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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Adolfo Azcuna
Adolfo S. Azcuna (born February 16, 1939) is a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2002 to 2009. He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on October 24, 2002. He is the current Chancellor of the [http://philja.judiciary.gov.ph/ Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA)], having been appointed to that position by the Supreme Court of the Philippines on [http://philja.judiciary.gov.ph/profiles/j_azcuna.htm June 1, 2009].
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Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate, known then as the "Capones," dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor and other illegal activities, in Chicago, from the early 1920s to 1931, when he was sentenced to federal prison, including a stay at the infamous Alcatraz federal prison, for tax evasion.
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Al Unser
Alfred "Al" Unser (born May 29, 1939) is a former American automobile racing driver, the younger brother of fellow racing drivers Jerry and Bobby Unser, and father of Al Unser, Jr.. He is the second of three men to have won the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race four times, the fourth of five to have won the race in consecutive years, and won in American Championship Car Racing in 1970, 1983, and 1985. He is the only person to have both a sibling (Bobby) and child (Al Jr.) as fellow Indy 500 winners. Al's nephews Johnny and Robby Unser have also competed in that race.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. A German-Swiss Nobel laureate, he is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley (; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. Through this belief he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in 1904, a time when old ethical and religious systems would be replaced. Widely seen as one of the most influential occultists of all time, he was a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as well as a co-founder of the A∴A∴ and eventually a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.). He is known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema, although he also wrote widely on other subjects, including a large amount of fiction and poetry.
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Alfons Mucha
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Alfred J. Ferrara
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Ali Khamenei
Ayatollah Syed Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i (, , ; born 17 July 1939) is an Iranian politician as the figurehead of the Muslim conservative establishment in Iran and Twelver shi'a marja.
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Alice Brady
Alice Brady (November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked up until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she played the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1938) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear (née Tapp, born November 18, 1939, in British Hong Kong) is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist.
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart ( ); (born July 24, 1897; missing July 2, 1937; declared legally dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Earhart joined the faculty of the world-famous Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Ann Heggtveit
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Anthony Fokker
Anton Herman Gerard Fokker (6 April 1890 – 23 December 1939) was a pioneer in aviation and a Dutch aircraft manufacturer.
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Antonio Machado
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (July 26, 1875 – February 22, 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
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Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, GCC (; born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve on 15 July 1939), is the 19th and current President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006.
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Arthur Rackham
Arthur Rackham (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator.
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Austin Currie
Austin Currie (born 11 October 1939) is a former politician who was elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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Barbara Bosson
Barbara Bosson (born November 1, 1939) is an American actress who has starred on television and in film.
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Batman
Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, and since then has appeared in many of DC Comics’ publications. Originally referred to as "the Bat-Man" and still referred to at times as "the Batman", he is additionally known as "The Caped Crusader", "The Dark Knight", and "'''The World's Greatest Detective'''".
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini KSMOM GCTE (29 July 1883, Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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Beryl Mercer
Beryl Mercer (13 August 1882 – 28 July 1939) was a Spanish-born American-based actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Bill Bissett
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Bill Finger
William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the uncredited co-creator, with Bob Kane, of the DC Comics character Batman, as well as the co-architect of the series' development. In later years, Kane acknowledged Finger as "a contributing force" in the character's creation, and comics historian Ron Goulart has referred to Batman as the "creation of artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger". A DC Comics press release in 2007 stated that, "Kane, along with writer Bill Finger, had just created Batman for DC predecessor National Comics"[.]
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Bill Frindall
William Howard Frindall, MBE (3 March 1939 – 29 January 2009) was an English cricket scorer and statistician. He was familiar to cricket followers from his appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme Test Match Special, nicknamed the Bearded Wonder (often shortened to Bearders) by Brian Johnston for his ability to research the most obscure cricketing facts in moments, at the same time as keeping perfect scorecards, and because he had a beard. In his obituary in The Independent, Angus Fraser described Frindall as "the doyen of cricket scorers".
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Bill Snyder
Bill Snyder (born October 7, 1939, in Saint Joseph, Missouri) is the head football coach at Kansas State University. He was rehired to the position on November 24, 2008, making Snyder one of the few college football head coaches to have non-consecutive tenure at the same school. Snyder previously served as head coach at the school from 1989 to 2005. The football stadium at Kansas State University is named in honor of him and his family (Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium).
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Bill Toomey
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired worldwide for her deeply personal, intimate approach to singing.
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Bob Lilly
Robert Lewis Lilly (born July 26, 1939 in Olney, Texas) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League and photographer. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Bobby Hull
Robert Marvin "Bobby" Hull, OC (born January 3, 1939) is a former Canadian ice hockey player. He is regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time and perhaps the greatest left winger to ever play the game. Hull was famous for his blonde hair, blinding skating speed, and having the fastest shot, earning him the nickname "the Golden Jet". He possessed the most feared slapshot of his day.
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Bobby Vernon
Bobby Vernon (March 9, 1898, Chicago, Illinois - 28 June 1939, Hollywood, California) was an American comedic actor in silent films. He later became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived.
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Booker Edgerson
Booker Tyrone Edgerson (born July 5, 1939 in Baxter County, Arkansas) is a former American college and Professional Football player. This graduate of Western Illinois University was a cornerstone of the American Football League Buffalo Bills' defense in the mid-1960s, at left cornerback.
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Brent Musburger
Brent Woody Musburger (; born May 26, 1939) is an American sportscaster for the ESPN and ABC television networks. Formerly with CBS Sports and one of the original members of their legendary program The NFL Today, Musburger has covered NBA, MLB, NCAA college Football and basketball games. Musburger has also served as a studio host for games, a play by play man, and halftime host. He has also performed post game wrap up segments and covered championship trophy presentations.
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Breyten Breytenbach
Breyten Breytenbach (born September 16, 1939) is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.
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Brian Jacques
James Brian Jacques (pronounced "Jakes") (born 15 June 1939) is an English author, best known for his Redwall series of novels, as well as the Tribes of Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.
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Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney, PC, CC, GOQ (; born March 20, 1939) was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of highly contentious economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the Goods and Services Tax, and the failure of equally contentious constitutional reforms through the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords. Prior to his political career, he was a prominent lawyer and businessman in Montreal.
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Brian O'Nolan
'''Brian O'Nolan' () (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, written under the nom de plume 'Flann O'Brien'. He also wrote the novel An Béal Bocht as well as many satirical columns in the Irish Times'' under the name Myles na gCopaleen. He was born in Strabane, County Tyrone.
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Brigid Berlin
Brigid Berlin (born September 6, 1939) is an American artist and former Warhol superstar.
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Calvin Edwin "Cal" Ripken, Jr. (born August 24, 1960) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire career (1981–2001) for the Baltimore Orioles.
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Carl Laemmle
:This article is about Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. See also Carl Laemmle, Jr., for an article about his son.
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Carl Yastrzemski
Carl Michael Yastrzemski (, (born August 22, 1939), nicknamed "Yaz," is a former American Major League Baseball player. Yastrzemski played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox, primarily as a left fielder, with part of his later career played at first base and as a designated hitter. Yastrzemski is an 18-time all-star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs. He is second on the all-time list for games played, and third for total at-bats. He is the Red Sox' all-time leader in career RBIs, runs, hits, singles, doubles, total bases, and games played, and is second on the team's list for home runs behind another Red Sox great, Ted Williams, his predecessor in left field. In , Yastrzemski achieved a peak in his career, leading the Red Sox to the American League pennant for the first time in over two decades, in that season being voted the American League MVP, and being the last winner of the triple crown for batters in the major leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Carlos Bilardo
Carlos Salvador Bilardo (born 16 March 1939 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine former football player and coach, who is currently the General Manager of the Argentina national football team.
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Carlos Vereza
Carlos Alberto Vereza de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, born March 4, 1939) is a Brazilian actor.
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Carsten Keller
Carsten Keller (born on September 8, 1939) is a former field hockey player from West-Germany, who won a gold medal for his native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He played 133 international matches for Germany, and retired after the Munich Games. Keller then became a hockey coach.
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Chick Webb
William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905–June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
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Claudio Magris
Claudio Magris (b. April 10, 1939, Trieste) is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.
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Clay Regazzoni
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Cleavon Little
Cleavon Jake Little (June 1, 1939 – October 22, 1992) was an American film and theatre actor, known for his lead role as Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early 1970s sitcom Temperatures Rising. In 1978 he played "The Prince of Darkness" in the radio station comedy FM. He was also in the 1984 action film Toy Soldiers and acted out the role of Super Soul in the film Vanishing Point in 1971.
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Conway Tearle
Conway Tearle (17 May 1878 – 1 October 1938), was an American actor of the silent and early sound film era. He appeared in 93 films between 1914 and 1936. He was the half-brother of actor Godfrey Tearle. Tearle was born in New York, New York.
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Corin Redgrave
Corin William Redgrave (16 July 19396 April 2010) was an English actor and political activist.
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Daniel C. Tsui
Daniel Chee Tsui (, born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. He is currently Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and adjunct senior research scientist in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, where he was a visiting professor from 2006 to 2008. In 1998, along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia and Robert Laughlin of Stanford, Tsui was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
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David Mitton
David Nelson Godfrey Mitton (27 February 1939 - 16 May 2008) was a British television producer and director, and an experienced model maker and author, best known for directing and producing the children's television shows TUGS and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. He also worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson as a special effects technician on such shows as Thunderbirds.
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Dick Vitale
Richard J. "Dick" Vitale (Dickie V) (; born June 9, 1939) is an American basketball sportscaster. A former head coach in the college and professional ranks, he is well-known as a college basketball broadcaster and for the enthusiastic and colorful remarks he makes during games. He is known for his trademark catchphrase "baby." He has authored seven books and appeared in several movies.
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Dixie Carter
Dixie Virginia Carter (May 25, 1939 – April 10, 2010) was an American film, television and stage actress, best-known for her role in the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993).
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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro. An astute businessman, Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. Fairbanks was also a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in 1920, the couple became Hollywood royalty with Fairbanks constantly referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable.
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Dusty Springfield
'''Mary Isabel/Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield''', was an English singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She is best known for her work during the 1960s, when she released singles such as "I Only Want to Be with You" (1963), "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966) and "Son of a Preacher Man" (1968), and her most acclaimed album Dusty in Memphis (1969). With her distinctive sensual sound, she is an important white soul singer, and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with 18 singles in the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1970. Her image, supported by a peroxide blonde beehive hairstyle, evening gowns, and heavy make-up, made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties, and she remains an enduring camp icon, especially in the gay community.
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Dwight B. Waldo
Dr. Dwight Bryant Waldo (June 13, 1864 – October 29, 1939) was the first President of Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Waldo was born in Arcade, N.Y. but spent his childhood in Plainwell, Michigan. Waldo was elected principal of WMU on April 1, 1904. He served as president from 1904 through 1936. When Western Michigan first opened, it was known as the Western State Normal School and later as the Western State Teachers College. One of Waldo's first moves, creating a rural school department, cemented WMU as a teaching college. It was the first such department in the nation and prepared teachers to effectively educate students in rural parts of America. Waldo also firmly believed in diversity on campus, and during his tenure many females and minorities were given the opportunity to attend the college.
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Eddie Kendricks
Eddie Kendricks (December 17, 1939 – October 5, 1992) was an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do The Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one single "Keep On Truckin'".
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Edward Rydz-Śmigły
( ) before 1922 Edward Rydz, since 1922 (March 11, 1886 – December 2, 1941); nom de guerre Śmigły, Tarłowski, Adam Zawisza) was a Marshal of Poland, Polish political figure, Commander-in-Chief of Poland's armed forces, and a painter and poet. After many earlier successes as an army commander during the Polish-Soviet War, Rydz succeeded Józef Piłsudski as General Inspector of the Armed Forces in 1935, following Piłsudski's death. He served in that capacity during the Invasion of Poland, which marked the beginning of World War II.
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Ekaterina Maximova
Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova (; 1 February 1939 – 28 April 2009) was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown.
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the Queen consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She was the last Queen consort of Ireland and Empress consort of India.
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Elizabeth Dawn
Elizabeth Dawn MBE (better known as Liz Dawn, born Sylvia Butterfield on 8 November 1939 in the Burmantofts area of Leeds, Yorkshire, England), is an English actress, best known for her role as Vera Duckworth in the long running British soap opera, Coronation Street. First starting on the serial in 1974, she had more of a recurring role as a factory worker until her husband, Jack, (played by William Tarmey) first appeared in 1979 and later for a more concrete role in 1983.
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Elspeth Ballantyne
Elspeth Ballantyne (born 20 April 1939) is an Australian actress, born in Adelaide, South Australia. Having started her career as a laboratory Technician, she then attended the prestigious drama school, the National Institute for Dramatic Arts. She went on to act in the rural soap opera, Bellbird on the ABC.
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Erik Pevernagie
Erik Pevernagie (born 1939) is a Belgian painter who has held exhibitions in Paris, New York, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London, Brussels and Antwerp.
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Ernst Toller
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893–22 May 1939) was a left-wing German playwright, best known for his expressionist plays and serving as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, for six days.
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Eugen Weidmann
Eugen Weidmann (February 5, 1908 – June 17, 1939) was the last person to be publicly executed in France. Executions by guillotine in France continued in private until September 10, 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be executed.
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Evald Aav
Evald Aav (22 February 1900 – 21 March 1939) was an Estonian composer born in Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire. He studied music composition there with Artur Kapp and wrote primarily vocal music to words in the Estonian language. In 1928 he composed the first national Estonian opera, Vikerlased (The Vikings). The opera premiered in Tallinn on 8 September 1928. He modeled his style of composition after Tchaikovsky.
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Faisal II of Iraq
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Fay Templeton
Fay Templeton (December 25, 1865, Little Rock, Arkansas – October 3, 1939, San Francisco, California) was an American stage actress.
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Flavio Cotti
Flavio Cotti born in Prato-Sornico on 18 October 1939) is a Swiss politician.
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915) and the ''Parade's End tetralogy. The Good Soldier'' is frequently included among the great literature of the past century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer's '100 Greatest Novels of All Time', and The Guardian's '1000 novels everyone must read'.
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Ford Sterling
Ford Sterling (November 3, 1882 – October 13, 1939) was an American comedian and actor best known for his work with Keystone Studios. One of the 'Big 4' he was the original chief of the Keystone Cops.
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France Nuyen
France Nuyen (birth name France Nguyen Van Nga) (born 31 July 1939) is a French actress.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from show business, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is primarily known for directing the Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now, Dracula, and The Conversation and for writing Patton.
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Francisco Franco
Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade, (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975), commonly known as Franco (), was a Spanish military general and dictator, head of state of Spain from October 1936 (whole nation from 1939 onwards), and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November 1975. As head of state, Franco used the title Caudillo de España, por la gracia de Dios, meaning; Leader of Spain, by the grace of God.
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Frank Arundel
Frank William Arundel (February 20, 1939 – May 1994) was an English professional footballer. He was born in Plymouth.
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Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon (born September 18, 1940) is an American actor, singer, and former teen idol.
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Franz Schmidt
Franz Schmidt (22 December 187411 February 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.
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Fred Willard
Fred Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American comedian and actor known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as television series D.C. Follies. He is an alumnus of The Second City comedy troupe. He received three Emmy nominations for his recurring role on the TV series Everybody Loves Raymond as Robert Barone's father-in-law, Hank MacDougall.
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Gene Summers
Gene Summers (born January 3, 1939, Dallas, Texas) is an American rock/rockabilly singer and entertainer. Some of his classic recordings include "School of Rock 'n Roll", "Straight Skirt", "Nervous", "Gotta Lotta That", "Twixteen" and his biggest-selling single "Big Blue Diamonds". Summers was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1997 and The Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame in 2005. He still performs worldwide and celebrated his 50th anniversary as a recording artist in 2008 with the release of Reminisce Cafe.
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Georg Elser
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 - 9 April 1945) was a German opponent of Nazism. He is only remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, but he himself also wanted to assassinate Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels in 1939.
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George Cohen
George Reginald Cohen MBE (born 22 October 1939, Kensington, London) was the right back for England in the side which won the 1966 World Cup. He is the uncle of Rugby Union World Cup winner, Ben Cohen.
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George Fawcett
George Fawcett (25 August 1860 – 6 June 1939) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. On stage he appeared in such plays as Ghosts(1905) with the controversial Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man(1905) with William Faversham and Getting A Polish(1910) with the historic film actress May Irwin. He appeared in 151 films between 1915 and 1933.
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George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby (; born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor and former model, best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''.
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Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibiotic (marketed under the brand name Prontosil) – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century.
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Gert Neuhaus
Gert Neuhaus (born February 21, 1939 in Berlin, Germany) is a German artist.
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Ghazi of Iraq
Ghazi bin Faisal ( Ġāzī bin Fayṣal) (March 21, 1912 - April 4, 1939) was the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq from 1933 to 1939 having been briefly Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Syria in 1920. He was born in Mecca (in present-day Saudi Arabia), the only son of Faisal I, the first King of Iraq.
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Giovanni Trapattoni
Giovanni Trapattoni (born 17 March 1939), known as "Il Trap", is an Italian football coach and former player, considered the most successful club coach in the history of Serie A.
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Grace Abbott
Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare. Her elder sister was social worker Edith Abbott.
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Grace Slick
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock genre, and is known for her witty lyrics and powerful contralto vocals.
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Guntis Ulmanis
Guntis Ulmanis (born on September 13, 1939) is a Latvian politician and was the fifth President of Latvia from 1993 to 1999.
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Harold E. Varmus
Harold Elliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel prize winning scientist and President Barack Obama's appointee to be Director of the National Cancer Institute. He was a co-recipient (along with J. Michael Bishop) of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
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Harold Kroto
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Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid (born December 2, 1939) is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004, and is currently seeking a fifth term in 2010.
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Harvey Cushing
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Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor. He is widely known for the "tough-guy" characters he portrays, and for his roles in James Toback's The Pick-Up Artist, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Jane Campion's The Piano, Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant, and James Mangold's Cop Land. Keitel also starred in Red Dragon as FBI agent Jack Crawford. His latest work is as Detective Lieutenant Gene Hunt on the American adaptation of Life on Mars.
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Harvey Spencer Lewis
Harvey Spencer Lewis F.R.C., S.·.I.·., 33°66°95°, Ph.D. (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939), a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, was the founder in USA and the first Imperator of Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), from 1915 until 1939.
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Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.
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Heinz Holliger
Heinz Holliger (born ) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.
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Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin (21 August 1898 – 5 March 1939) was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful Cockney disposition.
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Hitler
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Howard Carter
Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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Ileana Cotrubaş
Ileana Cotrubaş (born June 9, 1939) is a Romanian opera soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was much admired for her acting skills and facility for singing opera in many different languages.
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: , Öbür mongγol; ; officially romanized to Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) and the Russian Federation. Its capital is Hohhot and the largest city is Baotou.
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Ivan Mozzhukhin
Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin () (—January 18, 1939) was a leading Russian-French silent film actor.
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Jack Fisher
John Howard Fisher (born March 4, 1939 in Frostburg, Maryland) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The right-hander was signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent on June 24, 1957. He played for the Orioles (1959–1962), San Francisco Giants (1963), New York Mets (1964–1967), Chicago White Sox (1968), and Cincinnati Reds (1969). Nicknamed "Fat Jack", he stood 6'2" and weighed 215 lbs.
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Jack Herer
Jack Herer (June 18, 1939 – April 15, 2010) was an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis.
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Jackie Stewart
:For other people of this name see Jackie Stewart (disambiguation).
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Jake O'Donnell
'''James Michael "Jake" O'Donnell''' (born January 25, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former sports official who worked as a National Basketball Association (NBA) referee for 28 seasons from 1967 to 1995, and also as an umpire in Major League Baseball for four seasons from to . He is the only person to officiate All-Star games in both Major League Baseball and the NBA.
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James Fox
James Fox, OBE (born 19 May 1939) is an English actor.
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James Galway
Sir James Galway OBE (born December 8, 1939) is a Northern Ireland–born virtuoso flutist from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist.
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James Gritz
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James Naismith
James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian and naturalized American sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. Naismith wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
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James Parrott
James Parrott (August 2, 1897 – May 10, 1939), was an American actor and film director; and the younger brother of film comedian Charley Chase.
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Janusz Gajos
Janusz Gajos (born 23 September, 1939 in Dąbrowa Górnicza) is a Polish actor.
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Jean Bugatti
Jean Bugatti (15 January 1909 – 11 August 1939) was an Italian French automotive designer and test engineer.
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Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host-guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He has published in excess of 800 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.
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Jet Harris
Jet Harris MBE (born Terence Harris, 6 July 1939, Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury, North London, England) was the bass guitarist of The Shadows until April 1962, and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with the drummer, Tony Meehan.
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Jew
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Jim Gary
Jim Gary (March 17, 1939 – January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures typically were finished with automobile paint although some were left to develop a natural patina. He was recognized internationally for his fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art as well as abstracts. Sculpture and life figures by Gary often included intricate use of stained glass and his works frequently were composed of, or included, hardware, machine parts, and tools.
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Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Boyd (January 9, 1939 – March 7, 2009) was an American singer, musician, and actor.
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Jimmy Ruffin
Jimmy Ruffin (born May 7, 1939) is an American soul singer, and elder brother of the late David Ruffin of The Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted."
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Joao Bernardo Vieira
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Joaquim Chissano
Joaquim Alberto Chissano (born 22 October 1939) served as the second President of Mozambique for nineteen years from 6 November 1986 until 2 February 2005. Since stepping down as president, Chissano has become an elder statesman and is called upon by international bodies, such as the United Nations, to be an envoy or negotiator. He currently chairs the Joaquim Chissano Foundation and the Forum of Former African Heads of State and Government.
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Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher (born August 29, 1939) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
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John Amos
John Amos (born December 27, 1939) is an American actor and former football player. His television work includes roles in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, the miniseries Roots, and a recurring role in The West Wing. He has also appeared on Broadway and in numerous motion pictures in a career that spans four decades. He has received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and NAACP Image Award.
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show ''Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life''.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Foulds
John Herbert Foulds (November 2, 1880 – April 25, 1939), was a British composer of classical music.
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John Harron
John Harron (March 31, 1903 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in 167 films between 1918 and 1940.
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John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University.[http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/]
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John Howard
John Winston Howard, AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
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John Negroponte
John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939 in London, England, United Kingdom) () is an American diplomat. He is currently a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's MacMillan Center. Prior to this appointment, he served as the United States Deputy Secretary of State and as the first ever Director of National Intelligence.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967, until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock, reggae and punk records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres including alternative rock, indie rock, pop, hardcore punk, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop and dance music.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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John W. Snow
John William Snow (born August 2, 1939, in Toledo, Ohio) was the CEO of CSX Corporation, and served as the 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul O'Neill on February 3, 2003 and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3, 2006, in a move that had been anticipated. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30, 2006, effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on Thursday, June 29, 2006 that he had completed his last day on the job; Robert Kimmitt served as acting secretary until Paulson was sworn in.
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Johnny Callison
John Wesley Callison (March 12, 1939 – October 12, 2006) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball, best known for his years with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1960 to 1969. He led the National League in triples twice and doubles once, and gained his greatest prominence in a season in which he was runnerup for the Most Valuable Player Award and was named MVP of the All-Star Game. He also led the NL in outfield assists four consecutive times and in double plays once, and ended his career among the top five Phillies in home runs (185) and triples (84).
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Jorge Sampaio
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, GColTE, GCIH, GColL () is a Portuguese lawyer, politician, and the 18th President of the Republic. His brother is the teenage-psychiatrist and writer Daniel Sampaio.
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Joseph Lyons
Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH (15 September 18797 April 1939) was an Australian politician. He was Labor Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928 and a Minister in the James Scullin government from 1929 until his resignation from the Labor Party in March 1931. He subsequently led the United Australia Party and was the tenth Prime Minister of Australia from January 1932 until his death.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union, which he ruled as a dictator.
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Josephine Tewson
Josephine Tewson (born 26 February 1939) is an accomplished English actress. Tewson is perhaps best known for her roles as Elizabeth in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances and as Miss Davenport in the British television series Last of the Summer Wine.
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Judy Garland
Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and the 1939 film with which she would be most identified, The Wizard of Oz. After 15 years, Garland was released from the studio but gained renewed success through record-breaking concert appearances, including a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall concert, a well-regarded but short-lived television series and a return to acting beginning with a critically acclaimed performance in A Star Is Born (1954).
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Keeleri Kunhikannan
Keeleri Kunhikannan (Malayalam:കീലേരി കുഞ്ഞിക്കണ്ണൻ) was a martial arts trainer and Gymnast. He is known as the father of Kerala Circus.
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Laila Kinnunen
Laura "Laila" Annikki Kinnunen (November 8, 1939, Vantaa – October 26, 2000, Heinävesi) was a Finnish singer. She was one of the most popular Finnish singers of the 1950s and 60s, and represented Finland at the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest, the first time Finland participated in the contest.
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Larry Linville
Lawrence Lavon "Larry" Linville (September 29, 1939 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for his portrayal of obnoxious, pious, self-important and inept surgeon Major Frank Burns in the television series M*A*S*H.
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Lawrence Stephen
Lawrence Stephen (died 2006) was a political figure from the Pacific nation of Nauru.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four government investigations, the assassin of President of the United States John F. Kennedy, who was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
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Lee Majors
Lee Majors (born April 23, 1939) is an American actor, primarily known for several high profile roles on television in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Leland H. Hartwell
Leland Harrison (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the understanding of the cell cycle through years of studying yeast, together with Paul Nurse and Tim Hunt, whose research focused on the cyclins and other aspects of cell division.
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Leonardo Quisumbing
Leonardo A. Quisumbing (born November 6, 1939) is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court by President Fidel Ramos in 1998 and currently ranks as the most senior Associate Justice in the Court.
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Leopold Ruzicka
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy Award.
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Lina Medina
Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933, in Ticrapo, Huancavelica Region, Peru) is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days.
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Livio Berruti
Livio Berruti (born May 19, 1939) is an Italian former athlete. He became the surprising winner of the 200 m in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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Lloyd L. Gaines
Lloyd Lionel Gaines (1911—disappeared March 19, 1939) was the central figure in Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important court cases in the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1930s.
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Lois Weber
Lois Weber (June 13, 1881 — November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, producer and director, and was the first woman to direct a full-length feature film when she directed The Merchant of Venice in 1914.
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Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941) was an American baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s, chiefly remembered for his prowess as a hitter, his consecutive games-played record and its subsequent longevity, and the pathos of his farewell from baseball at age 36, when he was stricken with a fatal neurological disease. Popularly called "The Iron Horse" for his durability, Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams (23).
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen (born 6 June 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. He was recipient of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1959.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury (born October 29, 1939) is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works. Commemorative issues have been published by Ahabkal and Aabar Eshechhi Phirey magazines on Malay Roychoudhury. Prof Swati Banerjee has based her MPhil thesis on his poems' anti-establishment features. Gale Research, based in Ohio, United States, published an autobiography of Roy Choudhury (in CAAS vol. 14), and both the Bangla Academy and the Northwestern University (Illinois), have archives of Roy Choudhury's "Hungry Literary Generation" publications. The Little Magazine Library and Research Centre, Kolkata has a complete section devoted to Malay Roychoudhury's works. Prof B.Dey of Assam University has been awarded Ph D for his 350 page seminal work on Malay Roy Choudhury and The Hungryalist Movement.
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Malcolm Bricklin
Malcolm Bricklin born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an automotive entrepreneur. He is best known for his self-named automobile company, and for being one of the few Americans who has successfully introduced foreign cars in bulk to the American public from firms such as Subaru, Fiat and Zastava.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist.
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Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. Music critic Alan Blyth said "Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty." Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Although she was offered contracts to perform roles with many important European opera companies, Anderson declined all of these, preferring to perform in concert and recital only. She did, however, perform opera arias within her concerts and recitals. She made many recordings that reflected her broad performance repertoire of everything from concert literature to lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
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Matthias Sindelar
Matthias Sindelar (10 February 1903 – 23 January 1939) was an Austrian footballer.
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Maury Povich
Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939) is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury. He is married to journalist Connie Chung.
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Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (; ) (July 17, 1876–December 31, 1951) was a Russian-Jewish revolutionary and prominent Soviet diplomat.
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Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard (born May 30, 1939) is an American actor.
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Michael Longley
Michael Longley, CBE (born 27 July 1939) is a Northern Irish poet from Belfast.
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Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels.
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Mike Farrell
Michael Joseph "Mike" Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H (1975–83). He is an activist for politically progressive causes.
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Milva
Maria Ilva Biolcati (; born July 17, 1939), known as Milva, is an Italian singer, actress and television personality. She is also known as 'La Rossa', (Italian for 'The Red'), due to the colour of her hair, and additionally as the 'Panther of Goro', which stems from the Italian press having nicknamed the three most popular Italian female singers of the 1960s, combining the names of animals and the singers' birth places. The other two were Mina, 'The Tiger of Cremona', and Iva Zanicchi, 'The Eagle of Ligonchio'.
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Minita Chico-Nazario
Minita Chico-Nazario (born December 5, 1939) is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She was appointed to the court by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on February 10, 2004.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Mulayam Singh Yadav
Mulayam Singh Yadav (born November 22, 1939) is an Indian politician and has influence mainly in Uttar Pradesh state of India. He has been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and once Defence Minister of India.
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Murray Rose
Iain Murray Rose AM was born on 6 January 1939 in Nairn, Scotland, but he moved to Australia with his family at an early age after World War II. He took up swimming as a boy and was an Olympic Games champion at age seventeen.
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Nancy Kwan
Nancy Kwan (born May 19, 1939) is an American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian descent in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a major sex symbol in the 1960s.
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Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. His career has spanned over 50 years, during which time he has written many songs for himself and others, often working with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.
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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.
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Norman Bethune
Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese name: ; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the People's Liberation Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. A Communist, he wrote that wars were motivated by profits, not principles.
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Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. Along with her sister, de Havilland is one of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s. She is also the last living lead cast member from Gone with the Wind.
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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
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Paul Cameron
Paul Drummond Cameron (born November 9, 1939) is an American psychologist and sex researcher. While employed at various institutions including the University of Nebraska he conducted research on passive smoking and several other topics, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality. After a successful 1982 campaign against a gay rights proposal in Lincoln, Nebraska, he established the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, now known as the Family Research Institute (FRI). As FRI's chairman, Cameron has written papers associating homosexuality with perpetration of child sexual abuse and reduced life expectancy.
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Paul Gillmor
Paul Eugene Gillmor (February 1, 1939 – c. September 5, 2007) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death.
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Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason (May 4, 1939 – May 27, 2006) was an American film and television actor.
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Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan, AM (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor, comedian, film producer, and screen writer best known for his acting role as Crocodile Dundee, for which he won a Golden Globe award.
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Paul Sorvino
Paul Anthony Sorvino (born April 13, 1939) is an American actor. He is the father of actress Mira Sorvino. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law, and is possibly best known for his roles as Paulie Cicero in the film Goodfellas and Sgt. Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order.
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Peter Purves
Peter Purves (born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter and actor.
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Phil Everly
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Philipp Scheidemann
Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 1865 Kassel – 29 November 1939 Copenhagen) was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the second Chancellor of the Weimar Republic.
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Phillips Smalley
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1875 - May 2, 1939) was a prolific American silent film director and actor.
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Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI (Latin: Pius PP. XI; ; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was Pope from 6 February 1922, and sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929 until his death on 10 February 1939. He issued numerous encyclicals including Quadragesimo Anno highlighting capitalistic greed of international finance, social justice issues and Quas Primas establishing the feast of Christ the King. He took as his papal motto "Christ's peace in Christ's kingdom".
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Pope Pius XII
The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. At 63 years and 7 months, her reign as the Queen lasted longer than that of any other British monarch, and is the longest of any female monarch in history. Her reign is known as the Victorian era, and was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military progress within the United Kingdom.
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Raine Karp
Raine Karp (born 23 July 1939 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian architect.
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Ralph Boston
Ralph Harold Boston (born May 9, 1939 in Laurel, Mississippi) is an American athlete. He was an all around athletic star, but he is best remembered for his successes in the long jump during the 1960s. He divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Ralph Lauren
Ralph,"The Silver Fox", Lauren (born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive; best-known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.
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Ray Manzarek
Raymond Daniel Manzarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek (born February 12, 1939), is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, and The Doors of the 21st Century (renamed Manzarek-Krieger) since 2001. He is the oldest former member of the Doors.
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Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens (born Harold Ray Ragsdale, January 24, 1939,) is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs, as well as his involvement in the Tea Party movement. He was born in Clarkdale, Georgia, a small town west of Atlanta.
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Refik Saydam
Dr. Refik Saydam (September 8, 1881, Istanbul - July 8, 1942, Istanbul) was the 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 25 January 1939 to 8 July 1942.
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Reinhard Hauff
Reinhard Hauff (born 23 May 1939) is a German film director. His works, which were mostly carried out in the late 1960s to early 1990s, are known for their social and political commentary. Stammheim, which is based on the activities of the Red Army Faction (commonly called the Baader-Meinhof Gang) won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1986.
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René Massigli
René Massigli (22 March 1888 -3 February 1988) was a French diplomat who played a leading as a senior official at the Quai d'Orsay, and was regarded as one of the leading French experts on Germany.
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Ricky Tomlinson
Eric Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939), known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English film and television actor.
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Robert T. Bennett
Robert T. Bennett (born 1939) was the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, having served in that post from 1988-2009.
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Robert Tear
Robert Tear CBE (born 8 March, 1939) is a Welsh tenor and conductor.
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Roman Dmowski
Roman Stanisław Dmowski (, August 9, 1864, Warsaw – January 2, 1939, Drozdowo, Poland) was a Polish politician, statesman, and chief ideologue and co-founder of the National Democracy ("Endecja") political camp.
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Ron McDole
Roland Owen "Ron" McDole (born September 9, 1939 in Chester, Ohio) is a former American football defensive end from the University of Nebraska went to the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League after spending the 1962 season with the AFL's Houston Oilers. McDole went on to anchor the left side of the Bills' great defensive line for the next eight seasons.
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Ron Rifkin
Ron Rifkin (born October 31, 1939) is an American actor. His best-known role is probably as Arvin Sloane on the spy drama Alias.
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Ron Ziegler
Ronald Louis "Ron" Ziegler (May 12, 1939 – February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary and Assistant to the President during United States President Richard Nixon's administration.
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Ruben Reyes
Ruben T. Reyes (born January 3, 1939) is a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2007 to 2009.
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Russell Means
Russell Charles Means (born November 10, 1939) is an activist for the rights of Native American people. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.
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Ruud Lubbers
Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (; born May 7, 1939) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party, who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from November 4, 1982 until August 22, 1994. A political conservative, Lubbers was regarded by many during his time in office as an ideological heir to Margaret Thatcher. One of his campaign slogans was: "meer markt, minder overheid" (more market, less government).
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S. P. L. Sørensen
Søren Peder Lauritz Sørensen (9 January 1868 - 12 February 1939) was a Danish chemist, famous for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and basicity. He was born in Havrebjerg, Denmark.
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Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939, ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. He currently lives in Dublin.
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Semyon Krivoshein
Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein (November 28, 1899, Voronezh, Russian Empire - September 16, 1978, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet tank commander, who played a vital part in the World War II reform of the Red Army tank forces and in momentous defeat of German Panzers in the Battle of Kursk.
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Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman is a Canadian molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an "analysand", and a psychoanalyst. Freud is also renowned for his redefinition of sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, as well as for his therapeutic techniques, including the use of free association, his theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and the interpretation of dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires. He was an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy, and a prolific essayist, drawing on psychoanalysis to contribute to the history, interpretation and critique of culture.
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Skip Caray
Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray, Jr. (August 12, 1939 – August 3, 2008) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He was the son of baseball announcer Harry Caray, and the father of fellow Braves broadcaster Chip Caray; another son, Josh Caray, is an announcer for the Gwinnett Braves.
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Sonny Fortune
Sonny Fortune (born May 19, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. He also plays soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone and clarinet.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted ''coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña. The nationalist coup was supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or C.E.D.A), monarchists known as Carlist groups, and the Fascist Falange (Falange Española de las J.O.N.S.''). Following the partially successful coup, Spain was left divided as supporters of the existing Republican government fought the forces of the new Nationalist government for control of the country. The war ended with the victory of the Nationalists, the overthrow of the Republican government, and the founding of an authoritarian state led by General Francisco Franco. In the aftermath of the civil war, all right-wing parties were fused into the state party of the Franco regime.
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Spider Martin
James "Spider" Martin (April 1, 1939 – April 8, 2003) was an American photographer known for his work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Steny Hoyer
Steny Hamilton Hoyer (; born June 14, 1939) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Maryland's 5th congressional district since 1981. On November 16, 2006, Hoyer was elected as House Majority Leader over John Murtha of Pennsylvania.
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Subhash Chandra Bose
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Susannah York
Susannah York (born 9 January 1939) is an English film, stage and television actress. Was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for ''They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Won best actress for Images'' at Cannes Film Festival.
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Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進 Tonegawa Susumu, born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic mechanism that produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training. In his later years, he has turned his attention to the molecular and cellular basis of memory formation.
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T. J. Cloutier
Thomas James "T.J." Cloutier (born October 13, 1939) is a professional poker player from Richardson, Texas. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser (born 25 April 1939) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.
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Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1939) is an award-winning English actor. Since starting his career in 1962 he has appeared in over 60 films. His titular role as Billy Budd in his film debut earned Stamp an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer. His other major roles include, butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector, arch-villain General Zod in Superman (plus one of its sequel), drag queen Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, harsh guy Wilson in The Limey, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Elektra's master Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Maxwell Smart's arch-villain Siegfried in Get Smart, council of high help Terrence Bundley in Yes Man and the July 20th plot Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie.
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Terry Kiser
Terry Kiser (born August 1, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of the dead title-character in the comedy ''Weekend at Bernie's, and its sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II''.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Thomas McGuane
Thomas Francis McGuane III (born December 11, 1939) is an American author. His work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors.
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Tianjin
(; ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is a metropolis in Northeastern China and one of the five national central cities. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is thus under direct administration of the central government, and borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. In terms of urban population, it is the sixth largest city of the People's Republic of China, and its urban land area ranks 5th in the nation, only after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
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Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have earned her the title '''The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll'''.
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Tommy Ladnier
Thomas J. "Tommy" Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter. Clarinetist/writer Mezz Mezzrow rated him second only to Louis Armstrong.
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Valeri Lobanovsky
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Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 7 July 1967) was an English actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
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Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker.
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Vyacheslav Molotov
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov ( – 8 November 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat, a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium (Politburo) of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev. He was a major perpetrator of the Great Terror and the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) as well as post-war negotiations, and a signatory of the Politburo resolution authorizing the Katyn wood massacre. He remained unapologetic and had few regrets of the actions of the Party under Stalin, a view that remained until his death. The Molotov cocktail was derisively named after him by the Finnish military during the Winter War.
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Wilhelm Bölsche
Wilhelm Bölsche (January 2, 1861 – August 31, 1939) was a German author, editor & publicist.
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Wilhelm Canaris
Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1 January 1887 – 9 April 1945) was a German admiral, head of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944 and member of the German Resistance.
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).
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William L. Shirer
William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a groundbreaking history of Nazi Germany which has been widely read and cited in scholarly works for over fifty years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what would become a storied team of journalists for CBS radio. Shirer became famous for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II. With Murrow, Shirer organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by major news broadcasts. Shirer's other books include Berlin Diary (published in 1941), The Collapse of the Third Republic which drew on his experience spent living and working in France from 1925 to 1933, and his three volume autobiography, "Twentieth Century Journey."
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William Saroyan
William Saroyan (; ; 31 August 1908 - 18 May 1981) was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.
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Yael Dayan
Yaël Dayan (, born 2 December 1939) is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003 and is currently a member of Tel Aviv city council. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan.
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Zane Grey
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and a series, ''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater'' based loosely on his novels and short stories.
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Zviad Gamsakhurdia (, (March 31, 1939 — December 31, 1993) was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. Gamsakhurdia is the only Georgian President to have died whilst formally in office.
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Şükrü Saracoğlu
Mehmet Şükrü Saracoğlu (; January 1, 1887, Ödemiş, İzmir – December 27, 1953, Istanbul) was a Turkish politician and the 6th Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey. He was also the chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K. for 16 years between 1934-1950, including his Prime Ministry duration as well.
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Albania
Albania ( , , Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia/Shqypnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (, pronounced ), is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
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Algeria
Algeria (Arabic: , al-Jazā’ir, Berber: Dzayer, French: Algérie), officially the '''People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria'''), is a country in North Africa. In terms of land area, it is the largest country on the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest on the African continent after Sudan, and the eleventh-largest country in the world.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (, from Greek '; also Asia Minor, from , ') is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the northeast, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the southeast, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west. Anatolia has been home to many civilizations throughout history, such as the Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, Romans, Byzantines, Anatolian Seljuks and Ottomans. As a result, Anatolia is one of the archeologically richest areas in the world.
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Ankara
Ankara (Traditional English: Angora) is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2008 the city had a population of 4,500,000. Ankara also serves as the capital of Ankara Province.
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Atlanta, Georgia
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Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area (commonly ), in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with a population approaching 1.4 million residents, percent of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest of the country. Increasingly cosmopolitan, Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world, and has seen many people of Asian ethnicity move there in the last two decades. In Māori Auckland's name is Tāmaki-makau-rau, or the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.
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Australia
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Barcelona
Barcelona (Catalan , Spanish ) is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 4,200,000 on an area of , it is the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. About 5 million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean coast. The main part of a union of adjacent cities and municipalities named Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) with a population of 3,186,461 in an area of 636 km² (density 5.010 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().
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Battle of Halhin Gol
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Beer Hall Putsch
The Beer Hall Putsch (also known as the Munich Putsch, but in German referred to as the Hitlerputsch or the Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch) was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany. Putsch is the German word for a military coup d'état.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Birmingham
Birmingham ( , locally ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county of England. It is the most populous British city outside London with a population of 1,028,700 (2009 estimate), and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the United Kingdom's second most populous Urban Area with a population of 2,284,093 (2001 census). Birmingham's metropolitan area, which includes surrounding towns to which it is closely tied through commuting, is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with a population of 3,683,000.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (, {{lang-cy|) is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. According to recent estimates, the population of the unitary authority area is 324,800, while the wider metropolitan area has a population of nearly 1.1 million, more than a third of the total Welsh population. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 14.6 million visitors in 2009.
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Catalonia
Catalonia ( ; , , ) is one of the Kingdom of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, the administrative divisions that represent the country's historical nationalities and regions. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. Its capital city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,504,881. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east (580 km coastline). The official languages are Spanish, Catalan and Aranese.
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Chile
Chile (, in English often pronounced //,), officially the Republic of Chile ( ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. With Ecuador, it is one of two countries in South America which do not border Brazil. The Pacific coastline of Chile is 6,435 kilometres (4000 mi). Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas and Easter Island. Chile also claims about of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Corrales, New Mexico
Corrales is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 7,334 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. With proximity to the Rio Grande, the village was founded for agricultural purposes. The Rio Grande Bosque on the eastern edge of the village provides refuge for native animals and plants. The village fights hard to maintain its rural character in light of being surrounded by rapidly growing cities.
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Coventry
Coventry ( or ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although Leicester and Nottingham have larger urban areas. The population of Coventry has risen to 309,800 as of 2008.
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Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945 the state did not have de facto existence, due to its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945 the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Durban
Durban (, from itheku meaning 'bay') is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in the country, forming part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous as the busiest port in South Africa and is also a major centre of tourism because of the city's warm subtropical climate and extensive beaches. The city has a population of almost 3.5 million, making Durban the biggest city on the east coast of the African continent. Its land area of is comparatively larger than other South African cities, resulting in a somewhat lower population density of .
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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Florida
Florida () is a state of the United States. It is located in the Southeastern United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. Much of the state's land mass is a large peninsula with the Gulf of Mexico to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean to the south. Florida was admitted as the 27th U.S. state in 1845, after a three hundred year period of European colonization.
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France
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk (formerly Danzig; see Names below), is a city on the Baltic coast in northern Poland, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.
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Hatay State
Hatay State (, ), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay, was a transitional political entity that formally existed from September 7, 1938 to June 29, 1939 in the territory of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of the French Mandate of Syria. The state was annexed by the Republic of Turkey on June 29, 1939 and transformed into the Hatay Province (excluding districts of Erzin, Dörtyol and Hassa) of Turkey.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonym of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames StarStruck Town and Tinseltown refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
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Hungary
Hungary ( ), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság ), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, being part of the Finno-Ugric family.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia (Mongolian: , Öbür mongγol; ; officially romanized to Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) and the Russian Federation. Its capital is Hohhot and the largest city is Baotou.
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Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Kock
Kock (, Kotzk) is a town in eastern Poland, about 45 km north of Lublin and 120 km south-east of Warsaw. It lies in Lublin Voivodeship, in Lubartów County. It is the capital of the Kock Commune.
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Kraków
Kraków (), also spelled Krakow or Cracow ( [http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggkrak03.wav listen]), is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Its historic centre was inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites as the first of its kind. Situated on the Vistula River () in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural and artistic life and is one of Poland's most important economic centres. It was the capital of Poland from 1038 to 1596; the capital of the Grand Duchy of Kraków from 1846 to 1918; and the capital of Kraków Voivodeship from the 14th century to 1999. It is now the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
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Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Madrid
Madrid (Spanish , English ) is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million (as of December 2009); the entire population of the metropolitan area (urban area and suburbs) is calculated to be nearly 6 million. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-most populous in the European Union after Paris and London. The city spans a total of 698 km² (234 sq mi).
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Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova (Moldovan/) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldovan SSR in 1991, as part of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. A strip of Moldova's internationally recognized territory on the east bank of the river Dniester has been under the de facto control of the breakaway government of Transnistria since 1990.
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Mongolia
Mongolia (; ) is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and the People's Republic of China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulaanbaatar, the capital and largest city, is home to about 38% of the population. Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic.
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Montevideo
:Also see: Montevideo (disambiguation) or Monteverde (Costa Rica).
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich () denotes the Nazi state as a historical successor to the medieval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).
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New Zealand
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Norway
Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshū, the designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the heart of Greater Osaka Area. Located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay,
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Quebec City
Quebec ( or ), (), also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City () is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, the city has a population of 491,142, and the metropolitan area has a population of 715,515.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland includes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
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Slovakia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia ; Slovak:, long form ) is a state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is a landlocked country bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava, and the second largest is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD and WTO among others. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family.
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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Sweden
Sweden (pronounced , ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east. Sweden is also connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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Texas A&M; University
Texas A&M; University, often referred to as A&M; or TAMU, is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas. It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M; University System. The seventh-largest university in the United States, A&M; enrolls over 49,000 students in ten academic colleges. Texas A&M;'s designation as a land, sea, and space grant institution reflects a broad range of research with ongoing projects funded by agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. The school ranks in the top 20 American research institutes in terms of funding and has made notable contributions to such fields as animal cloning and petroleum engineering.
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Thailand
Thailand ( or ; Ratcha Anachak Thai, ), formerly Siam (, ), is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
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Tianjin
(; ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is a metropolis in Northeastern China and one of the five national central cities. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is thus under direct administration of the central government, and borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea. In terms of urban population, it is the sixth largest city of the People's Republic of China, and its urban land area ranks 5th in the nation, only after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Uruguay
Uruguay (, ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (sometimes rendered as the Eastern Republic of Uruguay in the English language; , ), is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.4 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area. An estimated 88% of the population are of European descent.
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Venlo Incident
The Venlo Incident in 1939 was a covert German Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) engineered capture of two British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) agents in the early months of World War II, on 9 November 1939, following a failed bomb-plot on the life of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler the evening before, on 8 November 1939. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD) was a sister agency of the better-known Gestapo (, the Secret State Police during 1933–1945 in Germany). The incident was used by the presiding National Socialist German Workers' Party government (NSDAP—commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party) for propaganda purposes to link Great Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination (time-bomb) attempt on German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich (Germany) and to justify Germany's later invasion of the Netherlands, a neutral country, on 10 May 1940.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north, South Australia to the west, and Tasmania to the south, across Bass Strait. Victoria is the most densely populated state, and has a highly centralised population, with almost 75% of Victorians living in Melbourne, the state capital and largest city. Approximately 30,000 Indigenous Australians are estimated to have lived in the area, before European settlement in Victoria began in the 1830s. The discovery of gold in 1851 at Ballarat and Warrandyte transformed it into a leading industrial and commercial centre.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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Westerplatte
Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the Vistula delta estuaries), in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939 it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot (WST), sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk).
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Wieluń
Wieluń is a city in central Poland with 24,347 inhabitants (2006). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), it was previously in Sieradz Voivodeship (1975–1998).
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GM Futurama - 1939 World's Fair - Part 1
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- Duration: 9:20
- Published: 06 Nov 2006
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: RetroRacer13
The futuristic world of 1960. Part 1 of 2. This public domain video can be downloaded in original high quality format from archive.org.
WW2 Lili Marleen (1939 Version)
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 29 May 2007
- Uploaded: 03 Aug 2011
- Author: backdraft57
Video I made with misc WW2 pictures with a propensity to say "Auf Wiedersehen" to those fallen on the German side. Not made to glory Nazi's or their views! It is the way of DEATH. There were young German men that were caught up innocently and forced to hate and instructed in hate from a young age. Hatred leads to DEATH plain and simple. The Nazi religion is inspired from Satan. Comments turned off because this was made only for history's sake and it seems to gather wacko's making comments about the glory of the occultic Nazis.
American Pickers - 1939 Ford Woodie
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- Duration: 5:31
- Published: 13 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: crazyeyesproductions
American Pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz uncover a 1939 Ford Woodie rat rod in this short produced by Crazy Eyes Productions. American Pickers History Channel www.crazyeyesproductions.com www.antiquearchaeology.com american pickers
An RCA Presentation: Television (1939)
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- Duration: 9:04
- Published: 14 Jun 2008
- Uploaded: 27 Jul 2011
- Author: CharacterControl
Early promotional film introducing TV to the American public, probably coordinated with the rollout of scheduled broadcasting at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Shows scenes of television production at the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) studios at Rockefeller Center, New York City, using equipment manufactured by NBC's corporate parent RCA. Producer: Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
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- Duration: 76:33
- Published: 03 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 03 Aug 2011
- Author: ClosedCaptionsZone
Animated film based on Jonathan Swift's immortal tale. Director: Dave Fleischer Producer: Max Fleischer
1939 ELEKTRO the Smoking Robot!!! New York World's Fair
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- Duration: 3:06
- Published: 09 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: UnknownWW2InColor
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www.romanoarchives.tk UNEDITED!!! An excerpt from the 1939 movie "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair" belonging to the Collection "1939-40 New York World's Fair". Elektro, the "Westinghouse Motor Man" filmed inside the Westinghouse Pavillion at the Fair. Original soundtrack. "SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!" V. Romano Hi-Res version of this complete movie (2.92 GB - 55 Minutes) is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP. Infos at http or at digilander.libero.it Check the "1939-40 NY World's Fair" pages. You can also find films on this topic in the ROMANO-ARCHIVES' new website-"Unknown World War 2 in Color"-"The Pre-War Years" section at www.webalice.it
The King to His Peoples. HM King George VI from Buckingham Palace September 3rd 1939
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- Duration: 5:45
- Published: 27 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: northatlantic78rpm
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HM King George VI, broadcast speech to the British Empire from Buckingham Palace on September 3rd, 1939. During the 78rpm. Era several important speeches by the British Kings were recorded and published on 78rpm records, especially for very distant and isolated parts of the British Empire, where radio listening could be very troubled. This recording is the speech from September 3rd 1939, at the outbreak of WW2.
Stagecoach (1939)
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 07 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 10 Jul 2011
- Author: bruenordejaboo
Dr. Josiah Boone: Seems to me I knew your family, Henry. Didn't I fix your arm once when you, oh, bumped off a horse? Ringo Kid: Are you Doc Boone? Dr. Josiah Boone: I certainly am. Ah, let's see... I'd just been honorably discharged from the Union Army after the War of the Rebellion. Hatfield: You mean the War for the Southern Confederacy, sir. Dr. Josiah Boone: I mean nothing of the kind, sir! Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you was drunk. Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing. What happened to that boy whose arm I fixed? Ringo Kid: He was murdered.
Bali - Paradise Isle 1946
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- Duration: 12:04
- Published: 20 May 2008
- Uploaded: 31 Jul 2011
- Author: travelfilmarchive
A tour of Bali and its religious traditions in 1946. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3 (1939)
PT 1a. youtube.com Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 1. Allegro ma non tanto (excerpt) Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted by Eugene Ormandy Sergei Rachmaninov, piano Note: Rachmaninoff made two rather brief cuts of 4 and 2 bars in the first movement, 13 bars of the Intermezzo and made two large cuts, 23 and 13 bars, in the Finale.
GM Futurama - 1939 World's Fair - Part 2
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- Duration: 5:52
- Published: 06 Nov 2006
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: RetroRacer13
The futuristic world of 1960. Part 2 of 2. This public domain video can be downloaded in original high quality format from archive.org.
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The - Trailer (1939)
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- Duration: 1:53
- Published: 17 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Aug 2011
- Author: Adlerangriffe
King Louis XI is a wise and old king and Frollo is the Chief Justice. Frollo gazes on the gypsy girl, Esmeralda, in the church during Fool's Day and sends Quasimodo to catch her. Quasimodo, with the girl, is captured by Phoebus, Captain of the Guards, who frees the girl. The courts sentence Quasimodo to be flogged, and the only one who will give him water while he is tied in the square is Esmeralda. Later, at a party of nobles, Esmeralda again meets both Frollo, who is bewitched by her, and Phoebus. When Phoebus is stabbed to death, Esmeralda is accused of the murder, convicted by the court and sentenced to hang. Clopin, King of the Beggars, Gringoire the Husband of Esmeralda, and Quasimodo, the bellringer, all try different ways to save her from the gallows.
Gone With The Wind (Tara's Theme)-1939- Soundtrack - by SKY
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Gone With The Wind (Tara's Theme) - 1939 - Soundtrack
Batman: 1939
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- Duration: 1:04
- Published: 01 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: BlockoVision
A tribute to Bob Kane's and Bill Finger's original Batman from 1939. Many thanks to directors; Aaron Schoenke, Russell Mulcahy, for the footage, Gary Jules, for his song: "Mad World" and "dcbats2000", of this very site for the music choice. Enjoy, ~Tommy
1939 World Series color footage
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- Duration: 4:01
- Published: 04 Apr 2010
- Uploaded: 03 Aug 2011
- Author: RUMORINTOWN
Extremely rare color footage of the 1939 World Series between the Yankees and Reds. Many consider the 1939 Yankees one of baseball's greatest teams. www.rumorintown.com
Pete Doherty - 1939 Returning ( GraceWastelands Version )
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 09 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 26 Jul 2011
- Author: violetcarpets
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awesome ;)
Peace On Earth. Classic Christmas cartoon. MGM 1939.
Peace on Earth is a one-reel 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals. Two young squirrels ask their grandfather on Christmas Eve who the "men" are in the lyric "Peace on Earth, good will to men." The grandfather squirrel then tells them a rotoscoped history of the human race, focusing on the neverending wars men waged. Ultimately the wars do end, with the deaths of the last men on Earth, two soldiers shooting each other. Afterwards, the surviving animals discover a copy of the Bible in the ruins of a church. Inspired by the book's teachings, they decide to rebuild a society dedicated to peace and nonviolence (using the helmets of soldiers to construct houses). The cartoon features an original song written to the tune of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". According to Hugh Harman's obituary in the New York Times and Ben Mankiewicz, host of Cartoon Alley, the cartoon was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. However, it is not listed in the official Nobel Prize nomination database. Mankiewicz also claimed that the cartoon was the first about a serious subject by a major studio. In 1994, it was voted #40 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. It was also nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons).
Dutch army 1939-1940 Nederlandse Leger en de herdenking van Rotterdam met die Wehrmacht
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- Duration: 9:33
- Published: 18 May 2009
- Uploaded: 17 Jul 2011
- Author: itseasyforyou
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Beelden van het Polygoon journaal - Nederland waakt 1939 - HM de Koningin inspecteert het veldleger 1940 - Herdenkingsplechtigheid gevallenen Rotterdam 1940 (ook met de Wehrmacht) - Nederlandse krijgsgevangenen keren terug 1940 This video is in the Dutch language I'll probably add some English and Dutch information too in the video. Will add some small things right now. This video is made to share the Dutch WW2 history, well I guess that I don't need to type an novel here since we're showing the Dutch forces and not the NSB. Although the Wehrmacht the German army was also at the memorial of the fallen in the defence of Rotterdam. The Germans bombed that city since they were scared of the Dutch;). THEUSE OF ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IS USED UNDER THE GUIDELINES OF "FAIR USE" IN TITLE 17 § 107 OF THE UNITED STATES CODE. SUCH MATERIAL REMAINS THE COPYRIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL HOLDER AND IS USED HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION, COMPARISON, AND CRITICISM ONLY. NO INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IS INTENDED.
San Francisco World's Fair 1939
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- Duration: 9:14
- Published: 20 May 2008
- Uploaded: 26 Jul 2011
- Author: travelfilmarchive
Highlights of the San Francisco World's Fair in 1939. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
SIEGE - Warsaw 1939
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- Duration: 9:53
- Published: 19 Feb 2010
- Uploaded: 25 Jul 2011
- Author: VVojtekSoldierBear
Released in February 1940, the first non-Nazi produced footage covering the start of World War II, the film became for many viewers their first glimpses into Nazi tactics, the first visual proof of the horrors of modern warfare. en.wikipedia.org When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the only American, and in fact the only neutral filmmaker in the country, was Julien Bryan. He arrived in Warsaw in early September with a cache of roughly an hour's worth of 35mm motion-picture negative. Given open access to the city by the mayor, he filmed day and night for two weeks, documenting Warsaw's destruction and Germany's inexorable advance. Back in New York he assembled the footage into a ten-minute newsreel called Siege. www.afana.org .
The Flying Deuces (1939) - Full Movie
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- Duration: 67:58
- Published: 31 May 2010
- Uploaded: 02 Aug 2011
- Author: LuckyStrike502
This was the first comedy that Laurel and Hardy starred in without producer Hal Roach, although they had previously been "guest stars" in four MGM movies. After they finished making "The Flying Deuces," they returned to Hal Roach Studios to make films. In order to make this movie, producer Boris Morros bought the rights to the 1931 French film "Les deux legionnaires," which had a similar plot. "The Flying Deuces" was Morros' first independent production and it was shot in continuity over a span of four weeks. Only one day was reportedly needed for retakes. The French original starred Fernandel and Noel Noel. SYNOPSIS: Ollie is in love with a woman. When he find out that she is already married, he tries to kill himself. Of course, the suicide is prevented and the boys join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. Eventually, they are arrested for trying to desert the Legion and escape the firing squad by stealing a plane. The Flying Deuces is in the public domain and can be downloaded here for free: www.archive.org
1939 German-Soviet troop parade in Brest Litovsk.flv
1939 German-Soviet troop parade in Brest Litovsk
photo: Creative Commons / Fredy.00
Elbe Day, 1945,In accordance with the Soviet-Nazi Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 24 August 1939, the Red Army invaded Poland on 17 September 1939, after the Nazi invasion on 1 September 1939.
photo: Creative Commons / Dezidor
Memorial to the Red Army in Prague.In accordance with the Soviet-Nazi Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 24 August 1939, the Red Army invaded Poland on 17 September 1939, after the Nazi invasion on 1 September 1939.
photo: Creative Commons / Topory
Model of Wester platter as it appeared on 1 September 1939 In 1925 the Council of the League of Nations allowed Poland to keep 88 soldiers on Wester platter. By September 1939 the crew of Wester platter had increased to 182 soldiers.
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Bunker des Vallo Alpino (1939 erbaut Creston Popera
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The Merchant Navy memorial (1939-1945) at the Pier Head, Liverpool.
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File - Adolf Hitler in Memel, 1939.
photo: WN / Geeta
Volkswagen Tempo, model:1939 - Vintage Car at Auto Show - Pune, India
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The Fairchild PT-19 M-62 first flew in May 1939, and won a fly-off competition later that year against 17 other designs for the new Army training airplane.
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1939 Indian 4, in the "World's Fair" color scheme, in commemoration of the 1939 New York World's Fair. On display at Clark's Trading Post, Lincoln, New Hampshire.
![Royal Military College cricket grounds, Sandhurst, ca. 1895. The RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947 from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College (1801–1939)[2] at Sandhurst.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110821030308im_/http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/d0/62/c31daa8ffba712bd898195ca6665_grande.jpg "Royal Military College cricket grounds, Sandhurst, ca. 1895. The RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947 from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College (1801–1939)[2] at Sandhurst.")
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Royal Military College cricket grounds, Sandhurst, ca. 1895. The RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947 from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College (1801–1939)[2] at Sandhurst.
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Mickey´s Surprise Party, 1939 (Minnie Mouse) ©Disney (WN movies film poster)
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Monument regarding murder of Polish officers in Kharkiv in 1939. Part of the Katyn Massacre.
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Ukrainian Museum of National History was built in 1937-1939 by architect I. U. Karakis in Kiev.
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D'Orsay Museum, seen from the right bank of the Seine river
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Khalkhin Gol Soviet offensive 1939
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Berlin, 1.9.1939: Adolf Hitler verkündet vor dem Reichstag: "Seit 5:45 Uhr wird jetzt zurückgeschossen
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1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Corsa and 1938 BMW 328 NSK Monterey in 2008
![Beaufort first prototype L4441, at a display of new and prototype aircraft, RAF Northolt May 1939. Charles E Brown photograph.[6]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110821030308im_/http://cdn9.wn.com/pd/e8/20/b5a4061d4edd79a3a28fbaa06a88_grande.jpg "Beaufort first prototype L4441, at a display of new and prototype aircraft, RAF Northolt May 1939. Charles E Brown photograph.[6]")
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Beaufort first prototype L4441, at a display of new and prototype aircraft, RAF Northolt May 1939. Charles E Brown photograph.[6]
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Monument to the "September Veterans" of 1939 near Krakow.
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The Interior, in 1939, an organ was installed by John Compton of London, which was used until being overhauled in 1992
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76 mm divisional gun M1939 (USV)
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In this Nov. 20, 2007 file photo, actor Mickey Carroll, the Town Crier with The Munchkins from "The Wizard of Oz," jokes as he arrives, to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, site of "The Wizard of Oz's" 1939 premiere, in Los Angeles.
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His Eminence Stanisław Cardinal Dziwisz (born April 27, 1939 in Raba Wyżna), is a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Vilnius University
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View from the Passerelle Solférino the bridge underwent a last reconstruction in 1850. In 1939, it was classified as a monument historique under the same bill as the Pont Neuf and the Pont Marie.
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Nazi-parading-in-elysian-fields-paris-desert-1940.
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BR Class 90/0, no. 90015 "The International Brigade Spain 1936-1939" at Car lisle station on 27th August 2004.
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1940 Ford DeLuxe convertible.
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Collegium Novum, Aula like the Collegium Novum opened in 1887, were added. On November 6, 1939, 184 professors were arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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Simple cable ferry, Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1939. Cable ferries have probably been used to cross rivers and similar bodies of water since before recorded history.
![Royal Military College cricket grounds, Sandhurst, ca. 1895. The RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947 from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College (1801–1939)[2] at Sandhurst.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110821030308im_/http://cdn5.wn.com/pd/d0/62/c31daa8ffba712bd898195ca6665_thumb.jpg "Royal Military College cricket grounds, Sandhurst, ca. 1895. The RMA Sandhurst was formed in 1947 from a merger between the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich (which trained officers for the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers from 1741 to 1939) and the Royal Military College (1801–1939)[2] at Sandhurst.")
![Beaufort first prototype L4441, at a display of new and prototype aircraft, RAF Northolt May 1939. Charles E Brown photograph.[6]](http://web.archive.org./web/20110821030308im_/http://cdn8.wn.com/pd/e8/20/b5a4061d4edd79a3a28fbaa06a88_thumb.jpg "Beaufort first prototype L4441, at a display of new and prototype aircraft, RAF Northolt May 1939. Charles E Brown photograph.[6]")
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1939
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Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. This year also marks the start of WWII, the deadliest human conflict in history.
January 1
* The Hewlett-Packard Company is founded.
* Texas A&M; University wins its only football national championship.
January 5 – Amelia Earhart is officially declared dead after her disappearance.
January 6 – Naturwissenschaften publishes evidence that nuclear fission has been achieved by Otto Hahn.
January 13 – Black Friday: 71 people die across Victoria in one of Australia's worst ever bushfires.
January 23 – "Dutch War Scare": Admiral Wilhelm Canaris of the Abwehr leaks misinformation to the effect that Germany plans to invade the Netherlands in February, with the aim of using Dutch air-fields to launch a strategic bombing offensive against Britain. The "Dutch War Scare" leads to a major change in British policies towards Europe.
January 24 – An earthquake kills 30,000 in Chile, and razes about .
January 25 – Refik Saydam forms the new government of Turkey. (11 th government)
January 26
* Spanish Civil War: Spanish Nationalist troops, aided by Italy, take Barcelona.
* In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, in response to rumours (which are true) that he is seeking to end the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, gives a speech highlighting his government's commitment to the cordon sanitaire.
January 27 – Adolf Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of crushing the Royal Navy by 1944. The Kriegsmarine is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic resources.
January 30 – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an "export battle" to increase German foreign exchange holdings. The same speech also sees Hitler's "prophecy" where he warns that if "Jewish financers" start a war against Germany, the...result will be the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe".
February 2 – Hungary joins the Anti-Comintern Pact.
February 6
* British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain states in the House of Commons that any German attack on France will be automatically considered an attack on Britain.
* In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are "now off limits".
February 10 – Spanish Nationalists complete their offensive in Catalonia.
February 21 – The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco, California.
February 27
* The United Kingdom and France recognize Franco's government.
* Borley Rectory in England is destroyed by fire.
* Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
March – The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine ends.
March 1 – A Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explosion on the outskirts of Osaka kills 94.
March 2 – Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI as the 260th pope.
March 3
* In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a fast protesting against British rule in India.
* Students at Harvard University demonstrate the new tradition of swallowing goldfish to reporters.
* In Durban, South Africa the Timeless Test begins between England and South Africa, the longest game of cricket ever played. It is abandoned twelve days later when the English team has to catch the last ferry home.
March 13
* Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.
* Irish writer Flann O'Brien's comic metafiction At Swim-Two-Birds is published in London but attracts little attention at this time.
March 14 – The Slovak provincial assembly proclaims independence; priest Jozef Tiso becomes the president of the independent Slovak government.
March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslovakia declares independence as Carpatho-Ukraine.
March 16
* Princess Fawzia of Egypt marries Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
* Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine; final resistance ends on March 18.
March 17 – British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in Birmingham, stating that Britain will oppose any effort at world domination on the part of Germany.
March 18 – "Romanian War Scare": Virgil Tilea, the Romanian Minister in London, spreads false rumours that Romania is on the verge of a German attack.
March 19 – Hitler sends a registered letter to the government of Lithuania stating that Germany intends to annex the port of Memel.
March 20 – At an emergency meeting in London to deal with the Romanian crisis, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet suggests to Lord Halifax that the ideal state for saving Romania from a German attack is Poland.
March 21 – In London: the Ordo Templi Orientis publish Aleister Crowley's Eight Lectures on Yoga.
March 22 – After an ultimatum of March 20, Nazi Germany takes Memelland from Lithuania.
March 23 – The Slovak-Hungarian War begins.
March 28
* Dictator Francisco Franco assumes power in Madrid.
* American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
March 31 – Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in the House of Commons offering the British "guarantee" of the independence of Poland.
April 1 – The Spanish Civil War comes to an end when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
April 3 – Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss, the codename for the invasion of Poland.
April 3 – Refik Saydam forms the new government in Turkey. (12 th government; Refik Saydam had served twice as a prime minister )
April 4
* Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
* The Slovak-Hungarian War ends with Slovakia ceding eastern territories to Hungary.
April 7 – Italy invades Albania; King Zog flees.
April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.
April 11 – Hungary leaves the League of Nations.
April 13 – Britain offers a "guarantee" to Romania and Greece.
April 14
* John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.
* At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a "peace front" comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war.
April 18 – The Soviet Union proposes a "peace front" to resist aggression.
April 20 – Billie Holiday records "Strange Fruit", the first anti-lynching song.
April 25 – The Federal Security Agency (FSA) is founded in the USA, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.
April 27 – Ely Racecourse in Cardiff closes.
April 28 – In a speech before the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler renounces the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact.
April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
May 1 – Batman, created by Bob Kane (and, unofficially, Bill Finger) makes his first appearance in a comic book.
May 2 – Major League Baseball's Lou Gehrig, the legendary Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Horse", ends his 2,130 consecutive games played streak after contracting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The record stands for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. plays 2,131 consecutive games.
May 3
* Vyacheslav Molotov succeeds Maxim Litvinov as Soviet Foreign Commissar.
* The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
May 6 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler tells the British government that the German and Soviet governments are secretly beginning a rapprochement with the aim of dividing Eastern Europe between them. Goerdeler also informs the British of German economic problems which he states threaten the survival of the Nazi regime, and advises that if a firm stand is made for Poland, then Hitler will be deterred from war.
May 9 – Spain leaves the League of Nations.
May 14 – Lina Medina, a 5-year old Peruvian girl, gives birth to a baby boy, becoming the youngest confirmed mother in medical history.
May 17
* King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec City to begin the first-ever tour of Canada by Canada's monarch.
* The British government issues the White Paper of 1939, sharply restricting Jewish immigration to the Palestine Mandate.
* Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.
May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.
May 22 – Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
May 29
* Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
June 3 – The Soviet government offers its definition of what constitutes "aggression", upon which the projected Anglo-Soviet-French alliance will come into effect. The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet accepts the Soviet definition of aggression at once. The British reject the Soviet definition, especially the concept of "indirect aggression", which they feel is too loose a definition and phrased in such a manner as to imply the Soviet right of inference in the internal affairs of nations of Eastern Europe.
June 4 – The St. Louis, a ship carrying a cargo of 907 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida after already having been turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later die in Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.
June 12 – The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is officially dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.
June 14 – Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.
June 17 – In the last public guillotining in France, murderer Eugen Weidmann is decapitated by the guillotine.
June 23 – Talks are completed in Ankara between French Ambassador René Massigli and Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu, resolving the Hatay dispute in Turkey's favor. Turkey annexes Hatay.
June 24 – The government of Siam changes its name to Thailand, which means 'Free Land'.
July 2 – The 1st World Science Fiction Convention opens in New York City.
July 2 – Theodore Roosevelt's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
July 4
* Lou Gehrig gives his last public speech, following a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In it, he says, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
* The Neuengamme concentration camp becomes autonomous.
July 6 – The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed by the Nazis.
July 23 – Mahatma Gandhi the spiritual leader from India writes a personal letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting to prevent any possible war.
July 27 – The only recorded snowfall in Auckland, New Zealand since records began in 1853.
August 2 – Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium. This leads to the creation of the Manhattan Project.
August 4 – Neville Chamberlain dismisses Parliament until October 3.
August 15 – MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
August 19 – Hitler, after evaluating the pace of the non-aggression negotiations with the Soviet Union, orders the Kriegsmarine to begin the opening operations for Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland. The , along with the , as well as dozens of u-boats, cast off for their advance positions. According to William L. Shirer, Hitler spends the next few days worrying that the Russians will not come to terms in time for the rest of the invasion plans to unfold as scheduled.
August 20 – Armored forces under the command of Soviet General Georgi Zhukov deliver a decisive defeat to Japanese Imperial Army forces in the Japanese-Soviet border war in Inner Mongolia.
August 23 – Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree to divide Europe between Germany and the Soviet Union (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, eastern Poland and Bessarabia (today Moldova), north-east province of Romania to the Soviet Union; Lithuania and western Poland to Germany).
August 24 – As details of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact become public, Neville Chamberlain recalls the Parliament of the United Kingdom several weeks early. In a burst of legislation, a War Powers Act is approved; and HMG order the Royal Navy to be put on a war footing, all leaves to be cancelled, and the Naval and coast defense reserves to be called up, especially radar and anti-aircraft units. In addition, the last British and French private citizens in Germany are ordered home by their respective Governments.
August 25 – The German Foreign Ministry cuts off all telegraph and telephone communication with the outside world in accordance with the plan for Fall Weiss. At approximately 1830 Central European time, Adolf Hitler postpones Fall Weiss for 5 days, after receiving a message from Benito Mussolini that he will not honor the Pact of Steel if Germany attacks Poland, and because Chamberlain's government has not fallen as a result of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Some units already in their forward positions (the attack is scheduled for 0430 the next day) do not get the word in time and attack various targets along the border. That same day, Neville Chamberlain gives Edward Rydz-Śmigły his "ironclad guarantee" of assistance if Poland is attacked by Germany.
August 25
* An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.
* MGM's classic musical film The Wizard of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum's famous novel, and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, is released in theaters everywhere.
August 26
* Division of Grazing renamed U.S. Grazing Service.
* 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 a mobilization against Nazi Germany.
September 1 – WWII:
* At 04.45 Central European Time, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens bombardment on the Westerplatte, a Polish military base outside Danzig, firing what are, according to many sources, the first shots of the war. At the same time, regular Wehrmacht troops begin crossing the border into Poland.
* Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland declare their neutrality.
September 2 – WWII:
* Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
* Spain and Ireland declare their neutrality.
September 3 – WWII:
* The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany.
British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic. Of the 1,418 aboard, 98 passengers and 19 crew are killed.
September 4 – WWII: Nepal declares war on Germany.
September 5 – WWII: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
September 6 – WWII: South Africa declares war on Germany.
September 8
* Little Sisters of Jesus founded in Algeria by Little Sister Magdeleine.
* WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw. The world is stunned by the rapidity of the German advance and the Polish High Command is effectively isolated, but lack of infantry support and effective civilian resistance cause Hoeppner to halt outside the city itself.
* WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender. The garrison of about two hundred had held out against thousands of German forces (many of them Naval officer cadets from the Schleswig-Holstein,) for seven days.
September 9 – WWII: Troops of the Polish Poznan Army under the command of General Kutrzeba open the Battle of the Bzura, the largest and best organized counter-attack mounted by the Polish forces in the campaign of 1939. For the first few days all goes well and the Germans are forced to retreat; but quick reaction by mechanized units and the Luftwaffe soon take their toll and the operation bogs down.
September 10 – WWII: Canada declares war on Germany.
September 15 – WWII: Diverse elements of the German Wehrmacht surround Warsaw and demand its surrender. The Poles refuse and the siege begins in earnest.
September 16 – A ceasefire ends the undeclared Border War between The Soviet Union (and Mongolian allies) and Japan.
September 17 – WWII: The Soviet Union invades Poland and then occupies eastern Polish territories.
September 19 – WWII: The Poznan pocket collapses, and the Germans capture, according to many sources, over 150,000 men. Many elements of General Kutrzeba's forces work their way into Warsaw under extreme difficulty.
September 21 – Radio station WJSV in Washington, D.C. records an entire broadcast day for preservation in the National Archives.
September 22 – WWII: Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
September 28 – WWII:
* Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion.
* Warsaw surrenders to Germany; Modlin surrenders a day later; the last Polish large operational unit surrenders near Kock 8 days later.
September 29 – Gerald J. Cox, speaking at an American Water Works Association meeting, becomes the first person to publicly propose the fluoridation of public water supplies in the United States.
October 8 – WWII: Germany annexes Western Poland.
October 11 – Manhattan Project: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
October 12 – Jüri Uluots becomes prime minister of Estonia.
October 14 – The sinks the British battleship .
October 15 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
October 24 – Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.
October 25 – The Time of Your Life, a drama by William Saroyan, debuts in New York City.
November 4 – WWII: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons to non-belligerent nations.
November 6
* Hedda Hopper's Hollywood debuts on radio with Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as host (the show runs until 1951, making Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
* WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.
November 8 – In Munich, an attempt to kill Adolf Hitler is made by Georg Elser while Hitler is celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
November 9 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
November 15 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
November 16 – Al Capone is released from Alcatraz.
November 17 – To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities.
November 30
* Winter War: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
* Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.
December 2 – La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City.
December 4 – WWII: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by ) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
December 12 – WWII: HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.
December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is 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 – The 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. It is based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel. It is the longest American film made up to that time (nearly four hours).
December 26 – Miners strike in Borinage, Belgium.
December 27 – The 1939 Erzincan earthquake in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, kills 30,000.
CBS Television begins transmission.
Kirlian photography is invented by Semyon Kirlian.
A logging crew sets off a second forest fire in the Tillamook Burn, which destroys 190,000 acres (769 km²).
Sandia View Academy, a private Adventist school, is founded in Corrales, New Mexico,
General Motors introduces the Hydra-Matic drive, the first mass-produced, fully automatic transmission, as an option in 1940 model year Oldsmobile automobiles.
January 3
* Bobby Hull, Canadian hockey player
* Ruben Reyes, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
* Gene Summers, American rock 'n roll singer (member of Rockabilly Hall of Fame)
January 6
* Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2002)
* Murray Rose, Australian swimmer
January 9
* Jimmy Boyd, American singer, musician and actor
* Malcolm Bricklin, American automotive pioneer
* Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician
* Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011)
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
* Archbishop Christodoulos of Greece
January 18 – James Gritz, U.S. Presidential candidate
January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (member of Rockabilly Hall of Fame)
January 20 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer and poet
January 22 – Ray Stevens, American musician
January 25 – Jake O'Donnell, American sports official
January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer
February 1
* Paul Gillmor, American politician (d. 2007)
* Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009)
February 6 – Mike Farrell, American actor
February 10
* Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
* Peter Purves, British actor and television presenter
February 12 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
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 26 – Josephine Tewson, British actress
February 27 – David Mitton, British producer, director, model maker, and author (d. 2008)
February 28
* Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Tommy Tune, American dancer, choreographer, and actor
March 1 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist
March 3 – Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (d. 2009)
March 4
* Jack Fisher, former American Major League baseball pitcher
* Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
March 8
* Robert Tear, Welsh tenor
* Lidia Skoblikova, Russian speed-skater
March 12 – Johnny Callison, American baseball player (d. 2006)
March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
March 16 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentine football player and manager
March 17
* Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
* Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian football player and manager
March 20 – Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada
March 28 – Leila Kasra, Persian poet and lyricist (d. 1989)
March 31
* Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (d. 1993)
* Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
April 1 – Spider Martin, American Photographer (d. 2003)
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 10 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
April 13
* Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 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
* Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009)
May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer and songwriter
May 4 – Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
May 7
* Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1982–1994
* Jimmy Ruffin, American singer
May 9
* Ralph Boston, American athlete
* Pierre Desproges, French humorist (d. 1988)
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
* Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
* Sonny Fortune, American jazz musician
* James Fox, English actor
* Nancy Kwan, American actress
* Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
May 21 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist and composer
May 22 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004)
May 23 – Reinhard Hauff, German film director
May 25 – Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
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 6
* Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
* Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician
June 9
* Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
* Dick Vitale, American basketball broadcaster
June 11 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
June 14 – Steny Hoyer, American Democrat U.S. Representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district
June 15 – Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
June 18 – Jack Herer, American cannabis activist (d. 2010)
July 5 – Booker Edgerson, American football player
July 6 – Jet Harris, British bassist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
July 14 – George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
July 15 – Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal and former Prime Minister (d. 2011?)
July 16 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (d. 2010)
July 17
* Milva, Italian actress and singer
* Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
July 21 – John Negroponte, U.S. Director of National Intelligence
July 22 – Terence Stamp, English actor
July 23 – Raine Karp, Estonian architect
July 26
* John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
* Bob Lilly, American football player
July 27 – Michael Longley, Irish poet
July 31
* France Nuyen, French actress
* Susan Flannery, American soap opera actress
August 1 – Terry Kiser, American actor
August 2 – John W. Snow, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
August 5 – Princess Irene of the Netherlands
August 12
* George Hamilton, American actor
* Skip Caray, American baseball broadcaster (d. 2008)
August 19 – Ginger Baker, English drummer
August 21 – Clarence Williams III, American actor
August 22 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
August 29 – Joel Schumacher, American film producer and director
August 30 – John Peel, English disc jockey (d. 2004)
September 1 – Lily Tomlin, American actress
September 5
* Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (d. 2006)
* George Lazenby, Australian actor
September 6
* Brigid Berlin, American actress and artist
* Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September 8 – Carsten Keller, German field hockey player
September 9 – Ron McDole, American football player
September 13
* Richard Kiel, American actor
* Guntis Ulmanis, former President of Latvia
September 15 – Ron Walker, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne and Australian businessman
September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
September 18
* Fred Willard, American comedian
* Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor
September 18 – Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal
September 23 – Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
September 26 – Ricky Tomlinson, British actor
September 29 – Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
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
* Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Bill Snyder, American football coach
October 8 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor
October 11 – Austin Currie, Irish politician
October 13 – T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
October 18
* Flavio Cotti, Swiss Federal Councilor
* Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
October 14 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
October 22
* George Cohen, English footballer
* Joaquim Chissano, President of Mozambique
October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
October 27 – John Cleese, British actor
October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet and novelist who created the Indian Hungry generation literary and cultural movement.
October 30
* Leland H. Hartwell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Grace Slick, American singer
October 31 – Ron Rifkin, American actor
November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress
November 6
* Athanasios Angelopoulos, Greek academic
* Carlos Emilio Morales, Cuban jazz guitarist
* Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
November 8
* Elizabeth Dawn, British actress
* 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
* Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist
* Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
* Amanda Lear, French model and singer
November 21 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
November 22 – Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer
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)
* Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress (d. 1986)
December 2
* Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician
* Harry Reid, American politician and U.S. Senate Majority Leader
December 5 – Minita Chico-Nazario, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
December 8 – James Galway, Irish flautist
December 11 – Thomas McGuane, American writer
December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations)
December 18
* Alex Bennett, American radio personality
* Robert T. Bennett, American politician
* Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writer
* Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
December 22 – Alfred J. Ferrara, American baseball player
December 27 – John Amos, American actor
January 2 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
January 8 – Charles Alexander Eastman, Native American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858)
January 18 – Ivan Mozzhukhin, Russian actor (b. 1889)
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 widow (b. 1869)
March 2 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
March 5 – Herbert Mundin, British actor (b. 1898)
March 19 – Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
March 21 – Evald Aav, Estonian composer (b. 1900)
March 28 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
April 4 – Ghazi of Iraq, King of Iraq (b. 1912)
April 6 – Bennie Dickson, American bank robber (b. unknown)
April 7 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
April 25 – John Foulds, British classical music composer (b. 1880)
April 25 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (b. 1873)
May 2 – Phillips Smalley, American actor and director (b. 1875)
May 10 – James Parrott, American actor (b. 1898)
May 22 – Ernst Toller, German playwright (b. 1893)
June 4 – Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1900)
June 6 – George Fawcett, American actor (b. 1860)
June 9 – Owen Moore, American actor (b. 1886)
June 16 – Chick Webb, American musician (b. 1905)
June 19 – Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
June 26 – Ford Madox Ford, English writer (b. 1873)
June 28 – Bobby Vernon, American actor (b. 1898)
July 14 – Alfons Mucha, Czech painter and decorative artist (b. 1860)
July 28 – Beryl Mercer, Spanish actress (b. 1882)
August 2 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (b. 1883)
August 11 – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer (b. 1909)
August 23 – Sidney Howard, American writer (b. 1891)
August 30 – Wilhelm Bölsche, German journalist and science writer (b. 1861)
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)
September 24 – Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867)
October 1 – Conway Tearle, American actor (b. 1878)
October 3 – Fay Templeton, American musical comedy star (b. 1865)
October 7 – Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (b. 1869)
October 13 – Ford Sterling, American actor (b. 1882)
October 23 – Zane Grey, American writer (b. 1872)
October 28 – Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
October 29 – Dwight B. Waldo, American educator and historian (b. 1864)
November 12 – Norman Bethune, Canadian humanitarian (b. 1890)
November 13 – Lois Weber, American actress (b. 1881)
November 24 – John Harron, American actor (b. 1903)
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 12 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
December 22 – Ma Rainey, American blues singer (b. 1886)
December 23 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch-American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1890)
date unknown – Keeleri Kunhikannan, father of the Kerala Circus
Physics – Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Chemistry – Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
Physiology or Medicine – Gerhard Domagk
Literature – Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Peace – not awarded
The 1930s Timeline: 1939 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
1939 Coin Pictures
Paula Phelan, 1939 Into The Dark, 2009, ZAPmedia.
Events
Below, events of World War II have the WWII prefix.January
February
: Golden Gate International Exposition opens.]]
March
April
May
June
: Siam is renamed "Thailand".]]
July
August
September
: Wieluń destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing.]] and Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.]]
October
November
: Hedda Hopper]]
December
: Gone with the Wind premieres.]]
Date unknown
Births
January–February
March–April
May–June
July–August
September–October
November–December
Deaths
January–June
July–December
Nobel Prizes
References
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