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1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. World War II started in this year.

• May 15 – Nazi Germany opens Ravensbruück concentration camp, the largest Nazi concentration camp for women
• September 1 – The Second World War begins when Nazi Germany invades Poland
• September 17 – The Soviet Union invades Poland
• October 6 – Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divide and take over Poland
• November 30 – The Winter War begins

• February 6 – Mike Farrell
• February 14 – John Conn (Scottish-Australian writer)
• March 13 - Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Tokens)
• April 2 – Marvin Gaye
• July 1 - Karen Black (d. 2013)
• July 30 - Peter Bogdanovich
• August 3 – Wes Craven
• August 19 - Ginger Baker, English drummer (Cream) (d. 2019)
• September 5 – George Lazenby
• September 18 – Frankie Avalon
• October 27 – John Cleese
• November 13 – Will Ryan (American actor)

• September - Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin, OBE, British Indian judge and legislator (b. 1877)
• November 12 -Norman Bethune

• Dodge City starring Errol Flynn
• Gone with the Wind starring Clark Gable
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Best Picture Academy Award)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Charles Laughton
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• Stagecoach starring John Wayne
• The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland

• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

• "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" – by E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen, from the movieThe Wizard of Oz; won the Academy Award for the best song.
• "If I Didn't Care - by The Ink Spots