List of Famous people who born in 1939

Brigitte Fassbaender, is a German mezzo-soprano opera singer and a stage director. From 1999 to 2012 she was intendant of the Tyrolean State Theatre in Innsbruck, Austria. She holds the title Kammersängerin from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Vienna Staatsoper.

Nicole Avril is a French academic, actress, model, and writer.

Robert Hoffmann is an Austrian actor, best known to British audiences for his title role performance in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964).

Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, is the author of several historical books and biographies of Greek and other European figures, in addition to working as a contributing writer to Architectural Digest. He is first cousin of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

Shinji Mizushima is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as an author of baseball manga, such as Yakyū-kyō no Uta, Dokaben, and Abu-san. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award. His works has collected more than 500 tankōbon volumes, making him one of the most prolific manga artists of all time.

Floyd Newman is a saxophonist, session musician and bandleader. As a baritone sax player, he was long associated with Stax Records, and as a member of The Mar-Keys’ horn section and the Memphis Horns.

Antônio Luiz Sampaio, better known by his stage name Antônio Pitanga, is a Brazilian actor. He became internationally known for playing several roles on films of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s.

Brigid Emmett Berlin was an American artist and Warhol superstar.

Countess Vera von Lehndorff-Steinort, known professionally as Veruschka and Veruschka von Lehndorff, is a German model, actress and artist who was popular during the 1960s.

Yuri Rost is a photographer, journalist, author and traveller. Rost’s photographic vision is closely related to the humanist tradition established by post-war photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed, and Ed van der Elsken. He was selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2005) for inclusion in his last exhibition, Les choix d’Henri Cartier-Bresson after meeting him in Paris.