1940 deaths

actor, Film director (1871–1940)

British-born film actress (1867-1940)

British politician (1865-1940)

American writer, artist and book illustrator (1871–1940)

sport shooter (1883–1940)

Romanian general (1883-1940)

American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)

French neurologist and political journalist (1853–1940)

Belgian musician (1862-1940)

Estonian painter (1884–1940)

Norwegian geologist and petrologist (1851–1940)

Armenian politician, writer and humanitarian

Christian missionary in India, close friend of Mahatma Gandhi

equestrian (1887–1940)

Baltic German astronomer and astrophysicist (1880-1940)

German philologist (1858–1940)

Catholic cardinal (1864-1940)

German-born Swiss conductor of classical music (1859–1940)

Russian geologist

prime minister of Albania (1880–1940)

American swimmer (1882–1940)

French footballer (1905-1940)

bobsledder (1883-1940)

American naturalist (1863-1940)

American bobsledder and pilot (1911-1940)

Italian opera singer (1871-1940)

prime minister of Poland from 1919 to 1920

Canadian physician (1868–1940)

English footballer and manager (1888-1940)

American politician (1862-1940)

American stage actress (1859-1940)

English footballer (1869-1940)

Russian scientist (1872–1940)

actor (1865-1940)

Swedish writer (1894-1940)

Armenian women's rights and peace activist

speed skater

German racing cyclist killed by the Nazis (1912-1940)

German cyclist (1906–1940)

American biogerontologist (1879-1940)

Belgian rower (1880-1940)

British explorer

French dramatist and man of letters (1859–1940)

British engineer, architect and town planner (1863–1940)

American actor (1883/1884–1940)

Swiss astrophysicist (1862-1940)

United States Army officer (1860-1940)

American science fiction writer who created Buck Rogers (1888–1940)

Austrian politician (1863–1940)

Polish novelist and translator (1873–1940)

Russian journalist (1872–1940)

American actor (1865-1940)

Swedish artist (1869-1940)

American astronomer

French musician and instrument maker in England (1858-1940)

governor of Kentucky (1869-1940)

Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist

British orientalist (1858–1940)

German politician (1868-1940)

French actor (1879-1940)