List of Famous people who died in 1939

Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg was the last Württemberger crown prince, a German military commander of the First World War, and the head of the House of Württemberg from 1921 to his death.

Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939) was an American physician, hunter, and explorer of Africa. In the 1890s he made a geological expedition to Lake Rudolph, passing through what was then Somaliland, southern Ethiopia and Kenya. In order to visit Ethiopia, he had to get permission from Menelik II. The trip lasted 18 months and took place between 1894 and 1895. In 1897 he published a book about his trip called, Through Unknown African Countries: the First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf.

Carl Laemmle was a German-born film producer and the founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films.

Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was a German general and politician. His organisational and logistical abilities resulted in a successful military career before and during World War I.

Costanzo Ciano, 1st Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari was an Italian naval officer and politician. He was the father of Galeazzo Ciano.

John Cassidy was an Irish sculptor and painter who worked in Manchester, England, and created many public sculptures.

Sir John Francis Charles de Salis, 7th Count de Salis was an Anglo-Irish British diplomat and landowner and Count de Salis-Soglio.

John Patterson MacLean was an American Universalist minister and archaeologist and historian. While at Ohio State University he became a historian of the Shakers.

Alexander Kanoldt was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.