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

Swiss politician Hermann Obrecht died 21. August 1940. (born 1882)

American poet Ernest Thayer died 21. August 1940. (born 1863)

Russian politician and theorist Leon Trotsky died 21. August 1940. (born 1879)

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

1st Baron Strickland, Maltese politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta Gerald Strickland died 22. August 1940. (born 1861)

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

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

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

Canadian archbishop Georges Gauthier died 31. August 1940. (born 1871)

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

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

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

Belgian rower Marcel Van Crombrugge died 23. September 1940. (born 1880)

American railroad executive Hale Holden died 23. September 1940. (born 1869)

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

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

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)

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

English-American missionary Wilfred Grenfell died 9. October 1940. (born 1865)