July 8, 1939

1939Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2025)^[†]

Edward C. Lumley was a Canadian corporate executive and politician.

1939Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (born 1859)^[†]

Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.