About the day » Friday February 3, 1939Calender converter

• Cornelia Maria Prinsen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1998)
• Gerardus Peter Sanders, Helmond († 1997)
• Gerritjen(Gerrie) Hietkamp, Eefde († 2005)
• Donald Levern Barendrecht, Oregon, VS († 1993)
• Elizabeth Dina Hooglander, Sint Philipsland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1999)
• Foktje Zondag, Eindhoven († 2002)
• Donald Arthur Sider, Ontario, Canada († 1963)
• Carroll Sue Sims, Grayson County, Kentucky († 1939)
• Berend Sander, Groningen, Nederland († 2012)
• Gerriet Nobbe, Alteveer, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2018)

• * Leonardus van Dal (30), 's Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje Schook (25), Geldermalsen
• Arnolda Clasina VAN GESTEL (73), Breda,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Carolina Josephina Catharina Coopman (50), s' Gravenhage
• Bridget Hinnigan\Henigan (79), Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
• Abner Lewis Newlin (87), Iowa
• Alonzo Wager Pough (66), Holland Ottawa County, Michigan
• anna maria elisabeth francisca hartkamp (76), amsterdam
• Bernard Laurens Klauke (73), Almelo (NL)
• Anna Eva Brühl (83), Bad Ems

• 1935 » Johnny "Guitar" Watson, American blues, soul, and funk singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1996)
• 1936 » Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1936 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist († 1984)
• 1937 » Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
• 1938 » Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer († 2013)
• 1938 » Victor Buono, American actor († 1982)
• 1939 » Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1940 » Fran Tarkenton, American football player and sportscaster
• 1941 » Dory Funk, Jr., American wrestler and trainer
• 1941 » Howard Phillips, American lawyer and politician († 2013)

• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Vasily Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
• April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
• June 1 » First flight of the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter aircraft.
• August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• September 2 » World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany.
• October 14 » World War II: The German submarineU-47 sinks the British battleship HMSRoyal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

The temperature on February 3, 1939 was between -7.1 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -5.7 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.