List of Famous people who died in 1909

Albert Langen was a German publisher and founder of the satirical publication Simplicissimus.

Fernand Renault was one of the brothers that founded Renault, the French automobile manufacturer, in 1899.

Franz Joseph von Stein was Archbishop of München und Freising from 1897 until 1909.

Peter Robert Burrell, 4th Baron Gwydyr was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1858. In addition, he was Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, High Steward of Ipswich, and Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Suffolk. Burrell succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Gwydyr, of Gwydyr, County Carnarvon, on 26 August 1870.

Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili, commonly known as Beso, was the father of Joseph Stalin. Born into a peasant family of serfs in Didi Lilo in Georgia, he moved to Tbilisi at a young age to be a shoemaker, working in a factory. He was invited to set up his own shop in Gori, where he met and married Ekaterine Geladze, with whom he had three sons; only the youngest, Ioseb, lived. Once known as a "clever and proud" man, Jughashvili's shop failed and he developed a serious drinking problem, wherefore he left his family and moved back to Tbilisi in 1884, working in a factory again. He had little contact with either his wife or son after that point, and little is known of his life from then on, except that he died in 1909 of cirrhosis.

Heinrich Limpricht was a German chemist. Limpricht was a pupil of Friedrich Wöhler; he worked on the chemistry of furans and pyrroles, discovering furan in 1870.

Hermenegild Jireček, Ritter von Samokov, Bohemian jurisconsult, who was born at Vysoké Mýto, was an official in the Prague bureau of education.

Alessandro Fortis was an Italian politician who served as the 18th Prime Minister of Italy from 1905 to 1906. He was Italy's first Jewish Prime Minister.

Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was the ruler of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, a constituent state of the German Empire, and head of the House of Schwarzburg from 17 July 1880 until his death.