WHO ALL DIED FROM AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1940
Find out who all died from August to October 1940

American businessman, founded Chrysler Walter Chrysler died 18. August 1940. (born 1875)

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

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

English physicist Oliver Lodge died 22. August 1940. (born 1851)

English-American co-founder of the Volunteers of America Ballington Booth died 5. October 1940. (born 1857)

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

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

Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk Paul Gottlieb Nipkow died 24. August 1940. (born 1860)

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

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

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

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

Vietnamese poet and activist Phan Bội Châu died 29. October 1940. (born 1867)

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

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

Swedish architect, co-designed Skogskyrkogården Gunnar Asplund died 20. October 1940. (born 1885)

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

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

Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist Ze`ev Jabotinsky died 4. August 1940. (born 1880)

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

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