* 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 – 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.

Yet Adorno ’ s work continued with studies of Beethoven and Richard Wagner ( published in 1939 as " Fragments on Wagner "), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera.

* 1939: Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren

* Benjamin Tucker, ( 1854 – 1939 ), Individualist anarchist and Egoist ; English translator of the works of Max Stirner.

* Benjamin Brown ( 1885 – 1939 ), poultry trader who developed Roosevelt.

Composers of Slovenian Lieder and art songs include Emil Adamič ( 1877 – 1936 ), Fran Gerbič ( 1840 – 1917 ), Alojz Geržinič ( 1915 – 2008 ), Benjamin Ipavec ( 1829 – 1908 ), Davorin Jenko ( 1835 – 1914 ), Anton Lajovic ( 1878 – 1960 ), Kamilo Mašek ( 1831 – 1859 ), Josip Pavčič ( 1870 – 1949 ), Zorko Prelovec ( 1887 – 1939 ), and Lucijan Marija Škerjanc ( 1900 – 1973 ).

In his editorial capacity he closely adhered to this dictum. Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.

* Benjamin Harrison Lehmann ( 1889 – 1977 ), an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley ; they wed in 1937 and divorced in August 1939.

William Benjamin " Bill " Lenoir ( March 14, 1939 – August 26, 2010 ) was an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.

A man by the name of Dr. Benjamin Barber ( 1939 -????

* Benjamin Harrison Brown – 1939

In these years, he starred in romantic comedies such as Thin Ice and Day-Time Wife ; in dramas such as Suez, Blood and Sand, Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, The Rains Came, and In Old Chicago ; in the musicals, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Second Fiddle, and Rose of Washington Square ; in the westerns, Jesse James ( 1939 ) and Brigham Young ; in the war films, A Yank in the R. A. F.

* Benjamin Franklin ( 1938 ), winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Benjamin Zander ( born March 9, 1939, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England ) is an American conductor from the United Kingdom.

Benjamin Zander was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England on March 9, 1939.

Benjamin " Bob " Clark ( August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007 ) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story.

Jean de Broglie was the first son of Prince Eugene Marie Amédée de Broglie ( 1891 – 1957 ), himself the fourth son of Prince François Marie Albert de Broglie ( 1851 – 1939 ), himself the fourth son of Albert de Broglie, 4th duc de Broglie, whose mother, Albertine de Staël-Holstein ( 1797 – 1838 ), was the daughter of Germaine de Staël and, reputedly, Benjamin Constant.

* Benjamin Barber ( born 1939 ), American political scientist

* Benjamin Brown ( developer ) ( 1885 – 1939 ), Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant to the United States, developer of rural communities in New Jersey

Benjamin Brown ( 1885 – 1939 ) was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant to the United States who came to develop rural communities in New Jersey, including Roosevelt, New Jersey.

Gates is one the few athletes who went directly from a high school championship team ( Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938 ) to a World Professional Champion ( Rens, 1939 ).

In January 1939 the National Book Club published a new English edition of Mein Kampf, for which Bryant wrote a foreword praising Hitler ( with reservations: he denounced Nazi persecution of Jews ) and comparing him to Benjamin Disraeli.

In 1939 she met Benjamin Spock and, after giving a child analysis seminar in 1940, she became senior teacher of child analysis.

The term was coined in 1939 in a talk by folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin who, along with Alan Lomax, became the foremost proponent of this approach over the next thirty years.

Litt., Belfast, 1935 ; broadcast talk 13 July 1939, on Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol ; Shakespeare Lecture, British Academy, 1943 ; President, English Association, 1944 ; Vice-President, Royal Society of Literature, 1945.