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1940 suicides

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Walter Benjamin

German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

Walter Hasenclever

German poet and playwright (1890–1940)

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

American stock trader (1877–1940)

Austrian physician and psychologist (1868-1940)

Czech physician and writer (1882-1940)

German art historian (1885-1940)

István Énekes

boxer (1911–1940)

First person inocculated for rabies (1876-1940)

Menno ter Braak

Dutch writer (1902-1940)

American boxer (1872-1940)

Karl Heinrich Emil Becker

German general (1879–1940)

John Monk Saunders

screenwriter, novelist, film director (1897-1940)

George Periolat

actor (1874-1940)

Wolfgang Doeblin

French-German mathematician (1915-1940)

Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

French Celticist (1900-1940)

Russian artist and art critic

film director (1893–1940)

Hungarian politician (1880-1940)

Edith Barakovich

Austrian photographer

German conductor, composer and musicologist (1879-1940)

Blanca Errázuriz

Chilean acquitted of murder

German psychologist (1903–1940)

Josef Cukierman

French chess player

Romanian politician (1891-1940)

Sophie Morgenstern

French psychiatrist & psychoanalyst

Estonian politician (1891-1940)

Tinus van Doorn

Dutch painter, draughtsperson and graphic artist (1905-1940)

Leopold Löwy, Jr.

Austrian chess player

Willard Hershberger

American baseball player (1910-1940)

Emanuel Boekman

Dutch politician (1889–1940)

American prison escapee (1884–1940)

Egyptian writer (1911-1940)

Czech artist (1900-1940)