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In the year 1939
335 Notable deaths
Herschel Evans
American musician.
Born March 9th, 1909 in Denton.
Died February 9th, 1939 at 29 years old in Manhattan (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Boris Grigoriev
Russian artist (1886-1939).
Born July 11th, 1886 in Moscow, Rybinsk. [ref]
Died February 8th, 1939 at 52 years old in Cagnes-sur-Mer. [ref]
Oscar Milosz
French-lithuanian poet and representative of lithuania at the league of nations (1877-1939).
Born May 28th, 1877 in Čareja. [ref]
Died March 2nd, 1939 at 61 years old in Fontainebleau (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Ursula Ledóchowska
Roman catholic missionary and saint.
Born April 17th, 1865 in Loosdorf.
Died May 29th, 1939 at 74 years old in Rome.
D. S. Mirsky
Russian writer.
Born September 9th, 1890 in Kharkov Governorate.
Died June 6th, 1939 at 48 years old in Magadan.
Axel Hägerström
Swedish philosopher and jurist.
Born September 6th, 1868. [ref]
Died July 7th, 1939 at 70 years old in Uppsala Cathedral Assembly. [ref]
David Peck Todd
American astronomer.
Born March 19th, 1855 in New York.
Died June 1st, 1939 at 84 years old in Lynchburg.
Claude Gillingwater
Actor (1870-1939).
Born August 2nd, 1870 in Louisiana.
Died November 2nd, 1939 at 69 years old in Beverly Hills (ballistic trauma).
Albert Moll
German psychiatrist (1862-1939).
Born May 4th, 1862 in Leszno. [ref]
Died September 23rd, 1939 at 77 years old in Berlin. [ref]
Stanisław Leśniewski
Polish mathematician and philosopher (1886-1939).
Born March 30th, 1886 in Serpukhov.
Died May 13th, 1939 at 53 years old in Warsaw.
Deaths 151 to 160 of 335
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius