Who Was Alive in 1939
163 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1939
Sigmund FreudAge 83
Nikola TeslaAge 83
George Bernard ShawAge 83
Max PlanckAge 81
Rabindranath TagoreAge 78
David HilbertAge 77
Henry FordAge 76
Edvard MunchAge 76
H.G. WellsAge 73
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 72
Mahatma GandhiAge 70
Henri MatisseAge 70
Orville WrightAge 68
Bertrand RussellAge 67
Winston ChurchillAge 65
Carl JungAge 64
Albert SchweitzerAge 64
Thomas MannAge 64
Lise MeitnerAge 61
Joseph StalinAge 61
Albert EinsteinAge 60
Leon TrotskyAge 60
Helen KellerAge 59
Pablo PicassoAge 58
Alexander FlemingAge 58
Virginia WoolfAge 57
James JoyceAge 57
Igor StravinskyAge 57
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 57
Coco ChanelAge 56
Benito MussoliniAge 56
John Maynard KeynesAge 56
Eleanor RooseveltAge 55
Harry S. TrumanAge 55
Niels BohrAge 54
Diego RiveraAge 53
Erwin SchrödingerAge 52
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 52
Chiang Kai-shekAge 52
Le CorbusierAge 52
T. S. EliotAge 51
Charlie ChaplinAge 50
Jawaharlal NehruAge 50
Adolf HitlerAge 50
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 50
Ho Chi MinhAge 49
Agatha ChristieAge 49
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 49
Charles de GaulleAge 49
Haile SelassieAge 47
J.R.R. TolkienAge 47
Mao ZedongAge 46
Aldous HuxleyAge 45
Nikita KhrushchevAge 45
Babe RuthAge 44
Buster KeatonAge 44
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 43
Golda MeirAge 41
C. S. LewisAge 41
Duke EllingtonAge 40
Ernest HemingwayAge 40
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 40
Alfred HitchcockAge 40
Humphrey BogartAge 40
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 39
Werner HeisenbergAge 38
Louis ArmstrongAge 38
Walt DisneyAge 38
Enrico FermiAge 38
HirohitoAge 38
Marlene DietrichAge 38
George OrwellAge 36
Bob HopeAge 36
Robert OppenheimerAge 35
Salvador DalíAge 35
Pablo NerudaAge 35
Jean-Paul SartreAge 34
Hannah ArendtAge 33
Frida KahloAge 32
Rachel CarsonAge 32
Simone de BeauvoirAge 31
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 31
Kwame NkrumahAge 30
Dorothy HodgkinAge 29
Mother TeresaAge 29
Akira KurosawaAge 29
Jacques CousteauAge 29
Ronald ReaganAge 28
Naguib MahfouzAge 28
Alan TuringAge 27
Jackson PollockAge 27
Rosa ParksAge 26
Jesse OwensAge 26
Richard NixonAge 26
Albert CamusAge 26
Gerald FordAge 26
Hedy LamarrAge 25
Orson WellesAge 24
Frank SinatraAge 24
Billie HolidayAge 24
Ingrid BergmanAge 24
Roald DahlAge 23
John F. KennedyAge 22
Ella FitzgeraldAge 22
Indira GandhiAge 22
Ingmar BergmanAge 21
Nelson MandelaAge 21
Richard FeynmanAge 21
Eva PerónAge 20
Edmund HillaryAge 20
Jackie RobinsonAge 20
Rosalind FranklinAge 19
Pope John Paul IIAge 19
Toshiro MifuneAge 19
Stan LeeAge 17
Marlon BrandoAge 15
James BaldwinAge 15
Jimmy CarterAge 15
George H. W. BushAge 15
Patrice LumumbaAge 14
Margaret ThatcherAge 14
B.B. KingAge 14
Malcolm XAge 14
Marilyn MonroeAge 13
Fidel CastroAge 13
Elizabeth IIAge 13
Gabriel García MárquezAge 12
Pope Benedict XVIAge 12
James WatsonAge 11
Andy WarholAge 11
Stanley KubrickAge 11
Maya AngelouAge 11
Che GuevaraAge 11
Vera RubinAge 11
Noam ChomskyAge 11
Anne FrankAge 10
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 10
Audrey HepburnAge 10
Grace KellyAge 10
Chinua AchebeAge 9
Neil ArmstrongAge 9
Ray CharlesAge 9
Tu YouyouAge 9
James DeanAge 8
Desmond TutuAge 8
Toni MorrisonAge 8
Mikhail GorbachevAge 8
Johnny CashAge 7
Elizabeth TaylorAge 7
Sylvia PlathAge 7
Yoko OnoAge 6
Wole SoyinkaAge 5
Yuri GagarinAge 5
Carl SaganAge 5
Jane GoodallAge 5
Dalai LamaAge 4
Elvis PresleyAge 4
Woody AllenAge 4
Pope FrancisAge 3
Jack NicholsonAge 2
Saddam HusseinAge 2
Kofi AnnanAge 1
Francis Ford CoppolaAge 0
Born in 1939
Also Born in 1939
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023)
Canadian writer (born 1939)
Irish poet (1939–2013)
Italian politician (born 1939)
Norwegian politician (born 1939)
English actor (born 1939)
Israeli chemist (1939–2026)
Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
American singer and songwriter (1939–1984)
English comedian and actor (born 1939)
Died in 1939
Also Died in 1939
Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)
Head of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
Spanish poet (1875–1939)
Austro-Hungarian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
American actor and filmmaker (1883–1939)
Inventor of basketball (1861–1939)
German politician (1865–1939)
American actress (1892–1939)
British physician, eugenicist, writer and social reformer (1859–1939)
Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)
Notable World Events in 1939
1939 World War II begins
Sources
- 1939 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
- James Joyce — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia
- Francis Ford Coppola — Wikipedia