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| cp=19th century
| c=20th century
| cf=21st century
| yp1=1936
| yp2=1937
| yp3=1938
| year=1939
| ya1=1940
| ya2=1941
| ya3=1942
| dp3=1900s
| dp2=1910s
| dp1=1920s
| d=1930s
| dn1=1940s
| dn2=1950s
| dn3=1960s
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1939 (''' MCMXXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will take you to calendar).
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August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January
- 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 astonomer 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
- 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 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
May
- 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 , Richard Nixon 's 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 - Ian McKellen , English actor
- May 29 - Al Unser , American race car driver
- May 30 - Michael J. Pollard , American actor
June
July
August
September
- September 6 - Brigid Berlin , American actor and artist
- September 8 - Carsten Keller , German field hockey player
- September 8 - Susumu Tonegawa , Japanese moleular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- September 9 - Ron McDole , American football player
- September 16 - Breyten Breytenbach , South African writer and painter
- September 18 - Frankie Avalon , American musician
- September 23 - Janusz Gajos , Polish actor
- September 30 - Len Cariou , Canadian actor and singer
- September 30 - Jean-Marie Lehn , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
October
- 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 , Northern Irish politician
- October 13 - T. J. Cloutier , American poker player
- 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
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
April-August
October-September
Nobel prizes
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