Famous people born in 1939

Chuck Wepner is a retired boxer whose life has been the subject of many Hollywood films

Joe Clark is a Canadian politician, journalist, writer and businessman who served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada between 1979 and 1980

Sir Harold Walter Kroto was a Nobel Prize winning English chemist

Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist known for his research in semiconductors and solid-state physics

Sidney Altman is a Canadian-American molecular biologist who was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989

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 was an American actor who was well known for the quality roles he portrayed in theatre, television and films

Susumu Tonegawa is a Japanese molecular biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987

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Emil Constantinescu is a Romanian politician who served as the President of Romania from 1996 to 2000