Films released in 1909

• A Corner in Wheat
• A Drunkard's Reformation
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Trap for Santa Claus
• At the Altar
• Fools of Fate
• Mr. Flip
• Nerone
• Princess Nicotine
• Le Locataire diabolique
• Les Joyeux microbes
• The Country Doctor
• The Curtain Pole
• The Hessian Renegades
• The Lonely Villa
• The Red Man's View
• The Sealed Room
• Those Awful Hats

Births

• January 1 - Dana Andrews, actor (d. 1992)
• January 3 - Victor Borge, musician, actor (d. 2000)
• January 8 - José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
• January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (d. 1999)
• January 15 - Gene Krupa, musician, actor (d. 1973)
• January 22 - Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001)
• February 9 - Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (d. 1955)
• February 9 - Heather Angel, actress (d. 1986)
• February 11 - Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), boxer, actor (d. 1959)
• February 11 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director, writer, producer (d. 1993)
• February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (d. 1995)
• March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1995)
• March 26 - Chips Rafferty , actor (d. 1971)
• April 29 - Tom Ewell, actor (d. 1994)
• May 15 - James Mason, actor (d. 1984)
• May 30 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor (d. 1986)
• June 7 - Jessica Tandy, actress (d. 1994)
• June 14 - Burl Ives, actor (d 1995)
• June 20 - Errol Flynn, actor (d. 1959)
• July 1 - Madge Evans , actress (d. 1981)
• July 26 - Vivian Vance, actress (d. 1979)
• August 18 - Marcel Carné, French film director (d. 1996)
• August 25 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993)
• August 25 - Michael Rennie, actor (d. 1971)
• September 7 - Elia Kazan, director (d. 2003)
• October 9 - Jacques Tati, actor, director, writer (d. 1982)
• November 11 - Robert Ryan, actor (d. 1973)
• November 26 - Frances Dee, actress (d. 2004)
• December 9 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (d. 2000)
• December 12 - Karen Morley, actress (d. 2003)

Deaths