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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Music 1.2 Film 2 Literature 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Non-fiction 3 Births 4 Deaths

Art and culture

• April 30 – The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.

Music

• "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Film

• The Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir

Literature

Fiction

• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
• Party Going by Henry Green
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote by Jorge Luis Borges

Non-fiction

• Avant-Garde and Kitsch by Clement Greenberg
• Manhood by Michel Leiris

Births

• John Peel
• Gaetano Pesce
• Germaine Greer
• Tzvetan Todorov
• Bertrand Blier
• Charles Jencks
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Joel-Peter Witkin
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Wendy Carlos
• Jack Kahane
• Hugh Masekela
• Volker Schlöndorff

Deaths

• Havelock Ellis
• Sigmund Freud