1939
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1939 is the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.
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Art and culture
- April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
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Visual art
- The Enigma of Hitler by Salvador Dalí
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Music
- "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
- Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller
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Film
- The Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir
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Literature
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Fiction
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
- Party Going by Henry Green
- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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Non-fiction
- Avant-Garde and Kitsch by Clement Greenberg
- Manhood by Michel Leiris
- The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias
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Births
- January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer
- March 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayis (d. 2017)
- March 31 – Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
- April 4 – Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer (d. 2018)
- April 7 – Francis Ford Coppola, American film director
- June 21 – Charles Jencks, American cultural theorist (d. 2019)
- August 30 – John Peel, English disc jockey (d. 2004)
- October 12 –Carolee Schneemann, 79, American artist (d. 2019)
- November 14 – Wendy Carlos, American electronic composer
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Deaths
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