page_title: 1939
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Español: Eliodoro Villazón, presidente de Bolivia
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: August 2 – Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic (b. 1883)
  August 6
  Mehmet Emin Çolakoğlu, Turkish army general (b. 1878)
  Monroe Dunaway (M.D.) Anderson, American founder of Anderson, Clayton and Company; "Father of Texas Medical Center" (b. 1873)
  August 10 – Carlo Galimberti, Italian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1894)
  August 11 – Jean Bugatti, German automobile designer (b. 1909)
  August 12 – Eulalio Gutiérrez, President of Mexico (b. 1881)
  August 15 – Federico Gamboa, Mexican diplomat, writer (b. 1864)
  August 23
  Sidney Howard, American writer (b. 1891)
  Germán Busch, Bolivian military officer, President of Bolivia (b. 1904)
  August 24 – Piero Colonna, Italian politician (b. 1891)
  August 25 – Arthur Asquith, British general (b. 1883)
  August 26 – Rubén González Cárdenas, Venezuelan lawyer (b. 1875)
  August 29 – Marthe de Florian, French painter (b. 1864)
  August 30 – Wilhelm Bölsche, German journalist, science writer (b. 1861)
  August 31 – Richard Bouwens van der Boijen, French architect (b. 1863)
caption: Eliodoro Villazón
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