (d. 2000 )
September 28 - Al Capp , American cartoonist (d. 1979 )
October 5 - Tony Malinosky , former baseball player
October 14 - Bernd Rosemeyer , German race car driver (d. 1938 )
October 19 - Cozy Cole , American jazz drummer (d. 1981 )
October 24 - Bill Carr , American athlete (d. 1966 )
October 27 - Henry Townsend , American bluegrass musician (d. 2006 )
October 28 - Francis Bacon , British painter (d. 1992 )
November-December November 4 - Skeeter Webb , baseball player (d. 1986 )
November 10 - Pawel Jasienica , Polish historian (d. 1970 )
November 18 - Johnny Mercer , American songwriter (d. 1976 )
November 23 - Nigel Tranter , Scottish historian and writer (d. 2000 )
November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen , German mathematician (d. 1945 )
November 26 - Eugene Ionesco , Romanian-born playwright (d. 1994 )
November 27 - James Agee , American writer (d. 1955 )
December 14 - Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1975 )
December 16 - Emil Mailho , former baseball player
December 20 - Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer (d. 1996 )
December 22 - Alan Carney , American actor (d. 1973 )
December 23
December 23 - Giulio Racah , Israeli mathematician and physicist (d. 1965 )
Deaths January - June January 8 - Harry Seeley , palaeontologist (b. 1839 )
January 10 - Charles Vernon Culver , US politician (b. 1830 )
January 12 - Hermann Minkowski , German mathematician (b. 1864 )
January 14 - Arthur William a Beckett , British journalist (b. 1844 )
February 17 - Geronimo , Apache leader (b. 1829 )
March 16 - Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton of Tatton , chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal (b. 1832 )
April 10 - Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (b. 1837 )
April 28 - Frederick Holbrook , Vermont governor (b. 1813 )
May 10 - Futabatei Shimei , author and translator (b. 1864 )
May 18 - Isaac Albéniz , Spanish composer (b. 1860 )
June 24 - Sarah Orne Jewett , American writer (b. 1849 )
July - December July 18 - Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b. 1848 )
August 15 - Euclides da Cunha , Brazilian author (b.1866 )
August 27 - Emil Christian Hansen , Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842 )
September 4 - Clyde Fitch , American dramatist (b. 1865 )
September 27 - Gyula Donáth , sculptor (b. 1850 )
September 29 - Vladimir Vidrić , poet (b. 1875 )
October 26 - Prince Ito Hirobumi , 1st Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1841 )
November 9 - William Powell Frith , painter (b. 1819 )
December 10 - Red Cloud
December 15 - Francisco Tárrega , guitarist and composer (b. 1852 )
December 17 - Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835 )
December 20 - Vakkom Majeed , Indian freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legistlative member
December 26 - Frederic S. Remington , cowboy artist and sculptor
Unknown dates
