In the year 1939
363 Notable deaths
Tommy Ladnier
Jazz cornetist/trumpeter (1900-1939).
Born May 28th, 1900 in Louisiana. [ref]
Died June 4th, 1939 at 39 years old in New York City (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Kanoko Okamoto
Japanese writer.
Born March 1st, 1889 in Akasaka.
Died February 18th, 1939 at 49 years old in Yokosuka (cerebral hemorrhage).
Aleksander Brückner
Polish linguist and lexicographer (1856–1939).
Born January 29th, 1856 in Ternopil.
Died May 24th, 1939 at 83 years old in Berlin.
Sergei Tretyakov
Russian writer-artist.
Born June 20th, 1892 in Kuldīga. [ref]
Died August 9th, 1939 at 47 years old in Moscow (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Jura Soyfer
Austrian writer (1912–1939).
Born December 8th, 1912 in Kharkiv.
Died February 16th, 1939 at 26 years old in Buchenwald concentration camp (typhus).
Madeleine Pelletier
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939).
Born May 18th, 1874 in 2nd arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1939 at 65 years old in Épinay-sur-Orge (stroke). [ref]
Helen Ware
American stage and film actress (1877-1939).
Born October 15th, 1877 in San Francisco.
Died January 25th, 1939 at 61 years old in Carmel-by-the-Sea (disease).
Benedikt Livshits
Russian writer (1886–1938).
Born January 6th, 1887 in Odesa.
Died May 15th, 1939 at 52 years old in Saint Petersburg (gunshot wound).
Gerhard Wagner
Nazi physician (1888-1939).
Born August 18th, 1888 in Chorzów.
Died March 25th, 1939 at 50 years old in Munich (cancer).
Edmund Heller
American zoologist.
Born May 21st, 1875 in Freeport.
Died July 18th, 1939 at 64 years old in San Francisco.
Deaths 191 to 200 of 363
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. Edward Young