* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineer ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – André Ouellet, French-Canadian politician

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1939 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer

* 1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Bulle Ogier, French actress

* 1939 – Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman

* 1939 – Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer

* 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

* 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist

* 1939 – Wes Craven, American director

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 2001 – Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer ( b. 1939 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1939: The names " Robert the Bruce " and " Mad Anthony Wayne " are the inspiration for " Bruce Wayne ", the name for the civilian identity of DC Comics superhero Batman.

** Alfred W. Anthony, American Baptist leader and professor of religion ( d. 1939 )

On 23 December 1939, Anthony Fokker died in New York City.

* Anthony Fokker, ( 1890 – 1939 ), aviation engineer

In the early 1940s, Hiller and husband Ronald Gow moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they brought up two children, Ann ( 1939 – 2006 ) and Anthony ( b. 1942 ), and lived together in the house called " Spindles " ( now demolished ).

Although the novel by Mary Shelley was long since in the public domain, Anthony Hinds was unsure about the script, as Subotsky's script adhered closely to the plot of the 1939 Universal film Son of Frankenstein, featuring a second-generation Baron Frankenstein emulating his father, the original monster-maker.

# Lord ( Claud ) Anthony Hamilton ( born 1939 ) ( younger son of the 4th Duke )

* Mark Anthony, a pseudonym of composer Tony Hatch ( born 1939 )

William Anthony Toomey ( born January 10, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is a former American track and field competitor and the 1968 Olympic decathlon champion.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

* Anthony Traill ( linguist ) ( 1939 – 2007 ), South African linguist

* Sir Anthony Dawson, Physician to the Queen from 1982-93 and Head from 1989-93 of the Medical Household ( 1939 – 46 )

Professor Anthony Traill ( 1939 – 2007 ) was a linguist ( specifically a phonetician ), who was the world's foremost authority on a San ( more broadly, a Khoisan ) language called! Xóõ.

Anthony David Steen ( born 22 July 1939 ) is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1974 to 2010, and the chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation.

* Anthony Fitzhardinge Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley ( b. 1939 ), her nephew

* Anthony William Vernon-Harcourt, 11th Baron Vernon ( b. 1939 )

* Anthony Charles Sackville Tufton, 6th Baron Hothfield ( b. 1939 )

John Anthony McGuckin ( 1939 — ), Orthodox Christian priest, academic and poet

* Adamthwaite, Anthony France and the Coming of the Second World War 1936 – 1939, London: Frank Cass, 1977, ISBN 0-7146-3035-7.

Wardell Anthony " Ward " Connerly ( born June 15, 1939 ) is an American political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent ( 1993 – 2005 ).

Wardell Anthony Connerly was born June 15, 1939, in Leesville, Louisiana.

The case was proven by Anthony P. Morse in 1939, and the general case by Arthur Sard in 1942.

Paul Anthony Sorvino ( born April 13, 1939 ) is an American actor.