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Paul Irniger
1913–1939
joiner
Official cause
decapitation by guillotine
Babe Siebert
1904–1939
ice hockey player, ice hockey coach
Official cause
drowning
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874–1939
painter
Official cause
aneurysm
Germán Busch
1903–1939
politician
Official cause
gunshot wound
Charlotte Drake Cardeza
1854–1939
Official cause
heart disease
Harvey Spencer Lewis
1883–1939
journalist, writer, mystic
Official cause
stroke
Félix Almagro
1907–1939
bullfighter
Official cause
animal attack
Melvin J. Ballard
1873–1939
writer
Official cause
leukemia
Sirkka Sari
1920–1939
actor, film actor
Official cause
falling from height
C. M. Edens
1897–1939
head coach, American football coach
Official cause
drowning
Pio H. Laporte
1878–1939
physician, politician
Official cause
traffic collision
William James Mayo
1861–1939
military physician, surgeon
Official cause
stomach cancer
Beryl Mercer
1882–1939
actor, film actor
Official cause
surgical complications
Rust Heinz
1914–1939
inventor
Official cause
traffic collision
Toribio Martínez Cabrera
1874–1939
military personnel
Official cause
gunshot wound
Grace Abbott
1878–1939
social worker, university teacher
Official cause
multiple myeloma
Eugen Weidmann
1908–1939
serial killer
Official cause
decapitation
Chick Webb
1905–1939
bandleader, conductor, jazz musician
Official cause
tuberculosis
Robert Nixon
1919–1939
serial killer
Official cause
electrocution
E.T.S. Appleyard
1904–1939
physicist
Official cause
falling from height
Princess Johanna of Hesse and by Rhine
1936–1939
Official cause
meningitis
Vladislav Khodasevich
1886–1939
poet, journalist, writer
Official cause
liver cancer
Albert Ogilvie
1890–1939
politician, barrister
Official cause
angina pectoris
François Bourdrez
1901–1939
hydraulic engineer, civil engineer, adviser
Official cause
drowning