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Born in 1909

1,097 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Leopold Kohr

    jurist, philosopher

    1909–1994 · aged 84

    October 5 · 1909

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  2. Adalbert Deșu

    association football player

    1909–1937 · aged 28

    March 24 · 1909

    Source: Transfermarkt

  3. Lisa Fittko

    writer, resistance fighter

    1909–2005 · aged 95

    August 23 · 1909

    Source: FemBio database

  4. André Cayatte

    director, journalist

    1909–1989 · aged 80

    February 3 · 1909

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  5. Song Renqiong

    politician

    1909–2005 · aged 95

    July 11 · 1909

    No external source identified

  6. Hélène Gordon-Lazareff

    ethnologist, journalist

    1909–1988 · aged 78

    September 21 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  7. Bernabé Ferreyra

    association football player, actor

    1909–1972 · aged 63

    February 12 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  8. Moshe Sneh

    politician, physician

    1909–1972 · aged 63

    January 6 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. Eduard Deisenhofer

    military personnel, military leader

    1909–1945 · aged 35

    June 27 · 1909

    Source: Oorlogsbronnen

  10. June Clyde

    singer, film actor

    1909–1987 · aged 77

    December 2 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Guillermo Gorostiza

    association football coach, requeté soldier

    1909–1966 · aged 57

    February 15 · 1909

    No external source identified

  12. Uku Masing

    poet, writer

    1909–1985 · aged 75

    August 11 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  13. Willi Boskovsky

    violinist, musician

    1909–1991 · aged 81

    June 16 · 1909

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  14. Eddie Mayehoff

    stage actor, film actor

    1909–1992 · aged 83

    July 7 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. Hans Erni

    lithographer, graphic artist

    1909–2015 · aged 106

    February 21 · 1909

    Source: Le Delarge

  16. Princess Marie Eleonore of Albania

    1909–1956 · aged 47

    February 19 · 1909

    Source: The Peerage

  17. Zoran Mušič

    artist, draftsperson

    1909–2005

    February 12 · 1909

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  18. Robert F. Boyle

    art director, scenographer

    1909–2010 · aged 100

    October 10 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  19. Shōhei Ōoka

    writer, novelist

    1909–1988 · aged 79

    March 6 · 1909

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  20. Josef Gingold

    music educator, university teacher

    1909–1995 · aged 85

    October 28 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  21. Hans Hotter

    opera singer, actor

    1909–2003 · aged 94

    January 19 · 1909

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  22. Charlie Conacher

    ice hockey player

    1909–1967 · aged 58

    December 20 · 1909

    No external source identified

  23. Fay Helm

    film actor, actor

    1909–2003 · aged 94

    April 9 · 1909

    No external source identified

  24. Willy Millowitsch

    film actor, musician

    1909–1999 · aged 90

    January 8 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  25. Max Blecher

    novelist, writer

    1909–1938 · aged 28

    September 8 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. Henri Alekan

    cinematographer

    1909–2001 · aged 92

    February 10 · 1909

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  27. Estella Agsteribbe

    artistic gymnast

    1909–1943 · aged 34

    April 6 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  28. Mireille Balin

    film actor

    1909–1968 · aged 59

    July 20 · 1909

    Source: birth certificate

  29. Wesley Bolin

    politician, governor

    1909–1978 · aged 68

    July 1 · 1909

    No external source identified

  30. Robert Roswell Palmer

    university teacher, historian

    1909–2002 · aged 93

    January 11 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  31. André Pieyre de Mandiargues

    novelist, poet

    1909–1991

    March 14 · 1909

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  32. África de las Heras Gavilán*

    spy

    Date disputed

    April 26 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  33. Wilopo

    politician

    1909–1981 · aged 71

    October 21 · 1909

    Source: tokohindonesia.com

  34. Géza Toldi

    association football coach, association football player

    1909–1985 · aged 76

    February 11 · 1909

    Source: FBref

  35. John Wright

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1909–1979 · aged 70

    July 18 · 1909

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  36. Franck Sylvain

    lawyer, politician

    1909–1987 · aged 77

    August 3 · 1909

    No external source identified

  37. Sergo Zakariadze*

    politician, drama teacher

    Date disputed

    June 18 · 1909

    Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

  38. Allen Montgomery Lewis

    politician, judge

    1909–1993 · aged 83

    October 26 · 1909

    No external source identified

  39. Ciro Alegría

    poet, novelist

    1909–1967 · aged 57

    November 4 · 1909

    Source: Nouveau Dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays

  40. Ivar Lissner

    editing staff, spy

    1909–1967 · aged 58

    April 23 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  41. Margaret Mee

    draftsperson, botanical collector

    1909–1988 · aged 79

    May 22 · 1909

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  42. Gerhard Flesch

    police officer, jurist

    1909–1948 · aged 38

    October 8 · 1909

    Source: Nuremberg Trials Project

  43. Joseph M. Newman*

    film director, director

    Date disputed

    August 7 · 1909

    Source: IMDb

  44. Elmer L. Andersen

    businessperson, governor

    1909–2004 · aged 95

    June 17 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  45. Vagn Holmboe

    classical composer, composer

    1909–1996 · aged 86

    December 20 · 1909

    Source: Nationalencyklopedin

  46. Tewhida Belshikh

    gynecologist, physician

    1909–2010 · aged 101

    January 2 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  47. Riccardo Cassin

    businessperson, mountaineer

    1909–2009 · aged 100

    January 2 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  48. Édith Thomas

    historian, novelist

    1909–1970

    January 23 · 1909

    Source: birth certificate

  49. Camille Bulcke

    engineer, Sanskrit scholar

    1909–1982 · aged 72

    September 1 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  50. Abdelrahman Fawzy

    association football player, association football coach

    1909–1988 · aged 78

    November 11 · 1909

    Source: Transfermarkt

  51. Jnan Prakash Ghosh

    musicologist, composer

    1909–1997 · aged 87

    May 8 · 1909

    No external source identified

  52. Muriel Angelus

    actor, film actor

    1909–2004

    March 10 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  53. Francisco Ciutat de Miguel

    military personnel

    1909–1986 · aged 77

    October 28 · 1909

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  54. Hans Krüger

    police officer, military officer

    1909–1988 · aged 78

    July 1 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Timothy Manning

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1909–1989 · aged 79

    November 15 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  56. Régine Pernoud

    biographer, archivist

    1909–1998 · aged 88

    June 17 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  57. Günter Hessler

    military personnel, Marineoffizier

    1909–1968 · aged 58

    June 14 · 1909

    Source: Die deutschen U-Boot-Kommandanten (1 ed.)

  58. Anna-Eva Bergman

    painter, graphic artist

    1909–1987 · aged 78

    May 29 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  59. Bruno Freindlich

    actor

    1909–2002

    October 10 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  60. Jean-Paul Le Chanois

    actor, writer

    1909–1985 · aged 75

    October 25 · 1909

    Source: filmportal.de

  61. Haddis Alemayehu*

    minister, politician

    Date disputed

    October 17 · 1909

    Source: Amharic Wikipedia

  62. Gian Carlo Wick

    physicist, university teacher

    1909–1992 · aged 82

    October 15 · 1909

    Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it

  63. Hilde Domin

    translator, novelist

    1909–2006 · aged 96

    July 27 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  64. Bernardo Leighton

    politician, lawyer

    1909–1995 · aged 85

    August 16 · 1909

    No external source identified

  65. Hans-Joachim Schoeps

    university teacher, philosopher

    1909–1980 · aged 71

    January 30 · 1909

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  66. Mohamed Latif

    association football coach, association football player

    1909–1990 · aged 80

    October 23 · 1909

    Source: Transfermarkt

  67. Neal E. Miller

    university teacher, psychologist

    1909–2002 · aged 92

    August 3 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  68. Alan Bible

    lawyer, politician

    1909–1988 · aged 78

    November 20 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  69. Shaaban Robert

    writer, poet

    1909–1962

    January 1 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  70. Diane Ellis

    film actor, actor

    1909–1930 · aged 20

    December 20 · 1909

    Source: IMDb

  71. Ken Uehara

    film actor, actor

    1909–1991 · aged 82

    October 7 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  72. Henry Levin

    film director, actor

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    June 5 · 1909

    Source: filmportal.de

  73. Henry Townsend

    musician, blues musician

    1909–2006

    October 27 · 1909

    Source: vlm.cem.va.gov

  74. Pavle Savić

    political commissar, chemist

    1909–1994 · aged 85

    January 10 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  75. Giulio Carlo Argan

    historian, university teacher

    1909–1992

    May 17 · 1909

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  76. William Gemmell Cochran

    mathematician, university teacher

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    July 15 · 1909

    Source: Scientific Legacy Database

  77. Olga Rubtsova

    chess player

    1909–1994 · aged 85

    August 20 · 1909

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  78. Dorothy Wilson*

    actor, film actor

    Date disputed

    November 14 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  79. Léo Malet

    writer, screenwriter

    1909–1996 · aged 86

    March 7 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  80. Thomas Beck

    actor

    1909–1995 · aged 85

    December 29 · 1909

    Source: filmportal.de

  81. Danielle Casanova

    resistance fighter, politician

    1909–1943 · aged 34

    January 9 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  82. Irving Lerner

    manufacturer, film producer

    1909–1976 · aged 67

    March 7 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  83. Geoffrey Dummer

    electrical engineer, engineer

    1909–2002 · aged 93

    February 25 · 1909

    No external source identified

  84. Sam Balter

    basketball player

    1909–1998 · aged 88

    October 15 · 1909

    Source: filmportal.de

  85. Hilde Levi

    chemist, physicist

    1909–2003 · aged 94

    May 9 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  86. Maurice Cornforth

    writer, philosopher

    1909–1980 · aged 71

    October 28 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  87. Leopold Socha

    worker

    1909–1945 · aged 35

    August 18 · 1909

    Source: The Righteous Among the Nations Database

  88. Bishnu Dey

    writer, poet

    1909–1982 · aged 73

    July 18 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  89. Ralph E. Winters

    film editor

    1909–2004 · aged 94

    June 17 · 1909

    No external source identified

  90. Raymond Oliver

    chef, actor

    1909–1990 · aged 81

    March 27 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  91. Shin Saburi

    actor, film actor

    1909–1982 · aged 73

    February 12 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  92. Herschel Evans

    jazz musician, saxophonist

    1909–1939 · aged 29

    March 9 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  93. George Steer

    journalist

    1909–1944 · aged 35

    November 22 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  94. Oscar Alemán

    composer, singer

    1909–1980

    February 20 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  95. Brenda Forbes

    stage actor, film actor

    1909–1996 · aged 87

    January 14 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  96. Hermann Paul Müller

    athlete, racing automobile driver

    1909–1975 · aged 66

    November 21 · 1909

    Source: deutsche-biographie.de

  97. Eugenio Colorni

    politician, partisan

    1909–1944 · aged 35

    April 22 · 1909

    No external source identified

  98. Jean Hamburger

    physician, researcher

    1909–1992 · aged 82

    July 15 · 1909

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  99. Anna Świrszczyńska

    children's writer, playwright

    1909–1984 · aged 75

    February 7 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  100. Johannes Willebrands

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1909–2006

    September 4 · 1909

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  101. Giovanni Palatucci

    police officer

    1909–1945 · aged 35

    May 31 · 1909

    Source: The Righteous Among the Nations Database

  102. Eduard Stiefel

    university teacher, mathematician

    1909–1978 · aged 69

    April 21 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  103. Szymon Goldberg

    musician, conductor

    1909–1993 · aged 84

    June 1 · 1909

    Source: Discogs

  104. Jean Martinelli*

    actor, dub actor

    Date disputed

    August 15 · 1909

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  105. Roberto Gavaldón

    director, actor

    1909–1986 · aged 77

    June 7 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  106. Maarouf al-Dawalibi

    politician, diplomat

    1909–2004 · aged 94

    March 29 · 1909

    No external source identified

  107. Charles Pozzi

    Formula One driver, businessperson

    1909–2001 · aged 91

    August 27 · 1909

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  108. Giuseppe Viani

    association football player, association football coach

    1909–1969 · aged 59

    September 13 · 1909

    No external source identified

  109. Vlasta Děkanová

    artistic gymnast

    1909–1974 · aged 65

    September 5 · 1909

    No external source identified

  110. Edgar Pangborn

    novelist, writer

    1909–1976 · aged 66

    February 25 · 1909

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  111. Sattar Bahlulzade

    painter

    1909–1974 · aged 64

    December 15 · 1909

    No external source identified

  112. Colin Munro MacLeod

    university teacher, geneticist

    1909–1972 · aged 63

    January 28 · 1909

    Source: MacLeod, Colin Munro (28 January 1909–11 or 12 Feb. 1972), medical scientist

  113. Archie Carr

    naturalist, scientific collector

    1909–1987 · aged 77

    June 16 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  114. Manolo Caracol

    singer, film actor

    1909–1973 · aged 63

    July 7 · 1909

    Source: IMDb

  115. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf

    university teacher, photographer

    1909–1995 · aged 85

    June 22 · 1909

    Source: alanmacfarlane.com

  116. Bernhard Neumann

    mathematician, university teacher

    1909–2002 · aged 93

    October 15 · 1909

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  117. Liu Changchun*

    athletics competitor, coach

    Date disputed

    October 13 · 1909

    Source: Tilastopaja

  118. Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch

    Islamicist, writer

    1909–1999 · aged 89

    November 5 · 1909

    Source: Babelio

  119. Reinhold Münzenberg

    athlete, architect

    1909–1986 · aged 77

    January 25 · 1909

    Source: Discogs

  120. James Neilson

    actor, television director

    1909–1979 · aged 70

    October 1 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  121. Dorino Serafini

    racing automobile driver, motorcycle racer

    1909–2000 · aged 90

    July 22 · 1909

    No external source identified

  122. Pawel Jasienica

    historian, prose writer

    1909–1970 · aged 60

    November 10 · 1909

    Source: NSK

  123. Toshiko Yuasa

    nuclear physicist, university teacher

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    December 11 · 1909

    No external source identified

  124. Suhasini Ganguly

    revolutionary

    1909–1965 · aged 56

    February 3 · 1909

    No external source identified

  125. Oskar Davičo

    poet, political commissar

    1909–1989 · aged 80

    January 18 · 1909

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  126. Cilly Aussem

    tennis player

    1909–1963 · aged 54

    January 4 · 1909

    Source: 100 years of Wimbledon

  127. Robert Rex

    politician

    1909–1992 · aged 83

    January 25 · 1909

    No external source identified

  128. Anatoly Maltsev

    politician, mathematician

    1909–1967 · aged 57

    November 27 · 1909

    Source: mi.mathnet.ru

  129. Hans Heinrich Euler*

    physicist

    Date disputed

    October 6 · 1909

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  130. Dimitar Dimov

    playwright, novelist

    1909–1966 · aged 56

    June 25 · 1909

    Source: The Fine Art Archive

  131. Dido Sotiriou

    prose writer, writer

    1909–2004 · aged 95

    February 18 · 1909

    No external source identified

  132. Sylvère Maes

    sport cyclist

    1909–1966 · aged 57

    August 27 · 1909

    No external source identified

  133. Cleo Brown

    jazz musician, singer

    1909–1995 · aged 85

    December 8 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  134. Nubar Terziyan

    television actor, actor

    1909–1994 · aged 84

    March 16 · 1909

    No external source identified

  135. Carlos López Moctezuma

    actor, television actor

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    November 19 · 1909

    Source: IMDb

  136. Gloria Grey

    film director, film actor

    1909–1947 · aged 38

    October 23 · 1909

    Source: IMDb

  137. Anni Blomqvist

    writer, novelist

    1909–1990 · aged 80

    October 7 · 1909

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  138. Ernesto Nathan Rogers

    university teacher, writer

    1909–1969 · aged 60

    March 16 · 1909

    Source: Rogers, Ernesto Nathan

  139. Ivan Gošnjak

    politician, political commissar

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    June 10 · 1909

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  140. Giulio Racah

    physicist, university teacher

    1909–1965 · aged 56

    February 9 · 1909

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  141. Son Won-il

    diplomat

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    May 5 · 1909

    No external source identified

  142. Ken Domon

    photographer, journalist

    1909–1990 · aged 80

    October 25 · 1909

    Source: SNAC

  143. Fred A. Seaton

    publisher, politician

    1909–1974 · aged 64

    December 11 · 1909

    Source: Find a Grave

  144. David Murray

    Formula One driver, racing automobile driver

    1909–1973 · aged 63

    December 28 · 1909

    No external source identified

  145. Alexander King

    chemist, environmentalist

    1909–2007 · aged 98

    January 26 · 1909

    Source: BnF authorities

  146. Lena Constante

    dollmaker, children's writer

    1909–2005 · aged 96

    June 18 · 1909

    Source: RKDartists

  147. Josef Košťálek

    association football player, association football coach

    1909–1971 · aged 62

    August 31 · 1909

    Source: pantheon.world

  148. Thierry Maulnier

    writer, journalist

    1909–1988 · aged 78

    October 1 · 1909

    Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror

  149. Fritz Buchloh

    association football coach, association football player

    1909–1998 · aged 88

    November 26 · 1909

    Source: Transfermarkt

  150. Werner Keller

    essayist, journalist

    1909–1980 · aged 70

    August 13 · 1909

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

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