WHO ALL DIED FROM MARCH TO OCTOBER 1940
Find out who all died from March to October 1940

English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Arthur Harden died 17. June 1940. (born 1865)

American politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives William B. Bankhead died 15. September 1940. (born 1874)

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

Russian-English rugby player Alexander Obolensky died 29. March 1940. (born 1916)

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

Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line Marcus Garvey died 10. June 1940. (born 1887)

Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor Silvestre Revueltas died 5. October 1940. (born 1889)

Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus died 16. August 1940. (born 1878)

German physician, biologist, and eugenicist Alfred Ploetz died 20. March 1940. (born 1860)

Moldovan politician, Mayor of Chișinău Nicolae Bivol died 3. July 1940. (born 1882)

American general, Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Butler died 21. June 1940. (born 1881)

Dutch author Menno ter Braak died 14. May 1940. (born 1902)

Lithuanian-American activist Emma Goldman died 14. May 1940. (born 1869)

German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate Carl Bosch died 26. April 1940. (born 1874)

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

Greek runner Spyridon Louis died 26. March 1940. (born 1873)

American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic Madeleine Astor died 27. March 1940. (born 1893)

Japanese physician Chujiro Hayashi died 11. May 1940. (born 1880)

Italian mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra died 11. October 1940. (born 1860)

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

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