* 1939 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer

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

* 1939 – Fred Schepisi, Australian film director

* 1939 – Glenda Adams, Australian author ( d. 2007 )

Between 1939 and 1945, Holden's produced more than 30, 000 bodies for the Australian and US forces and manufactured a wide range of equipment, including field guns, aircraft, boats, including truck, aeroplane and marine engines and components.

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

* 1939 – Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster and journalist

* 1939 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer

* 1891 – Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby player

* 2012 – Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist ( b. 1939 )

The first Australian motels include the West End Motel in Ballina, New South Wales ( 1937 ) and the Penzance Motel in Eagle Hawk, Tasmania ( 1939 ).

* 1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer

* 1939 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor

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.

* 1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor

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

* 1939 – Gerry Harvey, Australian businessman, co-founded Harvey Norman

During October 1939, almost a month after returning home, Powell enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as an Australian.

* April 15 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer ( b. 1939 )

Joseph Aloysius Lyons, CH ( 15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939 ) was an Australian politician.

On 7 April 1939, in Sydney, Lyons died suddenly of a heart attack – the first Australian Prime Minister to die in office.

Paul Hogan ( born 1939 ) is an Australian actor.

* John Anderson ( sailor ) ( born 1939 ), Australian sailor

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts ( including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles ) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens ' essay " Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters ", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

Weil was in Finland when World War II broke out ; he had been traveling in Scandinavia since April 1939.

All staff had to sign the Official Secrets Act ( 1939 ), and were instructed that they should never discuss their work outside their immediate section.

In 1939 – 40, 45 percent of the army was 40 years old, and 50 percent of all the soldiers had just a few weeks training.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

On a day in 1939, Sprinz had a blimp hover overhead at 800 feet, from which were to be dropped balls for him to catch.

The last horsed regiment of the Indian Army ( other than the Viceregal Bodyguard and some Indian States Forces regiments ) was the 19th King George's Own Lancers which had its last mounted parade at Rawalpindi on 28 October 1939.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

By 1933, the party had approximately 3. 5 million members but as a result of the Great Purge party membership was cut down to 1. 9 million by 1939.

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

One who had to leave Germany, Paul Bernays, had collaborated with Hilbert in mathematical logic, and co-authored with him the important book Grundlagen der Mathematik ( which eventually appeared in two volumes, in 1934 and 1939 ).

Between 1939 and 1955, Daku Man Singh had notched over 1, 000 armed robberies, 185 murders, and countless ransom kidnappings.

The city of Asmara had a population of 98, 000, of which 53, 000 were Italians according to the Italian census of 1939.

Soon after his arrival in New York City ( January 2, 1939 ), Fermi began working at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936 While at Columbia from 1939 – 42, until they moved to Chicago, Fermi and his wife resided in Leonia, New Jersey.

In August 1939 Leó Szilárd had prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

Eka-caesium was discovered in 1939 by Marguerite Perey of the Curie Institute in Paris, France when she purified a sample of actinium-227 which had been reported to have a decay energy of 220 keV.

In support of Hitler's strategy of rapproachment of the Soviet Union in 1939, Mussolini in September 1939 informed fellow Fascist official Giuseppe Bottai that the internal differences between fascism and Bolshevism had grown less acute over time and noted that both fascism and Bolshevism held common contempt of the " demo-plutocratic capitalism of the western powers ".

In October 1939 Mussolini had considered making a public statement to the Italian people that would announce Fascist Italy's abandonment of hostility to the ideology of Stalin's Soviet Union by claiming that Stalin's regime had effectively dissolved Bolshevism and that it had been replaced by a Slavic fascism.