1939

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

1939 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1939 MCMXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2692
Armenian calendar	1388 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6689
Baháʼí calendar	95–96
Balinese saka calendar	1860–1861
Bengali calendar	1346
Berber calendar	2889
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 6 – 4 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2483
Burmese calendar	1301
Byzantine calendar	7447–7448
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4636 or 4429     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4637 or 4430
Coptic calendar	1655–1656
Discordian calendar	3105
Ethiopian calendar	1931–1932
Hebrew calendar	5699–5700
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1995–1996
- Shaka Samvat	1860–1861
- Kali Yuga	5039–5040
Holocene calendar	11939
Igbo calendar	939–940
Iranian calendar	1317–1318
Islamic calendar	1357–1358
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 14 (昭和１４年)
Javanese calendar	1869–1870
Juche calendar	28
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4272
Minguo calendar	ROC 28 民國28年
Nanakshahi calendar	471
Thai solar calendar	2481–2482
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 2065 or 1684 or 912     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2066 or 1685 or 913

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

Births

1939 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1939 MCMXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2692
Armenian calendar	1388 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԸ
Assyrian calendar	6689
Baháʼí calendar	95–96
Balinese saka calendar	1860–1861
Bengali calendar	1346
Berber calendar	2889
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 6 – 4 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2483
Burmese calendar	1301
Byzantine calendar	7447–7448
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4636 or 4429     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4637 or 4430
Coptic calendar	1655–1656
Discordian calendar	3105
Ethiopian calendar	1931–1932
Hebrew calendar	5699–5700
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1995–1996
- Shaka Samvat	1860–1861
- Kali Yuga	5039–5040
Holocene calendar	11939
Igbo calendar	939–940
Iranian calendar	1317–1318
Islamic calendar	1357–1358
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 14 (昭和１４年)
Javanese calendar	1869–1870
Juche calendar	28
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4272
Minguo calendar	ROC 28 民國28年
Nanakshahi calendar	471
Thai solar calendar	2481–2482
Tibetan calendar	阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 2065 or 1684 or 912     — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2066 or 1685 or 913

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

March-April

• March 1 - Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist
• March 4 - Jack Fisher, former American Major League baseball pitcher
• March 4 - Paula Prentiss, American actress
• March 4 - Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
• 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 - Erik Pevernagie, Belgian painter

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

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)

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

• 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

November-December

• November 1 - Barbara Bosson, American actress
• November 6 - Athanasios Angelopoulos, Greek academic
• November 10 - Russell Means, Native American actor
• 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 17 - Eddie Kendricks, American Singer, The Temptations
• 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

Unknown

Roberto Bisacco, Italian actor

Deaths

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
• March 28 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)

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)

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)

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

External links

• 1939 Coin Pictures