List of Famous people who died in 1939

Brigadier-General Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford CB, CMG was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers and an English international footballer, who played as a Forward.

Charles-François-Prosper Guérin was a French post-impressionist painter.

Izumi Kyōka , real name Kyōtarō Izumi , was a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period.

Charles Hall Grandgent was an American romance philologist and Italian scholar.

Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour.

Martha Marguerite Eccles Bullock (1851–1939) was an American pioneer woman who was the wife of Seth Bullock, one of the leading citizens in early Deadwood, South Dakota. She and Bullock were married in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1874.

Hans Rehmann (1900–1939) was a Swiss actor. He was one of the director Paul Czinner's favourite actors.

Karl Hermann Dietrich Lothar Erdmann was a German journalist. During the Weimar Republic he was the editor of the trade union theory organ Die Arbeit. He was a main supporter of the turning away of trade unions from social democracy at the end of the Republic. Despite his rapprochement with National Socialism, he died after maltreatment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Granville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville was a British diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family who was envoy to several countries.