1909 deaths

King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909

German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)

Gerónimo (, ; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhito carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)

Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)

Spanish composer (1860-1909)

English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)

British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore (1871-1909)

German psychologist (1850-1909)

Spanish composer and classical guitarist (1852-1909)

American astronomer (1835–1909)

6th president of Brazil

Danish painter (1851-1909)

Spanish freethinker, anarchist and educator (1859–1909)

chief of Oglala Lakota

British poet who wrote in French

German chemist (1825–1909)

Italian-British photographer (1832–1909)

German lyric poet and novelist (1844–1909)

Russian saint (1829–1908)

Russian Grand prince (1832-1909)

Italian politician (1842-1909)

Russian Grand Duke

British paleontologist (1839-1909)

Russian poet, critic and translator (1855–1909)

Polish sociologist (1838–1909)

Japanese author, translator and literary critic (1864–1909)

American painter and sculptor (1861-1909)

Jewish poet, writer (1856–1909)

Australian religious sister and saint (1842–1909)

English ornithologist (1847–1909)

Polish-American actress (1840–1909)

French poet and man of letters (1841–1909)

President of Panama (1833-1909)

French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise (1828–1909)

Indian royal domestic servant in the UK (1863–1909)

Russian admiral (1848-1909)

senior member of the House of Bourbon (1848-1909)

Duke in Bavaria (1839–1909)

Franco-Orléans and Danish Royal (1865-1909)

Wife of Miguel I of Portugal (1831–1909)

American author, historian and Unitarian minister (1822-1909)

American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849–1909)

Brazilian writer (1866–1909)

foundress of Margarete Steiff GmbH in Germany

German-Dutch Roman Catholic priest and saint

German byzantinist (1856-1909)

Polish composer and conductor (1876-1909)

Faroese folklorist and linguist, Lutheran clergyman

American navigator and maritime writer (1844-1909)

British politician (1827–1909)

Sorbian-language writer

Swedish painter (1857-1909)

Viceroy of Liangguang (1837-1909)

French writer (1874–1909)

father of Joseph Stalin (1850–1909)

British artist (1852–1909)

British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)

President of Argentina (1844-1909)