List of Famous people who died in 1939

Fyodor Fyodorovich Raskolnikov (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Раскольников;, real name Fyodor Ilyin, was an Old Bolshevik, politician, participant in the October Revolution, writer, journalist, commander of Red fleets on the Caspian and the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, and later a Soviet diplomat.

Frank Johnson Goodnow was an American educator and legal scholar, born in Brooklyn, New York.

Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, M.D. was a Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist credited for popularizing muesli and raw food vegetarianism.

Makar Kraŭcoŭ was an active participant in the Belarusian independence movement, writer and a victim of Stalin's purges. He authored the lyrics of Vajacki marš, a popular patriotic song.

Friedrich Dingeldey was a German mathematician.

Clarence Wyly Turner was an American politician who served in the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada was a Cuban writer, politician, diplomat, and President of Cuba.

Karl Otto Heinrich Liebmann was a German mathematician and geometer.