* 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.

Jet Harris MBE ( 6 July 1939 – 18 March 2011 ), born Terence Harris, was an English musician.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Harris and Folkers in 1939 determined the structure of pyridoxine, and, in 1945, Snell was able to show the two forms of vitamin B < sub > 6 </ sub >, pyridoxal and pyridoxamine.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

Disney first began to negotiate with Harris ' family for the rights in 1939, and by late summer of that year he already had one of his storyboard artists summarize the more promising tales and draw up four boards ' worth of story sketches.

In 1939, when All Hallows Lombard Street was demolished in the City of London, its distinctive stone tower designed by Christopher Wren, with its peal of ten bells and connecting stone cloister, and the interior furnishings, including a Renatus Harris organ and a pulpit used by John Wesley, were brought to Twickenham to be incorporated in the new All Hallows Church on Chertsey Road ( A316 ) near Twickenham Stadium.

Harris ' siblings include Patrick Ivan ( born 1929 ), Noel William Michael ( born 1932 ), Diarmid ( Dermot, born 1939 ), and William George Harris ( born 1942 ).

As early as 1939, Harris began teaching his students about linguistic transformations and the regularizing of texts in discourse analysis.

In 1937 Harris was promoted to Air Commodore and in 1938 he was posted to Palestine and Trans-Jordan as Air Officer Commanding the RAF contingent in the region until September 1939.

Air Commodore Arthur Harris was in charge here from 11 September 1939 until 22 November 1940.

* 11 September 1939 Air Vice-Marshal A T Harris

Mike Harris ( born 25 May 1939 in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia ) is a South African former racing driver.

Elmer Frank Harris ( born November 1939, Seal Cove, Conception Bay Newfoundland ), is a noted Canadian humanitarian.

Elmer Beseler Harris ( born April 8, 1939 ) is an American businessman and political strategist.

Lying Lips is a 1939, melodrama, race movie by Oscar Micheaux, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones ( the father of James Earl Jones ).

Inspired by A. Jack Thomas, who had been appointed conductor of the city's municipally supported African American performance groups, Charles L. Harris led the Baltimore Colored Chorus and Symphony Orchestra from 1929 to 1939, when a strike led to the company's dissolution.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.

* 1939 – Jimmie Nicol, English drummer ( Colin Hicks & The Cabin Boys )

* 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer ( The Lana Sisters and The Springfields ) ( d. 1999 )

* 1939 – Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter ( Cream, Blind Faith, Blues Incorporated, and Atomic Rooster )

* 1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer ( d. 2004 )

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

* 1939 – Kate O ' Mara, English actress

* 1939 – David Frost, English broadcaster and television host

* 1939 – Philip Langridge, English opera singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1992 – Michael Gothard, English actor ( b. 1939 )

( 1939 ), " Roger Leyburn and the Pacification of England, 1265-7 ", English Historical Review, 54.

John Dewey and English Education ( 1895 – 1939 ).

One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.

* 1939 – Gwen Taylor, English actress

* 1939 – Josephine Tewson, English actress

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

He developed his ideas in Feudal Society ( 1939 – 40 ; English 1961 ).

Howard Carter ( 9 May 18742 March 1939 ) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun.

* 1939 – Tony Bullimore, English sailor and adventurer

* 1939 – Michael Gothard, English actor ( d. 1992 )

* 2009 – Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician ( b. 1939 )

* 1939 – Ian Hunter, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Mott the Hoople )

* 1939 – Mary Peters, English athlete