1909

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1909 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1909
MCMIX
Ab urbe condita 2662
Armenian calendar 1358
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԸ
Assyrian calendar 6659
Baháʼí calendar 65–66
Balinese saka calendar 1830–1831
Bengali calendar 1315–1316
Berber calendar 2859
British Regnal year 8  Edw. 7   9  Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar 2453
Burmese calendar 1271
Byzantine calendar 7417–7418
Chinese calendar 戊申年 (Earth  Monkey)
4606 or 4399
     to 
己酉年 (Earth  Rooster)
4607 or 4400
Coptic calendar 1625–1626
Discordian calendar 3075
Ethiopian calendar 1901–1902
Hebrew calendar 5669–5670
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1965–1966
 - Shaka Samvat 1830–1831
 - Kali Yuga 5009–5010
Holocene calendar 11909
Igbo calendar 909–910
Iranian calendar 1287–1288
Islamic calendar 1326–1327
Japanese calendar Meiji 42
(明治42年)
Javanese calendar 1838–1839
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4242
Minguo calendar 3 before ROC
民前3年
Nanakshahi calendar 441
Thai solar calendar 2451–2452
Tibetan calendar 阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2035 or 1654 or 882
     to 
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2036 or 1655 or 883

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar  and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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JulyAugust

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July 25: Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel

SeptemberOctober

NovemberDecember

Undated

Births

January to April

January

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Dana Andrews
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Barry Goldwater
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Ann Sothern
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U Thant

February

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Dean Rusk
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Miep Gies

March

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Gabrielle Roy
Hector Jose Campora Hector Jose Campora.jpg
Héctor José Cámpora

April

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Guillermo León Valencia
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Juliana of the Netherlands

May to August

May

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Margaret Sullavan
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Adolfo López Mateos
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Benny Goodman

June

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Errol Flynn

July

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Andrei Gromyko
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Theodore J. Conway

August

September to December

September

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Elia Kazan
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Kwame Nkrumah

October

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Piotr Jaroszewicz
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Francis Bacon

November

December

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Deaths

January

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Saint Arnold Janssen
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A. C. Swinburne

February

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Geronimo

March

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John Millington Synge

April

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Miguel Angel Juarez Celman

May

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Saint Alexis Toth

June

Afonso Pena Afonso Pena.jpg
Afonso Pena

July

August

Saint Mary McKillop Mary MacKillop.jpg
Saint Mary McKillop

September

October

Ito Hirobumi Ito Hirobumi.jpg
Ito Hirobumi

November

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Renée Vivien

December

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King Leopold II of Belgium

Date unknown

Martha Foster Crawford Martha Foster Crawford.jpg
Martha Foster Crawford

Nobel Prizes

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