1939 34614 226028040 2008-07-16T14:36:28Z NuclearWarfare 5697725 [[WP:AWB/T|Typo fixing]] using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{year nav|1939}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1939''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXXIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. {{C20YearTOC}} == Events of 1939 == : ''(Below, many events of [[World War II]] have the "[[World War II|WWII]]" prefix.)'' ===January=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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]] &ndash; 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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *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> "Thailand ( Siam ) History" (overview), CS Mngt, 2005, ''CSMngt.com'' webpage: [http://www.csmngt.com/thailand_history.htm CSMngt-Thai]. </ref> ===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=== <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:WOO2.jpg|thumb|170px|right| [[August 17]]: ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|Wizard of Oz]]'' premieres in [[New York]].|{{deletable image-caption|1=Thursday, 25 October 2007}}]] --> * [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:FireOverEnglandVivienLeigh.jpg|thumb|110px|right| [[December 15]]: ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' premieres.]] * [[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== {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Shōwa]] 14}} ===January-February=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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 === <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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]]) <!--FEB--> * [[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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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== {{reflist}} {{commonscat}} ==External links== *[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1939/1939fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1939] &mdash; from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia *[http://www.coinpage.com/1939-pictures.html 1939 Coin Pictures] ==Table of contents== __TOC__ [[Category:1939| ]] [[af:1939]] [[am:1939 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1939]] [[an:1939]] [[frp:1939]] [[ast:1939]] [[av:1939]] [[az:1939]] [[bn:১৯৩৯]] [[zh-min-nan:1939 nî]] [[map-bms:1939]] [[be:1939]] [[be-x-old:1939]] [[bh:१९३९]] [[bs:1939]] [[br:1939]] [[bg:1939]] [[ca:1939]] [[cv:1939]] [[cs:1939]] [[co:1939]] [[cy:1939]] [[da:1939]] [[de:1939]] [[et:1939]] [[el:1939]] [[es:1939]] [[eo:1939]] [[eu:1939]] [[fa:۱۹۳۹ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1939]] [[fr:1939]] [[fy:1939]] [[fur:1939]] [[ga:1939]] [[gv:1939]] [[gd:1939]] [[gl:1939]] [[gan:1939年]] [[ko:1939년]] [[hy:1939]] [[hi:1939]] [[hif:1939]] [[hr:1939.]] [[io:1939]] [[ilo:1939]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯৩৯]] [[id:1939]] [[ia:1939]] [[os:1939]] [[is:1939]] [[it:1939]] [[he:1939]] [[jv:1939]] [[pam:1939]] [[kn:೧೯೩೯]] [[ka:1939]] [[csb:1939]] [[kk:1939]] [[kw:1939]] [[sw:1939]] [[ht:1939 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1939]] [[la:1939]] [[lb:1939]] [[lt:1939 m.]] [[lij:1939]] [[li:1939]] [[ln:1939]] [[lmo:1939]] [[hu:1939]] [[mk:1939]] [[mi:1939]] [[mr:इ.स. १९३९]] [[ms:1939]] [[nah:1939]] [[nl:1939]] [[new:ई सं १९३९]] [[ja:1939年]] [[nap:1939]] [[no:1939]] [[nn:1939]] [[nrm:1939]] [[nov:1939]] [[oc:1939]] [[uz:1939]] [[pi:१९३९]] [[nds:1939]] [[pl:1939]] [[pt:1939]] [[ty:1939]] [[ksh:Joohr 1939]] [[ro:1939]] [[ru:1939 год]] [[se:1939]] [[sq:1939]] [[scn:1939]] [[simple:1939]] [[sk:1939]] [[sl:1939]] [[sr:1939]] [[sh:1939]] [[su:1939]] [[fi:1939]] [[sv:1939]] [[tl:1939]] [[ta:1939]] [[tt:1939]] [[te:1939]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2482]] [[vi:1939]] [[tr:1939]] [[tk:1939]] [[uk:1939]] [[vec:1939]] [[wa:1939]] [[vls:1939]] [[yi:1939]] [[yo:1939]] [[zh-yue:1939年]] [[cbk-zam:1939]] [[bat-smg:1939]] [[zh:1939年]]