1939
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar .
Events of 1939
(Below, many events of World War II have the "WWII " prefix.) January
February
March
April
May
June
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August
August 2 - Albert Einstein writes President 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 , 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 USSR ; Lithuania and western Poland to Germany ).so they would not have to fight on two fronts.
August 25 - An 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
October
November
December
December 2 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City .
December 13 - WWII - Battle of the River Plate : German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax , HMNZS Achilles , and 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 , starring Vivien Leigh , Clark Gable , Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard , premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia .
December 26 - Mining strike in Borinage , Belgium
December 27 - Earthquake in Eastern Anatolia , Turkey , destroys the town of Erzincan - about 30,000 dead.
December 31 - 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
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1939 in fiction:
Births
January-February
January 3
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
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
February 12 - Ray Manzarek , American keyboardist
February 13 - Beate Klarsfeld , German-born Nazi hunter
February 16 - Adolfo Azcuna , Filipino Supreme Court jurist
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
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
April 2 - Marvin Gaye , American singer (d. 1984 )
April 4 - Hugh Masakela , South African musician
April 7
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 23 - Lee Majors , American actor
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
May 9
May 11 - Dante Tinga , Filipino Supreme Court jurist
May 12 - Ron Ziegler , White House Press Secretary (d. 2003 )
May 13 - Harvey Keitel , American actor
May 19
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
June 11 - Jackie Stewart , Scottish race car driver
June 15 - Brian Jacques , British writer
June 16
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
July 21 - John Negroponte , U.S. Director of National Intelligence
July 23 - Raine Karp , Estonian architect
July 26
July 27 - Michael Longley , Irish poet
August 2 - John Snow , 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
August 5 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
August 12 - George Hamilton , American actor
August 17 - Luther Allison , American musician (d. 1997 )
August 19 - Ginger Baker - Drummer of English rock group 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
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 laureate
October 1 - George Archer , American golfer (d. 2005 )
October 5 - Consuelo Ynares-Santiago , Filipino Supreme Court jurist
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 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
November 1 - Barbara Bosson , American actress
November 6
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 , British drama critic
November 18
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 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
December 22 - Alfred J. Ferrara , American baseball player
Deaths
January - June
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 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 )
February 27 - Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya , 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
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 - Stanis?aw 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 of the United Kingdom , second youngest daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1848 )
December 23 - Anthony Fokker , Dutch aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890 )
Nobel prizes
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