Historical figures in 1939

The atlas holds 74 people and 121 moments here, in 1939. The most recorded lives are Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Hideki Yukawa. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Artists.

Notable people

1. Ernest Hemingway

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   American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…

2. Erwin Schrödinger

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   Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

3. Federico Fellini

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   Italian film director and screenwriter whose career developed from caricature and comic writing in Rimini and Rome into internationally influential…

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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   Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

5. Frida Kahlo

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   Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) was born in Coyoacán and spent much of her life in Mexico City.…

6. Gabriela Mistral

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   Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…

7. Helen Keller

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   Helen Adams Keller was an American deafblind author, lecturer, disability-rights advocate, and political activist.…

8. Hideki Yukawa

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   Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

9. Igor Stravinsky

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   Russian-born composer, conductor, and pianist who became a French citizen in 1934 and an American citizen in 1945.…

10. Isaac Asimov

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    American writer and biochemist best known for science fiction, popular-science writing, and the Foundation and Robot series.…

11. Jawaharlal Nehru

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    Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and statesman who became independent India’s first prime minister, serving from 15 August 1947 until his…

12. Joan Fontaine

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    British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…

13. John Cornforth

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    Australian-British organic chemist and 1975 Nobel Prize laureate, noted for elucidating the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions.…

14. John F. Kennedy

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…

15. Jomo Kenyatta

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    Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…

16. José Raúl Capablanca

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    Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…

17. J. R. R. Tolkien

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    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…

18. Juan Perón

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    Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine army officer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and again from 1973 until his…

19. Judy Garland

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    American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…

20. Junko Tabei

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    Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975 and the first woman to complete the Seven…

21. Katharine Hepburn

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    American stage, film, and television actress whose career ran from 1928 to 1995. Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, educated at Bryn Mawr…

22. Konstantin Chernenko

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    Soviet Communist Party official and General Secretary of the CPSU from 13 February 1984 until his death.…

23. Kwame Nkrumah

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    Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…

24. Leon Trotsky

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    Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…

Moments

1. 1939 Wartime district officer in Kulim Tunku Abdul Rahman
2. 1939 Travel to Los Angeles for Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh
3. 1939 Security guard at Kibbutz Ginosar Yitzhak Rabin
4. 1939 Attends launch of Bismarck Adolf Hitler
5. 1939 Snow White Academy Award Walt Disney
6. 1939 Arrives in Klaipėda Adolf Hitler
7. 1939 Enters Prague Castle Adolf Hitler
8. 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture at St Andrews J. R. R. Tolkien
9. 1939 Government Code and Cypher School course J. R. R. Tolkien
10. 1939 The Philadelphia Story opens on Broadway Katharine Hepburn
11. 1939 Marriage to Princess Fawzia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
12. 1939 Teacher at Western Mungyeong Public School Park Chung Hee
13. 1939 Attends Tirpitz launch in Wilhelmshaven Adolf Hitler
14. 1939 Relocation to Hollywood Alfred Hitchcock
15. 1939 Birth in Mashhad Ali Khamenei
16. 1939 Relocation to Pasadena Elizabeth Taylor
17. 1939 Opens New York World's Fair by television Franklin Delano Roosevelt
18. 1939 Final residence on Avenida Viena Leon Trotsky
19. 1939 Visits Orissa at provincial invitation Rabindranath Tagore
20. 1939 Professor at Kyoto Imperial University Hideki Yukawa
21. 1939 Birth in Geula Ada Yonath
22. 1939 Sails to Mount Vernon with British monarchs Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. 1939 Departure from Kobe for first overseas journey Hideki Yukawa
24. 1939 Meets Szilárd and Wigner on Long Island Albert Einstein
25. 1939 Met Philip at Dartmouth Elizabeth II
26. 1939 Attendance at the first World Science Fiction Convention Isaac Asimov
27. 1939 Medical visit to Moscow Zhou Enlai
28. 1939 Politburo meetings in Yan'an Zhou Enlai
29. 1939 Mobilization in the Ardennes Claude Simon
30. 1939 Fishes at Campobello Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. 1939 Fishes in Bonne Bay Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32. 1939 Fishes in Newfoundland's Bay of Islands Franklin Delano Roosevelt
33. 1939 Fishing trip through Atlantic Canada Franklin Delano Roosevelt
34. 1939 Stops in Halifax Franklin Delano Roosevelt
35. 1939 Arrival at Naples Hideki Yukawa
36. 1939 Boarding at Hamburg Hideki Yukawa
37. 1939 Departure for Britain aboard SS Orama John Cornforth
38. 1939 The Wizard of Oz New York premiere Judy Garland
39. 1939 Final European concert Sergei Rachmaninoff
40. 1939 Final family gathering in Paris before wartime departure Sergei Rachmaninoff
41. 1939 Enters Gdańsk Adolf Hitler
42. 1939 Inspects siege front near Warsaw Adolf Hitler
43. 1939 Inspects Westerplatte Adolf Hitler
44. 1939 Visits front near Ubieszyn Adolf Hitler
45. 1939 Reports to Bletchley Park Alan Turing
46. 1939 Attacked at Bitche in the Saar Offensive Charles de Gaulle
47. 1939 Sapienza enrollment Federico Fellini
48. 1939 Move to Arcan Ridge Helen Keller
49. 1939 Congress Working Committee meeting Jawaharlal Nehru
50. 1939 Attended Parliament's war speeches John F. Kennedy

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