1939

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1936 1937 1938 - 1939 - 1940 1941 1942

1939 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature Music (Country) - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar).

Contents

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Nobel prizes
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] Births

**1939 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1939 MCMXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2692
Armenian calendar	1388 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԸ
Chinese calendar	4575/4635-11-11 (戊寅年十一月十一日) — to — 4576/4636-11-21 (己卯年十一月廿一日)
Ethiopian calendar	1931 – 1932
Hebrew calendar	5699 – 5700
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1994 – 1995
- Shaka Samvat	1861 – 1862
- Kali Yuga	5040 – 5041
Iranian calendar	1317 – 1318
Islamic calendar	1358 – 1359
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 14 (昭和14年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2599 (皇紀2599年)
- Jōmon Era	11939
Thai solar calendar	2482

[edit] January-February

January 2 - Jim Bakker, American televangelist
January 3 - Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
January 6 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2002)
January 9 - Malcolm Bricklin, American automotive pioneer
January 10 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
January 10 - Bill Toomey, American athlete
January 11 - Ann Heggtveit, Canadian skier
January 17 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
January 18 - James Gritz, U.S. Presidential candidate
January 19 - Phil Everly, American musician
January 20 - Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer and poet
January 21 - Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)
January 22 - Ray Stevens, American musician
January 29 - Germaine Greer, Australian writer

February 6 - Mike Farrell, American actor
February 10 - Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
February 10 - Roberta Flack, American singer
February 10 - Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
February 12 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist
February 13 - Beate Klarsfeld, German-born Nazi hunter
February 20 - Frank Arundel, English footballer
February 21 - Gert Neuhaus, German artist
February 28 - Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
February 28 - Tommy Tune, American dancer, choreographer, and actor

[edit] March-April

March 1 - Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist
March 8 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
March 12 - Johnny Callison, American basball player (d. 2006)
March 13 - Neil Sedaka, American singer
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)
March 31 - 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
April 7 - David Frost, English television personality
April 13 - Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, 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, American playwright and actor (d. 2001)
April 25 - Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
April 27 - Pevernagie,Erik, Belgian painter

[edit] May-June

May 1 - Judy Collins, American singer and songwriter
May 7 - Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 7 - Ruud Lubbers, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
May 7 - Jimmy Ruffin, American singer
May 7 - Marco St. John, American actor
May 9 - Ralph Boston, American athlete
May 12 - Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
May 13 - Harvey Keitel, American actor
May 19 - Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
May 19 - 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 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, English singer (Mott the Hoople)
June 6 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
June 9 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
June 9 - 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
June 16 - Richard Spendlove, British radio and television presenter and scriptwriter

[edit] 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
July 21 - John Negroponte, U.S. Director of National Intelligence
July 26 - John Howard, twenty-fifth Prime Minister of Australia
July 26 - Bob Lilly, American football player
July 27 - Michael Longley, Irish poet

August 5 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
August 17 - Luther Allison, American musician (d. 1997)
August 22 - Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player
August 29 - Joel Schumacher, American film producer and director
August 30 - John Peel, English disk jockey (d. 2004)

[edit] September-October

September 5 - Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula 1 Driver (d. 2006)
September 6 - Brigid Berlin, American actor 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 18 - Frankie Avalon, American musician
September 23 - Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
September 26 - Ricky Tomlinson, British actor
September 30 - Len Cariou, Canadian actor and singer
September 30 - Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate COCK!!

October 1 - George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
October 7 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
October 7 - Harold Kroto, English chemist, 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 18 - Flavio Cotti, Swiss Federal Councilor
October 18 - Lee Harvey Oswald, Alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
October 14 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
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 (Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship)
October 31 - Ron Rifkin, American actor

[edit] November-December

November 1 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
November 6 - Athanasios Angelopoulos, Greek academic
November 16 - Michael Billington, British drama critic
November 18 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
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 8 - James Galway, Irish flautist
December 11 - Thomas McGuane, American writer
December 13 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (d. 2002)
December 18 - Alex Bennett, American radio personality
December 18 - Robert T. Bennett, American politician
December 18 - Michael Moorcock, English writer
December 18 - Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January-March

January 2 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
January 9 - Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist and children's book writer (b. 1880)
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 laureate (b. 1865)
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)
March 2 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
March 19 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist

[edit] April-August

April 7 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
June 4 - Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1900)
June 19 - Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
June 26 - Ford Maddox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
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)

[edit] October-December

September 6 - Arthur Rackham, British artist (b. 1867)
September 18 - 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)
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 of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
December 23 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)

[edit] Nobel prizes

Physics - Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Chemistry - Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
Physiology or Medicine - Gerhard Domagk
Literature - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Peace - not awarded

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

1939 Coin Pictures

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