William Burroughs went to a Korzybski workshop in the Autumn of 1939.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* Parke, Herbert William, History of the Delphic Oracle, 1939.

* 1939 – William O ' Connor, American fencer ( b. 1864 )

* 1939 – William Levy, Dutch writer

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.

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Time of Your Life ( 1939 ) includes a colorful character, an old man, based on the image and reputation of Kit Carson.

* William James Mayo ( 1861 – 1939 ), co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

* 1864 – William O ' Connor, American fencer ( d. 1939 )

They had two sons, Edward ( born 1935 ) and William ( born 1939 ).

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

Newfoundland marine insurance agent and historian William A. Munn ( 1864 – 1939 ), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book " Wineland Voyages: Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland " that the Vinland explorers " went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called today ".

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* June 13 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1939 )

In 1939, Illinois State Senator William " Botchy " Connors remarked " You couldn't give that guy a nickel, that's how honest he is.

The first edition was published in 1939, set and printed in Great Britain by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth, in Walbaum type, twelve point, leaded, on a toned opaque-wove paper made by John Dickinson, and bound by James Burn.

* Parke, Herbert William, A History of the Delphic Oracle, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, ASIN B002NZWT0Y ( 1939 )

In 1939, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera presented him with their project for a series of cartoons featuring a cat and a mouse.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was the oldest of four children, with his siblings being brother Charles Hay ( 29 August 1865 – 8 November 1939 ) and sisters Ethel Marian ( 30 October 1867 – 4 February 1943 ) and Katharine Elizabeth ( 1871 – 1939 ).

bill bissett ( born William Frederick Bissett, November 23, 1939 ) is a Canadian poet famous for his anti-conventional style.

* William Butler Yeats ( June 13, 1865-January 28, 1939 )

Lang was ousted as NSW Opposition Leader in 1939 and was replaced by William McKell, who became Premier in 1941.

It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).

William Van Horn ( born February 15, 1939 ) has been a Disney comics artist and writer since 1988.

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.

Hanna and many other employees complained that the idea wasn't very original ; nevertheless, the short was completed in late 1939, and released to theaters on February 10, 1940.

The first angleball game played was in the late 1960s at camp La Junta in Hunt, Texas when the Corry High School Beavers hosted the Corry's athletic director, Lou Hanna and Titusville's athletic director, Roy Van Horn, had been teammates on the 1939 Slippery Rock State Teachers College undefeated championship football team.

* 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1879 )

* 1939: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin agree partition of Poland in Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

In 1939 Holt's mentor Robert Menzies became Prime Minister after the sudden death of the incumbent Joseph Lyons and the short-term caretaker ministry of Sir Earle Page.

* Hugh Joseph Tallon The concept of self in British and American idealism Catholic University of America Press, 1939

* 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the " Missingest Man in New York ", is declared legally dead.

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 ).

During the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact negotiations, Ribbentrop was overjoyed by a report from his Ambassador in Moscow, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, of a speech by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin before the 18th Party Congress in March 1939 that was strongly anti-Western, which Schulenburg reported meant that the Soviet Union might be seeking an accord with Germany.

On 27 September 1939, Ribbentrop made a second visit to Moscow, where at meetings with the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and Joseph Stalin, he was forced to agree to revising the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact in the Soviet Union's favour, most notably agreeing to Stalin's demand that Lithuania go to the Soviet Union.

Later, in Business Cycles ( 1939 ), Joseph Schumpeter suggested naming the cycles " Kondratieff waves ", in honor of the economist who first noticed them.

* Lash, Joseph P. Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939 – 1941, W. W. Norton and Co, New York, 1976.

Page remained dominant in the party until 1939 and briefly served as an interim Prime Minister between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election of Robert Menzies as his successor, but Page's refusal to serve under Menzies led to his resignation as leader.

* 1939 – Joseph Pitts, American politician

* 1869 – Joseph Duveen, British art dealer ( d. 1939 )

* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.

Menzies ' first term as Prime Minister commenced in 1939, after the death in office of the United Australia Party leader Joseph Lyons and a short-term interim premiership by Sir Earle Page.

* 1894 – Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist ( d. 1939 )

However the première of the opera was postponed because Meyerhold was arrested on 20 June 1939 by the NKVD ( Joseph Stalin's Secret Police ), and shot on 2 February 1940.

* 1879 – Joseph Lyons, Australian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1939 )

Hitler however cut a deal with Joseph Stalin to divide Eastern Europe ; when Germany did invade Poland in September 1939, Britain and France declared war ; the British Commonwealth followed London's lead.

On 7 April 1939, with the storm clouds of the Second World War gathering in Europe and the Pacific, Joseph Lyons became the first Prime Minister of Australia to die in office.

* September 2 – Joseph Roth, Austrian writer ( d. 1939 )

* September 15 – Joseph Lyons, Premier of Tasmania and Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1939 )

After the hotel went bankrupt, it was purchased in 1939 by Joseph Gross, Julius Krauss, and David Bard, and these partners managed the hotel together until the early 1970s.