* 1939 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver ( d. 1974 )

* 1939 – Peter Bogdanovich, American director

* 1974 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver ( b. 1939 )

* March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver ( b. 1939 )

* The beginning lines of Rodgers and Hart's 1939 song " Give it Back to the Indians " recount the sale of Manhattan: Old Peter Minuit had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan / For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and Staten / Pete thought that he had the best of the bargin but the poor red man just grinned / And he grunted " ugh!

Peter Bogdanovich ( Serbian: Петар Богдановић, Petar Bogdanović, born July 30, 1939 ) is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic.

Since Infante John's and Infante Peter's deaths in 1939, Infante Philip ( son of Sancho IV and María de Molina, thus brother of Infante Peter ), Juan Manuel ( the king's second-degree uncle by virtue of being Ferdinand III's grandson ) and Juan el Tuerto ( the late Juan's son and the king's second-degree uncle ) split the kingdom among themselves according to their aspirations for regency, even as it was being looted by moors and Levantine nobility.

In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones building.

These include eight motion pictures starring Peter Lorre between 1937 and 1939, 23 radio shows starring James Monks broadcast in 1951, a 1965 film starring Henry Silva, and a 2003 comic book produced by Moonstone Books.

Between 1937 and 1939 eight motion pictures were produced by 20th Century Fox starring Peter Lorre as Mr. Kentaro Moto.

* In the Teeth of the Evidence ( 1939 ) ( editions published after 1942 usually add Talboys, the last story Sayers wrote with Lord and Lady Peter Wimsey )

In 1939, Hungarian engineer Peter Carl Goldmark introduced an electro-mechanical system while at CBS, which contained an Iconoscope sensor.

She married the journalist Peter Fleming in 1935, and in 1939 gave birth to their first child, a son.

* Nicholas " Nichol " Peter Val Fleming ( 3 January 1939 – 9 May 1995 ), spent most of his life at the Fleming family home in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, as a farmer.

Peter Edward " Ginger " Baker ( born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London ) is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith.

* Peter Warren ( radio ) ( born 1939 ), Canadian investigative journalist and radio host

* Prof. Peter Glotz, SPD politician, publicist and media analyst, member of the German Bundestag ; born in Cheb in 1939.

From 1936 to 1939, Cooper pursued a screenwriting career in Hollywood ( his major credits are the screenplay for Universal's 1939 Son of Frankenstein and contributions to the Mr. Moto mystery series starring Peter Lorre ) but continued to work in radio, advertising and, later, television.

Peter Miguel Camejo ( December 31, 1939 – September 13, 2008 ) was an American author, activist and politician.

Other lost theatres on Strand include the Gaiety Theatre ( closed in 1939, building demolished in 1957 ), Terry's Theatre ( converted into a cinema 1910, demolished 1923 ), and the Tivoli ( closed 1914 and later demolished ; in 1923 the Tivoli Cinema opened on the site and was closed and demolished in 1957 to make way for Peter Robinson's store ).

By 1939, Neuberger had made enough money to buy the first painting that he would lend out to promote the artist: Peter Hurd's Boy from the Plains.

(( Kennedy / Carr ) Peter Maurice Music Co Ltd 1939 )

It was they who, much later on ( in 1939 ) finally rejected the authority of Peter Verigin's great-grandson, John J. Verigin.

* Peter Revson ( 1939 – 1974 ) Racecar Driver

The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

* Alexander Fleming ( 1881-1955 ), biologist and Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, was Regional Pathologist at Harefield Hospital, 1939 ; this is recorded on a blue plaque at the main entrance door to the Hospital

* Richard Fleming George Charles Grey, 6th Earl Grey ( born 1939 )

In 1938 she was chosen to play Glinda, " the Good Witch of the North ", in the Oscar-winning seminal 1939 musical film The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming, with Judy Garland.

According to historian Ben Macintyre, Cholmondeley got the idea from a 1939 memo written by Ian Fleming, later author of the James Bond novels.

Children were also sometimes played by older actors at the time ; the sixteen year-old Judy Garland had very convincingly played twelve year-old Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz, another film directed by Victor Fleming, and the nineteen-year-old Charlotte Henry had played Alice in Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ).

James Sydney Clark " Jim " Fleming, PC ( born October 30, 1939 ) is a former Canadian broadcaster and politician.

* Konrad Müller, Paul Fleming und das Haus Schönburg ( Waldenburg, Saxony: 1939 )

On 12 January 1939, the Army Council sent an ultimatum, signed by Patrick Fleming, to British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax.

Gardner claimed to have learned the beliefs and practises that would later become known as Gardnerian Wicca from the New Forest Coven, who initiated him into their ranks in 1939.

Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939 into a tradition of religious witchcraft that he believed to be a continuation of European Paganism.

Settling down near the New Forest, he joined an occult group, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, through which – he claimed – he encountered the New Forest coven, into which he was initiated in 1939.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

In 1939, the German Colonial Gazette ( of Angola ) published a letter by Frau Ilse von Nolde, who asserted that she had heard of the animal called " coye ya menia " (" water lion ") from many claimed eyewitnesses, both natives and settlers.

The figure at the forefront of the burgeoning Wiccan movement was the English esotericist Gerald Gardner, who claimed to have been initiated by the New Forest coven in 1939.

Raeder later claimed during his testimony at Nuremberg and in his memoirs to have been opposed to the denunciation of the A. G. N. A., which he claimed to have been kept in the dark about, but contemporary evidence from 1939, not the least Raeder's own role as the author of the Z Plan suggests otherwise.

Raeder claimed that he was not involved in a conspiracy to commit aggression because Hitler's statements in the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 and again to senior officers including Raeder for plans for a war with Poland in May and August 1939 together with Raeder's own statements to Hitler about seizing Norway in October – November 1939 were all just mere talk that was not to be taken seriously.

In Bonifica antiborghese ( 1939 ), Roberto Paravese claimed:

My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts " Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer's namesake is his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer.

In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1936 – 41 ) and King of the Albanians ( 1939 – 43 ), which were unrecognised by the Great Powers.

Elsewhere he has insisted: With regard to the 1930s, he has written that Gina Herrmann, in her 2010 study of Spanish communists ' memoirs, claimed that " of the many myths that Western Communists lived by, perhaps the most abiding is that of Communist anti-Fascism of the 1930s and 1940s — one that was consolidated in Spain's Civil War of 1936 – 1939.

This may be based on a claimed sighting by a British sailor in 1939.

They married in London in June 1939 and divorced in Los Angeles, California, on 25 February 1942 ( it was finalized on 6 March ); Gabor claimed cruelty, saying, " I wanted to have babies and lead a simple family life but my husband objected to my having children ".

Both reactions generate roughly a million times more energy than comparable chemical reactions, making nuclear bombs a million times more powerful than non-nuclear bombs, which a French patent claimed in May 1939.

The British historian A. J. P. Taylor's 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War claimed that Hitler had no master-plan for conquering the world and was instead an opportunistic leader seizing whatever chances he had for expansionism, and that the war that started over Poland in 1939 was due to diplomatic miscalculation on the part of the Germans, the British, the French and the Poles instead of being a case of German aggression.

A notable example of the Primat der Innenpolitik approach was the claim by the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason who claimed that the launch of World War II in 1939 was best understood as a “ barbaric variant of social imperialism ”.

Dorothy Clutterbuck ( 19 January 1880 – 12 January 1951 ), was a wealthy Englishwoman who was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939.

After her death in 1951, Clutterbuck was identified by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven of witches into which he claimed to have been initiated in September 1939.

Musicologist Alfred Frankenstein, in a 1939 article for The Musical Quarterly, claimed to have identified seven pictures by catalogue number.

The Milwaukee market is now claimed by the Green Bay Packers, who played three or four regular season games there from 1931-94, including the 1939 NFL Championship Game and a 1967 playoff game.

However, there is some Amerindian heritage among prior Bolivian presidents, such as Andrés de Santa Cruz ( 1829 — who claimed that through his mother he was descended from Inca rulers, Mariano Melgarejo ( 1864 ), Carlos Quintanilla ( 1939 ), René Barrientos ( 1964 ), Juan José Torres ( 1976 ), Luis García Meza ( 1980 ), and Celso Torrelio ( 1981 ).

Federal WPA administrator Harry Hopkins claimed an internal investigation of the agency refuted all but two of Stokes ' charges, but Stokes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1939 for his investigation.