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Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)
Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish writer (1858–1940)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940
J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Paul Klee
German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish writer (1859–1940)
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Isaak Babel
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Manuel Azaña
prime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
Nikolai Yezhov
NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)
Robert Wadlow
American who was the tallest recorded person in history
Peter Behrens
German architect and designer (1868-1940)
Wladimir Köppen
German meteorologist (1846–1940)
Lluís Companys
123rd President of Catalonia (1934–1940)
Kyösti Kallio
Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873-1940)
Nicolae Iorga
Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright (1871-1940)
Italo Balbo
Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister (1896–1940)
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Russian theatre director (1874–1940)
John Buchan
Scottish author and politician (1875–1940)
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist (1860-1940)
Spyridon Louis
Greek athlete
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Russian Jewish poet, founder of Revisionist Zionist movement (1880–1940)
A. H. Tammsaare
Estonian writer (1878–1940)
Saionji Kinmochi
Japanese politician (1849-1940)
Édouard Vuillard
French painter (1868-1940)
Olga Boznańska
Polish artist (1865–1940)
Michael Hainisch
President of Austria (1858–1940)
Gerda Wegener
Danish artist (1885-1940)
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
German prince (1868–1940)
Walter Percy Chrysler Sr.
(1875-1940) American automotive industry executive
Eugène Dubois
Dutch paleoanthropologist (1858–1940)
Lewis Hine
American sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)
Oliver Lodge
British physicist (1851-1940)
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German technician and inventor (1860–1940)
Nathanael West
American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)
Frederick Cook
American explorer (1865-1940)
Tom Mix
American film actor (1880-1940)
Gunnar Asplund
Swedish architect (1885-1940)
Janusz Kusociński
Polish long distance runner (1907-1940)
Umberto Caligaris
Italian footballer (1901-1940)
Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark
Greek Royal
John Atkinson Hobson
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism (1858-1940)
Cai Yuanpei
Chinese educator, Esperantist and the president of Peking University (1868-1940)
Ivane Javakhishvili
Georgian historian and linguist (1876-1940)
Nedo Nadi
Italian fencer (1894-1940)
Paul Nizan
French philosopher, politician, writer (1905-1940)
Walter Hasenclever
German poet and playwright (1890–1940)
Arthur Zimmermann
German diplomat (1864–1940)
Ben Turpin
American actor (1869-1940)
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Soviet politician (1892-1940)
Agnes Ayres
American actress (1892–1940)
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark
Greek prince (1888-1940); youngest child of George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia
Smedley Butler
United States Marine Corps general, two time Medal of Honor recipient, activist, lecturer, official, and writer (1881-1940)