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In the year 1939
335 Notable deaths
Max Skladanowsky
German inventor and early filmmaker.
Born April 30th, 1863 in Berlin.
Died November 30th, 1939 at 76 years old in Berlin.
Ottó Bláthy
Hungarian mechanical engineer.
Born August 11th, 1860 in Tata.
Died September 26th, 1939 at 79 years old in Budapest.
Xu Shichang
President of the republic of china (1855-1939).
Born October 23rd, 1855 in Weihui.
Died June 6th, 1939 at 83 years old in Tianjin.
Henry Stephens Salt
English writer and social reformer.
Born September 20th, 1851 in India. [ref]
Died April 19th, 1939 at 87 years old in Brighton. [ref]
Isaak Brodsky
Russian artist (1884-1939).
Born January 6th, 1884. [ref]
Died August 14th, 1939 at 55 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Zinaida Reich
Russian actress.
Born July 15th, 1894 in Rostov-on-Don.
Died July 15th, 1939 at 45 years old in Moscow.
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Russian painter.
Born November 5th, 1878 in Khvalynsk. [ref]
Died February 15th, 1939 at 60 years old in Saint Petersburg (tuberculosis). [ref]
William Mitchell Ramsay
Scottish archaeologist and new testament scholar (1851-1939).
Born March 15th, 1851 in Glasgow.
Died April 20th, 1939 at 88 years old in Bournemouth. [ref]
Richard Seaman
Racecar driver (1913-1939).
Born February 4th, 1913 in Chichester.
Died June 25th, 1939 at 26 years old in Spa.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American zoologist, geneticist (1856-1939).
Born October 19th, 1856 in Geneva. [ref]
Died March 3rd, 1939 at 82 years old in New York City. [ref]
Deaths 91 to 100 of 335
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris