Month February 1939 Calendar

About Month of February Calendar

• February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 days in leap years.
  
  February symbols: Its birth flower is the violet (Viola) and the common primrose (Primula vulgaris). Its birthstone is the amethyst. It symbolizes piety, humility, spiritual wisdom, and sincerity. Its Zodiac signs are Aquarius (until February 18) and Pisces (February 19 onwards).

Historical Events for February, 1939

• Day of Week 5th » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "'Caudillo de España'", or Leader of Spain.
• Day of Week 10th » Spanish Civil War: The Francoist Spain e.g Nationalists conclude their Catalonia Offensive or conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
• Day of Week 11th » A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1939

• 1st » Fritjof Capra, Austrian physicist
• 1st » Claude François, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (d. 1978)
• 1st » Paul Gillmor, American lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
• 1st » Del McCoury, American singer and guitarist (Del McCoury Band)
• 1st » Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (The Crusaders) (d. 2014)
• 2nd » Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 2nd » Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer (d. 1991)
• 3rd » Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 4th » Stan Lundine, American politician
• 5th » Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
• 6th » Jean Beaudin, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 6th » Mike Farrell, American actor
• 6th » Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
• 6th » Jair Rodrigues, Brazilian singer (d. 2014)
• 7th » Ray Taliaferro, American radio host
• 8th » Ken Iman, American football player (d. 2010)
• 8th » Jose Maria Sison, Filipino activist
• 9th » Barry Mann, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
• 9th » Tadahiro Matsushita, Japanese politician (d. 2012)
• 9th » Janet Suzman, South African actress and director
• 10th » Adrienne Clarkson, Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician, 26th Governor-General of Canada
• 10th » Enver Ören, Turkish businessman (d. 2013)
• 10th » Peter Purves, English actor
• 10th » Tzeni Vanou, Greek singer (d. 2014)
• 11th » Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (d. 2014)
• 11th » Bryan Gould, New Zealand-English politician
• 11th » Jane Yolen, American author
• 12th » Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer (d. 2000)
• 12th » Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Doors, Rick & the Ravens, Manzarek–Krieger, and Nite City) (d. 2013)
• 13th » Raôul Duguay, Canadian poet and activist
• 13th » Serge and Beate Klarsfeld or Beate Klarsfeld, German nazi hunter
• 13th » Zarinoff Lebeouf, Canadian wrestler
• 13th » R. C. Sproul, American pastor, theologian, and author
• 14th » Eugene Fama, American economist
• 14th » Michael Rudman, American director and producer
• 15th » Gerd Bohnsack, German footballer and manager
• 15th » Ole Ellefsæter, Norwegian skier
• 15th » Robert Hansen, American serial killer (d. 2014)
• 16th » Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino jurist
• 16th » David Griffiths (portrait painter) or David Griffiths, Welsh painter
• 16th » Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni) (d. 2004)
• 16th » David Simpson (British politician) named David Simpson, Irish politician
• 17th » John Leyton, English actor and singer
• 17th » Mary Ann Mobley, American actress, Miss America e.g Miss America 1959
• 17th » Clément Richard, Canadian businessman and politician
• 18th » Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist (d. 1996)
• 18th » Marek Janowski, Polish-German conductor
• 18th » Dal Maxvill, American baseball player
• 19th » Erin Pizzey, Chinese-English activist and author, founded Refuge (United Kingdom charity) or Refuge
• 19th » Gwen Taylor, English actress
• 20th » Frank Arundel, English footballer (d. 1994)
• 21st » Richard Beymer, American actor
• 21st » Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 22nd » Brian Follett, English biologist and academic
• 24th » Roger Cowley, English physicist and academic
• 24th » Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (d. 2013)
• 24th » Joy Mukherjee, Indian actor and director (d. 2012)
• 26th » Josephine Tewson, English actress
• 27th » José Cardona, Honduran footballer (d. 2013)
• 27th » Don McKinnon, New Zealand politician, 12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 27th » Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
• 27th » Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese-American poet (d. 2012)
• 27th » Antoinette Sibley, English ballerina
• 28th » John Fahey (musician) called John Fahey, American guitarist (d. 2001)
• 28th » The Missing Link (wrestler) known as The Missing Link, Canadian wrestler (d. 2007)
• 28th » Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan philosopher and scholar (d. 1987)
• 28th » Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate
• 28th » Tommy Tune, American actor, singer, dancer, and director

Famous Deaths for February 1939

• 2nd » Bernhard Gregory, German chess player (b. 1879)
• 7th » Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
• 10th » Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
• 11th » Franz Schmidt, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1874)
• 15th » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
• 17th » Willy Hess (violinist) known as Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
• 22nd » Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)

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