List of Famous people who died in 1909

Leopold II of Belgium

Léopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
First Name Leopold
Last Name Belgium
Born on April 9, 1835
Died on December 17, 1909 (aged 74)

Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through his own efforts, the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

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Abdul Karim

First Name Abdul
Last Name Karim
Born on January 1, 1863
Died on January 1, 1909 (aged 46)
Born in India

Mohammed Abdul Karim, known as "the Munshi", was an Indian attendant of Queen Victoria. He served her during the final fourteen years of her reign, gaining her maternal affection over that time.

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Oliver Otis Howard

First Name Oliver
Last Name Howard
Died on October 26, 1909

Oliver Otis Howard was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. As a brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, Howard lost his right arm while leading his men against Confederate forces at the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines in June 1862, an action which later earned him the Medal of Honor. As a corps commander, he suffered two major defeats at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in May and July 1863, but recovered from the setbacks as a successful corps and later army commander in the Western Theater.

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Geronimo

Born on June 16, 1829
Died on February 17, 1909 (aged 79)

Geronimo was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi—to 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. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848.

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Anselm J. McLaurin

First Name Anselm
Last Name McLaurin
Born on March 26, 1848
Died on December 22, 1909 (aged 61)

Anselm Joseph McLaurin was the 34th Governor of Mississippi, serving from 1896 to 1900.

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Red Cloud

Maḣpíya Lùta
First Name Red
Last Name Cloud
Born on January 1, 1822
Died on December 10, 1909 (aged 87)

Red Cloud was one of the most important leaders of the Oglala Lakota from 1868 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents that the United States Army faced in its mission to occupy the western territories, defeating the United States during Red Cloud's War, which was a fight over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. The largest action of the war was the Fetterman Fight, with 81 U.S soldiers killed, and was the worst military defeat suffered by the United States Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn ten years later.

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Sir Robert Dundas, 1st Baronet

First Name Sir
Born on March 23, 1823
Died on November 11, 1909 (aged 86)
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Henry Richard Synge

First Name Henry
Last Name Synge
Born on November 30, 1869
Died on October 29, 1909 (aged 39)
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Gerald Stuart Eardley-Wilmot

First Name Gerald
Last Name Eardley-Wilmot
Born on January 1, 1876
Died on November 12, 1909 (aged 33)
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Frances Louisa Lyle

First Name Frances
Last Name Lyle
Died on February 23, 1909
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