LISTS

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

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