Famous people born in 1939
Chuck Wepner
Chuck Wepner is a retired boxer whose life has been the subject of many Hollywood films
Sir Harold W. Kroto
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was a Nobel Prize winning English chemist
Daniel Chee Tsui
Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist known for his research in semiconductors and solid-state physics
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman is a Canadian-American molecular biologist who was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is an eminent French chemist who was one of the joint recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield was an American actor who was well known for the quality roles he portrayed in theatre, television and films
Susumu Tonegawa
Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987
Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu is a Romanian politician who served as the President of Romania from 1996 to 2000