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1939
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar).
[edit] Births
[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 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
[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
[edit] July-August
[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
- 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
- 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
- March 28 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
[edit] April-August
[edit] October-December
[edit] Nobel prizes
[edit] External links
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