page_title: 1939
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 / Births / November
caption_attribution_description: English: Emil Constantinescu, president of Romania.
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: November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress
  November 5 – Cecilia Alvear, Ecuadorian-born American journalist (d. 2017)
  November 6
  Athanasios Angelopoulos, Greek academic
  Carlos Emilio Morales, Cuban jazz guitarist (d. 2014)
  November 8
  Laila Kinnunen, Finnish singer (d. 2000)
  Henning Christophersen, Danish politician (d. 2016)
  November 10 – Russell Means, Native American activist (d. 2012)
  November 14 – Wendy Carlos, American electronic composer
  November 15
  Yaphet Kotto, African-American actor
  Thalmus Rasulala, American actor (d. 1991)
  November 18
  Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist
  Amanda Lear, French model, singer
  Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
  November 19 – Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania
  November 20 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
  November 21 – Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician
  November 25 – Rais Khan, Pakistani sitarist (d. 2017)
  November 26
  Tina Turner, American born Swiss singer and actress
  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia
  November 27
  Dudley Storey, New Zealand rower (d. 2017)
  Laurent-Désiré Kabila, 3rd President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 2001)
  Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress (d. 1986)
  November 30 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (d. 2015)
caption: Emil Constantinescu
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