Director Sergei Diaghilev brings his Ballets Russes to Paris featuring the dancers Vaslav Njinsky and Anna Pavlova and with choreographer Michel Fokine and designer Léon Bakst. The Ballet Russes is regarded by some as finest ballet company of the twentieth century. When Diaghilev died in 1929, the ballet company was broken up, and the dancers scattered to other companies.

In December 1909, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright completes the famed Robie House in Chicago, one of the most important buildings in American architecture.

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered in New York City on November 28, 1909.