| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Grace Abbott |
Activist |
17-Nov-1878 |
19-Jun-1939 |
Advocate against child labor |
| Doc Barker |
Criminal |
1899 |
13-Jan-1939 |
Son of Ma Barker |
| Eugen Bleuler |
Psychiatrist |
30-Apr-1857 |
15-Jul-1939 |
Coined term schizophrenia |
| Artur Bodanzky |
Conductor |
16-Dec-1877 |
23-Nov-1939 |
Opera Conductor at the NY Met, 1915-39 |
| Alice Brady |
Actor |
2-Nov-1892 |
28-Oct-1939 |
In Old Chicago |
| Heywood Broun |
Journalist |
7-Dec-1888 |
18-Dec-1939 |
Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s |
| Pierce Butler |
Judge |
17-Mar-1866 |
16-Nov-1939 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1923-39 |
| Joe Carr |
Football |
22-Oct-1880 |
20-May-1939 |
NFL President, 1921-39 |
| Howard Carter |
Archaeologist |
9-May-1874 |
2-Mar-1939 |
Uncovered Tutankhamun's Tomb |
| Harvey Cushing |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1869 |
7-Oct-1939 |
Cushing's Syndrome |
| S. S. Van Dine |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1888 |
11-Apr-1939 |
The Canary Murder Case |
| Frank W. Dyson |
Astronomer |
8-Jan-1868 |
25-May-1939 |
Six pips on the BBC |
| Havelock Ellis |
Biologist |
2-Feb-1859 |
8-Jul-1939 |
Studies in the Psychology of Sex |
| Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. |
Actor |
23-May-1883 |
12-Dec-1939 |
The Thief of Baghdad |
| Ford Madox Ford |
Novelist |
17-Dec-1873 |
26-Jun-1939 |
The Good Soldier |
| Sigmund Freud |
Psychiatrist |
6-May-1856 |
23-Sep-1939 |
Die Traumdeutung |
| Zane Grey |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1872 |
23-Oct-1939 |
Riders of the Purple Sage |
| Sidney Coe Howard |
Playwright |
26-Jun-1891 |
23-Aug-1939 |
They Knew What They Wanted |
| Arthur E. Kennelly |
Physicist |
17-Dec-1861 |
18-Jun-1939 |
Kennelly-Heaviside layer |
| Tommy Ladnier |
Jazz Musician |
28-May-1900 |
4-Jun-1939 |
Jazz trumpeter |
| Carl Laemmle |
Film/TV Producer |
17-Jan-1867 |
24-Sep-1939 |
Independent Motion Picture Company |
| John R. Lynch |
Politician |
10-Sep-1847 |
2-Nov-1939 |
Congressman from Mississippi |
| Joseph Lyons |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1879 |
7-Apr-1939 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39 |
| Antonio Machado |
Poet |
26-Jul-1875 |
22-Feb-1939 |
Generation of '98 |
| Charles Horace Mayo |
Doctor |
19-Jul-1865 |
26-May-1939 |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
| William James Mayo |
Doctor |
29-Jun-1861 |
28-Jul-1939 |
Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic |
| Kelly Miller |
Sociologist |
23-Jul-1863 |
29-Dec-1939 |
Out of the House of Bondage |
| Owen Moore |
Actor |
12-Dec-1886 |
9-Jun-1939 |
Irish-American character actor |
| George Cardinal Mundelein |
Religion |
2-Jul-1872 |
2-Oct-1939 |
Archbishop of Chicago, 1915-39 |
| Herbert Mundin |
Actor |
21-Aug-1898 |
5-Mar-1939 |
Mutiny on the Bounty |
| James Naismith |
Basketball |
6-Nov-1861 |
28-Nov-1939 |
Inventor of Basketball |
| Pope Pius XI |
Religion |
31-May-1857 |
10-Feb-1939 |
Signed Lateran Treaties with Mussolini |
| Arthur Rackham |
Artist |
19-Sep-1867 |
6-Sep-1939 |
British Golden Age children's book illustrator |
| Ma Rainey |
Singer |
26-Apr-1886 |
22-Dec-1939 |
The mother of the blues |
| Opie Read |
Author |
22-Dec-1852 |
2-Nov-1939 |
Jucklins |
| Edward Sapir |
Anthropologist |
26-Jan-1884 |
4-Feb-1939 |
Anthropological linguist |
| John G. Sargent |
Government |
13-Oct-1860 |
5-Mar-1939 |
US Attorney General, 1925-29 |
| Philipp Scheidemann |
Head of State |
26-Jul-1865 |
29-Nov-1939 |
German Chancellor, 1919 |
| Charles M. Schwab |
Business |
18-Feb-1862 |
19-Sep-1939 |
Founder of Bethlehem Steel |
| Mary See |
Chef |
15-Sep-1854 |
31-Jul-1939 |
Confectioner |
| Joel Elias Spingarn |
Critic |
17-May-1875 |
26-Jul-1939 |
Literary critic, NAACP leader |
| Claude A. Swanson |
Politician |
31-Mar-1862 |
7-Jul-1939 |
Governor and Senator from Virginia |
| Jameson Thomas |
Actor |
24-Mar-1888 |
10-Jan-1939 |
British stage, minor Hollywood actor |
| Ernst Toller |
Playwright |
1-Dec-1893 |
22-May-1939 |
Transformation |
| E. Lee Trinkle |
Politician |
12-Mar-1876 |
25-Nov-1939 |
Governor of Virginia, 1922-26 |
| Louis Wain |
Painter |
5-Aug-1860 |
4-Jul-1939 |
The Man Who Drew Cats |
| Charles Walgreen |
Business |
9-Oct-1873 |
11-Dec-1939 |
Founder of Walgreen Co. |
| Helen Ware |
Actor |
15-Oct-1877 |
25-Jan-1939 |
Theater actress |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| Chick Webb |
Jazz Musician |
10-Feb-1905 |
16-Jun-1939 |
The Chick Webb Orchestra |
| Edvard Westermarck |
Anthropologist |
20-Nov-1862 |
3-Sep-1939 |
The Origin & Development of Moral Ideas |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Harry Leon Wilson |
Novelist |
1-May-1867 |
28-Jun-1939 |
Ruggles of Red Gap |
| William Butler Yeats |
Poet |
13-Jun-1865 |
28-Jan-1939 |
The Land of Heart's Desire |
