page_title: 1939
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Janez Frančišek Gnidovec (1873-1939), slovene bishop.Bishop of Skopje, Macedonia
context_page_description: 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1939th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 939th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1930s decade.
  This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
context_section_description: February 1 – Lawrence Marston, American actor, playwright, and film director (b. 1857)
  February 3 – Janez Frančišek Gnidovec, Yugoslav Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1873)
  February 4 – Edward Sapir, German-American anthropologist, linguist (b. 1884)
  February 5 – Teresa Mañé Miravet, Spanish teacher, editor and writer (b. 1865)
  February 6 – Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharada of Baroda (b. 1863)
  February 9 – Henry Balfour, British archaeologist (b. 1863)
  February 10
  Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
  Patriarch Torkom Koushagian of Jerusalem (b. 1874)
  February 11 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
  February 12 – Potenciano Gregorio, Filipino musician (b. 1880)
  S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (b. 1868)
  February 13 – Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, British general (b. 1859)
  February 15 – Henri Jaspar, Belgian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1870)
  February 18 – Okamoto Kanoko, Japanese tanka poet (b. 1899)
  February 20 – Charles V. Blanchard, American politician (b. 1866)
  February 22 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
  February 23 – Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, British peer, soldier (b. 1895)
  February 26 – Ivan Fedko, Soviet army commander (b. 1897)
  February 27 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian Marxist revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin's widow (b. 1869)
caption: Venerable Janez Frančišek Gnidovec
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