List of Famous people who died in 1939

Sigmund Freud

Sigismund Schlomo Freud
First Name Sigmund
Last Name Freud
Born on May 6, 1856
Died on September 23, 1939 (aged 83)

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Joe Arridy

First Name Joe
Last Name Arridy
Born on April 15, 1915
Died on January 6, 1939 (aged 23)

Joe Arridy was a young American man known for having been falsely accused, wrongfully convicted, and wrongfully executed for the 1936 rape and murder of Dorothy Drain, a 15-year-old girl in Pueblo, Colorado. He was manipulated by the police to make a false confession due to his mental incapacities. Arridy was severely mentally disabled and was 23 years old when he was executed on January 6, 1939.

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Howard Carter

First Name Howard
Last Name Carter
Died on March 2, 1939

Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun in November 1922. Tutankhamun's tomb is famous because of the treasures it held intact for over three thousand years; it is the best-preserved pharaonic tomb found in the Valley of the Kings.

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S. P. L. Sørensen

First Name S.
Last Name Sørensen
Born on January 9, 1868
Died on February 12, 1939 (aged 71)

Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen was a Danish chemist, famous for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity.

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Masabumi Hosono

First Name Masabumi
Born on October 15, 1870
Died on March 14, 1939 (aged 68)
Born in Japan

Masabumi Hosono was a Japanese civil servant. He was the only Japanese passenger on the RMS Titanic's disastrous maiden voyage. He survived the ship's sinking on 15 April 1912 but found himself condemned and ostracized by the Japanese public, press, and government for his decision to save himself rather than go down with the ship. Hosono's grandson is Haruomi Hosono, leading member of the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra.

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Alice Brady

Mary Rose Brady
First Name Alice
Last Name Brady
Born on November 2, 1892
Died on October 28, 1939 (aged 46)

Alice Brady was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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Alphonse Mucha

Alfons Maria Mucha
First Name Alphonse
Last Name Mucha
Died on July 14, 1939

Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, and designs, which became among the best-known images of the period.

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Eugen Weidmann

First Name Eugen
Born on February 5, 1908
Died on June 17, 1939 (aged 31)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Eugen Weidmann was a German criminal and serial killer who was executed by guillotine in France in June 1939, the last public execution in that country.

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Kiyohara Tama

First Name Kiyohara
Last Name Tama
Born on July 17, 1861
Died on April 6, 1939 (aged 77)

Kiyohara Tama (清原玉), also known as Kiyohara Otama (清原お玉) or O'Tama Chiovara, Eleonora Ragusa (エレオノーラ・ラグーザ), or Ragusa Tama (ラグーザ・玉) was a Japanese painter who spent most of her life in the Sicilian city of Palermo. Her maiden name was Kiyohara Tamayo (清原多代).

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James Naismith

First Name James
Last Name Naismith
Born on November 6, 1860
Died on November 28, 1939 (aged 79)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).

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