Celebrity Deaths in 1939

52 notable figures died in 1939. Listed below in order of date of death.

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  Frank Tenney Johnson

  1874 – 1939 · Artists and Architects Jan 1
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  Frank Tenney Johnson

  1874 – 1939 · Business Magnates Jan 1
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  Roy Byford

  1873 – 1939 · Actors Jan 1
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  Louis Kerzner

  1904 – 1939 · Gangster Jan 28
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  William Butler Yeats

  1865 – 1939 · Politicians Jan 28
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  Christian William Feigenspan

  1876 – 1939 Feb 2
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  Nadezhda Krupskaya

  1869 – 1939 · Politicians Feb 27
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  Frank Storrs

  1863 – 1939 · Business Magnates Mar 3
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  Howard Carter

  1874 – 1939 · Artists and Architects Mar 3
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  Sir Henry Mill Pellatt

  1859 – 1939 · Business Magnates Mar 3
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  Thomas Ernest “Ernie” Hare

  1883 – 1939 · Actors Mar 3
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  Herbert Mundin

  1898 – 1939 · Actors Mar 5
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  Otto Classen

  1868 – 1939 · Artists and Architects Apr 4
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  Bertha Kalich

  1874 – 1939 Apr 18
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  Mary Sutherland

  1939 · Actresses May 5
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  James Parrott

  1897 – 1939 · Actors, Film Director May 10
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  Grace Abbott

  1878 – 1939 · Educators Jun 6
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  Margaret Campbell

  1883 – 1939 · Actresses Jun 6
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  Mark Gertler

  1891 – 1939 · Artists and Architects Jun 6
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  Beryl Mercer

  1882 – 1939 · Actresses Jul 7
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  Linda Thelma

  1884 – 1939 · Blues Singer Jul 7
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  Mary Wiseman See

  1854 – 1939 · Business Magnates Jul 7
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  Zinaida Raikh

  1894 – 1939 · Actresses Jul 7
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  Alphonse Mucha

  1860 – 1939 · Artists and Architects Jul 14
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  Frank Wild

  1873 – 1939 · Explorers and Adventurers Aug 19
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  Andrew Arbuckle

  1887 – 1939 · Actors Sep 9
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  Charles Michael Schwab

  1862 – 1939 · Business Magnates Sep 9
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  Marbeth Wright

  1915 – 1939 · Actresses Sep 9
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  Otto Blathy

  1860 – 1939 · Authors and Writers, Scientists and Inventors Sep 26
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  Adolf Bremer

  1869 – 1939 Oct 10
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  Fay Templeton

  1865 – 1939 · Actresses Oct 10
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  George Hunter Smith

  1861 – 1939 · Business Magnates Oct 10
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  James Wickersham

  1857 – 1939 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10
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  Ford Sterling

  1883 – 1939 · Actors, Comedian Oct 13
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  Alice Brady

  1892 – 1939 · Actresses Oct 28
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  Margaret Floy Washburn

  1871 – 1939 · Scientists and Inventors Oct 29
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  Caryll Ann Ekelund

  1935 – 1939 · Actresses Nov 3
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  Etienne Girardot

  1856 – 1939 · Actors Nov 11
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  John Harron

  1903 – 1939 · Actors Nov 11
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  James Taylor

  1880 – 1939 · Politicians Nov 14
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  Pierce Butler

  1866 – 1939 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Nov 16
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  Alexander Frank

  1866 – 1939 · Actors Dec 12
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  Anthony “Tony” Fokker

  1890 – 1939 Dec 12
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  Douglas Fairbanks, Sr

  1883 – 1939 · Actors Dec 12
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  Margaret Shelby

  1900 – 1939 · Actresses Dec 12
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  Paul Bonwit

  1862 – 1939 · Business Magnates Dec 12
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  Spencer Penrose

  1865 – 1939 · Business Magnates Dec 12
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  Thetus Sims

  1852 – 1939 · Politicians Dec 17
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  Ma Rainey

  1886 – 1939 · Singer Dec 22
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  Frederick F Neef

  1846 – 1939 · Business Magnates
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  Sanji Mikami

  1864 – 1939
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  Shigetaka Abe

  1890 – 1939 · Educators