page_title: 1939
section_title: May–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1939 / Births / May–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Judy Collins performing in Bradford, PA (2-5-2009)
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: May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter
  May 2
  Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist and inventor
  Taomati Iuta, Vice President of Kiribati (1991–94) (d. 2016)
  May 4
  Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
  Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (d. 2018)
  May 7
  José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan orchestral conductor, music educator (d. 2018)
  Sidney Altman, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1982–94) (d. 2018)
  May 9 – Ralph Boston, American athlete
  May 13 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
  May 14 – Veruschka von Lehndorff, German model, actress and artist
  May 15 – Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (d. 2019)
  May 16 – Mario Segni, Italian professor and politician
  May 18 – Peter Grünberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
  May 19
  Livio Berruti, Italian athlete
  James Fox, English actor
  Nancy Kwan, American actress
  Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986)
  May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018)
  May 21 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer
  May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004)
  May 25
  Dixie Carter, American actress (d. 2010)
  Sir Ian McKellen, English actor
  May 27 – Don Williams, American musician (d. 2017)
  May 28 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (d. 2012)
  May 30 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor (d. 2019)
  June 1 – Cleavon Little, African-American actor (d. 1992)
  June 4 – Ottavio Cogliati, Italian cyclist (d. 2008)
  June 5
  Joe Clark, 16th Prime Minister of Canada
  Margaret Drabble, English novelist
  June 6
  Marian Wright Edelman, American civil rights activist and lawyer
  Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer
  June 9 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano
  June 11 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
  June 16 – Billy "Crash" Craddock, American country and rockabilly singer
  June 21 – Charles Jencks, American cultural theorist (d. 2019)
  June 22 – Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer
  June 26 – Osvaldo Hurtado, 34th President of Ecuador
  June 29 – Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist
  June 30 – Renzo Rovatti, Italian footballer
caption: Judy Collins
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