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Marshall Cousins
1869–1939
writer, politician
Official cause
traffic collision
Vlas Chubar
1891–1939
politician, finance minister
Official cause
execution by shooting
Pavel Postyshev
1887–1939
statesperson, politician, communist
Official cause
execution by shooting
Boris Pozern
1882–1939
politician, military personnel
Official cause
gunshot wound
Amanda McKittrick Ros
1860–1939
poet, writer, novelist
Official cause
falling from height
Charles William Lyons
1868–1939
Catholic priest, academic administrator, university teacher
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Ellis Reynolds Shipp
1847–1939
physician, hymnwriter
Official cause
cancer
E. A. Bushnell
1875–1939
cartoonist
Official cause
pneumonia
László Borsody
1878–1939
fencer
Official cause
gunshot wound
Helen Ware
1877–1939
actor, stage actor, film actor
Official cause
disease
Thomas Johnson
1898–1939
billiard marker, murderer
Official cause
hanging to death
Ernst Blass
1890–1939
writer, poet, journalist
Official cause
heart failure
Matthias Sindelar
1903–1939
association football player, association football coach
Official cause
asphyxia
Amelia Earhart
1897–1939
aircraft pilot, memoirist, travel writer
Official cause
Not yet documented
Juji Nakada
1870–1939
journalist, pastor, translator
Official cause
tuberculosis
Frank Tenney Johnson
1874–1939
artist
Official cause
meningitis
Marcellus Neal
1868–1939
Official cause
struck by vehicle
Muhammad Ben Ali Ribati
1861–1939
artist, painter
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Jay H. Upton
1879–1938
lawyer
Official cause
traffic collision
Florence Lawrence
1886–1938
actor, stage actor, film actor
Official cause
intoxication
Osip Mandelstam
1891–1938
poet, writer, translator
Official cause
typhus
Harry Myers
1882–1938
actor, film director, film actor
Official cause
pneumonia
Karel Čapek
1890–1938
translator, novelist, director
Official cause
pneumonia
Frank Horace Vizetelly
1864–1938
lexicographer, linguist, author
Official cause
pneumonia