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Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Eugène Ionesco
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
Simone Weil
French philosopher, writer, and social activist (1909–1943)
U Thant
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
Elia Kazan
American director and actor (1909–2003)
Isaiah Berlin
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)
Stepan Bandera
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
Errol Flynn
Australian actor (1909–1959)
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet diplomat
Francis Bacon
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
Osamu Dazai
Japanese author
Juliana of the Netherlands
Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980 (1909-2004)
Benny Goodman
American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)
Jessica Tandy
British actress (1909–1994)
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909-1993)
James Mason
British actor (1909–1984)
Carmen Miranda
Brazilian singer (1909–1955)
Nicholas Winton
British stockbroker who saved 669 Jewish children during 1938–39 (1909–2015)
Mohammed V of Morocco
King of Morocco (1909-1961)
Edward Tatum
US genetics scientist (1909-1975)
Talal I of Jordan
King of Jordan from 1951 to 1952
Virginia Apgar
American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
Indian nuclear physicist (1909–1966)
Mohammed Daoud Khan
politician, first President of Afghanistan (1973-1978)
Alain Poher
French politician (1909-1996)
Teiichi Matsumaru
Japanese association football player (1909-1997)
Barry Goldwater
American politician and military officer (1909–1998)
Maria Prymachenko
Ukrainian folk art painter (1909–1997)
Art Tatum
American jazz pianist (1909–1956)
Matt Busby
Scottish football player and manager (1909-1994)
Yannis Ritsos
Greek poet
James Agee
American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909-1955)
Li Xiannian
3rd President of the People's Republic of China (1909-1992)
Eudora Welty
American short story writer, novelist and photographer (1909-2001)
Burl Ives
American musician (1909–1995)
Leo Fender
American inventor and founder of the Fender company (1909–1991)
Malcolm Lowry
British writer (1909–1957)
Margaret Sullavan
American actress
Lila Kedrova
actress (1909–2000)
Miep Gies
Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank (1909–2010)
Dana Andrews
American actor (1909–1992)
Adolfo López Mateos
55th President of Mexico
Dean Rusk
United States Secretary of State (1909-1994)
Fred Perry
English tennis player
Souphanouvong
Prince Souphanouvong (13 July 1909 – 9 January 1995; ), nicknamed the Red Prince, was along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist and royalist political factions in Laos. He was the President of Laos from December 1975 to October 1986.
John Fante
1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent
Victor Borge
Danish comedian and pianist (1909–2000)
Robert Ryan
American actor (1909-1973)
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist (1909-1992)
C. Northcote Parkinson
British naval historian (1909–1993)
Rollo May
American psychologist (1909–1994)
Golo Mann
German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
Olga Rubtsova
Russian chess player
Muhammad Ali Bogra
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1953 to 1955
Indro Montanelli
italian journalist, essayist and writer (1909-2001)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
American actor and United States naval officer (1909–2000)
Lester Young
American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)