* 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.

She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

His British films included Yes, Mr Brown ( 1933 ), Good Night, Vienna ( 1932 ), That's a Good Girl ( 1933 ), Brewster's Millions ( 1935 ), Come Out of the Pantry ( 1935 ), When Knights Were Bold ( 1936 ), This'll Make You Whistle ( 1936 ), Smash and Grab ( 1937 ), The Sky's the Limit ( 1938 ), Break the News ( 1938 ), The Gang's All Here ( 1939 ), The Middle Watch ( 1940 ), Bulldog Sees It Through ( 1940 ), As Long as They're Happy ( 1955 ), and Josephine and Men ( 1955 ).

In 1939 Josephine sued 20th Century Fox for $ 50, 000 in an attempt to keep them from making the film titled Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal.

Josephine Tewson ( born 26 February 1939 ) is an English actress.

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

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 – Jet Harris, English bassist ( The Shadows, The Jeff Beck Group, and The Vipers Skiffle Group ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1939 – Mary Peters, English athlete