1909

Events

March

• March 5: Tobacco workers in Volos stage a strike.

August

• August 28: The "Military Association", under Col. Nikolaos Zorbas, demand reforms in the military. This movement would go down in history as the Goudi Revolution.

Births

May

• May 1: Yiannis Ritsos, poet.

July

• July 4: Stavros Niarchos, shipowner

August

• August 14: Manos Katrakis, actor

September

• September 7: Elia Kazan, Greek-American film director and producer.