page_title: 1909
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1909 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1890's
context_page_description: 1909 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis, American poet, writer, and editor (b. 1844)
  January 2 – Marta Abreu, Cuban philanthropist (b. 1845)
  January 8 – Harry Seeley, British palaeontologist (b. 1839)
  January 10
  Julia Colman, American temperance educator, activist, editor and writer (b. 1828)
  Charles Vernon Culver, American politician (b. 1830)
  January 11 – Joseph Wharton, American industrialist and educationist. (b. 1826)
  January 12 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
  January 14
  Arthur William à Beckett, British journalist (b. 1844)
  Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral (b. 1848)
  January 15 – Arnold Janssen, German Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1837)
  January 22 – Hattie Tyng Griswold, American author (b. 1842)
  January 24 – Petre S. Aurelian, 19th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1833)
  January 27 – Benoît-Constant Coquelin, French theatrical actor (b. 1841)
  January 30 – Martha Finley, American teacher, author (b. 1828)
caption: A. C. Swinburne
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