WHO ALL DIED FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1940
Find out who all died from February to October 1940

American pilot Billy Fiske died 17. August 1940. (born 1911)

American painter Ellen Day Hale died 11. February 1940. (born 1855)

French-English journalist and author George William de Carteret died 4. September 1940. (born 1869)

German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin died 27. September 1940. (born 1892)

American author Hamlin Garland died 4. March 1940. (born 1860)

American giant Robert Wadlow died 15. July 1940. (born 1918)

1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada John Buchan died 11. February 1940. (born 1875)

Canadian-American actor and singer Berton Churchill died 10. October 1940. (born 1876)

American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia William G. Conley died 21. October 1940. (born 1866)

American author DuBose Heyward died 16. June 1940. (born 1885)

2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland Charles Cochrane-Baillie died 16. September 1940. (born 1860)

Duke of Guise Prince Jean died 25. August 1940. (born 1874)

Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov died 10. March 1940. (born 1891)

Soviet secret police officer Nikolai Yezhov died 4. February 1940. (born 1895)

American politician Lincoln Loy McCandless died 5. October 1940. (born 1859)

Austrian physician, Nobel Prize laureate Julius Wagner-Jauregg died 27. September 1940. (born 1857)

English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate J. J. Thomson died 30. August 1940. (born 1856)

French physicist and educator Édouard Branly died 24. March 1940. (born 1844)

Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia Lluís Companys died 11. October 1940. (born 1882)

American clarinet player and saxophonist Johnny Dodds died 8. August 1940. (born 1892)