List of Famous people who died in 1909

Margarete Steiff, was a seamstress who in 1880 founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, making toy stuffed animals.

Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer who specialized in depictions of the American Old West. Remington's works are known for depicting the Western United States in the last quarter of the 19th-century, featuring such images as cowboys, American Indians, and the United States Cavalry.

Gaston Alexandre Auguste, Marquis de Galliffet, Prince de Martigues, was a French general, best known for having taken part in the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune. He was Minister of War in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the turn of the century, which caused a controversy in the socialist movement, since independent socialist Alexandre Millerand also took part in the same government, and was thus side by side with the Fusilleur de la Commune.

Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer was a French opera composer and music critic.

Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville, styled Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent from 1866 to 1883, was a British politician.

Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove was an American politician. He served as the sixth Governor of the state of Washington. He was a U.S. Civil War veteran and educator and a Republican.

Lady Susan Harriet Grant-Suttie was a Scottish noblewoman, philanthropist and parish councillor.

Mary Seymour, Marchioness of Hertford, formerly the Honourable Mary Hood, was the wife of Hugh Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford.

Arthur William Moore, CVO, SHK, JP, MA was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore.