Famous People Born In 1909
Discover the most famous people born in 1909. The list includes people like Errol Flynn, Peter Drucker, Elia Kazan, James Mason, Saul Alinsky and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, historians, novelists and journalists born in 1909. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & India and many more countries.
Errol Flynn20th June, Australian
Actor
James Mason15th May, British
Actor
Kwame Nkrumah21st September, Ghanaian, Romanian
First President of Ghana
Jessica Tandy7th June, British
Actress
Elia Kazan7th September, Greek, Turkish, American
Director, Actor, Producer
Peter Drucker19th November, American
Management Consultant
Pat DiCicco14th February, American
Producer
Vivian Vance26th July, American
Actress
Saul Alinsky30th January, American
Community Organizer
Dana Andrews1st January, American
Actor
Benny Goodman30th May, American
Bandleader and clarinetist
Hugh Beaumont16th February, American
Actor
Margaret Sullavan16th May, American
Actress
Diana Churchill11th July, British
Winston Churchill's Daughter
Nicholas Winton19th May, British
Humanitarian
Mike Todd22nd June, American
Producer
Victor Borge3rd January, Danish, American
American-Danish comedian
Albert R. Broccoli5th April, Italian
Producer
Simone Weil3rd February, French
Philosopher, mystic and social activist
William M. Branham6th April, American
American Christian minister
Fred Perry18th May, British
Michael Rennie25th August, British
Actor
U Thant22nd January, Burmese
3rd Secretary General of the U.N.
Aruna Asaf Ali16th July, Indian
Indian Independence Activist
Joseph L. Mankiewicz11th February, American
Writer, Director, Producer
Rita Levi-Montalcini22nd April, Italian
Neurologist
Andrei Gromyko18th July, Russian
Diplomat
Katherine Dunham22nd June, American
Dancer, Choreographer, Social Activist, Author
Wallace Stegner18th February, American
Author
Virginia Apgar7th June, American
Physician and Anesthesiologist
Edwin H. Land7th May, American
Scientist
Jean Batten15th September, New Zealander
Aviator Who Made Record Breaking Trans-world
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Homi Bhabha30th October, Indian
Indian physicist
Muhammad Ali Bogra19th October, Pakistani
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
Edward Lawrie Tatum14th December, American
Biochemist
Jonas Žemaitis15th March, Lithuanian
Former President of Lithuania
Barry Morris Goldwater2nd January, American
Former United States Senator
Juliana of the Netherlands30th April, Dutch
Politician, Judge
Homi J. Bhabha30th October, Indian
Physicist
King Kong15th July, Australian, Hungarian, Indian
Wrestler
Barry Goldwater2nd January, American
Politician
Ann Sothern22nd January, American
Singer, Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor
Carmen Miranda9th February, Brazilian, Portuguese
Actor, Singer, Dancer
Burl Ives14th June, American
American singer
C. N. Annadurai15th September, Indian
Politician, Screenwriter, Writer
Robert Ryan11th November, American
Actor
Johnny Mercer18th November, American
Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Film score composer
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.9th December, American
Actor
Obafemi Awolowo6th March, Nigerian
politician, lawyer, trade unionist
Miep Gies15th February, Austrian
Writer
Stavros Niarchos3rd July, Greek
Shipowner, Entrepreneur, Art collector
Matt Busby26th May, British, Scottish
Association football player, Association football
Joe DeRita12th July, American
Actor
Osamu Dazai19th June, Japanese
Writer, Novelist
Stepan Bandera1st January, Ukrainian
Political leader
David Stern2nd September, American
Writer
Clyde Barrow30th November
Murderer, Thief
Fanny Cradock26th February, British
Novelist
Isaiah Berlin6th June, Latvian, British
Philosopher, Historian, University teacher,
Porfirio Rubirosa22nd January, Dominican
Diplomat
Gene Krupa15th January, American
American drummer
Art Tatum13th October, American
Pianist, Jazz musician, Musician
Lester Young27th August, American
Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Composer, Jazz musician,
Mohammed Daoud Khan18th July, Afghan
Politician, Diplomat
Eudora Welty13th April, American
Writer
Leo Fender10th August, American
American inventor
Solomon Linda30th November, South African
singer, songwriter, composer
Harriet Nelson18th July, American
American singer
Dolores Hope27th May, American
Singer
Stanislaw Ulam13th April, Polish, Ukrainian, American
Mathematician
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.9th December, American
Actor
Talal of Jordan26th February, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian
King
Dean Rusk9th February, American
Politician
Stephen Spender28th February, British
Poet, Writer, Essayist, University teacher,
Mohammed V of Morocco10th August, Moroccan
Sultan of Morocco
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche19th September, Austrian
Entrepreneur, Engineer
Al Capp28th September, American
Cartoonist, Writer, Journalist
Marinus van der Lubbe13th January
Politician, Trade unionist
Li Xiannian23rd June, Chinese
Politician
James Agee30th November
Author, Screenwriter, Poet
Rollo May21st April, American
Psychologist, Psychotherapist
Lionel Crabb28th January, British
Military personnel
Clement Greenberg16th January, American
Art collector, Art historian, Art critic,
Sashadhar Mukherjee29th September, Indian
Film producer
Red Pollard27th October, Canadian, American
Horse racing jockey
Sam DeStefano13th September, American
American loan shark
Eduard Wirths4th September, German
Military physician, Torturer
John Fante8th April, American
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist
Ben Webster27th March, American
Saxophonist, Composer, Jazz musician
Sigmund Rascher12th February, German
Physician, Torturer
Peter Scott14th September, British
Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp
Gottfried von Cramm7th July, German
Tennis player
Stephen Cole Kleene5th January, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Philosopher,
Hildegard Peplau1st September, Romanian, American
Nurse
Zora Arkus-Duntov25th December, Belgian, American
Engineer, Racecar driver
Guy de Rothschild21st May, French
Art collector, Banker, Lawyer