List of Famous people who died in 1939

Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.

Jacob Ruppert Jr. was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms representing New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until his death in 1939.

Otto Wels was a German politician who served as a member of parliament from 1920 to 1933 and as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1919 until his death in 1939.

Barbara Newhall Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was published in January 1927, when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen.

Owen Moore was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.