Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1939

El Príncipe Emico de Leiningen era el hijo del Príncipe Ernesto Leopoldo, 4º Príncipe de Leiningen. Fue el 5º Príncipe de Leiningen entre 1904 y 1918, y después de la revolución alemana Príncipe titular de Leiningen desde 1918 hasta su muerte.

Heinrich Brauns was a German politician and Roman Catholic theologian, who for the German Center Party was a long-serving Minister of Labour of the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1928. Serving in a total of 13 cabinets, Brauns was a major influence on social policy in the period of German history.

Ludwig Hopf was a German-Jewish theoretical physicist who made contributions to mathematics, special relativity, hydrodynamics, and aerodynamics. Early in his career he was the assistant to and a collaborator and co-author with Albert Einstein.

Joseph Grinnell was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known as the Grinnell System. He served as the first director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley from the museum's inception in 1908 until his death.

Harvey Spencer Lewis, fue autor de numerosos artículos y libros esotéricos y fundador de la Orden Rosacruz AMORC en la ciudad de Nueva York, Estados Unidos (1915), en la que desempeñó el cargo de Imperator, título tradicional del máximo representante de la organización, desde 1915 a 1939, año de su muerte en San José de California,.

Dmitri Aleksándrovich Grave, fue un matemático ruso de la etapa soviética. Los matemáticos Naum Akhiezer, Nikolái Chebotariov, Mikhail Kravchuk, y Borís Delaunay fueron alumnos suyos.

Kullervo Achilles Manner was a Finnish politician and journalist, and later a Soviet politician. He was a member of the Finnish parliament, serving as its Speaker in 1917. He was also chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland between 1917 and 1918. During the Finnish Civil War, he led the Finnish People's Delegation, a leftist alternative to the established Finnish government. After the war, he escaped to the Soviet Union, where he co-founded the Finnish Communist Party. It is said if the Red Guards had won the Civil War, Manner might have risen to the position of the "Leader of the Red Finland".

Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served briefly as General Governor of Moscow (1914–1915). Zinaida is best known as the mother of Prince Felix Yusupov, the murderer of Rasputin. She escaped revolutionary Russia and spent her remaining years living in exile.