List of Famous people who born in 1909
Sugimura Haruko
Haruko Sugimura was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the films of Yasujirō Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
Milena Pavlović-Barili
Milena Pavlović-Barili was a Serbian painter and poet. She is the most notable female artist of Serbian modernism.
László Rajk
László Rajk was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an important organizer of the Hungarian Communists' power, but he eventually fell victim to Mátyás Rákosi's show trials.
Hilde Coppi
Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Rake was a German communist and resistance member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr.
Toshiko Yuasa
Toshiko Yuasa was a Japanese nuclear physicist who worked in France. She was the first Japanese female physicist.
Horst Böhme
Horst Böhme was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served in the SD, the intelligence service of the SS, and was a leading perpetrator of the Holocaust.
Shin Saburi
Shin Saburi was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujirō Ozu including Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941), Tea Over Rice (1952), Equinox Flower (1958) and Late Autumn (1960). He also directed over a dozen films.
Yefim Fomin
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin, , was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him.
Cecil Williams
Cecil Williams (1909–1979) was an English-South African theatre director and anti-apartheid activist.
Peter Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation. He was also a leader in the development of management education, he invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control, and he has been described as "the founder of modern management".