* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1939 – John Badham, American director

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

* 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

* 1939 – John Amos, American actor

* 1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast and athlete ( b. 1879 )

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

John Dewey and English Education ( 1895 – 1939 ).

On 25 January 1939, a Columbia University team conducted the first nuclear fission experiment in the United States, which was done in the basement of Pupin Hall ; the members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, Enrico Fermi, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack.

* 1939 – John Fahey, American steel-string acoustic guitarist ( d. 2001 )

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

* John Ford Messer ( 1889 – 1949 ), Canadian local-level legislator ; served as Conservative member of New Brunswick Legislative Assembly from 1939 to 1944

* 1939 – John Howard, Australian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Australia

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

* 1939 – John Negroponte, American diplomat, 1st Director of National Intelligence

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

* John Brown ( American football ) ( born 1939 ), NFL player

* John Nash ( footballer ) ( 1867 – 1939 ), English footballer

* John Walker ( painter ) ( born 1939 ), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985

* 1939 John Fante's " Ask the Dust "

Lee Harvey Oswald ( October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963 ) was, according to four government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

* 1903 – John Harron, American actor ( d. 1939 )

* 1879 – John Grieb, American gymnast and athlete ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor

* He was portrayed by Vincent Price in 1939 horror film Tower of London.

Saint Vincent de Paul ’ s Basilica, erected between 1925 and 1939, is the largest church in Bydgoszcz and one of the biggest in Poland.

A confiscated self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh is auctioned at Gallerie Fisher, Lucerne, in 1939.

The Packard Twin Six ( designed by Jesse Vincent ) was introduced for 1932 and renamed the Packard Twelve for the remainder of its run ( through 1939 ).

The Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul ( Catholic ) founded St. Catherine's Seminary in 1939 with the purchase of the house Dunardagh, Temple Hill.

( His 1939 movie short for Vitaphone, Vincent Lopez and his Orchestra, features the entire band singing " Down with Nola.

Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939 novel Gadsby, famous for being written entirely in lipogram, was unable to find a publisher for his unusual work and ultimately chose to publish it through a vanity press.

Gadsby: A Story of Over 50, 000 Words Without Using the Letter " E " is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright.

Vincent C. Siew ( Siew Wan-chang ) () ( born 3 January 1939 ) was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2012.

Ernest Vincent Wright ( 1872October 7, 1939 ) was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50, 000 word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter " e ".

Vincent Leo Martin Hanna ( 9 August 1939 – 22 July 1997 ) was a Northern Irish television journalist famed for his coverage of United Kingdom by-elections.

Michel Debré had four sons: Vincent Debré ( 1939 –), businessman ; François Debré ( 1942 –), journalist ; Bernard Debré ( born in 1944 ), urologist and politician ; and his fraternal twin, Jean-Louis Debré, politician.

This film marks a reunion between Bette Davis and Vincent Price, after 48 years, having last appeared on screen together in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ).

Of all her songs, her 1939 La Java Bleue, with music by Vincent Scotto, proved her most popular.

In July 1936 the squadron re-equipped with the Vickers Vincent, although some float-equipped Gordons were kept until June 1939.

* 1934 – 1939: Henry Vincent Hodson, later editor of the Sunday Times

In 1988 he wrote a biography of John Vincent Atanasoff, the Iowa State College professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939.

Frank Vincent Gattuso ( born August 4, 1939 ), known professionally as Frank Vincent, is an American actor, musician, author and entrepreneur.

│ │ ├──> Vincent Debré ( 1939 -), businessman

His second wife, whom he married in August 1939, when she was 21 and he was 63, was Helen Huntington " Peggy " Marshall, the stepdaughter of the philanthropist Brooke Astor and a niece of Vincent Astor.

Lee Wiley was among the first to record collections of one specific songwriter or songwriting team, beginning with George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin ( 1939 ), followed by Cole Porter ( 1940 ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ( 1940 ), Harold Arlen ( 1943 ), Irving Berlin ( 1951 ) and Vincent Youmans ( 1951 ).

The Citizens Theatre repertory group, originally called the Citizens Company, was founded in 1943 by gallery director Tom Honeyman and dramatists James Bridie and Paul Vincent Carroll, the latter of whose plays were first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin ( founder W. B. Yeats ) and later on Broadway, winning the New York Drama Critics ' Circle award for Shadow and Substance ( 1938 ) and The White Steed ( 1939 ).