What Happened In February 1939 In History

Historical Events for February, 1939

• 5th » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "'Caudillo de España'", or Leader of Spain.
• 10th » Spanish Civil War: The Francoist Spain e.g Nationalists conclude their Catalonia Offensive or conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
• 11th » A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1939

• 1st » Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist
• 1st » Claude François, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 1978)
• 1st » Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
• 1st » Del McCoury, American singer and guitarist (Del McCoury Band)
• 1st » Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (The Crusaders) (d. 2014)
• 2nd » Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 2nd » Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer (d. 1991)
• 3rd » Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 4th » Stan Lundine, American politician
• 5th » Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
• 6th » Jean Beaudin, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 6th » Mike Farrell, American actor
• 6th » Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
• 6th » Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (d. 2014)
• 7th » Ray Taliaferro, American radio host
• 8th » Ken Iman, American football player (d. 2010)
• 8th » Jose Maria Sison, Filipino activist
• 9th » Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
• 9th » Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician (d. 2012)
• 9th » Janet Suzman, South African actress and director
• 10th » Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor-General of Canada
• 10th » Enver Ören, Turkish businessman (d. 2013)
• 10th » Peter Purves, English actor
• 10th » Tzeni Vanou, Greek singer (d. 2014)
• 11th » Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (d. 2014)
• 11th » Bryan Gould, New Zealand-English politician
• 11th » Jane Yolen, American author
• 12th » Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer (d. 2000)
• 12th » Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Doors, Rick & the Ravens, Manzarek–Krieger, and Nite City) (d. 2013)
• 13th » Raôul Duguay, Canadian poet and activist
• 13th » Serge and Beate Klarsfeld or Beate Klarsfeld, German nazi hunter
• 13th » Zarinoff Lebeouf, Canadian wrestler
• 13th » R. C. Sproul, American pastor, theologian, and author
• 14th » Eugene Fama, American economist
• 14th » Michael Rudman, American director and producer
• 15th » Gerd Bohnsack, German footballer and manager
• 15th » Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian skier
• 15th » Robert Hansen, American serial killer (d. 2014)
• 16th » Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino jurist
• 16th » David Griffiths (portrait painter) or David Griffiths, Welsh painter
• 16th » Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (d. 2004)
• 16th » David Simpson (British politician) named David Simpson, Irish politician
• 17th » John Leyton, English actor and singer
• 17th » Mary Ann Mobley, American actress, Miss America e.g Miss America 1959
• 17th » Clément Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
• 18th » Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (d. 1996)
• 18th » Marek Janowski, Polish-German conductor
• 18th » Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
• 19th » Erin Pizzey, Chinese-English activist and author, founded Refuge (United Kingdom charity) or Refuge
• 19th » Gwen Taylor, English actress
• 20th » Frank Arundel, English footballer (d. 1994)
• 21st » Richard Beymer, American actor
• 21st » Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 22nd » Brian Follett, English biologist and academic
• 24th » Roger Cowley, English physicist and academic
• 24th » Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
• 24th » Joy Mukherjee, Indian actor and director (d. 2012)
• 26th » Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 27th » José Cardona, Honduran footballer (d. 2013)
• 27th » Don McKinnon, New Zealand politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 27th » Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
• 27th » Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese-American poet (d. 2012)
• 27th » Antoinette Sibley, English ballerina
• 28th » John Fahey (musician) called John Fahey, American guitarist (d. 2001)
• 28th » The Missing Link (wrestler) known as The Missing Link, Canadian wrestler (d. 2007)
• 28th » Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan philosopher and scholar (d. 1987)
• 28th » Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate
• 28th » Tommy Tune, American actor, singer, dancer, and director

Famous Deaths for February 1939

• 2nd » Bernhard Gregory, German chess player (b. 1879)
• 7th » Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
• 10th » Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 11th » Franz Schmidt, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1874)
• 15th » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 17th » Willy Hess (violinist) known as Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
• 22nd » Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)

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