1909

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 - 1909 - 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

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Births

• February 11 - [Joseph Mankiewicz]?.
• February 11 - [Max Baer]? (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor.
• April 30 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

Deaths

• May 19 - Isaac Albéniz, aged 48, Spanish composer

Events

• July 25: Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
• Change of US presidency from Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) to William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Abd-ul-Hamid II (1876-1909) to [Mehmed V]? (Resad) (1909-1918)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Guglielmo Marconi, [Carl Ferdinand Braun]?
• Chemistry - [Wilhelm Ostwald]?
• Medicine - [Emil Theodor Kocher]?
• Literature - [Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf]?
• Peace - [Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert]? [Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Constant, Baron De Constant De Rebecque]?