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Year '''1939''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXXIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1939 ==
: ''(Below, many events of [[World War II]] have the "[[World War II|WWII]]" prefix.)''
===January===
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* [[January 1]]
**The [[Hewlett-Packard Company]] is founded.
**[[Texas A&M]] wins its first football national championship
* [[January 2]] - End of term for [[Frank Merriam|Frank Finley Merriam]], 28th [[List of Governors of California|Governor of California]]. He is succeeded by [[Culbert Levy Olson]].
* [[January 5]] - [[Amelia Earhart]] is officially declared dead after her disappearance.
* [[January 6]] - ''Naturwissenschaften'' publishes evidence that [[nuclear fission]] has been achieved by [[Otto Hahn]].
* [[January 13]] - [[Black Friday (1939)|Black Friday]]: 71 people die across [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] in one of Australia's worst ever [[bushfires]].
* [[January 24]] - [[Earthquake]] kills 30,000 in [[Chile]] – about 50,000 sq mi razed.
* [[January 26]] - [[Spanish Civil War]]: Troops loyal to [[Francisco Franco]], and aided by [[Italy]], take [[Barcelona]].
===February===
[[Image:Alyssamcpherson.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[February 21]]: [[Golden Gate International Exposition]] opens.]]
* [[February 1]] - [[Martensville]], [[Saskatchewan]] is founded.
* [[February 2]] - [[Hungary]] joins [[Anti-Comintern Pact]].
* [[February 10]] - [[Falangists]] take [[Catalonia]].
* [[February 21]] - [[Golden Gate International Exposition]] opens in [[San Francisco, California]].
* [[February 27]]
**[[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] recognize [[Francisco Franco|Franco]]'s government.
**[[Borley Rectory]] burns.
**Sit-down [[Strike action|strike]]s are outlawed by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
* [[February 28]] - The first issue of [[Serbia]]n weekly magazine [[Politikin zabavnik]] was published.
===March===
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*March - End of the [[1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|Great Arab Revolt]] in the [[British mandate of Palestine]] (started [[1936]]
* [[March 1]] - 94 killed, [[Japanese Imperial Army]] ammunition dump exploded at outskirt of [[Osaka]].
* [[March 2]] - [[Pope Pius XII]] (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds [[Pope Pius XI]] as the 260th [[pope]].
* [[March 3]]
**In [[Bombay]], [[Mohandas Gandhi]] begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in [[India]].
**Students at [[Harvard University]] demonstrate the new tradition of swallowing [[goldfish]] to reporters.
* [[March 13]] - [[Hitler]] advises [[Jozef Tiso]] to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by [[Hungary]] and [[Poland]].
* [[March 14]] - [[Slovakia|Slovak]] provincial assembly proclaims independence - [[priest]] [[Jozef Tiso]] becomes the president of independent Slovak government.
* [[March 15]] - [[Germany|German]] troops occupy the remaining part of [[Bohemia]] and [[Moravia]]; [[Czechoslovakia]] ceases to exist; beginning hostilities leading to [[World War II|WWII]]. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslovakia declares independence as [[Carpatho-Ukraine]].
* [[March 16]] - Marriage of Princess [[Fawzia of Egypt]] to Shah [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran]]. Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine; final resistance ends on [[March 18]].
* [[March 22]] - After an [[1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania|ultimatum of March 20]] [[Nazi Germany]] takes [[Klaipėda Region]] from [[Lithuania]]
* [[March 23]] - [[Slovak-Hungarian War]] begins.
* [[March 25]] - The second [[cartoon]] to feature [[Happy Rabbit]], ''[[Prest-O Change-O]]'', is released.
* [[March 26]] - The play ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'', a [[comedy]] by [[Philip Barry]] starring [[Katharine Hepburn]], debuts at the [[Shubert Theater]] in [[New York City]].
* [[March 28]]
**[[Dictator]] [[Francisco Franco]] assumes power in [[Madrid]].
**The last message from adventurer [[Richard Halliburton]] - he disappears later.
===April===
* [[April 1]] - [[Spanish Civil War]] comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrendered.
* [[April 4]] - [[Faisal II of Iraq|Faisal II]] becomes King of [[Iraq]]. [[Slovak-Hungarian War]] ends with Slovakia ceding eastern territories to Hungary.
* [[April 7]] - [[Italy]] invades [[Albania]] - [[Zog of Albania|King Zog]] flees.
* [[April 9]] - Singer [[Marian Anderson]] performs before 75,000 people at the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] after having been denied the use both of [[Constitution Hall]] by the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]] and of a public high school by the federally-controlled [[District of Columbia]].
* [[April 11]] - [[Hungary]] leaves the [[League of Nations]].
* [[April 14]] - [[John Steinbeck]]'s novel ''[[The Grapes of Wrath]]'' is first published.
* [[April 27]] - [[Ely Racecourse]] closes.
* [[April 30]] - [[1939 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]] opens.
===May===
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*May - [[Batman]], created by [[Bob Kane]] (and, unofficially, [[Bill Finger]]), makes his first appearance.
* [[May 2]] - [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[Lou Gehrig]], the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2130 consecutive games played streak after contracting [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]]. The record will stand for 56 years before [[Cal Ripken, Jr.]] plays 2131 consecutive games.
* [[May 3]] - The [[All India Forward Bloc]] is formed by Netaji [[Subhash Chandra Bose]].
* [[May 7]] - [[Spain]] leaves the [[League of Nations]].
* [[May 17]] - King [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]] and Queen [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Elizabeth]] arrive in [[Quebec City]] to begin the first-ever tour of [[Canada]] by [[Monarchy of Canada|Canada's monarch]].
* [[May 20]] - [[Pan-American Airways]] begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its [[Yankee Clipper]] from [[Port Washington, New York]].
* [[May 22]] - [[Germany]] and [[Italy]] sign the [[Pact of Steel]].
* [[May 29]] - [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]] gains (over [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]] at Northampton) their first victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the [[County Championship]]. Their last Championship victory was as far back as ''[[14 May]] [[1935]]'' over [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] at Taunton.
===June===
[[Image:Phutthamonthon Buddha.gif|thumb|160px|right| [[June 24]]: Siam is renamed "[[Thailand]]"]]
* [[June 4]] - The [[SS St. Louis|SS ''St. Louis'']], a ship carrying a cargo of 907 [[Jew]]ish refugees, is denied permission to land in [[Florida]] after already having been turned away from [[Cuba]]. Forced to return to [[Europe]], most of its passengers later die in [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[concentration camp]]s during the [[Holocaust]].
* [[June 12]] - The [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]] is officially dedicated in [[Cooperstown, New York]].
* [[June 17]] - Last ''public'' guillotining in France - murderer [[Eugen Weidmann]] is decapitated by the [[guillotine]].
* [[June 23]] - [[Turkey]] annexes [[Hatay]].
* [[June 24]] - Government of Siam changes its name to [[Thailand]], which means 'Free Land'.<ref>
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===July===
* [[July 2]] - The [[1st World Science Fiction Convention]] opens in New York City.
* [[July 4]]
**[[Lou Gehrig]] gives his last public speech, following his diagnosis of [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] (ALS). In it, he states, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
**The [[concentration camp]] [[Neuengamme]] becomes autonomous.
* [[July 6]] - The last remaining [[Jew]]ish enterprises in [[Germany]] are closed by the [[Nazi]]s.
===August===
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* [[August 2]] - [[Albert Einstein]] writes President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]] about developing the [[Atomic Bomb]] using [[Uranium]]. This led to the creation of the [[Manhattan Project]].
* [[August 15]] - MGM's classic musical film ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', starring [[Judy Garland]], [[Ray Bolger]], [[Jack Haley]] and [[Bert Lahr]], premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in [[Hollywood]]. Winner of three [[Academy Awards]], it will not do quite as well as hoped on first release, but years later, after two theatrical re-releases, will grow to legendary status with its annual showings on TV.
* [[August 23]] - [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]]: [[Hitler]] and [[Stalin]] agree to divide Europe between themselves ([[Finland]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and eastern [[Poland]] to the [[Soviet Union|USSR]]; [[Lithuania]] and western Poland to [[Germany]]).so they would not have to fight on two fronts.
* [[August 25]] - An [[Irish Republican Army (1922-1969)|IRA]] bomb explodes in the centre of [[Coventry]], [[England]] killing five people.
* [[August 26]] - The [[Kriegsmarine]] orders all German flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the Invasion of Poland.
* [[August 27]] - A [[Heinkel 178]], the first turbojet-powered aircraft, flies for the first time with Captain Erich Warsitz in command.
* [[August 30]] - [[Poland]] begins [[mobilization]] against [[Nazi Germany]].
===September===
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[[Image:Zniszczenia1939 0.jpg|160px|right|thumb|[[Wieluń]] destroyed by [[Luftwaffe]] bombing the 1st of September 1939]]
* [[September 1]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: [[Nazi Germany]] [[Invasion of Poland (1939)|invades Poland]], beginning the [[Second World War]] in [[Europe]].''''''
* [[September 1]] - German navy fires on [[Danzig]].
* [[September 1]] - [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Sweden]], and [[Switzerland]] declare their neutrality.
* [[September 2]] - Following the invasion of [[Poland]], [[Freie Stadt Danzig|Danzig]] (now [[Gdańsk]], Poland) is annexed to [[Nazi Germany]].
* [[September 2]] - [[Spain]] and [[Ireland]] declare their neutrality.
* [[September 3]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], [[New Zealand]] and [[Australia]] declare war on [[Nazi Germany|Germany]].
* [[September 4]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: [[Nepal]] declares war on [[Nazi Germany|Germany]].
* [[September 5]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: The [[United States]] declares its neutrality in the war.
* [[September 6]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: [[South Africa]] declares war on [[Nazi Germany|Germany]].
* [[September 9]] - [[Canada]] declares war on [[Nazi Germany|Germany]].
* [[September 16]] - Ceasefire ending undeclared [[Battle of Halhin Gol|Border War]] between [[Soviet Union|The Soviet Union]] (and [[Mongolia]]n allies) and [[Japan]].
* [[September 17]] - [[Soviet Union]] invades [[Poland]] and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
* [[September 21]] - Radio station [[WJSV]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] records an entire broadcast day for preservation in the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]].
* [[September 23]] - Death of [[Sigmund Freud]].
* [[September 27]] - [[Warsaw]] surrenders to [[Nazi Germany|Germany]]; [[Modlin]] surrenders day later; last Polish large operational unit surrenders near [[Kock]] eight days later.
===October===
* [[October 8]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] annexes Western Poland.
* [[October 11]] - [[Manhattan Project]]: US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] is presented with a letter signed by [[Albert Einstein]] urging the [[United States]] to rapidly develop the [[atomic bomb]].
* [[October 12]] - [[Jüri Uluots]] becomes prime minister of [[Estonia]].
*[[October 14]] - German U-Boat [[Unterseeboot 47 (1938)|''U-47'']] sinks British battleship [[HMS Royal Oak (1914)|HMS ''Royal Oak'']].
* [[October 15]] - The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed [[La Guardia Airport]]) is dedicated.
* [[October 24]] - [[Nylon]] stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in [[Wilmington, Delaware]].
* [[October 25]] - ''[[The Time of Your Life]]'', a [[drama]] by [[William Saroyan]], debuts in [[New York City]].
===November===
[[Image:HeddaHopper1929.jpg|thumb|140px|right| [[November 6]]: [[Hedda Hopper]]]]
* [[November 4]] - [[World War II|WWII]]: US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts#Neutrality Act of 1939|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s to non-belligerent nations.
* [[November 6]]
**''Hedda Hopper's Hollywood'' debuts on radio with [[Hollywood]] gossip columnist [[Hedda Hopper]] as host (the show ran until [[1951]] and made Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
**[[World War II|WWII]]: [[Sonderaktion Krakau]], the codename for a German action against scientists from the [[University of Kraków]] and other [[Kraków]] universities at the beginning of [[World War II]].
* [[November 8]]
**[[Venlo Incident]]: Two British agents of [[Secret Intelligence Service|SIS]] are captured by the Germans.
**In [[Munich]], [[Adolf Hitler]] narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by [[Georg Elser]] while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
* [[November 15]] - In [[Washington, DC]], US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] lays the cornerstone of the [[Jefferson Memorial]].
* [[November 16]] - [[Al Capone]] released from [[Alcatraz]]
* [[November 30]] - [[Winter War]] begins: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] forces attack [[Finland]] and reach the [[Mannerheim Line]], starting the war.
* [[November 30]] - [[Sweden]] declares non-warfaring (not neutral) in the Winter War.
===December===
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* [[December 2]] - [[La Guardia Airport]] opens for business in [[New York City]].
* [[December 13]] - [[World War II|WWII]] - [[Battle of the River Plate]]: German pocket battleship [[German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee|''Admiral Graf Spee'']] trapped by cruisers [[HMS Ajax|HMS ''Ajax'']], [[HMNZS Achilles|HMNZS ''Achilles'']], and [[HMS Exeter|HMS ''Exeter'']] after a running battle off the coast of [[Uruguay]]. ''Admiral Graf Spee'' is scuttled by its crew off [[Montevideo]] harbor on [[December 17]].
* [[December 14]] - [[League of Nations]] expels the USSR for attacking [[Finland]].
* [[December 15]] - The film ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', starring [[Vivien Leigh]], [[Clark Gable]], [[Olivia de Havilland]] and [[Leslie Howard (actor)|Leslie Howard]], premieres at [[Loew's Grand Theatre]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
* [[December 26]] - Mining strike in [[Borinage]], [[Belgium]]
* [[December 27]] - [[1939 Erzincan earthquake|Earthquake]] in Eastern [[Anatolia]], [[Turkey]], destroys the town of [[Erzincan]] - about 30,000 dead.
* [[December 31]] - ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', the first sound film version of the [[Victor Hugo]] classic, is released by [[RKO]]. It stars [[Charles Laughton]] as Quasimodo the hunchback, and [[Maureen O'Hara]] as Esmerelda the gypsy.
===Undated===
*[[Kirlian photography]] is invented by [[Semyon Kirlian]].
*A logging crew sets off a second [[forest fire]] in the [[Tillamook Burn]], which destroys 190,000 acres (769 km²).
*[[Sandia View Academy]], a private [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Adventist]] school, is founded in [[Corrales, New Mexico|Corrales]], [[New Mexico]].
===Ongoing===
* [[Spanish Civil War]] ([[1936]]-1939).
* [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)|Sino-Japanese War]] ([[1937]]-[[1945]]).
* [[The Great Depression]] ([[1929]]-The Late 1930s, early 1940s).
* [[World War II]] (1939-[[1945]]).
===Fictional===
The following are references to year 1939 in fiction:
*''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' (1989) - Takes place in 1939 [[New Orleans]]
*According to "[[The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror]]" [[theme park]] attraction and the derivative [[1997 in film|1997]] [[television movie]] ''[[Tower of Terror (film)|Tower of Terror]]'', it was on October 31, 1939 that five unfortunate souls aboard an [[elevator]] at the fictional [[Hollywood]] Tower Hotel were cast into the Twilight Zone when the tower was struck by [[lightning]]. Since this event, the hotel has been abandoned and apparently cursed.
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 3]]
**[[Bobby Hull]], Canadian hockey player
**[[Ruben Reyes]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[January 6]] - [[Valeri Lobanovsky]], Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. [[2002]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Murray Rose]], Australian swimmer
*[[January 9]] - [[Malcolm Bricklin]], American automotive pioneer
*[[January 10]]
**[[Sal Mineo]], American actor (d. [[1976]])
**[[Bill Toomey]], American athlete
*[[January 11]] - [[Ann Heggtveit]], Canadian skier
*[[January 12]] - [[William Lee Golden]], American country and gospel singer, member of the [[Oak Ridge Boys]]
*[[January 17]] - [[Maury Povich]], American talk show host
*[[January 17]] - [[Archbishop Christodoulos]], The most popular Archbishop of the modern Greek History,he was the best Archbishop of Greece considering the criticism from people.
*[[January 18]] - [[James Gritz]], U.S. Presidential candidate
*[[January 19]] - [[Phil Everly]], American musician
*[[January 20]] - [[Chandra Wickramasinghe]], British astronomer and poet
*[[January 22]] - [[Ray Stevens]], American musician
*[[January 29]] - [[Germaine Greer]], Australian writer
*[[February 1]] - [[Paul Gillmor]], American politician (d. [[2007]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Mike Farrell]], American actor
*[[February 10]]
**[[Adrienne Clarkson]], 26th [[Governor General of Canada]]
**[[Peter Purves]], British actor and television presenter
*[[February 12]] - [[Ray Manzarek]], American keyboardist
*[[February 13]] - [[Serge and Beate Klarsfeld|Beate Klarsfeld]], German-born Nazi hunter
*[[February 16]] - [[Adolfo Azcuna]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[February 20]] - [[Frank Arundel]], English footballer
*[[February 21]] - [[Gert Neuhaus]], German artist
*[[February 27]] - [[David Mitton]], British producer, director, model maker, and author (d. [[2008]])
*[[February 28]] - [[Daniel C. Tsui]], Chinese-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[February 28]] - [[Tommy Tune]], American dancer, choreographer, and actor
=== March-April ===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Leo Brouwer]], Cuban composer and guitarist
* [[March 4]]
**[[Jack Fisher]], former American Major League baseball pitcher
**[[Paula Prentiss]], American actress
**[[Carlos Vereza]], Brazilian actor
* [[March 8]] - [[Robert Tear]], Welsh tenor
* [[March 12]] - [[Johnny Callison]], American baseball player (d. [[2006]])
* [[March 13]] - [[Neil Sedaka]], American singer
* [[March 14]] - [[Raymond J. Barry]], American actor
* [[March 17]] - [[Jim Gary]], American sculptor (d. [[2006]])
* [[March 20]] - [[Brian Mulroney]], eighteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
* [[March 31]]
**[[Zviad Gamsakhurdia]], [[President of Georgia]] (d. [[1993]])
**[[Volker Schlöndorff]], German film director
* [[April 2]] - [[Marvin Gaye]], American singer (d. [[1984]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Hugh Masakela]], South African musician
* [[April 7]]
**[[Francis Ford Coppola]], American film director
**[[David Frost (broadcaster)|David Frost]], English television personality
* [[April 13]] - [[Seamus Heaney]], Irish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[April 13]] - [[Paul Sorvino]], American actor
* [[April 16]] - [[Dusty Springfield]], English singer (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 20]] - [[Elspeth Ballantyne]], Australian actress
* [[April 22]] - [[Jason Miller (playwright)|Jason Miller]], American playwright and actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Lee Majors]], American actor
* [[April 25]] - [[Ted Kooser]], [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|U.S. Poet Laureate]]
* [[April 27]] - [[Erik Pevernagie]], Belgian painter
===May-June===
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*[[May 1]] - [[Judy Collins]], American singer and songwriter
*[[May 7]]
**[[Sidney Altman]], Canadian-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Ruud Lubbers]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]]
**[[Jimmy Ruffin]], American singer
**[[Marco St. John]], American actor
*[[May 9]]
**[[Ralph Boston]], American athlete
**[[Pierre Desproges]], French humorist (d. [[1988]])
*[[May 11]] - [[Dante Tinga]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[May 12]] - [[Ron Ziegler]], White House Press Secretary (d. [[2003]])
*[[May 13]] - [[Harvey Keitel]], American actor
*[[May 19]]
**[[Livio Berruti]], Italian athlete
**[[Sonny Fortune]], American jazz musician
**[[James Fox]], English actor
**[[Dick Scobee]], astronaut (d. [[1986]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist and composer
*[[May 23]] - [[Reinhard Hauff]], German film director
*[[May 25]] - [[Dixie Carter]], American actress
*[[May 26]] - [[Brent Musburger]], American sports announcer
*[[May 29]] - [[Al Unser]], American race car driver
*[[May 30]] - [[Michael J. Pollard]], American actor
*[[June 1]] - [[Cleavon Little]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Ian Hunter (singer)]], English singer ([[Mott the Hoople]])
*[[June 6]] - [[Louis Andriessen]], Dutch composer
*[[June 9]]
**[[Ileana Cotrubaş]], Romanian soprano
**[[Dick Vitale]], American basketball broadcaster
*[[June 11]] - [[Jackie Stewart]], Scottish race car driver
*[[June 15]] - [[Brian Jacques]], British writer
*[[June 16]]
**[[Billy Crash Craddock]], American country singer
**[[Richard Spendlove]], British radio and television presenter and scriptwriter
===July-August===
*[[July 5]] - [[Booker Edgerson]], American football player
*[[July 14]] - [[George E. Slusser]], American scholar and writer
*[[July 15]] - [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]], President of Portugal and former Prime Minister
*[[July 17]]
**[[Milva]], Italian singer and actress
**[[Ali Khamenei]], Supreme Leader of Iran
*[[July 21]] - [[John Negroponte]], U.S. Director of National Intelligence
*[[July 23]] - [[Raine Karp]], Estonian architect
*[[July 26]]
**[[John Howard]], twenty-fifth [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
**[[Bob Lilly]], American football player
*[[July 27]] - [[Michael Longley]], Irish poet
*[[August 2]] - [[John W. Snow|John Snow]], 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
*[[August 5]] - [[Princess Irene of the Netherlands]]
*[[August 12]] - [[George Hamilton (actor)|George Hamilton]], American actor
*[[August 17]] - [[Luther Allison]], American musician (d. [[1997]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Ginger Baker]] - Drummer of English rock group [[Cream (band)|Cream]]
*[[August 22]] - [[Carl Yastrzemski]], baseball player
*[[August 25]] - [[Robert Jager]], American composer and theorist
*[[August 29]] - [[Joel Schumacher]], American film producer and director
*[[August 30]] - [[John Peel]], English disk jockey (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 31]] - [[Cleveland Eaton]], American jazz musician
===September-October===
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*[[September 5]] - [[Clay Regazzoni]], Swiss [[Formula 1]] Driver (d. [[2006]])
*[[September 5]] - [[George Lazenby]], Australian Actor
*[[September 6]] - [[Brigid Berlin]], American actress and artist
*[[September 6]] - [[David Allan Coe]], American musician
*[[September 8]] - [[Carsten Keller]], German field hockey player
*[[September 8]] - [[Susumu Tonegawa]], Japanese biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[September 8]] - [[Guitar Shorty]], American blues guitarist
*[[September 9]] - [[Ron McDole]], American football player
*[[September 13]] - [[Richard Kiel]], American actor
*[[September 16]] - [[Breyten Breytenbach]], South African writer and painter
*[[September 17]] - [[Shelby Flint]], American singer
*[[September 18]] - [[Frankie Avalon]], American musician
*[[September 18]] - [[Fred Willard]], American comedian
*[[September 23]] - [[Janusz Gajos]], Polish actor
*[[September 26]] - [[Ricky Tomlinson]], British actor
*[[September 29]] - [[Larry Linville]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
*[[September 30]] - [[Len Cariou]], Canadian actor and singer
*[[September 30]] - [[Jean-Marie Lehn]], French chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[October 1]] - [[George Archer]], American golfer (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 5]] - [[Consuelo Ynares-Santiago]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[October 7]] - [[John Hopcroft]], American computer scientist
*[[October 7]] - [[Harold Kroto]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[October 7]] - [[Bill Snyder]], American football coach
*[[October 11]] - [[Austin Currie]], Irish politician
*[[October 13]] - [[T. J. Cloutier]], American poker player
*[[October 13]] - [[Melinda Dillon]], American actress
*[[October 18]] - [[Flavio Cotti]], Swiss Federal Councilor
*[[October 18]] - [[Lee Harvey Oswald]], assassin of President [[John F. Kennedy]] (d. [[1963]])
*[[October 14]] - [[Ralph Lauren]], American fashion designer
*[[October 22]] - [[George Cohen]], English footballer
*[[October 24]] - [[F. Murray Abraham]], American actor
*[[October 27]] - [[John Cleese]], British actor
*[[October 30]] - [[Leland H. Hartwell]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[October 30]] - [[Grace Slick]], American singer (The Great Society, [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Jefferson Starship]], and [[Starship]])
*[[October 31]] - [[Ron Rifkin]], American actor
===November-December===
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*[[November 1]] - [[Barbara Bosson]], American actress
*[[November 6]]
**[[Athanasios Angelopoulos]], Greek academic
**[[Leonardo Quisumbing]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[November 8]] - [[Laila Kinnunen]], Finnish singer (d. [[2000]])
*[[November 9]] - [[Paul Cameron]], American psychologist
*[[November 10]] - [[Russell Means]], Native American activist
*[[November 15]] - [[Yaphet Kotto]], American actor
*[[November 16]] - [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]], British drama critic
*[[November 18]]
**[[Margaret Atwood]], Canadian writer
**[[Brenda Vaccaro]], American actress
*[[November 21]] - [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], Indian politician
*[[November 23]] - [[Bill Bissett]], Canadian poet
*[[November 26]] - [[Tina Turner]], American singer
*[[November 27]] - [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]], [[President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (d. [[2001]])
*[[December 1]] - [[Dianne Lennon]], American singer ([[The Lennon Sisters]]}
*[[December 2]] - [[Yael Dayan]], Israeli writer and politician
*[[December 5]] - [[Minita Chico-Nazario]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
*[[December 8]] - [[James Galway]], Irish flautist
*[[December 11]] - [[Thomas McGuane]], American writer
*[[December 13]] - [[Eric Flynn]], British actor and singer (d. [[2002]])
*[[December 17]] - [[Eddie Kendricks]], American singer ([[The Temptations]])
*[[December 18]]
**[[Alex Bennett]], American radio personality
**[[Robert T. Bennett]], American politician
**[[Michael Moorcock]], English writer
**[[Harold E. Varmus]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*[[December 22]] - [[Alfred J. Ferrara]], American baseball player
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Roman Dmowski]], Polish politician (b. [[1864]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Matthias Sindelar]], Austrian footballer (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Maximilian Bircher-Benner]], Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. [[1867]])
* [[January 28]] - [[William Butler Yeats]], Irish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])
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* [[February 10]] - [[Pope Pius XI]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Franz Schmidt]], Austrian composer (b. [[1874]])
* [[February 12]] - [[S. P. L. Sørensen]], Danish chemist (b. [[1868]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Antonio Machado]], Spanish poet (b. [[1875]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya]], [[Russians|Russian]] [[Marxist]] revolutionary, [[Vladimir Lenin]]'s wife (b. [[1869]])
* [[March 2]] - [[Howard Carter]], British archaeologist (b. [[1874]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Lloyd L. Gaines]], American civil rights activist
* [[March 28]] - [[Francis Matthew John Baker]], Australian politician (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 7]] - [[Joseph Lyons]], tenth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[April 25]] - [[John Foulds]], British classical music composer (b. [[1880]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Georges Ricard-Cordingley]], painter (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 4]] - [[Tommy Ladnier]], American jazz trumpeter (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 19]] - [[Grace Abbott]], American social worker and activist (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 26]] - [[Ford Madox Ford]], English writer (b. [[1873]])
===July - December===
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* [[July 14]] - [[Alfons Mucha]], Czech painter and decorative artist (b. [[1860]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Harvey Spencer Lewis]], American mystic (b. [[1883]])
* [[August 11]] - [[Jean Bugatti]], German automobile designer (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Wilhelm Bölsche]], German journalist and science writer (b. [[1861]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Arthur Rackham]], British artist (b. [[1867]])
* [[September 18]] - [[Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz|Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], Polish writer and painter (b. [[1885]])
* [[September 23]] - [[Sigmund Freud]], Austrian psychiatrist (b. [[1856]])
* [[October 7]] - [[Harvey Cushing]], American neurosurgeon (b. [[1869]])
* [[October 29]] - [[Dwight B. Waldo]], American educator and historian (b. [[1864]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Norman Bethune]], Canadian humanitarian (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 28]] - [[James Naismith]], Canadian inventor of basketball (b. [[1861]])
* [[November 29]] - [[Philipp Scheidemann]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[December 3]] - [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll|Princess Louise of the United Kingdom]], second youngest daughter of [[Queen Victoria]] (b. [[1848]])
* [[December 23]] - [[Anthony Fokker]], Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1890]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Ernest Orlando Lawrence]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt]], [[Leopold Ruzicka]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Gerhard Domagk]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Frans Eemil Sillanpaa|Frans Eemil Sillanpää]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1939/1939fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1939] — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1939-pictures.html 1939 Coin Pictures]
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