* 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.

* 2002 – Eric Flynn, British actor / singer ( b. 1939 )

Away from the professionals, Epitaph for a Spy ( 1938 ), " The Mask of Dimitrios " ( US: A Coffin for Dimitrios, 1939 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1940 ) by Eric Ambler, concern the fortunes of amateurs entangled in espionage.

She moved with her first husband, a Swedish osteopath, Eric V. Drimmer in 1939, shortly after they married in London.

The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944 ) is an American film noir directed by Jean Negulesco and written by Frank Gruber, based on the 1939 novel of the same name written by Eric Ambler ( in America the novel was titled A Coffin for Dimitrios ).

It has been said that there was originally an arrow here to complement Eric Aumonier's Archer statue at station, and that this was stolen shortly after the station opened ; however, East Finchley was not served by the Underground until 1939 and the statue was not erected until 1940.

" A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " is a romantic British popular song written in 1939 with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin.

Edmund Phipps, third son of the 1st Earl, was British Ambassador to Belgium from 1900 to 1906, while his son Sir Eric Phipps was British Ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1937 and to France between 1937 and 1939.

Arnold Eric Sevareid ( November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992 ) was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977.

In August 1939 he handled a major political crisis brought about when the former Deputy Leader of the governing United Australia Party, Eric Spooner brought down Premier Stevens in a motion of no confidence.

Eric Tomlinson ( born 26 September 1939 ), known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English actor, comedian and activist best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and Jim Royle in The Royle Family.

* Eric Newby passed within sight of Inaccessible Island on his 1938 / 1939 voyage from Ireland to Australia aboard Moshulu, as chronicled in his books The Last Grain Race and Learning the Ropes.

This is usually a straightforward decision, though occasionally the Governor has to make a judgment, as in August 1939 when the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, handled a major political crisis brought about when the former Deputy Leader of the governing United Australia Party, Eric Spooner brought down Premier Bertram Stevens in a motion of no confidence.

The firm traces its history to 1939, when Eric Warburg of the Warburg banking family founded a company under the name E. M. Warburg & Co. Its first address was 52 William Street, New York, the Kuhn Loeb building.

Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron ( both 1934 – 1935 ), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon ( 1934 – 1935 ), Douglas Webb ( 1935 – 1936 ) and Sir John Hill ( who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary ; 1938 – 1939 ), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way ( both 1935 – 1936 ), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Cambridge and John Gaskain ( 1936 – 1937 ) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Durham, Albert Wilcox ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams ( 1938 – 1939 ) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth ( 1939 ) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley.

Eric William Flynn ( 13 December 1939 – 4 March 2002 ) was a Chinese born British film and stage actor and singer.

Born the son of Eric Lewin and Maggie Lewin ( née Falconer ) and educated at The Judd School in Tonbridge, where he was head prefect in 1938, Lewin joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1939.

Port Victoria was visited by English travel author Eric Newby in 1939, while he was crew in the 4-masted barque Moshulu.

Stevens had been in conflict with the deputy leader of the UAP, Eric Spooner since 1936 for not running a balanced budget and, Spooner resigned from cabinet in July 1939 and on 1 August, moved a no confidence motion against him, succeeding by two votes.

* The 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex dramatised the Queen's relationship with Devereux, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn ; it is based on Maxwell Anderson's 1930 play Elizabeth the Queen and Lytton Strachey's romantic account Elizabeth and Essex.

He had supporting roles in several major films: Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), Dodsworth ( 1936 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ); and leading roles in The Dawn Patrol ( 1938 ), Three Blind Mice ( 1938 ), and Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), playing opposite such stars as Errol Flynn, Loretta Young and Laurence Olivier.

She appeared in three other box office hits in 1939, The Old Maid with Miriam Hopkins, Juarez with Paul Muni and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Errol Flynn.

Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland in eight films: Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), Dodge City ( 1939 ), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ), and They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ).

During the shooting of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Flynn and co-star Bette Davis quarrelled off-screen, causing Davis to allegedly strike him harder than necessary while filming a scene.

With Errol Flynn in Dodge City ( 1939 film ) | Dodge City ( 1939 )

Dodge City is a 1939 American Western film starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Bruce Cabot.

In the mid-30s, he began the highly successful cycle of adventure films starring Errol Flynn that included Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk and Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).

Pádraig Flynn ( born 9 May 1939 ) is a former Irish politician.

Another of his Tudor plays, Elizabeth the Queen, was adapted as The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), starring the legendary actress Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.

* Dodge City ( 1939 film ), a Western starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland

She received substantial roles and positive reaction from critics and moviegoers in such films as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), opposite James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Dodge City ( 1939 ) with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Torrid Zone with Cagney and They Drive by Night with George Raft and Bogart ( both 1940 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ) with Bette Davis, and Kings Row ( 1942 ), in which she received top billing playing opposite Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, and Betty Field.

Raymond Leo Flynn ( born July 22, 1939 ), also known as Ray Flynn, served as Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1984 until 1993.

He also co starred with Olivia De Havilland and Errol Flynn in the successful western film Dodge City ( 1939 ) where he played the slightly dim witted, but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, side kick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton.

An undistinguished period followed with Paramount Pictures from 1935 to 1939, but Walsh's career rose to new heights soon after moving to Warner Brothers, with The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ) featuring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart ; Dark Command ( 1940 ) with John Wayne and Roy Rogers ; They Drive By Night ( 1940 ) with George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Bogart ; High Sierra ( 1941 ) with Lupino and Bogart again ; They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ) with Errol Flynn as Custer ; The Strawberry Blonde ( 1941 ) with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ; Manpower ( 1941 ) with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft ; and White Heat ( 1949 ) with Cagney.

Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, the grandson of the Premier of Quebec Edmund James Flynn, he graduated in law from Université Laval in and was called to the Quebec Bar both in 1939.

In 1939 Presbyterian Church of Australia elected Flynn to the primus inter pares role of Moderator-General.

Flynn was born on December 13 1939 on Hainan, where his father was a Customs officer for the Hong Kong government.