* 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 – Billy " Crash " Craddock, American singer

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including Old Oklahoma Plains ( 1952 ), Down Laredo Way ( 1953 ), One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ) with Marlon Brando, Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ), Major Dundee ( 1965 ) with Charlton Heston, the remake of Stagecoach ( 1966 ; Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine ), Never a Dull Moment ( 1968 ), The Cowboys ( 1972 ) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning ( 1974 ) with Fred Ward, Blazing Saddles ( 1974 ), Poor Pretty Eddy ( 1975 ), Rancho Deluxe ( 1975 ), The Getaway with Steve McQueen, Tom Horn ( 1980 ), also with McQueen, An Eye for an Eye ( 1966 ) and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) in a small but memorable role.

Australia entered the Second World War on 3 September 1939 and a special War Cabinet was created after war was declared – initially composed of Prime Minister Menzies and five senior ministers including Billy Hughes.

* 1939 ( 1 ) Walter Hagen 25th Anniversary ( with Billy Burke )

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

* Billy the Kid ( 1939 )-ballet to the music of Aaron Copland-dancer

Although he continued to occasionally play leads – notably when he was a playboy in Billy Wilder's Midnight with Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in 1939 – in the late 1930s Lederer began to expand his film acting repertoire with offbeat character parts, even playing villains.

The return of Billy Southworth in 1939 brought another league championship to Rochester.

A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today George Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, the original Scarface ( 1932 ), and Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ), and as a dancer in Bolero ( 1934 ) and a truck driver in They Drive by Night ( 1940 ).

Butlin had several children from his three marriages: Shirley ( born 1931 to Dolly ), Robert ( born to Nora in 1934 as Robert F. Reeves ), Cherie ( also known as Cherry ) ( born to Nora in 1939 ), Sandra ( born 1941 ), William Jr ( also known as Billy ) ( born 1960 to Sheila ), and Jacquie ( born to Sheila ).

* Billy Reid ( Irish republican ) ( 1939 – 1971 ), volunteer and Staff Officer in C Company, Third Battalion of the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

* Billy Robinson ( born 1939 ), British professional wrestler and trainer

* Billy Ellis ( 1895 – 1939 ), English footballer

Adnan Bin Abdulkareem Ahmed Alkaissy El Farthie ( born March 1, 1939 ), better known professionally as Adnan Al-Kaissie, is a former Iraqi professional wrestler and manager best known as Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissy, Billy White Wolf, or General Adnan.

Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy ( with some elements of screwball comedy ) directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz.

* 1939 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer ( d. 2007 )

Charles Joseph " Joe " Clark, ( born June 5, 1939 ) is a Canadian statesman, businessman, and university professor, and former journalist and politician.

The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ); the planet was given its first full-fledged appearance in Superman # 1 ( Summer 1939 ).

In 1939, she accepted producer Joe Pasternak's offer ( and a pay cut ) to play against type in her first film in two years: that of the cowboy saloon girl, Frenchie, in the light-hearted western Destry Rides Again, opposite James Stewart.

She and McCoy broke up in 1935, and by 1939 she was with Little Son Joe Lawlers.

1939 sheet music cover, " Introduced by Glenn Miller ", Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., New York. Notable artists who have recorded big-band versions of " In The Mood " include the Joe Loss Orchestra, Xavier Cugat, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lubo D ' Orio, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Shadows and John Williams with the Boston Pops Orchestra.

* Joe Clark ( born 1939 ), former Prime Minister of Canada

) He appeared in many Italian films in the period of 1939 to 1942 and returned to Hollywood for a bit part as himself in Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ).

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts ( including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles ) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens ' essay " Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters ", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

She designed for Hudson from 1939 into 1941, leaving the company when she married Joe Oros, then a designer for Cadillac.

Six world title boxing bouts were held there, including the 1939 Joe Louis-Jack Roper fight.

* Joe Taylor ( American football ) ( born 1939 ), former professional American football cornerback

Created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, he first appeared in a newspaper comic strip in 1939 with Superman.

* Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President ( 1939 )

Wesley Morse ( who later went on to draw Bazooka Joe ) is believed to have drawn many of those appearing shortly before WWII, most notably several titles inspired by the 1939 World's Fair.

In February 1939, Joe Ryan opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today.

After his illustrious career as a player, Cuyler managed in the minor leagues, winning the regular-season Southern Association pennant in 1939 under Joe Engel with the Chattanooga Lookouts, with one of the only fan-owned franchises in the nation.

Joe McPhee ( born November 3, 1939 ) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone.

As early as 1939 surfers from Torquay made their way to Bells but access was a considerable problem until 1960 when Torquay surfers and Olympic wrestler Joe Sweeney hired a bulldozer and cleared a road along the Bells cliff from the Cobb & Co Road, where the concrete wave now stands, down to the beach.

The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins ( Gwyneth Paltrow ), a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph " Joe " Sullivan ( Jude Law ), alias " Sky Captain ," as they track down the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf ( Laurence Olivier ), who is seeking to build the " World of Tomorrow ".

Devane was born in Albany, New York, in 1939 according to some sources, the son of Joseph ( Joe ) Devane, who had been Franklin D. Roosevelt's chauffeur when he was Governor of New York.

* Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence ( 1939 ) as Joe

Joe Young ( July 4, 1889 – April 21, 1939 ) was a lyricist.

During the fourth game of the 1939 World Series, in the tenth inning, with the score tied and runners on first and third, Joe DiMaggio singled.