1939 deaths

Romanian politician (1893-1939)

French fencer (1876-1939)

Recipient of the Iron Cross (1894–1939)

Bohemian tennis player

Soviet diplomat (1892-1939)

Danish prince (1858-1939)

English artist (1860-1939)

French art dealer (1866-1939)

Russian poet, literary critic (1886–1939)

Hungarian politician (1886-1939)

Estonian wrestler (1900–1939)

German-American film producer (1867–1939)

American art critic and writer (1888–1939)

Polish politician (1873–1939)

Hungarian mechanical engineer (1860–1939)

Russian general of Baltic German origin (1867-1939)

French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)

German inventor and early filmmaker (1863–1939)

Romanian politician; first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, from 1919 to 1939 (1868-1939)

English astronomer and Astronomer Royal (1868–1939)

American comedian (1883–1939)

Swedish artist (1860–1939)

American playwright (1891–1939)

French-Lithuanian poet and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations (1877-1939)

Irish-born actor in American films (1886-1939)

Russian-born actor

Soviet politician (1889-1939)

British suffragist (1844-1939)

Roman Catholic missionary and saint (1865–1939)

Slovak writer (1855-1939), editor

Montenegrin prince (1871–1939)

British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939)

Polish mathematician and philosopher (1886-1939)

Polish linguist and lexicographer (1856–1939)

Norwegian writer (1876-1939)

German footballer (1912-1939)

American electrical engineer (1861–1939)

President of Mexico (1881-1939)

French composer and organist (1870–1939)

Polish writer and journalist, author of over a dozen popular novels (1898–1939)

American sculptor (1878–1939)

American musician (1905–1939)

Swiss physician (1867-1939)

Syrian politician (1889–1939)

Albanian painter, sculptor, photographer, architect and engineer (1860-1939)

American zoologist, geneticist (1856–1939)

Italian lexicographer (1863-1939)

Japanese writer (1873-1939)

Russian artist (1886-1939)

A bureaucrat during Japan's Meiji era. The only Japanese passenger on the Titanic.(1870–1939)

President of Bolivia (1870-1939)

Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)

Austrian archduke (1866-1939)

Austrian fencer (1872-1939)

Russian geologist (1861–1939)

13th Prime Minister of Norway (1856–1939)

Irish/British astronomer (1865–1939)

Austrian feminist and socialist (1869–1939)

American actor and director (1897–1939)

athletics competitor (1888–1939)