List of Famous people who died in 1939

Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, known as Sir Joseph Duveen, Bt., between 1927 and 1933, was a controversial British art dealer, considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time.

Cesare Bazzani was a prominent and prolific Italian architect and engineer. Active from 1911 until his death in 1939, Bazzani designed major municipal works in several cities.

Mary Quinn Sullivan, born Mary Josephine Quinn, was an American art teacher and textbook author who is best known as a pioneer collector of European and Amerian modern and contemporary art and a founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, which opened in rented space in New York City in November 1929. She also led a small group of Indianapolis, Indiana, art patrons who called themselves the Gamboliers and between 1928 to 1934 selected artworks of for the group that brought some of the first modern and contemporary works to the collections of the John Herron Art Institute, which later became the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Mary and Cornelius J. Sullivan, her husband, amassed a significant private collection of art during the 1920s and 1930s that included Modigliani's Sculptured Head of a Woman, Paul Cézanne's Madame Cézanne, Georges Rouault's Crucifixion, and a Hepplewhite desk that once belonged to Edgar Degas, as well as works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Pablo Picasso, and others.

Shimon Yehuda Shkop was a rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe (Telšiai) and then of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno, and a renowned Talmid Chacham. He has created a unique way in classic Eastern European erudition, which is expressed mainly in his book Sha'arei Yosher, and is characterized by a logical-legal analysis of the basic principles of Halakha, and less than local pilpul.

Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, was a British peer and soldier, the son of the 4th Baron Brabourne.

Reverend Canon Arthur Townshend Boscawen was a British Rector of Ludgvan in Cornwall, England, and a recreational and commercial horticulturalist who introduced the anemone as a commercial crop to Cornwall.

Agnes Herring was an American actress. She appeared in 119 films between 1915 and 1939. She was born in San Francisco, California and died in Santa Monica, California.

Albert Ballu was a French architect. He designed many buildings in French Algeria, including the Cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur d'Oran.