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Who was born in April 1939

4 memorials found

Ali Khamenei

19392026

Iranian cleric and politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026, becoming the longest-serving head of state in West Asia

Dusty Springfield

19391999

Iconic British singer and recording artist known for her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice and as a popular performer of blue-eyed soul, pop, and dramatic ballads, an enduring figure of the Swinging Sixties

Seamus Heaney

19392013

Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner who captured rural Irish life and identity in lyrical verse, acclaimed as the most important Irish poet since Yeats

Marvin Gaye

19391984

American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician known as the "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul"