About the day » Monday September 4, 1939Calender converter

• gertruda petronella (truus) heussen, meijel
• Hester Maria Erasmus († 2003)
• Bart Linker († 2001)
• Elias Sonnier († 2015)
• Dirkje Berendina Hermina (Dirre) van den Brink, Beekbergen (Apeldoorn) († 2009)
• Charles Lam, Bressoux Belgium († 2015)
• Charles Wesley Snoap, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Arendina Harmanna Harderwijk, Neede († 2018)
• Gepke Knegt, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1940)
• Mansveld, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Antonia Maria Sibelt (50), Zwolle
• Catharina Maria Elisabeth Kannegieter (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Andriesje Gerrits de Jong (82), Goor, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Lancee (Lancée) (72), Heerenveen
• Antonia Sibelt (49)
• Cornelia Vrolijk (52), Ridderkerk
• Coenradus Veltman (67), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Andreas Gerhardus Beckeringh (67), Amstelveen
• Carolus Theodrus Wolters van der Weij (55), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alois Geldof (86), Vladslo

• 1937 » Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician
• 1937 » Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer († 2010)
• 1937 » Les Allen, English footballer and manager
• 1937 » Virgil A. Richard, American general († 2013)
• 1939 » Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee († 2005)
• 1941 » Ken Harrelson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1941 » Marilena de Souza Chaui, Brazilian philosopher and academic
• 1941 » Ramesh Sethi, Kenyan cricketer and coach
• 1941 » Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Andhra Pradesh
• 1942 » Raymond Floyd, American golfer

• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)

• 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 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
• May 3 » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
• September 1 » Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
• September 1 » Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
• September 14 » World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORPOrzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
• September 30 » NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

The temperature on September 4, 1939 was between 13.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.