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Who Was Alive in 1909

120 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1909

Florence Nightingale
Florence NightingaleAge 89
1820–1910 · Activism & Social Change
Founder of modern nursing
Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 87
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Leo Tolstoy
Leo TolstoyAge 81
1828–1910 · Literature
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Mark TwainAge 74
1835–1910 · Literature
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 74
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 70
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 69
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 68
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 65
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 62
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 62
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 57
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 53
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 53
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 53
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 53
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 51
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 51
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 51
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 50
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 48
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 47
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 47
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 47
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 46
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 46
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 45
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 44
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 43
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 43
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 42
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 42
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 41
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 41
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 40
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 40
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 40
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 39
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 38
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 38
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 38
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 38
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 37
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 37
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 35
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 35
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 35
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 35
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 34
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 34
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 34
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 31
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 31
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 31
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 30
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 30
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 29
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 28
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 28
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 28
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 27
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 27
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 27
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 27
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 26
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 26
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 26
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 26
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 25
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 25
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 24
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 23
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 22
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 22
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 22
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 22
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 21
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 20
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 20
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 20
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 20
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 19
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 19
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 19
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 19
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 17
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 17
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 16
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 15
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 15
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 14
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 14
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 13
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EarhartAge 12
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Golda Meir
Golda MeirAge 11
1898–1978 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisAge 11
1898–1963 · Literature
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Duke Ellington
Duke EllingtonAge 10
1899–1974 · Music
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest HemingwayAge 10
1899–1961 · Literature
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 10
1899–1986 · Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockAge 10
1899–1980 · Film & Entertainment
Master of Suspense — Psycho, Vertigo
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartAge 10
1899–1957 · Film & Entertainment
Casablanca, Hollywood icon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 9
1900–1944 · Literature
Aviator and author of The Little Prince
Werner Heisenberg
Werner HeisenbergAge 8
1901–1976 · Science & Invention
Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics pioneer
Louis Armstrong
Louis ArmstrongAge 8
1901–1971 · Music
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
Walt Disney
Walt DisneyAge 8
1901–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiAge 8
1901–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of the nuclear age, first nuclear reactor
Hirohito
HirohitoAge 8
1901–1989 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Japan during WWII
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene DietrichAge 8
1901–1992 · Film & Entertainment
German-American film star and singer
George Orwell
George OrwellAge 6
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob HopeAge 6
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert OppenheimerAge 5
1904–1967 · Science & Invention
Father of the atomic bomb
Salvador Dalí
Salvador DalíAge 5
1904–1989 · Art
The Persistence of Memory, surrealist
Pablo Neruda
Pablo NerudaAge 5
1904–1973 · Literature
Chilean poet and Nobel laureate
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul SartreAge 4
1905–1980 · Philosophy & Thought
Existentialism, declined the Nobel Prize
Hannah Arendt
Hannah ArendtAge 3
1906–1975 · Philosophy & Thought
The Banality of Evil, political theorist
Frida Kahlo
Frida KahloAge 2
1907–1954 · Art
Self-portraits, Mexican cultural icon
Rachel Carson
Rachel CarsonAge 2
1907–1964 · Activism & Social Change
Silent Spring, environmental movement
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de BeauvoirAge 1
1908–1986 · Philosophy & Thought
The Second Sex, feminist existentialist
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 1
1908–1973 · Politics & Leadership
36th US president, signed the Civil Rights Act
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame NkrumahAge 0
1909–1972 · Politics & Leadership
First President of Ghana

Born in 1909

Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah
1909–1972 · Politics & Leadership
First President of Ghana

Also Born in 1909

1909–2012 · born April 22
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
1909–1994 · born November 26
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
1909–1943 · born February 3
French philosopher (1909–1943)
1909–1974 · born January 22
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
1909–2003 · born September 7
Greek-American theatre director and filmmaker (1909–2003)
1909–1997 · born June 6
British philosopher (1909–1997)
1909–1959 · born January 1
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
1909–1959 · born June 20
Australian and American actor (1909–1959)
1909–2005 · born November 19
American management consultant and author (1909–2005)
1909–1989 · born July 18
Soviet diplomat (1909–1989)
1909–1992 · born October 28
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
1909–2004 · born April 30
Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980

Also Died in 1909

1835–1909 · died December 17
King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909
1829–1909 · died February 17
Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache (1829–1909)
1864–1909 · died January 12
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
1841–1909 · died October 26
Japanese statesman (1841–1909)
1837–1909 · died April 10
English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
1828–1909 · died May 18
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
1860–1909 · died May 18
Spanish composer (1860–1909)
1871–1909 · died March 24
Irish writer (1871–1909)
1835–1909 · died July 11
Canadian-American polymath (1835–1909)
1851–1909 · died November 21
Danish painter (1851–1909)
1822–1909 · died December 10
Leader of the Oglala Lakota (1822–1909)
1849–1909 · died June 24
American novelist (1849–1909)

Sources

  1. 1909 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
  3. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  4. Leo Tolstoy — Wikipedia
  5. Mark Twain — Wikipedia
  6. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  7. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  8. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  9. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  10. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  11. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  12. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  13. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  14. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  15. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  16. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  17. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  18. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  19. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  20. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  21. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  22. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  23. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  24. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  25. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  26. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  27. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  28. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  29. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  30. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  31. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  32. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  33. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  34. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  35. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  36. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  37. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  38. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  39. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  40. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  41. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  42. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  43. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  44. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  45. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  46. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  47. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  48. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  49. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  50. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  51. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  52. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  53. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  54. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  55. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  56. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  57. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  58. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  59. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  60. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  61. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  62. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  63. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  64. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  65. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  66. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  67. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  68. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  69. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  70. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  71. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  72. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  73. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  74. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  75. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  76. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  77. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  78. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  79. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  80. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  81. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  82. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  83. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  84. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  85. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  86. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  87. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  88. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  89. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  90. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  91. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  92. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  93. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  94. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  95. Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
  96. Golda Meir — Wikipedia
  97. C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
  98. Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
  99. Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
  100. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  101. Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
  102. Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
  103. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
  104. Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
  105. Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
  106. Walt Disney — Wikipedia
  107. Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
  108. Hirohito — Wikipedia
  109. Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
  110. George Orwell — Wikipedia
  111. Bob Hope — Wikipedia
  112. J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
  113. Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
  114. Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
  115. Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
  116. Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
  117. Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
  118. Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
  119. Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
  120. Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
  121. Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
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