June 4, 1939

1939Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, Anglo-Irish peer (died 2014)^[†]

Jeremy Ulick Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, styled Earl of Altamont until 1991, was an Irish hereditary peer and businessman. On the death of his father, he was entitled to sit in the House of Lords by virtue of the subsidiary title Baron Mounteagle, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. However, he never took his seat and lost the right with the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.

1939Denis de Belleval, Canadian civil servant and politician^[†]

Denis de Belleval is a former politician and administrator in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1982 and was a cabinet minister in the government of René Lévesque. He has also held several administrative positions, including a two-year tenure as the president of Via Rail.

1939Henri Pachard, American director and producer (died 2008)^[†]

Henri Pachard, Jackson St. Louis and Crystal Blue were the pseudonyms of the American film director Ron Sullivan .

1939George Reid, Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament^[†]

Sir George Newlands Reid was a Scottish politician and journalist who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2003 and then for the Ochil constituency from 2003 to 2007. Reid was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire from February 1974 to 1979.