Famous People Born in 1939

• Atwood, Margaret (November 18)

  The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin

• Batman

  Star of the Batman movies

• Black, Karen (July 1)

  Jack Nicholson's girlfriend in Five Easy Pieces

• Bogdanovich, Peter (July 30)

  Director of The Last Picture Show

• Bouton, Jim (March 8)

  The author of "Ball Four"

• Carlos, Wendy (November 14)

  Synthesizer performer of the album Switched-On Bach

• Cimino, Michael (February 3)

  The director of 'The Deer Hunter' and 'Heaven's Gate'

• Cleese, John (October 27)

  The tall guy from Monty Python's Flying Circus

• Colvin, Claudette (September 5)

  The black teen who preceded Rosa Parks

• Coppola, Francis Ford (April 7)

  The director of The Godfather films

• Craven, Wes (August 2)

  The creator if Nightmare on Elm Street

• Fonda, Peter (February 23)

  The star of Easy Rider and Ulee's Gold

• Fontana, D.C. (March 25)

  Scripter and story editor for the original 'Star Trek'

• Frost, Sir David (April 7)

  The British TV host who interviewed Richard Nixon

• Gaye, Marvin (April 2)

  Singer of "Sexual Healing"

• Greer, Germaine (January 29)

  Feminist author of 'The Female Eunuch'

• Hamilton, George (August 12)

  Super-tanned actor and star of Dancing With the Stars 2

• Harper, Valerie (August 22)

  Rhoda on TV's Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Hayden, Tom (December 11)

  The California political activist once married to Jane Fonda

• Keitel, Harvey (May 13)

  The greasy pimp in Taxi Driver

• Kotto, Yaphet (November 15)

  Parker in the movie 'Aliens' and Idi Amin in 'Raid on Entebbe'

• Kwan, Nancy (May 19)

  Star of The World of Suzie Wong

• Lazenby, George (September 5)

  The actor who followed Sean Connery as James Bond

• Lee, Wen Ho

  U.S. scientist falsely accused of being a Chinese spy

• Marlowe, Philip

  The hard-boiled hero of Farewell, My Lovely and other novels

• McKellen, Ian (May 25)

  Gandalf in the film Lord of the Rings

• Mitty, Walter

  Title character of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

• Oswald, Lee Harvey (October 18)

  Accused assassin of John F. Kennedy

• Paulsen, Gary (May 17)

  The author of Hatchet

• Peel, John (August 30)

  Influential British DJ from BBC's Radio 1

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

  The beacon-snouted hero of the annual Christmas TV special

• Schumacher, Joel (August 29)

  The director of St. Elmo's Fire and Batman Forever

• Sorvino, Paul (April 13)

  He played mob boss Paulie in the movie Goodfellas

• Souter, David (September 17)

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1990-2009

• Springfield, Dusty (April 16)

  Husky-voiced soul singer of the 1960s

• Tomlin, Lily (September 1)

   Ernestine and Edith Ann from Laugh-In

• Turner, Tina (November 26)

  The singer of "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

• Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe (April 30)

  The first woman composer to win a Pulitzer

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