WHO ALL DIED IN 1940.
See all who died in 1940.

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

Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf died 16. March 1940. (born 1858)

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

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

Belarusian-German astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson died 26. March 1940. (born 1880)

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)

New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand Michael Joseph Savage died 27. March 1940. (born 1872)

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

2nd Baronet Scottish politician Sir John Gilmour died 30. March 1940. (born 1876)

German rower Gustav Goßler died 4. April 1940. (born 1879)

English actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell died 9. April 1940. (born 1865)

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

English politician George Lansbury died 7. May 1940. (born 1859)

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

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

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

Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker died 16. May 1940. (born 1897)

Spanish bullfighter Diego Mazquiarán died 19. May 1940. (born 1895)

Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate Verner von Heidenstam died 20. May 1940. (born 1859)