Year (''' MCMXXXIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
: ''(Below, many events of World War II have the " WWII " prefix.)''
: Golden Gate International Exposition opens.]]
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: '' Wizard Of Oz '' premieres in New York .]]
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: '' Gone With The Wind '' premieres.]]
- December 2 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City .
- 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 version of '' 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.
The following are references to year 1939 in fiction:
- 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 )
- --- Bill Toomey , American athlete
- 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 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 1 - Paul Gillmor , American politician (d. 2007 )
- February 6 - Mike Farrell , American actor
- February 10
- --- Adrienne Clarkson , 26th Governor General Of Canada
- --- Roberta Flack , American singer
- --- 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 1 - Leo Brouwer , Cuban composer and guitarist
- March 4
- --- Jack Fisher , former American Major League baseball pitcher
- --- Paula Prentiss , American actress
- --- Carlos Vereza , Brazilian actor
- 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
- --- Zviad Gamsakhurdia , President Of Georgia (d. 1993 )
- --- 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
- --- 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 23 - Lee Majors , American actor
- April 25 - Ted Kooser , U.S. Poet Laureate
- April 27 - Erik Pevernagie , Belgian painter
- May 1 - Judy Collins , American singer and songwriter
- May 7
- --- Sidney Altman , Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister Of The Netherlands
- --- Jimmy Ruffin , American singer
- --- 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
- --- James Fox , English actor
- --- 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 (singer) , English singer ( Mott The Hoople )
- June 6 - Louis Andriessen , Dutch composer
- June 9
- --- Ileana Cotrubaş , Romanian soprano
- --- 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
- --- Richard Spendlove , British radio and television presenter and scriptwriter
- 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
- --- Ali Khamenei , Supreme Leader of Iran
- July 21 - John Negroponte , U.S. Director of National Intelligence
- July 26
- --- John Howard , twenty-fifth Prime Minister Of Australia
- --- Bob Lilly , American football player
- 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 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 5 - Clay Regazzoni , Swiss Formula 1 Driver (d. 2006 )
- September 6
- --- Brigid Berlin , American actor and artist
- --- David Allan Coe , American musician
- September 8
- --- Julian Cooper ,artist
- --- Carsten Keller , German field hockey player
- --- Susumu Tonegawa , Japanese biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- --- 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 23 - Janusz Gajos , Polish actor
- September 26 - Ricky Tomlinson , British actor
- September 30
- --- Len Cariou , Canadian actor and singer
- --- Jean-Marie Lehn , French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 1 - George Archer , American golfer (d. 2005 )
- October 7
- --- John Hopcroft , American computer scientist
- --- Harold Kroto , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- --- Bill Snyder , American football coach
- October 11 - Austin Currie , Irish politician
- October 13
- --- T. J. Cloutier , American poker player
- --- Melinda Dillon , American actress
- October 18
- --- Flavio Cotti , Swiss Federal Councilor
- --- Lee Harvey Oswald , alleged 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
- --- Grace Slick , American singer (The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane , Jefferson Starship , and Starship )
- October 31 - Ron Rifkin , American actor
- November 1 - Barbara Bosson , American actress
- November 6 - Athanasios Angelopoulos , Greek academic
- November 9 - Paul Cameron , American psychologist
- November 10 - Russell Means , Native American activist
- November 16 - Michael Billington , British drama critic
- November 18
- --- Margaret Atwood , Canadian writer
- --- Brenda Vaccaro , American actress
- 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
- --- Robert T. Bennett , American politician
- --- Michael Moorcock , English writer
- --- Harold E. Varmus , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- 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 , a 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 )
- 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 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 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
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