* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineer ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – André Ouellet, French-Canadian politician

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1939 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer

* 1939 – The 1939-40 New York World's Fair opens.

* 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N. Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Bulle Ogier, French actress

* 1939 – Romano Prodi, Italian politician and statesman

* 1939 – Hércules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer

* 1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

* 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist

* 1939 – Wes Craven, American director

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

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 2001 – Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer ( b. 1939 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

From 1898 ( on the resignation of Gabriel Pierné ) to 1939, Tournemire served as the organiste titulaire at Franck's old church, the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris.

Gabriel Naude, 1600-1653 ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1939 ).

His great-grandfather, Samuel Lewis García de Paredes ( 1871 – 1939 ), as well as his grandfather, Samuel Lewis Arango ( 1901 – 1972 ), and his father, Gabriel Lewis ( 1929 – 1996 ), all held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama before him.

* Gabriel Ogando ( 1939 – 52 )

In 1939 Father Gabriel Roschini OSM founded the journal Marianum and directed it for thirty years.

In 1939, the family moved to San Gabriel, a Los Angeles suburb, and here, among a new group of friends who also wanted to be architects, Koenig's earlier interest crystallized.

Aleksandër Gabriel Meksi ( born march 8 1939 ) was the Prime Minister of Albania from April 13, 1992 to March 11, 1997.

Gabriel himself was awarded the style of " Grand Duke " by Cyril's son Vladimir Cyrillovich on 15 May 1939.

And he gave the first national broadcast exposure ( in April 1939 ) to a burgeoning self-help group known as Alcoholics Anonymous So much so was he known for those kinds of things that one critic composed a particularly lacerating doggerel: " Disaster has no cheerier greeter / than gleeful, gloating Gabriel Heatter.

* 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and industrialist, developed the blow torch ( d. 1939 )

A Swedish Ericsson 1001 model, from 1939.

** Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress ( b. 1939 )

Bernadotte represented Sweden in 1933 at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, and later served as Swedish commissioner general at the New York World's Fair in 1939 – 40.

Gustaf V was the last Swedish king to be Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces ( between 1907 and 1939 ).

She moved with her first husband, a Swedish osteopath, Eric V. Drimmer in 1939, shortly after they married in London.

Since 1939 it has been owned by the Swedish Pentecostal movement and is used as a training center by nearby Kaggeholm College.

Image: The cabinet of Sweden 1939 and prime minister Hansson. jpg | The newly appointed Swedish cabinet, assembled outside the Royal Palace in Stockholm, December 13, 1939.

Lars Anders Amble-Næss ( born August 10, 1939 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish actor and director.

The Swedish Air Force purchases of various types of Italian combat aircraft in 1939 – 41 were an emergency measure caused by the outbreak of war.

Jan Olov Karlsson ( born 1 June 1939 in Stockholm ), Swedish politician, former President of the European Court of Auditors, and former Minister for Development Cooperation, Migration and Asylum Policy from 2002 and from September 11, 2003 to October 10, 2003 acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, following the murder of Anna Lindh.

The 38M Toldi was produced and developed under license from Swedish company AB Landsverk between 1939 and 1942.

Hans Axel Valdemar Corell ( born July 7, 1939 ) is a Swedish lawyer and diplomat.

E. August Skogsbergh ( 1850 – 1939 ), sometimes called the Swedish Moody for his association with the famous Chicago Evangelist D. L.

* The Swedish Social Democratic Party in Sweden from 1932 to 1976 except only for some months in 1936 ( 1936 – 1939 and 1951 – 1957 in coalition with the Farmers ' League, 1939 – 1945 at the head of a government of national unity ) It has also held the power the vast majority of elections even after 1976, and is still the largest party in Sweden.

Swedish military strength was at one of its low points in 1939, a rearmament program had been decided in 1936 but it hadn't yet had any substantial effect on the armed forces.

Gun Carlson ( born August 17, 1939 ) is a politician in the Åland Islands, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland.

Sune Eriksson ( born 19 March 1939 ) is a politician who served as the Premier of Åland Islands, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland.

The novel was turned into several films, including Bel Ami ( 1939 ), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami ( 1949 ), starring George Sanders and itself the first version in English, a 1971 TV series a 1976 Swedish pornographic version, starring Harry Reems and also known as For Men Only, which had the tagline " Harry Reems ' Last Adult Film ", a 2005 French / Belgian version made for television, starring Sagamore Stévenin, and the 2012 version, Bel Ami, with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Christina Ricci and Holliday Grainger.

The politician who stood as the biggest thorn in the side of the government was the Swedish Foreign Minister, Rickard Sandler ( 1932 – 1936 and 1936 – 1939 ).

The 1930s are mainly the period in which Traven wrote and published the so-called Jungle Novels – the series of six novels consisting of The Carreta ( Der Karren, 1931 ), Government ( Regierung, 1931 ), March to the Monteria ( Der Marsch ins Reich der Caoba, 1933 ), Trozas ( Die Troza, 1936 ), The Rebellion of the Hanged ( Die Rebellion der Gehenkten, 1936 ), and The General from the Jungle ( Ein General kommt aus dem Dschungel, the Swedish translation was published in 1939, the German original appeared in 1940 ).