Famous People Who Died In 1940
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1940. This list includes people like Neville Chamberlain, Leon Trotsky, Robert Wadlow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marcus Garvey and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, physicists and philosophers who died in 1940. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Russia and many more countries.
Leon Trotsky07 November 1879, Russian, Ukrainian, Russian
Founder and first leader of the Red Army
F. Scott Fitzgerald24 September 1896, American
Novelist
Robert Wadlow22 February 1918, American
Tallest Person Ever Known
Neville Chamberlain18 March 1869, British
Prime Minister of the U.K.
Marcus Garvey17 August 1887, Jamaican
Political leader
Emma Goldman27 June 1869, American
Writer
J. J. Thomson18 December 1856, British
Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner
Smedley Butler30 July 1881, American
Paul Klee18 December 1879, Swiss, German
Painter
Walter Benjamin15 July 1892, German
Carl Bosch27 August 1874, German
Chemist & Engineer
Lillian Wald10 March 1867, American
Humanitarian, Nurse, Activist
Silvestre Revueltas31 December 1899, Mexican
Music composer, violinist and teacher
Anton Hansen Tammsaare30 January 1878, Estonian
Writer
Alfred Loisy28 February 1857, French
Priest
Arthur Harden12 October 1865, British
Biochemist
Nikolai Yezhov19 April 1895, Russian
politician
Madeleine Astor19 June 1893, American
Socialite
Mikhail Bulgakov15 May 1891, Russian
Writer
Eric Gill22 February 1882, British
Type designer, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
Fusajiro Yamauchi22 November 1859, Japanese
Entrepreneur
Julius Wagner-Jauregg07 March 1857, Austrian
Physician, Politician, Neurologist, Psychiatrist,
Italo Balbo06 June 1896, Italian
politician, military personnel
John A. Hobson06 July 1858, British
Economist
Manuel Azaña10 January 1880, Spanish
Prime Minister
Lewis Hine26 September 1874, American
Sociologist, Photographer, Artist
Selma Lagerlöf20 November 1858, Swedish
Writer
Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV04 June 1884
Author
Arthur Rostron14 May 1869, British
Sailor
Vsevolod Meyerhold28 January 1874, Russian
actor, theatre director, playwright
Isaac Babel13 July 1894, Russian
Journalist, playwright, short story writer
Peter Behrens14 April 1868, German
Poster artist, Architect, Typographer, Painter,
Henry Ossian Flipper21 March 1856, American
Military Leader
Nicolae Iorga17 January 1871, Romanian
politician, linguist, geopolitician, poet
Arthur Zimmermann05 October 1864, German
Politician, Diplomat
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Frederick Cook10 June 1865, American
Explorer, Physician
Michael Joseph Savage23 March 1872, New Zealander
Politician, Diplomat
Kyösti Kallio10 April 1873, Finnish
Political leader
Lluís Companys21 June 1882, Spanish
Politician, Lawyer, Trade unionist
Oliver Lodge12 June 1851, British
Physicist, Engineer
Wladimir Köppen07 October 1846, German, Russian
Geographer
Saionji Kinmochi06 December 1849, Japanese
Prime Minister, politician
Vito Volterra03 May 1860, Italian
Mathematician
Eugène Dubois28 January 1858
Curator, Geologist, Physician, Anthropologist,
Verner von Heidenstam06 July 1859, Swedish
Swedish poet
Robert Maillart06 February 1872, Swiss
Swiss civil engineer
Henri Desgrange31 January 1865, French
journalist, sport cyclist, track cyclist
Jesse Livermore26 July 1877, American
Joseph John Thomson18 December 1856, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Spiridon Louis12 January 1873, Greek
Athlete
Clelia Duel Mosher16 December 1863, American
Women
Louis Fles19 October 1871
Writer
Albert Kahn (Banker)03 March 1860, French
Édouard Vuillard11 November 1868, French
Painter
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr17 August 1887, Jamaican, British
Santōka Taneda03 December 1882, Japanese
Poet, Writer, Bhikkhu
Władysław Tempka22 August 1889, Polish
Politician, Lawyer