October 6, 1939

1939Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic^[†]

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. He was the editor and presenter of The South Bank Show, and the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 documentary series In Our Time from 1998 to 2025.

1939Jack Cullen, American baseball player^[†]

John Patrick Cullen is an American retired professional baseball player. The right-handed pitcher appeared in 19 games in Major League Baseball as a member of the New York Yankees. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg).

1939Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic^[†]

Richard Delgado is an American legal scholar considered to be one the founders of critical race theory, along with Derrick Bell. Delgado is currently a Distinguished Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Previously, he was the John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books, many with his wife, Jean Stefancic. He is also notable for his scholarship on hate speech and for introducing storytelling into legal scholarship.

1939Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic^[†]

Sheila Adele Greibach is an American researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and notable work include working with Seymour Ginsburg and Michael A. Harrison in context-sensitive parsing using the stack automaton model.