Famous people born in 1909

The best-known people born in 1909, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
September 21 · d. 1972
Photo: USSR Post, Public domain
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
April 22 · d. 2012
Photo: Kurt Hagblom , Firma Hagblom-Foto, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain
Eugène Ionesco
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
November 26 · d. 1994
Photo: Gorupdebesanez, CC BY-SA 3.0
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
February 3 · d. 1943
Photo: Unknown, Public domain
U Thant
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
January 22 · d. 1974
Photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Elia Kazan
American director and actor (1909–2003)
September 7 · d. 2003
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)
June 6 · d. 1997
Photo: Rob C. Croes (ANEFO), CC0
Stepan Bandera
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
January 1 · d. 1959
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Errol Flynn
Australian actor (1909–1959)
June 20 · d. 1959
Photo: User Roisterer on en.wikipedia, Public domain
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
November 19 · d. 2005
Photo: Jeff McNeill, CC BY-SA 2.0
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet diplomat
July 18 · d. 1989
Photo: Mieremet, Rob / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
Francis Bacon
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
October 28 · d. 1992
Photo: Reginald Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0
Juliana of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
April 30 · d. 2004
Photo: Max Koot, CC0
Osamu Dazai
Japanese author
June 19 · d. 1948
Photo: Shigeru Tamura, Public domain
Benny Goodman
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)
May 30 · d. 1986
Photo: Photo by Jammes J. Kriegsmann , New York, Public domain
Jessica Tandy
British actress (1909–1994)
June 7 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
February 11 · d. 1993
Photo: Photographer unknown; work-for-hire on behalf of 20th Century Fox ., Public domain
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician (1909–1984)
April 13 · d. 1984
Photo: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Attribution
James Mason
British actor (1909–1984)
May 15 · d. 1984
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Carmen Miranda
Brazilian singer (1909–1955)
February 9 · d. 1955
Photo: New York Sunday News, Public domain
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Polish writer (1909–1966)
March 6 · d. 1966
Photo: Unknown photographer, Public domain
Mohammed V of Morocco
King of Morocco (1909-1961)
August 10 · d. 1961
Photo: Agence Rol, Public domain
Nicholas Winton
British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 (1909–2015)
May 19 · d. 2015
Photo: cs:User:Li-sung, CC BY-SA 3.0
Virginia Apgar
American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
June 7 · d. 1974
Edward Lawrie Tatum
US genetics scientist (1909-1975)
December 14 · d. 1975
Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lawrie_Tatum, CC0
Talal I of Jordan
King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952
February 26 · d. 1972
Photo: Yamen60, CC BY-SA 4.0
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
October 30 · d. 1966
Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Maria Prymachenko
Ukrainian folk art painter (1909–1997)
January 12 · d. 1997
Photo: National Bank of Ukraine, Public domain
Mohammed Daoud Khan
politician, first President of Afghanistan (1973-1978)
July 18 · d. 1978
Barry Goldwater
American politician and military officer (1909–1998)
January 2 · d. 1998
Photo: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer, Public domain

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January

January 1 · Dana Andrews, American actor (1909–1992)
January 3 · Victor Borge, Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000)
January 13 · Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (1909–1934)
January 14 · Joseph Losey, American filmmaker and theatre director (1909–1984)
January 16 · Clement Greenberg, American essayist and visual art critic (1909-1994)
January 22 · Morris Swadesh, American linguist (1909–1967)

February

February 7 · Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife (1909–1999)
February 9 · Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
February 15 · Miep Gies, Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
February 18 · Wallace Stegner, American historian, writer, and environmentalist (1909-1993)
February 25 · Lev Artsimovich, Soviet physicist
February 28 · Stephen Spender, English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)

March

March 22 · Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian fiction writer
March 26 · Héctor José Cámpora, president of Argentina from May to July 1973
March 27 · Golo Mann, German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
March 28 · Nelson Algren, American novelist, short story writer (1909-1981)
March 30 · Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (1909–2001)
March 31 · Robert Brasillach, French author and journalist (1909–1945)

April

April 5 · Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (1909–1996)
April 8 · John Fante, 1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent
April 13 · Eudora Welty, American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)
April 17 · Alain Poher, French politician (1909-1996)
April 21 · Rollo May, American psychologist (1909–1994)
April 22 · Indro Montanelli, italian journalist, essayist and writer (1909-2001)

May

May 1 · Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
May 5 · Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)
May 7 · Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (1909–1991)
May 16 · Margaret Sullavan, American actress
May 18 · Fred Perry, English tennis player
May 26 · Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (1909–1994)

June

June 3 · Ernst vom Rath, German diplomat (1909-1938)
June 14 · Burl Ives, American musician (1909–1995)
June 22 · Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)
June 23 · Li Xiannian, 3rd President of the People's Republic of China (1909-1992)
June 26 · Wolfgang Reitherman, American animator (1909–1985)
June 30 · Juan Bosch, First democratically elected President of the Dominican Republic (1909-2001)

July

July 1 · Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (1909-1994)
July 5 · Isa Miranda, Italian actress (1905-1982)
July 13 · Souphanouvong, Laotian politician
July 16 · Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence activist (1909-1996)
July 28 · Malcolm Lowry, British writer (1909–1957)
July 30 · C. Northcote Parkinson, British naval historian (1909–1993)

August

August 4 · Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect (1909–1994)
August 10 · Leo Fender, American inventor and founder of the Fender company (1909–1991)
August 19 · Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (1909–1983)
August 20 · Olga Rubtsova, Russian chess player
August 21 · Nikolai Bogolyubov, Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist (1909-1992)
August 27 · Lester Young, American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)

September

September 14 · Peter Scott, British ornithologist and conservationist (1909–1989)
September 15 · Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (1909-1982)
September 15 · C. N. Annadurai, Indian film writer and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India (1909-1969)
September 19 · Ferry Porsche, Austrian-German automobile designer (1909–1998)
September 20 · He Zizhen, wife of Mao Zedong (1909-1984)
September 26 · Xie Fuzhi, Chinese politician (1909-1972)

October

October 8 · Piotr Jaroszewicz, Prime Minister of Poland from 1970 to 1980 (1909–1992)
October 9 · Lila Kedrova, actress (1909–2000)
October 13 · Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (1909–1956)
October 18 · Norberto Bobbio, Italian legal scholar (1909–2004)
October 19 · Muhammad Ali Bogra, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
October 19 · Marguerite Perey, French physicist (1909–1975)

November

November 4 · Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (1909-1974)
November 4 · Ciro Alegría, Peruvian writer, journalist and politician (1909-1967)
November 11 · Robert Ryan, American actor (1909-1973)
November 22 · Mikhail Mil, Soviet helicopter designer (1909-1970)
November 27 · James Agee, American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
November 28 · Aleksandar Ranković, Yugoslav politician (1909-1983)

December

December 2 · Pietro Arcari, Italian footballer (1909–1988)
December 7 · Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian communist writer (1909-1942)
December 7 · Mario Pizziolo, Italian footballer (1909-1990)
December 9 · Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor and United States naval officer (1909–2000)
December 26 · Oldřich Nejedlý, Czech footballer (1909–1990)
December 27 · Henryk Jabłoński, Polish historian and politician (1909-2003)

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