September 23, 1939

1939Henry Blofeld, English cricketer and journalist^[†]

Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist and broadcaster best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. He has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that is quintessentially Old Etonian both in style and substance. He also writes on cricket and is the author of eight books.

1939Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1988)^[†]

Leroy "Roy" Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career and two later solo albums that made it to the Billboard chart. He never achieved stardom, but is considered a highly influential guitar player. Guitar Player praised him as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time". He appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits in 1977.

1939Joan Hanham, Baroness Hanham, English politician^[†]

Joan Brownlow Hanham, Baroness Hanham, was a British politician who was a member of the House of Lords. She sat as a Conservative.

1939Sonny Vaccaro, American businessman^[†]

John Paul Vincent "Sonny" Vaccaro is an American former sports marketing executive. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

1939Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1856)^[†]

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

1939Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (born 1863)^[†]

Francisco León de la Barra y Quijano was a Mexican political figure, diplomat, lawyer and politician who served as the 36th President of Mexico from May 25 to November 6, 1911 during the Mexican Revolution, following the resignations of President Porfirio Díaz and Vice President Ramón Corral. He previously served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for one month during the Díaz administration and again from 1913 to 1914 under President Victoriano Huerta. He was known to conservatives as "The White President" or the "Pure President".