* 1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor

He co-starred with Esther Williams in Billy Rose's Aquacade during the NEW YORK World's Fair, 1939 – 41, pursuing her throughout a span of two years.

Even though there was not a Rookie of the Year award yet in 1939, Babe Ruth declared Williams to be the Rookie of the Year, to which Williams later said was " good enough for me ".

** Paul Williams, American singer ( b. 1939 )

The actual deposit of the “ dust from the grave of Roger Williams ” did not occur until 1939 when the WPA finished the monument.

" Around 1939, he adopted " Tennessee Williams " as his professional name.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

His 146 runs scored were the most since Ted Williams had 150 in 1950, and he became the first player since Jimmie Foxx in 1939 to amass more runs scored than games played.

After coal was discovered and mining began in nearby Carterville, Harrison, and his cousins Ephraim Snyder Herrin and Mrs. Williams in 1892 prospected for coal beginning at the southwest corner of Williams ' farm, identified in 1939 as the corner of Legion Boulevard and East Herrin St. ( Legion Blvd no longer appears on the maps, but the reference indicates the intersection was the North and North East public roads.

These range from the large ceremonial Indian mound and cave at Nanih Waiya, built about 1700 years ago and sacred to the Choctaw ; to the still thriving Williams Brothers Store, a true old-fashioned general store founded in 1907 and featured in National Geographic in 1939 as a source of anything from “ needles to horse collars ”, and still offering everything from bridles, butter and boots to flour, feed and fashion.

Charles Williams included the above quote from Prometheus Unbound ( 1820 ) in his book Descent Into Hell ( 1939 ).

* John Charles Williams ( 1861 – 1939 ), MP for Truro, 1892 – 1895

* John Hugh Williams ( judge ) ( born 1939 ), New Zealand judge

Payne and Williams lost touch, though eventually, Payne also moved to Montgomery, where he died in poverty in 1939.

Williams dropped out of school in October 1939 so that the Drifting Cowboys could work full time.

In 1938 and 1939 the researchers / writers of the first book of jazz history, Jazzmen, interviewed several prominent musicians of the time, including Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Clarence Williams, who spoke very highly of Bunk in the old days in New Orleans.

A couple of months after Ed Browning's death in May 1939, Winchester hired ex-convict David M. Williams, a convicted murderer and former moonshiner who had begun work on a short-stroke gas piston design while serving a prison sentence.

1939 sheet music cover, " Introduced by Glenn Miller ", Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., New York. Notable artists who have recorded big-band versions of " In The Mood " include the Joe Loss Orchestra, Xavier Cugat, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Lubo D ' Orio, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, The Shadows and John Williams with the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Professor Philip James Stradling Williams ( 11 January 1939 – 10 June 2003 ) was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.

From the late 1930s Howells turned increasingly to choral and organ music, composing a second series of Psalm Preludes followed by a set of Six Pieces ( begun 1939 ), of which the third, Master Tallis's Testament, a particular favorite of the composer's, recalled his formative experience of Vaughan Williams ' Tallis Fantasia.

* Paul Williams ( The Temptations ) ( 1939 – 1973 ), tenor / baritone from the popular Motown act The Temptations

Harvey Williams Cushing ( April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939 ), was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery, and the first to describe Cushing's syndrome.

In 1939, Bailey fronted a six-side, mostly blues session as " Mildred Bailey and her Oxford Greys " for Vocalion, which featured a small mixed-race combo of Mary Lou Williams ( piano ), Floyd Smith ( electric guitar ), John Williams ( bass ) and Eddie Dougherty ( drums ).

From Logical Investigations ( 1900 / 1901 ) to Experience and Judgment ( published in 1939 ), Husserl expressed clearly the difference between meaning and object.

In public, Ribbentrop expressed great fury at the Polish refusal to allow for Danzig's return to the Reich, or to grant Polish permission for the " extra-territorial " highways, but since these matters were only intended after March 1939 to be a pretext for German aggression, Ribbentrop always refused in private to allow for any talks between German and Polish diplomats about these matters.

Bloch's own ideas on rural history were best expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society ( 1939 ).

In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology, however in public lectures he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals.

Through Raeder expressed some worry in the first half of 1939 over the prospect of a war with Britain when the Plan Z had barely began, he accepted and believed in the assurances of Hitler and the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that neither Britain nor France would go to war if the Reich attacked Poland.

They are being ruthless and most determined .” After the July 1934 Night of The Long Knives, in which the Nazis ruthlessly exterminated their internal dissidents, Reith wrote: “ I really admire the way Hitler has cleaned up what looked like an incipient revolt .” After Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Nazis in 1939 he wrote: “ Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency .” Reith also expressed admiration for Mussolini .. Reith's daughter, Marista Leishman, revealed how her father in the 1930s did everything possible to keep Winston Churchill and other anti-appeasement Conservatives off the airwaves.

One French official in 1939 expressed the belief that the uncertainty was sure to cause trouble in the future.

" The Louisville Defender, that city's African American newspaper, expressed similar sentiments in a December 1939 editorial: " hether Gaines has been bribed, intimidated or worse, should certainly have little permanent effect on the struggle for equal rights and social justice in connection with Negro education in the South ... Negroes are already hammering upon the doors of graduate schools hitherto closed to them, with increasing persistence.

Several of the tenets of what was to become AA's Twelve Traditions were first expressed in the Foreword to the First Edition of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939.

His anti-war texts of 1939 replied to claims that a new armed conflict would usher in national " vitality ", and, during the September Campaign, expressed solidarity with Poland — Iorga's Polonophila was even noted by the Nazis, causing more frictions between Berlin and Bucharest.

In a 1939 interview, she expressed her interest in starring opposite Power in Johnny Apollo ( 1940 ).

In Pravda of 30 November 1939, the day of the outbreak of the Winter War, Stalin was asked for his opinion on the report of " the speech " allegedly made " by Stalin to the Politburo on 19 August ", in which he is said to have expressed the thought that the war should go on as long as possible, so that the belligerents are exhausted.

Because of his loyalty to Moscow, Litterick expressed contradictory views on Canada's involvement in World War II in late 1939.

Margaret Mitchell, when discussing the movie casting of her character Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind ( 1939 ) -- a process in which she had no say —- expressed a preference for Jack Holt as Butler, because her personal favorite, Charles Boyer, had a French accent.

The first part of the testament talked of his motivations in the three decades since volunteering in World War I, repeated his claim that neither he nor anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939, stated his reasons for his intention to commit suicide, and praised and expressed his thanks to the German people for their support and achievements.

Sutherland's historical importance rests upon his having introduced ( in a 27 December 1939 speech to the American Sociological Association, titled The White Collar Criminal ) the concept of white-collar crime, a concept which violated existing prejudices that aristocrats can do no wrong ( which was famously expressed in the ancient legal view that a king could do no wrong ).

Concern was expressed as early as September 1939 in the Canadian Parliament for the security of Newfoundland ( which was not yet a part of Canada ) in the event of a German raid or attack.

In a conversation Ōshima had with Heinrich Himmler on 31 January 1939, he expressed the hope that German-Japanese cooperation in the field of intelligence would lead eventually to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.