Death year 1939 celebrities
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Marbeth Wright was born on July 9, 1915 in Crawford, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Happy Days (1929), The Bridge (1929) and The Great Gabbo (1929). She died on September 17, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Kelly Miller (July 18, 1863 – December 29, 1939) was an African-American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. He was known
Georges Pitoëff was born on Sept. 4, 1884, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on Sept. 17, 1939, in Bellevue, near Geneva, in Switzerland. Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre
John Harron (March 31, 1903 – November 24, 1939) was an American actor. He appeared in 167 films between 1918 and 1940. Born in New York, New York, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron and of actress Mary Harron. Harron died in Seattle, Washin
“Ma” Rainey (born Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett; c. April 26, 1886 – December 22, 1939) was one of the earliest known American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of such singers to record. She was billed as The Mother of the
Hertha Harries, née von Siemens (1870-1939)Hertha von Siemens was the youngest daughter of Werner von Siemens and his second wife Antonie. A special exception was made for her to study with the important Berlin chemist Emil Fischer on account of her
Hugo Riesenfeld (January 26, 1879 – September 10, 1939) was a Jewish Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film
Stanisław Leśniewski (March 30, 1886 – May 13, 1939) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and logician.
Chauncey Burr Fisher (January 8, 1872 in Anderson, Indiana – April 27, 1939 in Los Angeles) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in the National League from 1893 to 1901.