page_title: 1939
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: Joseph Lyons
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: April 4
  King Ghazi of Iraq (b. 1912)
  Joaquín García Morato, Spanish fighter ace (b. 1904)
  April 7 – Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1879)
  April 15 – Konstantin Petrovich Grigorovich, Soviet engineer, professor (b. 1886)
  April 18
  Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, British writer, philanthropist (b. 1857)
  Hugo Charlemont, Austrian painter (b. 1850)
  April 19
  Vladimir Ćopić, Yugoslav politician, Communist leader (b. 1891)
  Lucilio de Albuquerque, Brazilian painter (b. 1877)
  János Vaszary, Hungarian painter and graphic artist (b. 1867)
  April 20 – Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria (b. 1866)
  April 22 – Leandro Campanari, Italian conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1859)
  April 25
  John Foulds, British classical music composer (b. 1880)
  Georges Ricard-Cordingley, French painter (b. 1873)
  April 27 – José Gola, Argentinian actor (b. 1904)
  April 28 – Archduke Leo Karl of Austria (b. 1893)
caption: Joseph Lyons
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