List of Famous people who died in 1939

Colonel Alfred Digby Legard, CBE was an English Army officer and amateur first-class cricketer, who appeared in two matches for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and another four for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1904 and 1910.

Anthony Crommelin Crossley was a British writer, publisher and Conservative politician.

Walter Gordon was a German theoretical physicist.

Arthur Edwin Kennelly, was an Irish-American electrical engineer.

Charles Alexander Eastman was a Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. In the early 20th century, he was "one of the most prolific authors and speakers on Sioux ethnohistory and American Indian affairs."

Marcel Buysse was a Belgian racing cyclist.

John Robert Francis Wild, known as Frank Wild, was an English sailor and explorer. He participated in five expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars, one of only two men to be so honoured, the other being Ernest Joyce.

Pere Coromines i Montanya was a Catalan writer, politician, and economist.

Sir George Hamilton Kenrick FRES was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera especially those of New Guinea. He was a prominent liberal educationist and was a councillor in Birmingham.