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Who was born in September 1939

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Junko Tabei

19392016

Japanese mountaineer and explorer, the first woman to summit Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits

Jorge Sampaio

19392021

Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as President of Portugal for two terms, Mayor of Lisbon, and United Nations High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations

Stanislav Petrov

19392017

Russian military officer who, during a 1983 false alarm, decided not to launch a nuclear counter-strike, a decision that likely prevented a global catastrophe

Claudette Colvin

19392026

American pioneer of the civil rights movement who, at 15, refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery