Francis Ford Coppola was born on 7 April 1939 in Detroit. An American film director, producer and screenwriter, Coppola is one of the central figures of the New Hollywood of the 1970s. He won an Academy Award for co-writing Patton, and directed The Godfather, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, and its sequel The Godfather Part II, which won the same award. In between he made the thriller The Conversation, and in 1979 he released Apocalypse Now, a Vietnam War epic whose troubled production became legendary. He later made Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Rainmaker. He owns a winery in California, and is the father of the director Sofia Coppola.
Before and after
- 10 January 1939Establishment of Iguaçu National Park
- 25 January 1939Establishment of Badlands National Park
- 28 January 1939Death of William Butler Yeats
- from April 1939 to May 1945Adriatic Campaign of World War II
- 7 April 1939Birth of Francis Ford Coppola
- from 7 April 1939 to 12 April 1939Italian invasion of Albania
- 13 April 1939Birth of Seamus Heaney
- 14 April 1939Publication of The Grapes of Wrath
- 19 April 1939Birth of Ali Khamenei
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