This article is about the particular significance of the year 1909 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
English language
Welsh language
- Emrys ap Iwan â Homilïau vol. 2 (posthumous)
- â Tair Cwpan Aur
Music
Sport
Births
- 4 January â Glyndwr Michael, vagrant whose body was used as Maj. William Martin, RM, in Operation Mincemeat (died 1943)
- 29 January â George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (died 1997)
- 14 February â Harry Peacock, Wales rugby union player (died 1996)
- 20 February â Bill Roberts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1969)
- 5 March â Howard Thomas, radio and television producer (died 1986)
- 10 March â Glen Moody, boxer (died 1989)
- 30 March â Dai Thomas, Wales national rugby player (date of death unknown)
- 1 April â George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian (died 1988)
- 11 May â Aneirin Talfan Davies, writer and publisher (died 1980)
- 11 June â Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player (died 1998)
- 12 June â Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor (died 1986)
- 16 July â Eddie Jenkins footballer (died 2005)
- 28 July â Jack Morley, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1972)
- 25 August â Arwel Hughes, composer (died 1988)
- 30 September â Arthur Probert, politician (died 1975)
- 1 October â Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player (died 1991)
- 24 October â Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, politician (died 1989)
- 25 October â Walter Vickery, Wales national rugby player (died 2000)
- 7 November â Eirene White, politician (died 1999)
- 29 November â Goronwy Rees, journalist and academic (died 1979)
- 14 December â Ronald Welch, historical novelist (died 1982)
- date unknown
- Isaac Davies (Eic Davies), dramatist (died 1993)
- Evan Roberts, botanist (died 1991)
Deaths
- 3 January â Robert Bird, politician, 69
- 8 January â Frederick Courtenay Morgan, politician, 74
- 9 January â Erasmus Jones, Welsh-American minister and author, 91
- 5 February â W. R. M. Wynne, politician, landowner, collector of manuscripts, Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire, 68
- 9 March â David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet, 80
- 29 March â Catherine Prichard, poet, 66
- April â Ivor James, educationist
- 19 April â J. S. Pughe, Welsh-born American political cartoonist, 39
- 31 May â Thomas Price, Premier of South Australia, 57
- 9 June â Walter Rice Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 2 July â Sir Arthur Cowell-Stepney, landowner and politician, 74
- 1 August â General Sir Hugh Rowlands, VC recipient, 81
- 23 September â Thomas Edward Lloyd, politician, 89
- 17 October â Edward David Williams, politician in Australia, 67
- 22 October â David Rogers, politician in Canada, 79
- 9 November â Montague Guest, politician, son of Lady Charlotte Guest, 70
- 10 November â George Essex Evans, Welsh-Australian poet, 46 (complications arising from gall bladder surgery)
- 11 December â Ludwig Mond, industrialist, 70
- 13 December â Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate, 64
See also
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