1939 deaths

Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)

Irish poet and playwright (1865–1939)

pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

British egyptologist (1874–1939)

Russian revolutionary and politician (1869-1939)

Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)

American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)

Spanish poet and essayist (1875–1939); created the apocryphal poets Abel Martín and Juan de Mairena as philosophical heteronyms

Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)

American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer (1883–1939)

Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball

Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer

American actress (1892–1939)

German politician (1865-1939)

Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)

British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)

Swiss psychiatrist (1857–1939)

Polish artist, dramatist and novelist (1885–1939)

German mathematician (1852–1939)

German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)

Russian revolutionary (1885-1939)

Marshal of the Soviet Union (1883-1939)

King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (1912-1939) (ruled 1933-1939)

American novelist (1872–1939)

Russian artist (1861-1939)

French philosopher (1857-1939)

English writer and publisher (1873-1939)

American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939)

Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (1890-1939)

Polish politician (1864–1939)

German general (1880–1939)

German politician (1873-1939)

English book illustrator (1867-1939)

Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (1879-1939)

Viceregal consort of Canada (1848–1939)

Russian painter (1878–1939)

Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)

Austrian association football player (1903-1939)

American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)

Danish chemist

American blues singer (1886–1939)

Russian artist (1884-1939)

Finnish academic (1862–1939)

Soviet aviator

British architect (1865–1939)

American actor/film director (1879-1939)

Welsh painter (1876-1939)

President of Latvia (1871-1939)

President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933

German general (1867-1939)

German Generalfeldmarschall (1865–1939)

Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)

President of Mexico (1863-1939)

French racing cyclist (1881–1939)

Chinese general and warlord (1874–1939)

Canadian physician, medical innovator and humanitarian (1890-1939)

Estonian composer and choirmaster (1900–1939)

President of the Republic of China (1855–1939)

Romanian politician (1893-1939)

Russian artist (1869-1939)