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In the year 1940
419 Notable deaths
Farnsworth Wright
American editor.
Born July 29th, 1888 in California, Santa Barbara. [ref]
Died June 12th, 1940 at 51 years old in Manhattan (Parkinson's disease). [ref]
Arnold Dolmetsch
French musician and instrument maker in england (1858-1940).
Born February 24th, 1858 in Le Mans.
Died February 28th, 1940 at 82 years old in Haslemere.
Edwin Carewe
American actor and film producer (1883-1940).
Born March 5th, 1883 in Gainesville.
Died January 22nd, 1940 at 56 years old in Hollywood.
Édouard Michelin
French industrialist.
Born June 23rd, 1859 in Clermont-Ferrand. [ref]
Died August 25th, 1940 at 81 years old in Orcines. [ref]
Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
French engineer.
Born July 26th, 1859 in Paris. [ref]
Died May 18th, 1940 at 80 years old in Paris.
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
Russian politician (1879–1940).
Born November 11th, 1879 in Saint Petersburg.
Died May 7th, 1940 at 60 years old in Moscow (gunshot wound).
Ellen Day Hale
American impressionist painter (1855-1940).
Born February 11th, 1855 in Worcester. [ref]
Died February 11th, 1940 at 85 years old in Brookline.
Mary Anderson
American stage actress (1859-1940).
Born July 28th, 1859 in Sacramento.
Died May 29th, 1940 at 80 years old in Broadway. [ref]
Otto Toeplitz
German mathematician.
Born August 1st, 1881 in Wrocław. [ref]
Died February 15th, 1940 at 58 years old in Jerusalem (tuberculosis). [ref]
Heinrich Kayser
German physicist.
Born March 16th, 1853 in Bingen am Rhein. [ref]
Died October 14th, 1940 at 87 years old in Bonn. [ref]
Deaths 191 to 200 of 419
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner