* 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.

In 1939 he married Gwen Robb ( died 2000 ), whose two sons he adopted.

Cairns married Gwen Robb in 1939.

Gwen John ( 1876 – 1939 ) an interior life.

The film Lady of the Tropics ( 1939 ), directed by Jack Conway, with Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor is said to be inspired by the novel.

Taylor criticised Hoggan's thesis that Germany was the innocent victim of an Anglo-Polish conspiracy in 1939 as nonsense but many critics confused Taylor's thesis with Hoggan's.

* Stand Up and Fight ( 1939 ) with Robert Taylor and Charles Bickford

* Mudge, Eugene T. The Social Philosophy of John Taylor of Caroline ( New York: Columbia University Press 1939 ).

The tournament has awarded the Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player award since 1939, and the Charles Stevenson Hustle Award (" Charlie Hustle "), that was the basis for Pete Rose's nickname give to him by Whitey Ford.

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

The tournament MVP has been presented with the Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player award since 1939.

( 1939 film ), a 1939 film starring Robert Taylor and Greer Garson

Robert Taylor Jones ( February 8, 1884 – June 11, 1958 ) was the sixth Governor of the U. S. state of Arizona and served from 1939 to 1941.

Taylor attempted to discredit the document by using the fact that the future annexations described in the ' contingencies ' were unlike those that occurred in 1939, but opposing historians, such as Taylor's arch-rival, Hugh Trevor-Roper, have pointed out that the memorandum still demonstrated an intention for adding Austria, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Poland to the Reich.

The new Navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

In 1926, Killian graduated from college and got his first job as assistant managing editor of Technology Review ; he rose to editor-in-chief ; became executive assistant to then-president Karl Taylor Compton in 1939 ; vice-president of MIT in 1945 ; and succeeded Compton as president in 1949.

The first was recorded for Bluebird Records ( RCA-Victor's budget label ) on August 22, 1939 by The Pine Ridge Boys ( Marvin Taylor and Doug Spivey ), who were from Atlanta.

In Loewy's office Williams ' responsibilities included projects for the 1939 New York World's Fair, and the Lord and Taylor department store in Manhasset, Long Island in 1941, one of the first large suburban branches of a department store to be built.

The son of Thomas Hind Cowan and Robena Isabel Taylor, Cowan was educated at the Manitoba Law School in Winnipeg and was called to the Manitoba bar in 1939.

R. Dean Taylor ( born Richard Dean Taylor, 11 May 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ) is a Canadian singer, most famous as a recording artist, songwriter and record producer for Motown Records company during the 1960s and 1970s.

Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry ( born July 16, 1939 ) was Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997, following the First Liberian Civil War .< ref name = jenda >< em > Jenda Journal </ em >, " African Women Premier Ministers " The Council of State consisted of a civilian chair, as well as members: Charles Taylor, United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-K leader Alhaji Kromah, Liberia Peace Council leader George Boley, and two other civilians.

Will Taylor ( R ), until November 14, 1939

Taylor v. Standard Gas Co. 306 U. S. 307 ( 1939 ) is an important case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court, which laid down the " Deep Rock doctrine " as a rule of bankruptcy and corporate law.

The new model basin constructed at Carderock, Maryland, the finest facility of its kind in the world, was dedicated as the David Taylor Model Basin in his presence in 1939.

Taylor formed his own company in 1935 as Taylor Aircraft Company, renamed Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation in 1939.