Celebrity Deaths in 1940
64 notable figures died in 1940. Listed below in order of date of death.
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Dorothy Mackaye
1899 – 1940 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Isaac Babel
1894 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Jan 1 -
Otis Harlan
1865 – 1940 · Actors Jan 1 -
Flora Finch
1867 – 1940 · Actresses Jan 4 -
Nezu Kaichiro
1860 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jan 4 -
Edward Frederic “E.F.” Benson
1867 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Gus Elen
1863 – 1940 · Actors Feb 2 -
John Buchan
1875 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
Madeleine Talmage Force Astor
1893 – 1940 · Victims of crime and disaster Mar 3 -
Mikhail Bulgakov
1891 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
La Jana
1905 – 1940 · Actresses Mar 13 -
Madeleine Astor
1893 – 1940 · Socialite Mar 27 -
William Henry Abstein
1883 – 1940 · Sports Figures Apr 4 -
Winona Winter
1889 – 1940 · Actresses Apr 4 -
Carl Bosch
1874 – 1940 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 26 -
Marie Triepcke Kröyer
1867 – 1940 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Walter James Connolly
1887 – 1940 · Actors May 5 -
Emma Goldman
1869 – 1940 · Social Reformers May 14 -
Arnold Wilson
1884 – 1940 · Politicians May 31 -
Charley Chase
1893 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Edward E. Clive
1883 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Enrique Carlos Mosconi
1877 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Florence Roberts
1861 – 1940 · Actresses Jun 6 -
George Hackathorne
1896 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
James Hall
1900 – 1940 · Actors Jun 6 -
Mildred June
1905 – 1940 · Actresses Jun 6 -
Paul Klee
1879 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Jun 6 -
Solomon Harry “Sol” Goldberg
1880 – 1940 Jun 6 -
George Hackathorne
1896 – 1940 Jun 25 -
Carlton Elliott Griffin
1893 – 1940 · Actors Jul 7 -
Fred Burke
1893 – 1940 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 7 -
Granville Bates
1882 – 1940 · Actors Jul 7 -
Louis Berhard Elias Peters
1855 – 1940 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
Silas Reese Burns
1855 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Aug 8 -
Leon Trotsky
1879 – 1940 · Politicians Aug 21 -
Edward Bernard “Eddie” Collins
1883 – 1940 · Actors Sep 9 -
Lewis Nixon
1861 – 1940 · Business Magnates Sep 9 -
Sydney Mortimer Laurence
1865 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Sep 9 -
Walter Benjamin
1892 – 1940 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
Marguerite Clark
1883 – 1940 · Actresses Sep 25 -
Ballington Booth
1857 – 1940 · Social Reformers Oct 5 -
Berton Churchill
1876 – 1940 · Actors Oct 10 -
Diana Karenne
1888 – 1940 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Gunnar Asplund
1885 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Joe De Stefani
1879 – 1940 · Actors Oct 10 -
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Joe Shelby “Joe” LeFors
1865 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Paul Masson
1859 – 1940 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
William Preston Few
1867 – 1940 Oct 10 -
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William Ray Simpson
1862 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Oct 10 -
Charles Ogle
1865 – 1940 Oct 11 -
Tom Mix
1880 – 1940 · Actors, Country Music Oct 12 -
Neville Chamberlain
1869 – 1940 · Business Magnates, Politicians Nov 9 -
Harry Bernard
1878 – 1940 · Actors Nov 11 -
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Lewis Wickes Hine
1874 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Mabel Adrienne Morrison Bennett
1883 – 1940 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Maud Humphrey Bogart
1865 – 1940 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Mabel Bennett
1883 – 1940 Nov 20 -
Agnes Ayres
1892 – 1940 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Thomas Alexander Russell
1877 – 1940 · Business Magnates Dec 12 -
Agnes Ayers
1898 – 1940 · Actresses Dec 25 -
Daniel Frohman
1851 – 1940 · Movie/TV Producer, Producer Dec 26 -
Kocho Baba
1869 – 1940 · Educators -
Overton Gentry Ellis
1860 – 1940 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers -
Teijirou(Teijiro) Ueda
1879 – 1940 · Educators