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

Indian author Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao died 1. January 1940. (born 1865)

English-American actress Flora Finch died 4. January 1940. (born 1867)

Italian-English poet and civil servant Humbert Wolfe died 5. January 1940. (born 1885)

English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient Edward Smith died 12. January 1940. (born 1899)

Polish author, poet, and playwright Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer died 18. January 1940. (born 1865)

American general Omar Bundy died 20. January 1940. (born 1861)

American gymnast John Duha died 21. January 1940. (born 1875)

Finnish clergyman and activist Elias Simojoki died 25. January 1940. (born 1899)

Russian journalist, author, and playwright Isaak Babel died 27. January 1940. (born 1894)

American author Philip Francis Nowlan died 1. February 1940. (born 1888)

Greek journalist Zacharias Papantoniou died 1. February 1940. (born 1877)

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

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

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

American author Mary Mills Patrick died 25. February 1940. (born 1850)

English author E. F. Benson died 29. February 1940. (born 1867)

Estonian author Anton Hansen Tammsaare died 1. March 1940. (born 1878)

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

Chinese educator Cai Yuanpei died 5. March 1940. (born 1868)