1940s deaths

Japanese association football player

Olympic wrestler

Hungarian soldier (1874-1945)

Romanian journalist, politician, literary critic, and essayist. (1878–1947)

Lesbian journalist, Resistance member, Holocaust victim (1922-1944)

Moroccan writer

Franco-Romanian film director and actor (1886-1942)

son of Kim Il-sung

Transylvanian-Hungarian painter, graphic artist, lithographer and illustrator (1908-1945)

Polish photographer (1856–1943)

Romanian writer (1916-1941)

scholar of Yiddish language and literature, editor, journalist, and cultural activist (1887–1941)

German-Jewish teacher, organized children's transports out of Nazi Germany

Austrian painter (1859-1945)

Hungarian feminist

Spanish writer

Serbian saint

Austrian writer (1868–1941)

Member of the Polish military and medical faculty at Warsaw University

Finnish footballer (1911–1943)

songwriter

Scottish footballer (1870-1942)

Italian mercenary

Belarusian & Polish bibliographer, publicist, historian of Belarusian literature, collector of books and manuscripts, politician (1881 – 1943/44)

Russian inventor

German economist

Kingdom of Italy politician

American architect

German Jewish entrepreneur and art collector (1878-1942) died Theresienstadt concentration camp

English footballer (1876-1940)

Yiddish-language writer

Filipino poet and revolutionary

French journalist

Polish lawyer, politician

Czech chess player

German painter

Polish organiser of the Red Orchestra

Polish psychoanalyst who practised in Switzerland

Italian painter (1856–1941)

Austrian chess player (1912-1945)

German paleontologist