List: 1940 deaths

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•  Ernest Thayer

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat".

  

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•  Emma Goldman

  Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire, Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.

  

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•  Leon Trotsky

  'Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo.

  

  33.3%
  

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  44.4%
  
•  Neville Chamberlain

  Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.

  

  36.1%
  

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•  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Soviet Russian novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

  

  42.9%
  

  17.9%
  

  39.3%
  
•  Song Zheyuan

  Sòng Zhéyuán (宋哲元) (October 30, 1885-April 5, 1940) was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

  

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•  Lluís Companys i Jover

  

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•  J. J. Thomson

  Sir Joseph John “J. J. ” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.

  

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•  Verner von Heidenstam

  Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 - 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet and novelist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. Most of his works are passionate depictions of the Swedish character, life, and traditions, often from a patriotic point of view. He was born in Olshammar, Örebro County to a noble family.

  

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•  Paul Klee

  Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism.

  

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•  Edward Frederic Benson

  Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

  

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•  Eric Gill

  Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.

  

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•  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who, between 1935 and 1940, served as the 15th Governor General of Canada.

  

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•  Walter Chrysler

  Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American machinist, railroad mechanic and manager, automotive industry executive, and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.

  

  66.7%
  

  33.3%
  

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•  George C. Day

  George Calvin Day (November 8, 1871 - November 3, 1940) was a United States Navy admiral whose career lasted from the 1890s until the mid-1930s. Born in 1871, Day graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1892, was promoted to Ensign in 1894, Lieutenant (junior grade) in 1899, and Lieutenant in 1901. He was Executive Officer of USS Hancock during 1907.

  

  64.3%
  

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  21.4%
  
•  Johnny Dodds

  Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892–August 8, 1940) was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.

  

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•  Rudy Wiedoeft

  Rudolph "Rudy" Cornelius Wiedoeft (January 3, 1893 - February 18, 1940) was a U.S. saxophonist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of German immigrants, at a young age Wiedoeft started playing with his family orchestra, first on violin, then on clarinet. He moved to New York City and switched to saxophone, then still an unusual instrument.

  

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•  Giuseppe Motta

  Giuseppe Motta (Airolo, December 29, 1871 - January 23, 1940) was a Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911-1940) and President of the League of Nations (1924/1925).

  

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•  John A. Hobson

  John Atkinson Hobson (July 6, 1858 – April 1, 1940), commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson, was an English economist and critic of imperialism, widely popular as a lecturer and writer.

  

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•  Kyösti Kallio

  Kyösti Kallio [IPA: kyøsti kallio] (April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth President of Finland (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and had previously been Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times .

  

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•  George Lansbury

  George Lansbury (21 February 1859, Halesworth, Suffolk – 7 May 1940) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. He was a campaigner for social justice and improved living and employment conditions for the working class, especially in London's East End.

  

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•  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon

  James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon PC (8 January 1871 – 24 November 1940) was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. He was created a baronet in 1918.

  

  33.3%
  

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•  Einar Benediktsson

  Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet and lawyer. Einar Benediktsson's poetry was a significant contribution in the nationlistic revival leading to Iceland's independence. To this end, he was active both in establishing Landvarnarflokkurinn in 1902 and as the editor of Iceland's first daily newspaper, Dagskrá, from 1896 to 1898. He pioneered as a strong advocate of inward foreign investment to utilize Iceland's natural resources.

  

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•  Carl Bosch

  Carl Bosch (27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel laureate in chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.

  

  16.7%
  

  33.3%
  

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•  Michael Joseph Savage

  Michael Joseph Savage (23 March 1872 – 27 March 1940) was the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand.

  

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