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1909
Robert Edwin Peary claims to be the first person to reach the North Pole.	Luigi Ganna wins the first Giro d'Italia . (Route from Milan to Milan)
The Queensboro Bridge between Queens and Manhattan opens.
1909 in other calendars
Armenian calendar	1357/58 (turn of the year July)
Ethiopian calendar	1901/02 (New Year 10/11 September)
Baha'i calendar	65/66 (turn of the year 20/21 March)
Bengali solar calendar	1314/15 (beginning of April 14th or 15th)
Buddhist calendar	2452/53 (southern Buddhism); 2451/52 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar	76th (77th) cycle Year of the Earth-Rooster己酉 ( since January 22nd , before that Earth-Monkey戊申)
Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam)	1271/72 (turn of the year April)
Dangun era (Korea)	4242/43 (October 2/3)
Iranian calendar	1287/88 (around March 21)
Islamic calendar	1326/27 (January 22/23)
Japanese calendar	Meiji 42 ( 明治 42 年 ); Koki 2569
Jewish calendar	5669/70 (September 15/16)
Coptic calendar	1625/26 (September 10-11)
Malayalam calendar	1084/85
Rumi Calendar (Ottoman Empire)	1324/25 (March 1st)
Seleucid era	Babylon: 2219/20 (turn of the year April) Syria: 2220/21 (turn of the year October)
Suriyakati Calendar (Thai Solar Calendar)	2451/52 (April 1)
Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar)	1965/66 (turn of the year April)

Events

Politics and world events

German Empire

• February: The British King Edward VII is visiting Berlin .
• July: Kaiser Wilhelm II appoints Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg as Reich Chancellor.
• September 11th : The first German Judges' Day takes place in Nuremberg .

• The Prussian government has enforced domestic legitimation to avoid an alleged Polonization .
• Saarbrücken exceeds the 100,000 inhabitant limit and thus becomes a large city .

Switzerland

• January 1st : Adolf Deucher becomes President of Switzerland for the fourth time .

Balkans

• March 10 : Settlement of the Bosnian annexation crisis while Russia snubbed ; Serbia demobilizes its troops.
• October 24 : Balkan Agreement between Russia and Italy

Ottoman Empire

Auction of land for settlement on Tel Aviv Beach in 1909

• Foundation of Tel Aviv (laying of the foundation stone on April 11th ), the first modern Jewish city on the territory of the later State of Israel
• April 13 : During the March 31st incident in the Ottoman Empire , supporters of Sultan Abdülhamid II revolt against the Young Turks .
• April 27 : The Young Turks overthrow Sultan Abdul Hamid II. , Who in office by his brother V. Mehmed will be replaced.

Great Britain / Thailand

• March 10th / July 9th : Great Britain and Siam sign the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 , a treaty between Great Britain and Siam that joins the northern Malay states of Kedah , Kelantan , Perlis and Terengganu under the Siamese administration to the British Empire . The Burney Treaty of 1826 is thereby repealed.

• Naval Scare from 1909 during the German-British naval armament .

Africa

• February 9 : Germany recognizes France's supremacy in Morocco , whereupon France guarantees Morocco's independence.

• The colonization of the Wadai by France begins.

Asia

• Parts of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the leadership of Mohammad Vali Khan fail the Persian ruler Mohammed Ali Shah allegiance and march of Mazandaran to Tehran to support the constitutional movement. On June 22nd, the "freedom fighters" stand in front of Qom, which they take on July 8th . A little later street fighting broke out in Tehran between the constitutionalist troops and the Cossack brigade loyal to the Shah. On July 16, Mohammed Ali Shah escaped from his palace to the Russian embassy. On the same day, parliament deposed him in an extraordinary session in favor of his son Ahmad Shah . After negotiations with Russia and Great Britain, Mohammed Ali Shah leaves the Russian embassy on September 10 and goes into exile in Odessa in Russia. At this point in time, Ahmad Shah was only twelve years old. For this reason, Ali Reza Khan Azod al Molk is installed as regent, who is supposed to represent the Shah until he comes of age.
• October 25 : The German-Chinese university in the German leased area Kiautschou (China) is officially opened.

America

• February 12 : Ida B. Wells , WEB Du Bois, and other civil rights activists found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the United States .

President Taft, painting by Joaquín Sorolla , 1909

• March 4 : William Howard Taft is inducted into office as the 27th US President. He replaces Theodore Roosevelt , who goes on an extensive big game hunt in Africa with his son Kermit under the leadership of Frederick Courteney Selous .

economy

Trade fairs and exhibitions

• July 10 : The Frankfurt International Aviation Exhibition opens. Around 1.5 million people will visit the exhibition until it closes on October 17 .

Patents

• April 19 : Jean Rech from Mehlem receives a German patent for the amphibious vehicle he invented .
• September 12th : The chemist Fritz Hofmann , employee of the paint factory Bayer / Elberfeld ad Wupper, receives the world's first patent for a process for the production of artificial rubber , which he calls Buna .

Tesla turbine from Tesla's patent specification

• October 21 : Nikola Tesla applies for a patent for the disc rotor turbine he developed .

Business start-ups

• April : The history of the modern oil industry in the Middle East begins with the establishment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company .
• 30 July : Eugène Schueller founded the Société Française de teinture inoffensives pour cheveux from which the cosmetics - Group L'Oréal created.

DELAG share from 1910

• November 16 : With government support found Alfred Colsman , Hugo Eckener , Franz Adickes , Wilhelm Marx and others, the first airline in the world: The German Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft ( DELAG operates) by the Zeppelin airship built transport airships .

traffic

• March 7th : The Congressional Subway begins operations within the Capitol complex in Washington, DC .
• March 30th : Blackwell's Island Bridge (later Queensboro Bridge ) over the East River opens to traffic. It connects the districts of Manhattan and Queens in New York City .
• July 6 : Kaiser Wilhelm II. And the Swedish King Gustav V open a rail ferry connection across the Baltic Sea . The first train will be crossed by a ferry on the royal line between the Sassnitz ferry port and Trelleborg in Sweden .

The airship Erbslöh

• December 1st : After a test flight on August 20th, the airship Erbslöh has its official maiden flight over Leichlingen.

Other economic events

• January 1 : In Germany, the Deutsche Reichspost introduces cashless postal checks , which are handled by thirteen postal check offices.

The Association House and Culinary Art Museum in Frankfurt

• January 19 : The Association House of Chefs and Culinary Art Museum in Frankfurt am Main, built by MC Banzer , opens.
• June 12 : The Hansabund is founded in Berlin to represent the interests of trade, commerce and industry.

science and technology

Polar research

Adams, Wild and Shackleton (from left to right) at 88 ° 23′S, 162 ° E on January 9, 1909 (photographed by Marshall)

• January 9th : Ernest Shackleton , Frank Wild , Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams set a new record of 88 ° 23'S as part of the Nimrod expedition to Antarctica, the closest to one of the two poles of the earth.
• January 16 : Tannatt William Edgeworth David , Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay reach the Antarctic magnetic pole for the first time during the Nimrod expedition at 72 ° 15'S, 155 ° 16'E.
• April 6 : The American Robert Edwin Peary claims to be the first person to reach the North Pole , statements that are still being questioned to this day.

Archeology and paleontology

• August 27th : In the Abri Combe Capelle in the French Dordogne department , the man of Combe Capelle is found during excavations . The discovered skeleton is dated to the lower Aurignacia and is therefore at least 28,000 years old.
• August 30 : The American paleontologist Charles Walcott discovers fossils in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada . This fossil deposit provides insights into the Cambrian period about 505 million years ago.
• August: The Parker expedition arrives in Jerusalem.

geophysics

• Andrija Mohorovičić discovers that the earth's mantle is more dense than the earth's crust . The boundary between the two is named after him the Mohorovičić discontinuity .

Particle physics

• Ernest Rutherford characterizes alpha , beta and gamma radiation .
• Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden are the first to investigate the scattering of alpha particles on atoms in thin metal foils using the scintillation method .

medicine

• August 31 : After many animal experiments, the preparation 606 by Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata tested positive against the syphilis pathogen . It hits the market a year later as arsphenamine .

• The German Paul Ehrlich uses chemotherapy for the first time.

Others

• January 23 : The passenger ship Republic gets into distress after a collision in the fog with another ship and makes the first distant telegraphic distress call .
• June 20th : Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the foundation stone for the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce in Vienna .

Flight Louis Blériots

• July 25th : The Frenchman Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel with his monoplane Blériot XI as the first person in an airplane .
• October 25 : The German-Chinese University in Kiautschou is founded.

Hans Grade in his plane

• October 30th : After the first flight on August 17th, Hans Grade wins the Lanz Prize of the Skies with his monoplane Libelle , the first truly airworthy German motorized aircraft .
• December 21 : The Wyoming , in its time the largest wooden schooner , the largest six-masted schooner and the longest wooden ship in the world, is put into operation.

Culture

Architecture and fine arts

• January 22 : From the by Marianne of Werefkin created Brotherhood of St. Luke goes Expressionist New Artists Association of Munich forth. Wassily Kandinsky and Alexej Jawlensky are the chairmen of the board. The entry in the association register takes place on May 10th . The first exhibition will take place from December 1st to 15th in the modern gallery Heinrich Thannhauser in the Arco-Palais in Munich.
• Marianne von Werefkin paints the painting Twins in tempera on cardboard , in which she depicts the opposites of joy and sadness.
• November: The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring dissolves.

• The American sculptor Lorado Taft creates the Art Nouveau bronze sculpture Eternal Silence at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago .

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  Marianne von Werefkin : Twins

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  Charles Courtney Curran : On the Heights

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  George Wesley Bellows : Blue Morning

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  Henri Rousseau : Jungle at the Equator

Gustav Klimt : Judith II

• The Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , built by the Karlsruhe architect Hermann Billing , is inaugurated.
• The Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum, founded on the initiative of Mülheim's patron, local researcher and art collector Robert Rheinen , opens.

Movie

→ Main article : 1909 film year

• The lonely villa of David W. Griffith (USA) introduces parallel assembly.

literature

→ Main article : Literature year 1909

Publisher's cover of the first edition in 1909

• February: After four years of creative work, Thomas Mann completes the manuscript for his second novel Royal Highness . The novel, in which Mann deals with the romance that preceded his wedding to Katia Mann in February 1905, is published first in the Neue Rundschau and finally in October by S. Fischer Verlag .
• Spring: The fictional novel Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser is published by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin.
• September 23 : The first part of the serial novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ( The Phantom of the Opera ) by the French journalist and writer Gaston Leroux is published in the newspaper Le Gaulois . The last part appears on January 8, 1910.
• In the November issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Review published EM Foster the science fiction short story The Machine Stops ( The machine is stationary ).

• Psychologizing novel Pitt and Fox by Friedrich Huch in Munich
• The fantastic novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin is published with 52 illustrations by the author in Verlag G. Müller in Munich and Leipzig.
• Tales in the Maid's Mileu Three Lives of Gertrude Stein in New York City
• Fictitious correspondence of a Bavarian member of the state parliament from Ludwig Thoma in Munich

Music and theater

→ Main article : Music year 1909

• 5th January : The world premiere of the play Komtesse Mizzi or The Family Day by Arthur Schnitzler takes place at the Volkstheater in Vienna. In the same year the text was published by S. Fischer in Berlin.
• January 9th : The three-part piano piece Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel , inspired by Aloysius Bertrand 's short prose of the same name , is premiered by Ricardo Viñes in Paris.
• January 25 : The symphony opera Elektra by Richard Strauss with the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is successfully premiered at the Hofoper in Dresden . Ernestine Schumann-Heink sings the Klytämnestra .
• April 1 : The world premiere of the opera The Marriage (Orig .: Shenitba ) by Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski takes place at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg.
• May 19 : The ballet Polowetz Dances by Michel Fokine based on music by Alexander Borodin is premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by the Ballets Russes founded by Sergei Pavlovich Djagilew .
• August 3 : The operetta Miss Bagpipes by Rudolf Nelson has its world premiere at the Kleinen Schauspielhaus in Berlin. The libretto is by Fritz Grünbaum and Hans Reichert.
• October 7th : The world premiere of the opera Der goldene Hahn (Orig .: Solotoi petuschok ) by Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow takes place at the Zimin Opera in Moscow. The libretto by Vladimir Bjelski after the eponymous fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin is itself based on the legend of the Arab astrologers from the collection of short stories The Alhambra by Washington Irving .
• October 7th : The world premiere of the operetta Das Fürstenkind by Franz Lehár in the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna.
• November 12 : The world premiere of the operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . The libretto is by Robert Bodanzky and Alfred Maria Willner . The world premiere, conducted by Robert Stolz , was greeted with enthusiastic applause, and the work was subsequently performed 300 times in a row.
• December 1st : The singspiel Brüderlein fein with music by Leo Fall and the libretto by Julius Wilhelm is premiered in Vienna.
• December 4th : The intermezzo Il segreto di Susanna ( Susanne's secret ) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is premiered at the Munich Court Theater. The libretto is by Enrico Golisciani .
• December 23rd : The premiere of the comedy The concert by Hermann Bahr , directed by Otto Brahm, is premiered at the Lessing Theater in Berlin and at the same time at the Royal Theater in Dresden and the Schauspielhaus in Frankfurt am Main . It becomes the author's most successful work.

Others

• January 19 : Foundation of the German Higher Private School Windhoek in Namibia

The futuristic manifesto in Le Figaro

• February 20 : The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes his futuristic manifesto in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro , thereby founding futurism .
• May 24th : Foundation of the German School Association in Kobe , Japan
• August 26 : The world's first youth hostel opens in Altena
• September 20 : Foundation of the German School Kobe , Japan
• Foundation of the magazine Kirche + Kunst

society

• May 15 : The circular train in the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg begins operation.
• June 10 : After her shipwreck off the Azores island of Flores, the RMS Slavonia sends the British distress signal “CQD” as well as the “SOS”, introduced as an internationally standardized signal for the first time .
• July / October / November: Before the district court Trier is murder Friedrich Ferdinand Mattonet negotiated.
• August 7 : Alice Ramsey and three companions arrive at their destination in San Francisco on the first drive of an automobile driver from coast to coast in the USA. The women started in New York on June 9th .

religion

• May 7th : Pope Pius X. instructs the Jesuits to found the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

• Founding of the Quickborn working group

Disasters

• January 23rd : A 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Iran kills around 5,500.
• January 23 : The British ocean liner RMS Republic of the White Star Line collides with another ship in the fog off Nantucket and sinks, killing six people. She is the largest British passenger ship to have crashed to date.
• February 12 : The New Zealand passenger steamer Penguin crashes into an underwater rock on the Cook Strait at the entrance to Wellington Harbor in stormy seas and total darkness and sinks. 72 people died, including all the children on board and all but one of the women.
• between 27. and 29 July : The passenger ship Waratah goes between Durban and Cape Town lost and falls likely. 211 people are killed.
• November 14 : 101 passengers and crew are killed in the sinking of the French Messageries Maritimes' La Seyne liner after colliding with a British steamer.
• December 7th : Ten weeks after its construction, the Grasbrook gasometer in Hamburg, at that time the largest gas container in Europe, exploded . 30 people are killed, 42 injured.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

→ Main article : Sports year 1909

Ball sports

• In Germany, the first Crown Prince Cup is being played in football with seven associations . The winner of the 1908/09 Kronprinzenpokal will be the Verband Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine in the final against Berlin on April 18 .
• October 24th : The Stade de Paris opens in the French capital .
• December 4th : The first Gray Cup , the championship final of the Canadian Rugby Union, later the Canadian Football League , is played.

Cycling

• March 15 : The first Six Days of cycling in Europe takes place in the Berlin exhibition halls at the zoo instead.
• May 13 : The first Giro d'Italia starts in Milan , which Luigi Ganna wins on May 30 after having covered eight stages .
• July 5 to August 1 : François Faber from Luxembourg wins the 1909 Tour de France . This makes him the first non-French to win this stage race .

The Berlin racetrack disaster

• July 18 : Nine spectators are killed and over 40 people are seriously injured in the race track disaster in Berlin caused by the fall of the pacemaker Werner Krüger on the Berlin “Botanischer Garten” cycle track . This accident is the worst that has happened in cycling in Germany so far .
• August 29 : The Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin cycle race is held for the first time.

Winter sports

• November 10 : The world's first outdoor art ice rink opens in Austria as the Engelmann ice rink in the Vienna district of Hernals . The Hockey in Vienna thus receives a strong upswing. The system was designed by the active engineer Eduard Engelmann junior . It will later become the venue of EK Engelmann Vienna .

Founding of clubs

• April 4th : The Brazilian football club SC Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre .
• April 14 : Founding of the sports association OSRAM e. V. in Berlin, as the first company sports group in Germany.
• May 1st : Foundation of the Austrian football club SK Sturm Graz , then known as the Graz football club "Sturm"
• September 5th : The sports club SV Viktoria 09 Stolp is founded.
• September 7 : The Sociedad de Fútbol football club is founded in San Sebastián , Basque , and later became known beyond the national borders as Real Sociedad San Sebastián .
• September 18 : Foundation of the Klagenfurt AC
• December 19 : Foundation of the Borussia Dortmund ball game club
• December 31 : Foundation of the German Hockey Federation

• Foundation of SG Wattenscheid 09
• Foundation of SuS 09 Dinslaken
• Foundation of the Hombrucher FV 09
• Foundation of SC Greven 09

Nobel Prizes

price	person	country	Reason for awarding the prize	image
Nobel Price for physics	Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918)	German Empire	"In recognition of their contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy "
	Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937)	Italy
Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)	German Empire (born in Riga , then Russia )	"In recognition of his work on catalysis as well as for his fundamental studies of chemical equilibrium conditions and reaction rates "
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917)	Switzerland	"For his work on physiology , pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland "
Nobel Prize in literature	Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940)	Sweden	"On the basis of the noble idealism, the wealth of imagination and the soulful representation that characterize her poetry"
Nobel Peace Prize	Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912)	Belgium	Member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague
	Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (1852-1924)	France	Founder and President of the French Parliamentary Group on Voluntary Arbitration and founder of the Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Reconciliation

Historical views and maps

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Born

January

• 0January 1 : Dana Andrews , American actor († 1992 )
• 0January 1 : Marcel Balsa , French racing car driver († 1984 )
• 0January 1 : Stepan Bandera , Ukrainian politician († 1959 )

Barry Goldwater

• 0January 2 : Riccardo Cassin , Italian mountaineer and entrepreneur († 2009 )
• 0January 2 : Barry Goldwater , American politician († 1998 )
• 0January 3 : Friedrich Engel , police chief of Genoa, war criminal († 2006 )
• 0January 3 : Ruth Engelhard , German athlete († 1975 )
• 0January 3 : Victor Borge , Danish pianist and comedian († 2000 )
• 0January 4th : Cilly Aussem , German tennis player († 1963 )
• 0January 4th : Ewart Bartley , Canadian organist, choir director, music teacher and composer († 1987 )
• 0January 5 : Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician and logician († 1994 )
• 0January 6 : Sugimura Haruko , Japanese actress († 1997 )
• 0January 8 : Alfred Bohl , German actor and voice actor († 1989 )
• 0January 8 : Helmut Horten , German entrepreneur († 1987 )

Willy Millowitsch, 1987

• 0January 8th : Willy Millowitsch , German theater actor and Cologne original († 1999 )
• 0January 8 : Nikolaos Platon , Greek archaeologist, excavator of the Minoan palace on Crete († 1992 )
• 0January 8 : Hoke Rice , American country musician († 1974 )
• January 10 : Hans-Joachim Böhme , SS-Standartenführer and commander of the security police († 1968 )
• January 12 : Archie Cochrane , British epidemiologist and founder of evidence-based medicine († 1988 )
• January 13 : Helm Glöckler , German racing driver († 1993 )
• January 13 : Quentin Jackson , American jazz trombonist († 1976 )
• January 13 : Marinus van der Lubbe , presumed arsonist of the Reichstag († 1934 )
• January 13 : Jack Manders , American football player († 1977 )
• January 14 : Ernst Neger , German roofer and carnival singer († 1989 )
• January 14 : Joseph Losey , American director († 1984 )
• January 15 : Arthur Glenn Andrews , American politician († 2008 )
• January 15 : Enrique Casal Chapí , Spanish composer († 1977 )
• January 15 : Walter Frey , German politician, Lord Mayor of Remscheid († 1966 )
• January 15 : Gene Krupa , jazz and big band drummer († 1973 )
• January 15 : Elie Siegmeister , American composer († 1991 )
• January 17th : Elisabeth Hering , German writer († 1999 )
• January 17th : Freddie Frinton , English comedian († 1968 )
• January 19 : Hans Hotter , German-Austrian bass baritone († 2003 )
• January 19 : Ewald Kluge , German motorcycle racer († 1964 )
• January 21 : Fritz Polcar , Austrian politician († 1975 )

Sithu U Thant, 1968

• January 22nd : U Thant , Burmese politician, Secretary General of the United Nations († 1974 )
• January 23 : Heinz Petermann , President of the Raiffeisen Association in Hanover († 1972 )
• January 23 : Tatiana Avenirovna Proskouriakoff , archaeologist and illustrator († 1985 )
• January 24th : Robert Pikler , Australian violinist, violist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin († 1984 )
• January 24th : Fritz Weber , German composer (Ich bin ene kölsche Jung) († 1984 )
• January 25 : Hans Graß , German Protestant clergyman and university lecturer († 1994 )
• January 25 : Karl Hasel , German forest scientist († 2001 )
• January 25 : Glenn Kruspe , Canadian organist, conductor and music teacher († 1983 )
• January 25 : Reinhold Munzenberg , German soccer player († 1986 )
• January 30th : Mihály Hajdú , Hungarian composer († 1990 )
• January 30th : Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto , Danish horn player and professor († 1991 )
• January 31 : Hans Werner von Aufseß , German lawyer, ministerial official and author († 1978 )
• January 31 : Gregor Hradetzky , Austrian canoeist († 1984 )

February

• 0February 1 : Cilli Wang , Austrian cabaret artist and dancer († 2005 )
• 0February 2 : Hugo Launicke , resistance fighter against National Socialism and SED politician († 1975 )
• 0February 3 : Simone Weil , French philosopher († 1943 )
• 0February 4 : Karl Schönböck , Austrian actor († 2001 )
• 0February 5 : Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish composer († 1969 )
• 0February 5 : Lode Van Dessel , Belgian-American composer and organist († 1993 )
• 0February 7th : Hélder Câmara , Archbishop of Olinda and Recife († 1999 )
• 0February 7th : Adolf Windorfer , German pediatrician († 1996 )
• 0February 8 : Andreas Matthäus , Austro-French soccer player († 1979 )
• 0February 8 : Vasily Ivanovich Rakow , Soviet pilot († 1996 )
• 0February 9 : Fergus Anderson , British motorcycle racer († 1956 )
• 0February 9 : Heather Grace Angel , British actress († 1986 )
• 0February 9 : Gaudencio E. Antonino , Filipino entrepreneur, business manager and politician († 1967 )
• 0February 9 : Ernst Brückner , German lawyer († 1976 )
• 0February 9 : Carmen Miranda , Portuguese singer and actress († 1955 )
• 0February 9 : Dean Rusk , US Secretary of State († 1994 )
• 0February 9 : Harald Genzmer , German composer († 2007 )
• February 10 : Holger Alexander Fransman , Finnish horn player († 1997 )
• February 10 : Bert Niosi , Canadian bandleader, clarinetist, saxophonist and composer († 1987 )
• February 11 : Charles Joseph Paul Arnold , French writer, theater historian and esotericist († 1992 )
• February 11 : Heinrich Mauersberger , German inventor in the textile industry († 1982 )
• February 11 : Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American film director († 1993 )
• February 11 : Max Baer , American heavyweight boxing champion († 1959 )
• February 12 : Rudolf Young , German Ambassador
• February 12 : Sigmund Rascher , German SS doctor († 1945 )
• February 12 : Zoran Mušič , Italian-Croatian painter and graphic artist († 2005 )
• February 13 : Mario Casariego y Acevedo , Archbishop of Guatemala and Cardinal († 1983 )
• February 13 : Joseph Meurers , German astronomer, astrophysicist and natural philosopher († 1987 )
• February 13 : Herman Ridderbos , Dutch evangelical reformed pastor and New Testament scholar († 2007 )
• February 15 : HAP Grieshaber , German painter and graphic artist († 1981 )
• February 15 : Miep Gies , companion of Anne Frank († 2010 )
• February 16 : Sophie Dorothee von Podewils , German narrator and poet († 1979 )
• February 17 : Gertrude Abercrombie , American artist († 1977 )
• February 18 : Dido Sotiriou , Greek writer († 2004 )
• February 18 : Matti Järvinen , Finnish javelin thrower; Olympic champion 1932 († 1985 )
• February 20 : Franz Hildebrandt , Methodist pastor and theologian († 1985 )
• February 20 : Grigori Jakowlewitsch Bakhchiwandschi , Soviet test pilot († 1943 )

Honoring the 100th birthday of Heinz Erhardt, 2009

• February 20 : Heinz Erhardt , comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, poet († 1979 )
• February 20 : Lorenzo Alvary , American opera singer (bass) († 1996 )
• February 21 : Elsie Attenhofer , Swiss cabaret artist, actress, writer and diseuse († 1999 )
• February 21 : Auguste Jordan , Austrian and French soccer player († 1990 )
• February 21 : Hans Erni , Swiss painter and sculptor († 2015 )
• February 22nd : Danny Biasone , American NBA team owner, basketball pioneer († 1992 )
• February 22 : Lotte Meyer , German actress († 1991 )
• February 24 : Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi , Tunisian poet († 1934 )
• February 24 : Max Black , American philosopher († 1988 )
• February 24 : August Derleth , American horror story writer († 1971 )
• February 24 : Ernst Falkner , German politician († 1950 )
• February 24 : Heinrich Härtle , German journalist († 1986 )
• February 24th : Will Höhne , German pop singer († 1993 )
• February 24 : Hans Joachim Stoebe , German Protestant clergyman and university professor († 2002 )
• February 25 : Anton Anderl , Austrian politician († 1988 )
• February 25 : Lev Andreevich Arzimowitsch , Soviet physicist († 1973 )
• February 25 : Ernst Erich Noth , American literary scholar and writer († 1983 )
• February 26 : Talal , Jordanian King († 1972 )
• February 26 : Gunnar Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper († 1988 )
• February: Paul Ackerman , American journalist († 1977 )

March

• 0March 1 : René Gardi , travel writer († 2000 )
• 0March 2 : Dante Maggio , Italian actor († 1992 )
• 0March 3 : Otto Dippelhofer , Brigadier General in the Federal Border Police († 1989 )
• 0March 3 : Johnny Barfield , American old-time and country musician († 1974 )
• 0March 4 : Michael Schneider , German organist, choir director, music teacher and musicologist († 1994 )
• 0March 5 : Floyd Davis , American racing driver († 1977 )
• 0March 5 : Ossip K. Flechtheim , German lawyer, political scientist († 1998 )
• 0March 6 : Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish aphorist († 1966 )
• 0March 6 : Ōoka Shōhei , Japanese writer († 1988 )
• 0March 6 : Bill Schindler , American racing driver († 1952 )
• 0March 7th : André 'Trello' Abegglen , Swiss football player († 1944 )
• 0March 7th : Gian Paolo Callegari , Italian playwright, screenwriter and film director († 1982 )
• 0March 7th : Léo Malet , French crime novel writer († 1996 )
• 0March 8 : Alberto Echagüe , Argentine singer and songwriter († 1987 )
• 0March 8 : László Rajk , Hungarian politician († 1949 )
• March 10 : LeRoy Collins , American politician († 1991 )
• March 10 : Gerhard Hermes SAC, German Pallottine priest, editor and author († 1988 )
• March 10 : Willy Hüttenrauch , German politician in the GDR († 1996 )
• March 11 : Max Lüthi , Swiss literary scholar and fairytale interpreter († 1991 )
• March 13 : Ernst Nils Sivar Erik Arnér , Swedish writer, radio play author and playwright († 1997 )
• March 16 : Wilhelm Alfred Adlmüller , German-Austrian fashion designer († 1989 )
• March 16 : Ernesto Nathan Rogers , Italian architect († 1969 )
• March 17 : Kenneth Bliss Anderson , American screenwriter and animator († 1993 )
• March 17 : Georg Stadtmüller , German historian and Byzantinist († 1985 )
• March 18 : Ljubica Marić , Serbian composer († 2003 )
• March 18 : Ross Russell , American jazz producer and author († 2000 )
• March 18 : Wolfgang Weber , German chess player († 1981 )
• March 19 : Attilio Demaría , Argentine-Italian football player and coach († 1990 )
• March 19 : Rudolf Hiden , Austrian and French football player († 1973 )
• March 19 : Otto John , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution († 1997 )
• March 22 : Nathan Rosen , US-Israeli physicist († 1995 )
• March 22nd : Bienvenido Troncoso , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer († 1961 )
• March 23 : Hugo Aufderbeck , theologian and bishop († 1981 )
• March 24th : Richard Wurmbrand , Romanian pastor († 2001 )
• March 25th : Countess Maria von Maltzan , German veterinarian and resistance fighter († 1997 )
• March 26 : Margarete Hütter , German politician († 2003 )
• March 27 : Ben Webster , American jazz musician († 1973 )

Golo man

• March 27 : Golo Mann , German historian, writer and philosopher († 1994 )
• March 27 : Heinrich Runte , German Lord Mayor († 1978 )
• March 28 : Hannsheinz Bauer , German politician († 2005 )
• March 28 : Margareta zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Swedish-German princess († 2005 )
• March 28 : Nelson Algren , American writer († 1981 )
• March 29 : Hanada Kiyoteru , Japanese literary critic († 1974 )
• March 30 : John Anthony Burns , American politician († 1975 )
• March 30 : Ernst Gombrich , Austrian art historian († 2001 )
• March 31 : Johann Tauscher , Austrian field handball player († 1979 )

April

• 0April 1 : William Whitehouse , British racing car driver († 1957 )
• 0April 2 : Jean Kurt Forest , German composer and musician († 1975 )
• 0April 2 : Edo Osterloh , Protestant theologian and politician († 1964 )
• 0April 2 : Osmar White , Australian journalist, correspondent and writer († 1991 )
• 0April 4th : Konrad Thurano , Danish rope artist († 2007 )
• 0April 5 : Albert R. Broccoli , American producer († 1996 )

Ernst Engelberg

• 0April 5 : Ernst Engelberg , German historian and Bismarck biographer († 2010 )
• 0April 5 : Erwin Wegner , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1945 )
• 0April 6 : Stella Agsteribbe , Dutch gymnast († 1943 )
• 0April 6 : Hermann Lang , German automobile racing driver († 1987 )
• 0April 6 : Sjur Lindebrække , Norwegian lawyer († 1998 )
• 0April 6 : Harry Westermann , German lawyer († 1986 )
• 0April 7 : Robert Pilchowski , writer († 1990 )
• 0April 8 : John Fante , American writer († 1983 )
• 0April 8 : Olavi Pesonen , Finnish composer († 1993 )
• 0April 8 : Lucien Vincent , French racing car driver († 2001 )
• 0April 9 : Ernst Achenbach , German politician († 1991 )
• 0April 9 : Fay Helm , American actress († 2003 )
• April 10 : Clarke Hinkle , American football player († 1988 )
• April 10 : Hermann Trittelvitz , German politician († 1970 )
• April 11 : Werner Braune , SS-Standartenführer, head of the Gestapo in Wesermuende († 1951 )
• April 12 : Walter Schmiele , German freelance writer and translator († 1998 )
• April 12 : Jean Trémoulet , French racing car driver and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• April 13 : Hanne Mertens , German actress († 1945 )
• April 13 : Stanisław Marcin Ulam , Polish mathematician († 1984 )
• April 13 : Eudora Welty , American writer and photographer († 2001 )
• April 14 : Isabel Aretz , Argentinian ethnomusicologist, folklorist and composer († 2005 )
• April 16 : Roy Ashton , British makeup artist († 1995 )
• April 16 : Karlheinz Idelberger , German medic († 2003 )
• April 19 : Hugh O'Donel Alexander , Irish chess master († 1974 )
• April 20 : Witold Krzemieński , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher († 2001 )
• April 20 : Dorothea Zeemann , Austrian writer († 1993 )
• April 20 : George Tomasini , American film editor († 1964 )
• April 21 : Karl Scheit , Austrian guitarist, lutenist and music teacher († 1993 )
• April 22nd : Gerhard Ausner , German politician († 1974 )
• April 22 : Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist and Nobel Prize winner († 2012 )
• April 22 : Benny Thomasson , American fiddle player († 1983 )
• April 23 : Margot Kalinke , German politician († 1981 )
• April 24th : Bernhard Grzimek , German veterinarian, animal filmmaker and author († 1987 )
• April 25 : Ludwig Martin , German lawyer († 2010 )
• April 26 : Rudolf Arndt , German communist and resistance fighter († 1940 )
• April 26 : Günther Beitzke , German legal scholar († 2004 )
• April 26 : Marianne Hoppe , German actress († 2002 )
• April 27 : Jos Moerenhout , Belgian composer and conductor († 1985 )
• April 29th : Daniel Mayer , French journalist, Resistance member († 1996 )

Queen Juliana, 1960

• April 30 : Juliana , Queen of the Netherlands († 2004 )
• April 30th : René Deltgen , Luxembourg actor († 1979 )

May

• 0May 1 : Giannis Ritsos , Greek writer († 1990 )
• 0May 2 : Teddy Stauffer , Swiss band leader († 1991 )
• 0May 3 : Hans Jürgen Abraham , German lawyer († 1978 )
• 0May 3 : Karl Gruber , Austrian politician and diplomat († 1995 )
• 0May 3 : Colorado Pete , American country and cowboy musician and radio star († 1969 )
• 0May 3 : John A. Notte , American politician († 1983 )
• 0May 4 : Howard Da Silva , American film and stage actor († 1986 )
• 0May 5 : Nakajima Atsushi , Japanese writer († 1942 )
• 0May 6 : Albert Richter , German forest scientist († 2007 )
• 0May 7 : Edwin Herbert Land , American physicist († 1991 )
• 0May 7th : Hildegard Joos , Austrian painter († 2005 )
• 0May 8th : Lennart Bernadotte , Swedish nobleman, creator of the flower island Mainau († 2004 )
• 0May 8th : Tommy Duchesne , Canadian accordionist († 1986 )
• 0May 8 : Paul May , German director and producer († 1976 )
• 0May 8 : Otto Zierer , German writer († 1983 )
• 0May 9 : Gordon Bunshaft , American architect († 1990 )
• May 10 : Ignacio María Aguirrezabala Ibarbia , Spanish football player († 1979 )
• May 10 : Maybelle Carter , American country and folk singer († 1978 )

• May 10 : Valentina Stepanovna Grisodubova , Soviet pilot († 1993 )
• May 14 : Wilhelm Hahn , German CDU politician, Minister of Culture of Baden-Württemberg 1964–1978 († 1996 )
• May 14 : Maria Krasna , German actress and voice actress († unknown)
• May 15 : James Mason , English film actor († 1984 )
• May 15 : Cale Boggs , American politician († 1993 )
• May 16 : Luigi Villoresi , Formula 1 racing driver († 1997 )
• May 16 : František Kožík , Czech writer, representative of Esperanto († 1997 )
• May 16 : Margaret Sullavan , American actress († 1960 )
• May 17 : Giulio Carlo Argan , Italian art historian and politician († 1992 )
• May 17 : Karl Schäfer , Austrian figure skater († 1976 )
• May 17 : Magda Schneider , German actress († 1996 )
• May 17 : Werner Widmayer , German football player († 1942 )
• May 18 : Alexander Aigner , Austrian university professor († 1988 )
• May 18 : Fred Perry , British table tennis and tennis player († 1995 )
• May 19 : Nicholas Winton , British savior of Jewish children from the Holocaust († 2015 )
• May 20 : Erich Kunz , Austrian opera singer (baritone) († 1995 )
• May 20 : Pierre Nicole , Swiss journalist and politician († 1987 )
• May 21 : Maria Innocentia Hummel , German Franciscan, draftsman and painter († 1946 )
• May 22 : Heinrich Austermann , German politician († 1984 )
• May 22 : Rudolf Bergander , German painter and map-maker for the Wehrmacht († 1970 )
• May 23 : Werner Wittig , German cyclist († 1992 )
• May 24 : Demetrio Aguilera Malta , Ecuadorian writer, painter and diplomat († 1981 )
• May 24 : Hartmann Lauterbacher , Obergebietsführer of the Hitler Youth († 1988 )
• May 24 : Louis Fürnberg , German writer, poet and musician († 1957 )
• May 24 : Wilbur Daigh Mills , American politician († 1992 )
• May 25 : Alfred Kubel , German politician († 1999 )
• May 26 : Matt Busby , Scottish football player and coach († 1994 )
• May 26 : Richard Maibaum , American screenwriter († 1991 )
• May 26 : Charlie McCoy , American blues guitarist, singer and mandolin player († 1950 )
• May 27 : William Webster Hansen , American physicist († 1949 )
• May 29 : Neil R. Jones , American science fiction writer († 1988 )
• May 30 : Benny Goodman , American jazz musician († 1986 )
• May 30th : Hilde Coppi , German resistance fighter († 1943 )
• May 30 : Norris Bradbury , American physicist († 1997 )
• May 30th : Freddie Frith , British motorcycle racer († 1988 )
• May 30 : Gordon Gray , American politician († 1982 )
• May 30th : Gustav Kampendonk , German screenwriter († 1966 )
• May 31 : Milt Gantenbein , American football player († 1988 )
• May 31 : Eliza Hansen , German piano teacher, pianist and harpsichordist († 2001 )

June

• 0June 1 : Szymon Goldberg , American conductor and violinist († 1993 )
• 0June 3 : Karl Bohmann , Austrian motorcycle racer († 1999 )

Ernst Eduard vom Rath

• 0June 3 : Ernst Eduard vom Rath , German diplomat and embassy secretary in Paris († 1938 )
• 0June 3 : Ludwig Koch , German resistance fighter and trade unionist († 2002 )
• 0June 4 : Hans-Otto Meissner , German diplomat and writer († 1992 )
• 0June 4 : Hanuš Burger , theater, film and television director and screenwriter († 1990 )
• 0June 7 : Virginia Apgar , American surgeon and anesthetist († 1974 )
• 0June 7 : Fritz Eschmann , German member of the Bundestag († 1997 )
• 0June 7 : Hasegawa Shirō , Japanese writer and translator († 1987 )
• 0June 7th : Jean Laurent , Belgian violinist and music teacher († 2001 )
• 0June 7 : Jessica Tandy , British actress († 1994 )
• 0June 7 : Peter Wallace Rodino , US Congressman († 2005 )
• 0June 9 : José Luis López-Aranguren , philosopher and essayist († 1996 )
• June 10 : Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock , Australian iron ore magnate († 1992 )
• June 10 : Elisabeth Oestreich , German middle-distance runner († 1994 )
• June 11th : Fritz-Aurel Goergen , German industrial manager († 1986 )
• June 12 : Wolfgang Frank , German writer († 1980 )
• June 13 : Vladimír Neff , Czech writer, translator, screenwriter († 1983 )
• June 13 : Diedrich Wattenberg , German astronomer and publicist († 1996 )
• June 14 : Burl Ives , American folk singer, author and actor († 1995 )
• June 14 : Harald Meschendörfer , Romanian-German painter and graphic artist († 1984 )
• June 15 : Peter Clentzos , American pole vaulter († 2006 )
• June 15 : Florian Mueller , American oboist and composer († 1983 )
• June 16 : Mikhail Sergejewitsch Molodensky , Russian geophysicist and astronomer († 1991 )
• June 16 : Werner Naumann , National Socialist, personal advisor to Joseph Goebbels († 1982 )
• June 16 : Willi Boskovsky , Austrian violinist and conductor († 1991 )
• June 17 : Elmer Lee Andersen , American politician († 2004 )
• June 17th : Karl Gatermann the Younger , German painter, graphic artist and stage designer († 1992 )
• June 17th : Fred Liewehr , Austrian chamber actor († 1993 )
• June 17th : Régine Pernoud , French medievalist († 1998 )
• June 18 : Willy Kramp , German writer († 1986 )
• June 19 : Dazai Osamu , Japanese writer († 1948 )

Errol Flynn, 1940

• June 20 : Errol Flynn , Australian film actor († 1959 )
• June 21 : Kurt Schwaen , German composer († 2007 )
• June 22 : Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort , resistance fighter against Adolf Hitler († 1944 )
• June 22nd : Michael Todd , American film producer († 1958 )
• June 22 : Robert Wehgartner , German politician († 1974 )

Li Xiannian

• June 23 : Liselotte Herrmann , German resistance fighter († 1938 )
• June 23 : Li Xiannian , Chinese politician († 1992 )
• June 24 : William Penney , British physicist († 1991 )
• June 26 : Max Eisinger , German chess player († 1989 )
• June 26 : Erwin Schopper , German physicist († 2009 )
• June 27 : Alfred Heuss , German ancient historian († 1995 )
• June 28 : Jindřich Praveček , Czech conductor and composer (brass music) († 2000 )
• June 28 : Christophe Soglo , President of Benin († 1983 )
• June 28 : Hans Leibundgut , Swiss forest scientist († 1993 )
• June 28 : Eric Ambler , British writer († 1998 )
• June 30 : Juan Bosch , Dominican politician, head of state and writer († 2001 )
• June 30 : Paul Constantinescu , Romanian composer († 1963 )

July

• 0July 1 : Juan Carlos Onetti , Uruguayan writer († 1994 )
• 0July 2 : Hermann Bengtson , German ancient historian († 1989 )
• 0July 3 : Earl Butz , American politician († 2008 )
• 0July 3 : Stavros Niarchos , Greek shipowner († 1996 )
• 0July 4th : Robert Burks , American cameraman († 1968 )
• 0July 5 : Anna Maria Achenrainer , Austrian writer († 1972 )
• 0July 5 : Sylvia Gähwiller , Swiss singer and vocal teacher († 1999 )
• 0July 5 : Hans Wehr , German Arabist († 1981 )

Gottfried von Cramm (left) with Irish tennis player George Lyttelton Rogers, 1932

• 0July 7th : Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player († 1976 )
• 0July 9 : David Frankfurter , Jewish medical student and assassin of Wilhelm Gustloff († 1982 )
• 0July 9 : Max Klankermeier , German motorcycle and automobile racer († 1996 )
• July 11th : Fritz Leonhardt , German civil engineer for bridges and television towers († 1999 )
• July 11 : Gerhard Heilfurth , German folklorist († 2006 )
• July 11 : Song Renqiong , Chinese politician († 2005 )
• July 12 : Curly Joe DeRita , American comedian († 1993 )
• July 13 : Washington Castro , Argentine composer and conductor († 2004 )
• July 13 : Prince Souphanouvong , Laotian politician († 1995 )
• July 13 : Baruch Harold Wood , English chess master († 1989 )
• July 15 : Hendrik Casimir , Dutch physicist († 2000 )
• July 16 : Aruna Asaf Ali , Indian freedom fighter († 1996 )
• July 16 : Alexandre Constantin , French racing car driver and designer († 1983 )
• July 17 : Ignace Strasfogel , American composer († 1994 )
• July 18 : Andrei Gromyko , Soviet politician, long-time foreign minister († 1989 )
• July 18 : Mohammed Daoud Khan , Afghan statesman († 1978 )
• July 19 : Jenő Vécsey , Hungarian composer († 1966 )
• July 21 : Stephen Edwards , British Egyptologist († 1996 )
• July 22nd : Dorino Serafini , Italian Formula 1 racing driver († 2000 )
• July 22nd : Franz-Josef Röder , German politician, Prime Minister of Saarland from 1959 to 1979 († 1979 )
• July 22nd : Werner Scheid , German neurologist and psychiatrist († 1987 )
• July 23 : Lisa Gelius , German athlete († 2006 )
• July 23 : Rudolf Pfister , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor († 2000 )
• July 24th : Werner Ansel , German administrative officer († 1988 )
• July 25 : Hans Jürgen Hundt , German archaeologist for early history († 1990 )
• July 26 : Vivian Vance , American actress († 1979 )
• July 27 : Hilde Domin , German poet († 2006 )
• July 28 : Carl Andresen , German theologian and historian of religion († 1985 )
• July 28 : Aenne Burda , German publisher († 2005 )
• July 28 : César Concepción , Puerto Rican trumpeter, arranger, orchestra leader and composer († 1974 )
• July 28 : Theodor Ottawa , Austrian journalist and writer († 1972 )
• July 28 : Malcolm Lowry , English writer († 1957 )
• July 29 : Georgi Muschel , Russian composer († 1989 )
• July 29 : Chester Himes , American writer († 1984 )
• July 29th : Marcel Vandernotte , French rower († 1993 )
• July 30 : Cyril Northcote Parkinson , British historian and publicist († 1993 )

August

• 0August 1 : Mary Elizabeth Caldwell , American composer and organist († 2003 )
• 0August 3 : José María de Areilza , Spanish diplomat and politician († 1998 )
• 0August 3 : Eduard Hundt , German soccer player († 2002 )
• 0August 3 : Walter van Tilburg Clark , American writer († 1971 )
• 0August 4th : Eva Kemlein , German photographer († 2004 )
• 0August 4 : Otto Steiger , Swiss writer († 2005 )
• 0August 4 : Saunders Mac Lane , American mathematician († 2005 )
• 0August 5 : Pierre Guillaumat , French politician and industrialist († 1991 )
• 0August 8 : Erwin Hinze , German politician (SPD / SED), Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) († 1972 )

Adam von Trott zu Solz

• 0August 9 : Adam von Trott zu Solz , German lawyer, diplomat and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• August 10 : Mohammed V , King of Morocco († 1961 )
• August 10 : Claude Thornhill , American jazz musician († 1965 )
• August 10 : Leo Fender , American musical instrument maker and company founder († 1991 )
• August 10 : Richard J. Hughes , American politician († 1992 )
• August 10 : Levon Madoyan , Armenian duduk player († 1964 )
• August 11th : Gaston Litaize , French composer, organist and organ teacher († 1991 )
• August 12 : Franz Six , Nazi functionary and war criminal († 1975 )
• August 13 : Werner Otto , German entrepreneur († 2011 )
• August 14 : Tibor Kozma , Hungarian-American conductor († 1976 )
• August 15 : Erwin Moritz Herbert Guttmann , German chess problem composer († 1980 )
• August 16 : Kurt Lischka , Gestapo chief of Paris († 1989 )
• August 17 : Fritz Hippler , Nazi film politician († 2002 )
• August 19 : Jerzy Andrzejewski , Polish writer († 1983 )
• August 20 : André Morell , British actor († 1978 )
• August 20 : Konrad von Wangenheim , German rider († 1953 )
• August 20 : Olga Rubzowa , Russian chess player († 1994 )
• August 21 : Nikolai Bogolyubov , Russian physicist († 1992 )
• August 21 : C. Douglas Dillon , American politician († 2003 )
• August 22nd : Vladimir Yermolajew , Soviet aircraft designer († 1944 )
• August 23 : Lisa Fittko , Austrian writer and resistance fighter († 2005 )
• August 23 : Fritz Spiesser , German writer († 1971 )
• August 25 : Andrew Liddell Aitken , English soccer player († 1984 )
• August 25 : Josef Augstein , German lawyer († 1984 )
• August 25 : Kurt Borm , German doctor at the Nazi killing center in Sonnenstein and SS Hauptsturmführer in the Third Reich († 2001 )
• August 25 : Eileen Hiscock , British athlete and Olympian († 1958 )
• August 25 : Michael Rennie , British actor († 1971 )
• August 26 : Julius Balkow , Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR († 1973 )
• August 26 : Richard Borgmann , German entrepreneur, local politician and district administrator († 1966 )
• August 26 : Jim Davis , American actor († 1981 )
• August 27 : Lester Young , American tenor saxophonist († 1959 )
• August 27 : Sylvère Maes , Belgian cyclist († 1966 )
• August 27 : Walter Arnold , German sculptor († 1979 )
• August 28 : Fritz Ihlau , German composer and musician († 1995 )
• August 31 : Hans-Joachim Fränkel , German Protestant bishop and human rights activist († 1996 )
• August 31 : Walter Zawadil , German politician († 1960 )

September

Harro Schulze-Boysen

• 0September 2 : Paulius Augius , Lithuanian painter and woodcut artist († 1960 )
• 0September 2 : Harro Schulze-Boysen , German officer, publicist and resistance fighter († 1942 )
• 0September 3 : Erich Ahlers , German horticultural director († 2004 )
• 0September 4 : Werner Böttcher , German athlete († 1944 )
• 0September 4 : Johannes Willebrands , Archbishop of Utrecht and Cardinal († 2006 )
• 0September 4 : William H. Ziegler , American film editor († 1977 )
• 0September 5 : Yusuf Dadoo , South African politician († 1983 )
• 0September 5 : Fritz Martini , German Germanist and literary historian († 1991 )
• 0September 6 : Severino Minelli , Swiss football player († 1994 )
• 0September 7th : Elia Kazan , American film director († 2003 )
• 0September 7 : Kurt A. Körber , entrepreneur and patron († 1992 )
• 0September 8th : Alfred Kunze , lecturer for soccer at DHfK Leipzig and soccer coach († 1996 )
• 0September 8 : Hermann Steuri , Swiss mountain guide and ski racer († 2001 )
• 0September 9 : Arthur Jonath , German athlete († 1963 )
• 0September 9 : Fred Korth , American lawyer and politician († 1998 )
• September 10 : Evelyne Hall , American athlete and Olympian († 1993 )
• September 11th : Hans Augustin , German lawyer († 1977 )
• September 11 : Joachim Fernau , Prussian writer and painter († 1988 )
• September 12 : Kurt Becher , SS-Standartenführer († 1995 )
• September 13 : Jim Rhodes , American politician († 2001 )
• September 13 : Frits Thors , Dutch news anchor († 2014 )
• September 14 : Clara von Arnim , German author († 2009 )
• September 14 : Peter Markham Scott , British ornithologist, conservationist and painter († 1989 )
• September 15 : Johannes van Aartsen , Dutch politician († 1992 )
• September 15 : Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai , Indian politician and author († 1969 )
• September 15 : Carlos Estrada , Uruguayan composer, conductor and music teacher († 1970 )
• September 15 : Hans Fischinger , German film director († 1944 )
• September 15 : Hans-Jürgen Nierentz , German writer and television director († 1995 )
• September 17 : Max Wehrli , Swiss Germanist and literary historian († 1998 )
• September 18 : Hertha Firnberg , Austrian Minister († 1994 )
• September 18 : Willy Spilling , German composer and musicologist († 1965 )
• September 19 : Ferry Porsche , German-Austrian entrepreneur († 1998 )
• September 20 : Friedrich Behrens , economist in the GDR († 1980 )
• September 20 : Josef Korbel , Czechoslovak diplomat and author († 1977 )
• September 21 : Joachim P. Kuettner , German-American physicist († 2011 )

Kwame Nkrumah

• September 21 : Kwame Nkrumah , Ghanaian thinker and politician, President of Ghana († 1972 )
• September 22nd : Václav Dobiaš , Czech composer († 1978 )
• September 22 : Karl Lederer , Austrian lawyer and resistance fighter († 1944 )
• September 22nd : David Riesman , American sociologist and educationalist († 2002 )
• September 23 : Blanche Honegger , Swiss-American violinist and conductor († 2011 )
• September 26 : Ernst Günter Troche , German art historian, art dealer and museum director († 1971 )
• September 28 : Al Capp , American comic artist and author († 1979 )
• September 28 : P. Jairaj , Indian actor († 2000 )
• September 28 : Fred Rauch , Austrian singer, lyricist and radio presenter († 1997 )
• September 29th : Herbert Lange , detective superintendent of the state police in Poznan, SS murderer († 1945 )
• September 29 : Albin Skoda , Austrian film and theater actor († 1961 )
• September 29 : Bernhard Timm , German industrial manager, CEO of BASF AG († 1992 )
• September 30th : Rudolf Schütrumpf , German palynologist († 1986 )

October

• 0October 1 : Otto Kumm , German soldier, National Socialist, member of the Waffen SS († 2004 )
• 0October 1 : Armando Soto La Marina , Mexican actor († 1983 )
• 0October 2 : David Hempstead , American film producer and screenwriter († 1983 )
• 0October 2 : Alex Raymond , American draftsman († 1956 )
• 0October 4 : Fernando Cortés , Puerto Rican actor, director and screenwriter († 1979 )
• 0October 4th : Marcel Stern , French composer and violinist († 1989 )
• 0October 5 : Ilse Abel , German actress († 1959 )
• 0October 5 : Otto Ackermann , Swiss conductor († 1960 )
• 0October 5 : Bohdan-Ihor Antonytsch , Ukrainian poet and prose writer († 1937 )
• 0October 5 : Edward Osóbka-Morawski , Polish politician and Prime Minister of Poland († 1997 )
• 0October 5 : Leopold Kohr , philosopher, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize († 1994 )
• 0October 5 : Walter Markov , German historian († 1993 )
• 0October 6 : Emil Rudolf Greulich , German writer († 2005 )
• 0October 7th : Shura Cherkassky , Russian pianist († 1995 )
• 0October 7th : Käthe Niederkirchner , resistance fighter in the Third Reich († 1944 )
• 0October 8 : Bill Hewitt , American football player († 1947 )
• 0October 8 : Piotr Jaroszewicz , Polish politician and military, Prime Minister of Poland († 1992 )
• 0October 9 : Martin Flörchinger , German actor († 2004 )
• 0October 9 : Lila Kedrova , Russian actress († 2000 )
• October 11 : Hellmut Holthaus , German editor and writer († 1966 )
• October 12 : Dorothy Livesay , Canadian poet († 1996 )

Art Tatum

• October 13 : Art Tatum , American piano virtuoso of jazz († 1956 )
• October 14 : Manutschehr Eghbal , Iranian Prime Minister († 1977 )
• October 14 : Bernd Rosemeyer , German pre-war automobile racing driver († 1938 )
• October 14 : Kalervo Tuukanen , Finnish composer († 1979 )
• October 15 : Jesse Leonard Greenstein , American astronomer († 2002 )
• October 15 : Werner Lieven , German actor († 1968 )
• October 16 : Walter Kremser , German forest scientist († 2000 )
• October 18 : Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin , Soviet pilot († 1982 )
• October 18 : Norberto Bobbio , Italian legal philosopher and publicist († 2004 )
• October 19 : Marguerite Perey , French chemist and physicist († 1975 )
• October 20 : José Farías Ríos , Peruvian athlete († unknown)
• October 20 : Carla Laemmle , American actress († 2014 )
• October 21 : Heinrich Bleichrodt , German corvette captain († 1977 )
• October 22 : Käte van Tricht , German organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher († 1996 )
• October 23 : Champion Jack Dupree , blues singer and pianist († 1992 )
• October 24 : Bill Carr , American sprinter and Olympic champion († 1966 )

Dieter Borsche with Lotte Berger in The Accomplices , 1937

• October 25 : Dieter Borsche , German actor († 1982 )
• October 27 : Henry Townsend , American blues musician († 2006 )

Reginald Gray: Portrait of Francis Bacon , 1960

• October 28 : Francis Bacon , Irish painter († 1992 )
• October 28 : Werner Georg Haverbeck , SA and SS member and pastor († 1999 )
• October 29 : Henock Abrahamsson , Swedish football goalkeeper († 1958 )
• October 30 : Homi Jehangir Bhabha , Indian physicist († 1966 )
• October 31 : Arnold Sundgaard , American writer and librettist († 2006 )

November

• 0November 1st : Bruno Bjelinski , Croatian composer († 1992 )
• 0November 2 : Boško Milenković , Yugoslav racing driver († 1955 )
• 0November 2 : Heinz Richter , German engineer and author († 1971 )
• 0November 3 : Marcel Anghelescu , Romanian actor († 1977 )
• 0November 3 : Felix Brodtbeck , Swiss choir director and organist († 1982 )
• 0November 3 : Herbert Haufrecht , American composer and folklore researcher († 1998 )
• 0November 3 : Theodor Tolsdorff , Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht in World War II († 1978 )
• 0November 6th : Henk Bijvanck , Dutch composer († 1969 )
• 0November 9 : Mirza Nasir Ahmad , Khalifat ul-Masih III. († 1982 )
• 0November 9 : Massimo Pallottino , Italian archaeologist († 1995 )
• November 10 : Robert Arthur , American author († 1969 )
• November 10 : László Halmos , Hungarian composer († 1997 )
• November 11th : Friedrich Busch , German Protestant theologian († 1944 )
• November 11 : Robert Ryan , American actor († 1973 )
• November 11 : Walter Faller , German politician († 2003 )
• November 11th : Piero Scotti , Italian racing car driver († 1976 )
• November 15 : Timothy Manning , Archbishop of Los Angeles and Cardinal († 1989 )
• November 15 : Auguste Hargus , German athlete († 1995 )
• November 16 : Mado Michio , Japanese poet of children's songs († 2014 )
• November 16 : Max Zimmering , German writer († 1973 )
• November 18 : Valdemar Söderholm , Swedish composer († 1990 )
• November 19 : Peter Drucker , Austrian pioneer in management studies († 2005 )
• November 20 : Marianne Breslauer , German photographer († 2001 )
• November 21 : Hermann Paul Müller , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver († 1975 )
• November 22nd : Hans Holt , Austrian actor († 2001 )
• November 22nd : Michail Mil , Russian helicopter designer († 1970 )
• November 23 : Irakli Vissarionovich Abashidze , Georgian-Soviet poet and politician († 1992 )
• November 23 : Jean Jadot , Belgian Curia Bishop († 2009 )
• November 24th : Otto Adam , German fencer († 1977 )
• November 24 : Gerhard Gentzen , German mathematician († 1945 )
• November 26 : Eugène Ionesco , French playwright († 1994 )
• November 26th : Fritz Buchloh , German soccer player († 1998 )
• November 27 : James Rufus Agee , American poet, journalist, social activist, screenwriter and film critic († 1955 )
• November 27 : Anatoly Malzew , Russian mathematician and logician († 1967 )
• November 27 : Peter Pan , German cabaret artist († 1976 )
• November 28 : Aleksandar Ranković , Yugoslav politician († 1983 )
• November 29 : Frank Zwillinger , Austrian writer († 1989 )
• November 29 : Hans Gillesberger , Austrian choir director († 1986 )
• November 29th : Stefan Skoumal , German and Austrian soccer player († 1983 )
• November 30th : Robert Nighthawk , American blues musician († 1967 )
• November 30th : Fritz Westheider , German handball player, handball trainer and athlete († 1999 )

December

• 0December 1 : Franz Bardon , Czech occultist († 1958 )
• 0December 1 : Hans-Heinrich Sievert , German athlete and Olympic participant († 1963 )
• 0December 2 : Helen Douglas Adam , Scottish-American poet and artist († 1993 )
• 0December 2 : Pietro Arcari , Italian football player († 1988 )
• 0December 2 : Arvo Askola , Finnish athlete († 1975 )

Marion Countess Dönhoff

• 0December 2nd : Marion Countess Dönhoff , German journalist († 2002 )
• 0December 2 : Sybille Schmitz , German actress († 1955 )
• 0December 3 : Vladimir Avramov , Bulgarian violinist and music teacher († 2007 )
• 0December 5th : Bobbie Heine , South African tennis player († 2016 )
• 0December 5 : Wilhelm Müller , German field handball player († 1984 )
• 0December 7th : Erwin Lambert , German master mason and NSDAP member († 1976 )
• 0December 7th : Hans Paetsch , German actor, director and voice actor († 2002 )
• 0December 7th : Matthias Wörndle , German cross-country skier and mountaineer († 1942 )
• 0December 8 : Erich Hornsmann , German lawyer, non-fiction author and environmental activist († 1999 )
• 0December 8 : José Saber Marroquín , Mexican composer and conductor († 1995 )
• 0December 8 : Eugen Steimle , head of the SD in Stuttgart († 1987 )
• 0December 9 : Roberto Beracochea , Argentinian writer († 1988 )
• 0December 9 : Douglas Fairbanks junior , American film actor († 2000 )
• 0December 9 : Leonhard Joa , German racing driver († 1981 )
• December 10 : Franz Scholz , priest and theologian († 1998 )
• December 11 : Hermann Frieb , German social democratic politician († 1943 )
• December 11 : Fred Andrew Seaton , American politician († 1974 )
• December 11th : John Wyer , British motorsport team owner and race director († 1989 )
• December 12 : Hans Keilson , Dutch doctor and psychoanalyst and German-speaking writer († 2011 )
• December 13 : Eugen Bjørnstad , Norwegian racing car driver († 1992 )
• December 13 : George Christensen , American football player († 1968 )
• December 14 : Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist († 1975 )
• December 15 : Alfred Neumann , German politician, Minister for Materials Management of the GDR († 2001 )
• December 15 : Bruno Ribke , former German soccer player
• December 15 : Hans Ernst Schneider , German literary scholar († 1999 )
• December 15 : Toni Zeller , German cross-country skier and ski jumper († 1962 )
• December 18 : Kaspar Muther , Swiss composer, clarinet and soprano saxophone player († 1980 )
• December 19 : Edwin B. Astwood , American endocrinologist († 1976 )
• December 19 : Kurt Jaeger , German numismatist († 1975 )
• December 20 : Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer († 1996 )
• December 20 : Erdet Wenxiu , concubine of the last emperor of China Puyi († 1953 )
• December 21 : Erich Arp , German politician († 1999 )
• December 21 : George Wildman Ball , American lawyer, politician and diplomat († 1994 )
• December 21 : Erik Haps , Belgian motorcycle racer († 1934 )
• December 21 : Hermann Heemsoth , German correspondence chess grandmaster († 2006 )
• December 21 : Antonio José Plaza , Argentine Archbishop († 1987 )
• December 21 : Pi Scheffer , Dutch composer and conductor († 1988 )
• December 22nd : Patricia Hayes , British comedian and actress († 1998 )
• December 23 : Nakazato Tsuneko , Japanese writer († 1987 )
• December 24th : Georgi Wassiljewitsch Afanassjew , Belarusian chess composer († 1971 )
• December 24th : Franz West , Austrian politician (KPÖ) († 1984 )
• December 25 : Zora Arkus-Duntov , American engineer († 1996 )
• December 25th : Louis van Lint , Belgian painter († 1986 )
• December 26th : Oldřich Nejedlý , Czechoslovak football player († 1990 )
• December 26 : Herbert Rittlinger , German adventurer and author († 1978 )
• December 27th : Lou Brero , American racing driver († 1957 )
• December 27 : Henryk Jabłoński , Polish communist politician († 2003 )
• December 27 : Albert Oeckl , German professor († 2001 )
• December 30th : Milton Rogovin , American photographer († 2011 )
• December 31 : Giuseppe Addobbati , Italian actor († 1986 )
• December 31 : Ernst Kramer , German architect and local historian († 1993 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• NR Acharya , Indian film director and producer († 1993 )
• Camille Andréa , Canadian songwriter († 2002 )
• Eugenio Dragoni , Racing Director of Scuderia Ferrari († 1974 )
• Claude Dunbar , British officer († 1971 )
• Friedrich Horn , German hockey player
• Charly Jellen , Austrian racing driver and entrepreneur († 1934 )
• Michael Mosoeu Moerane , South African composer and choir director († 1981 )
• Cecil Williams , British-South African civil rights activist and dramaturge († 1979 )

Died

January

• January 10 : John Conness , American politician (* 1821 )
• January 10 : Eduard Scheve , Baptist preacher (* 1836 )

Hermann Minkowski

• January 12 : Hermann Minkowski , German mathematician and physicist (* 1864 )
• January 14 : Zinovy ​​Roschestvensky , Russian admiral (* 1848 )
• January 15 : Arnold Janssen , German missionary and the founder of the Steyler missionaries (* 1837 )
• January 15 : Ernst von Wildenbruch , German poet and playwright (* 1845 )
• January 15 : Robert Zünd , Swiss painter (* 1827 )
• January 18 : Christian Ludwig Arning , German judge and politician (* 1824 )
• January 18 : Ernest Lavigne , Canadian composer, conductor, cornetist and music publisher (* 1851 )
• January 19 : Gustav Ritter von Meyer , German judicial councilor (* 1834 )
• January 19 : Umewaka Minoru I. , Japanese Nō actor (* 1828 )
• January 20 : Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug , Norwegian legal scholar and politician (* 1822 )

Emil Erlenmeyer

• January 22nd : Emil Erlenmeyer , German chemist (* 1825 )
• January 24th : Petre Sebeşanu Aurelian , Romanian politician (* 1833 )
• January 30th : Anton Spitalsky , Austrian industrialist (* 1831 )

February

• 0February 2 : Adolf Stoecker , German theologian and politician (* 1835 )
• 0February 3 : Johann Georg Herzog , German organist, composer and university professor (* 1822 )
• 0February 8 : Mieczysław Karłowicz , Polish composer (* 1876 )
• 0February 8 : Edouard Silas , Dutch composer and organist (* 1827 )
• February 14 : Arno Senfft , German colonial official (* 1864 )
• February 17th : Geronimo , Indian chief (* 1829 )
• February 20 : Eginhard von Barfus , German writer (* 1825 )
• February 20 : Rodolphe Lindt , Swiss chocolate producer (* 1855 )
• February 21 : Xaver Imfeld , Swiss cartographer (* 1853 )
• February 26 : Emmanuel Poiré , French caricaturist and humorous draftsman (* unknown)
• February 26 : Hermann Ebbinghaus , German psychologist (* 1850 )

March

• 0March 2 : August Overweg , German politician and son of Carl Overweg (* 1836 )
• 0March 6 : Gustaf af Geijerstam , Swedish writer (* 1858 )
• 0March 6 : August Mau , German archaeologist (* 1840 )
• 0March 8 : Léon Théry , French racing car driver (* 1879 )
• March 12 : Frieda von Bülow , German writer (* 1857 )
• March 12 : Herrmann Julius Meyer , German publisher (* 1826 )
• March 16 : Adalbert Matkowsky , German actor (* 1857 )
• March 21 : Rudolf Gottschall , German writer and literary critic (* 1823 )
• March 22nd : Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung , Baltic industrialist, chess player and publicist (* 1842 )
• March 24th : Alfred Messel , German architect (* 1853 )
• March 24 : John Millington Synge , Irish writer (* 1871 )
• March 27 : Julius Kautz , Hungarian economist (* 1829 )

April

• 0April 3 : Benjamin Johnson Lang , American organist, pianist, conductor and composer (* 1837 )
• 0April 4 : Adolf von Sonnenthal , Austrian actor (* 1834 )
• 0April 8 : Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb , Faroese pastor and philologist (* 1819 )
• 0April 9 : Ethan A. Hitchcock , American politician (* 1835 )
• April 10 : Algernon Charles Swinburne , British poet (* 1837 )
• April 14 : Miguel Juárez Celman , Argentine President (* 1844 )
• April 19 : Howard Baskerville , American teacher in the Presbyterian Mission School in Tabriz (* 1885 )
• April 20 : Gustav Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Emil von Arnim , Prussian general (* 1829 )
• April 21 : David Turpie , American politician (* 1828 )
• April 24th : Max Ihm , German classical philologist (* 1863 )

Ernst Pinkert

• April 28 : Frederick Holbrook , American politician (* 1813 )
• April 28 : Ernst Pinkert , German restaurateur and founder of Leipzig Zoo (* 1844 )

May

• 0May 2 : Manuel Amador Guerrero , Panamanian President (* 1833 )
• 0May 2 : Józef Szczepkowski , Polish opera singer (* 1849 )
• 0May 6 : Fanny Cerrito , Italian ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1817 )
• 0May 7 : Carl Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, conductor and composer (* 1847 )
• 0May 8 : Friedrich August von Holstein , German diplomat (* 1837 )
• 0May 9 : Augusta Jane Evans Wilson , American writer (* 1835 )
• 0May 9 : Margarete Steiff , German entrepreneur (* 1847 )
• May 10 : Futabatei Shimei , writer and translator of Russian literature (* 1864 )
• May 10 : Georg Howaldt , German engineer and councilor (* 1841 )
• May 15 : Ernest Henri Besnier , French dermatologist (* 1831 )
• May 18 : George Meredith , British writer (* 1828 )
• May 20 : Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann , German physiologist, biologist and zoologist (* 1843 )
• May 24th : Georg von Neumayer , German geophysicist and polar researcher (* 1826 )
• May 24th : Franz Pfanner , founder of the Mariannhiller Missionaries and the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood (* 1825 )
• May 29 : Thomas Theodore Crittenden , American politician (* 1832 )

June

• 0June 1 : Giuseppe Martucci , Italian composer, pianist and conductor (* 1856 )
• 0June 8 : Karl Nikolai Jensen Börgen , German astronomer (* 1843 )
• 0June 8 : Fritz Overbeck , German painter (* 1869 )
• June 10 : Robert J. Reynolds , American politician (* 1838 )
• June 16 : Ivar Eggert Hedenblad , Swedish composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1851 )
• June 28 : Richard Muther , German art historian (* 1860 )
• June 29 : George Blake Cosby , Confederate General (* 1830 )

July

Walter Ritz

• 0July 7 : Walter Ritz , Swiss mathematician (* 1878 )
• July 10 : Adolf Aich , German clergyman (* 1824 )
• July 11 : Hans Hoffmann , German writer (* 1848 )
• July 11 : Simon Newcomb , American astronomer (* 1835 )
• July 14th : Emmerich von Arco auf Valley , German diplomat (* 1852 )
• July 14th : John Goode , American lawyer and politician (* 1829 )
• July 20 : Johanna Mestorf , German archaeologist, museum director and professor (* 1828 )
• July 21 : Gustav Karpeles , German-Jewish publicist and literary historian (* 1848 )
• July 22nd : Oscar Byström , Swedish composer (* 1821 )
• July 22nd : Detlev von Liliencron , German poet and writer (* 1844 )
• July 23 : Ernest François Cambier , Belgian builder of the first railway in the Congo (* 1844 )
• July 23 : Zygmunt Noskowski , Polish composer (* 1846 )
• July 31 : Fazlollah Nuri , Shiite clergyman (* 1843 )
• 00.July: Robert Turner , American Bahai (* 1855 )

August

• August 11 : Heinrich von Attems-Petzenstein , Austrian officer and pomologist (* 1834 )
• August 19 : Ludwig Gumplowicz , one of the founding fathers of European sociology (* 1838 )
• August 26 : Jesper Jespersen von Bahnson , Danish Lieutenant General and Minister of War (* 1827 )

September

• 0September 4 : Ernst von Stubenrauch , German district administrator (* 1853 )
• 0September 8 : Frank Crawford Armstrong , American Brigadier General (* 1835 )
• 0September 9 : Edward Moody McCook , American politician (* 1833 )
• September 21 : John Albert Johnson , American politician (* 1861 )
• September 23 : Ernst aus'm Weerth , German historian and archaeologist (* 1829 )
• September 25 : Charles J. Bell , American politician (* 1845 )
• September 26 : Anton Dohrn , German zoologist (* 1840 )

October

• 0October 5th : Agneta Matthes , Dutch entrepreneur (* 1847 )

Carl Hilty

• October 12 : Carl Hilty , Swiss philosopher and constitutional lawyer (* 1833 )
• October 13 : Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia , Spanish educator (* 1859 )
• October 14 : Gottfred Matthison-Hansen , Danish composer (* 1832 )
• October 16 : Jakub Bart-Ćišinski , Sorbian poet (* 1856 )
• October 17th : Nicola Spinelli , Italian composer, pianist and conductor (* 1865 )
• October 19 : Cesare Lombroso , Italian professor of forensic medicine and psychiatry (* 1835 )
• October 21 : Martin N. Johnson , American politician (* 1850 )
• October 21 : George Augustus Graham , Scottish officer and cynologist (* 1833 )
• October 26 : Hirobumi Ito , Japanese Prime Minister (* 1841 )
• October 27 : Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma , Chilean painter (* 1856 )
• October 30 : Leopold Sonnemann , journalist and publisher (* 1831 )

November

• 0November 2 : Wilhelm Ahlwardt , German orientalist and university professor (* 1828 )
• 0November 2 : Johann Wilhelm Anton Albrecht Müller German pathologist (* 1832 )
• 0November 5 : Ove Christensen , Danish composer, violinist and pianist (* 1856 )
• 0November 6th : Franziska Speyer , German founder and patroness (* 1844 )
• 0November 8 : Charles Bordes , French composer and music teacher (* 1863 )
• November 16 : Francis Thomé , French composer (* 1850 )
• November 26 : Theodor Reuter , Royal Prussian School Director (* 1838 )

December

• 0December 2 : Rudolf Achleitner , Austrian conductor and composer (* 1864 )
• December 10 : Red Cloud , chief of the Lakota Indians (* 1822 )
• December 13 : Innokenti Fjodorowitsch Annensky , Russian poet, literary critic, playwright and translator (* 1855 )
• December 15 : Emil Strub , Swiss designer, engineer, railway builder and inventor (* 1858 )
• December 15 : Francisco Tárrega (y Eixa) , Spanish guitarist and composer (* 1852 )
• December 16 : Ludwig Friedländer , German classical philologist (* 1824 )
• December 16 : Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , German princess, wife of King Michael I of Portugal (* 1831 )
• December 16 : Lina Morgenstern , German writer, women's rights activist and social activist (* 1830 )

Leopold II.

• December 17th : Leopold II , King of the Belgians and private owner of the Congo Free State (* 1835 )
• December 17th : Matthäus Much , Austrian monument conservator and archaeologist (* 1832 )
• December 17th : Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff , Dutch biologist (* 1826 )
• December 18 : Florian Kindle , Liechtenstein composer and priest (* 1838 )
• December 20 : William A. Harris , American politician (* 1841 )
• December 22nd : Anselm J. McLaurin , American politician (* 1848 )
• December 26 : Frederic Remington , American painter and sculptor (* 1861 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Cesare Rossi , Italian composer (* 1842 )

Web links

Commons : 1909  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/1909/ (Living virtual museum online)