List of Famous people who died in 1939

Lieutenant General Sir John Sharman Fowler, was a British Army engineer officer who specialised on telegraph on signals, and who was later Commander of British Forces in China.

Jameson Thomas was an English film actor. He appeared in 82 films between 1923 and 1939.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Daly was a British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator.

Major-General Sir George Townshend Forestier-Walker KCB was a senior British Army officer during World War I.

Lady Joan Margaret Legge (1885–1939) was a botanist from England who died on 4 July 1939 while collecting samples at Valley of flowers, India.

Henri Rapin was a French painter, illustrator and designer known for his Art Deco inspired contributions in various media including porcelain, leather goods, lighting and interior furnishings.

Henry George Carroll, was a Canadian politician, jurist and the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec from 1929 to 1934 and the last anglophone to serve in that position to the present day.

Hermann Ludwig Gustav Wiener was a German mathematician.