People who died in 1940
Leon Trotsky
1879
– 1940
· Age 60
Deceased
Selma Lagerlöf
1858
– 1940
· Age 81
Deceased
Emma Goldman
1869
– 1940
· Age 70
Deceased
J. J. Thomson
1856
– 1940
· Age 83
Deceased
Neville Chamberlain
1869
– 1940
· Age 71
Deceased
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896
– 1940
· Age 44
Deceased
Mikhail Bulgakov
1891
– 1940
· Age 48
Deceased
Walter Benjamin
1892
– 1940
· Age 48
Deceased
Paul Klee
1879
– 1940
· Age 60
Deceased
Verner von Heidenstam
1859
– 1940
· Age 80
Deceased
Carl Bosch
1874
– 1940
· Age 65
Deceased
Arthur Harden
1865
– 1940
· Age 74
Deceased
Isaak Babel
1894
– 1940
· Age 45
Deceased
Marcus Garvey
1887
– 1940
· Age 52
Deceased
Manuel Azaña
1880
– 1940
· Age 60
Deceased
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1857
– 1940
· Age 83
Deceased
Nikolai Yezhov
1895
– 1940
· Age 44
Deceased
Robert Wadlow
1918
– 1940
· Age 22
Deceased
Wladimir Köppen
1846
– 1940
· Age 93
Deceased
Peter Behrens
1868
– 1940
· Age 71
Deceased
Lluís Companys
1882
– 1940
· Age 58
Deceased
Kyösti Kallio
1873
– 1940
· Age 67
Deceased
Nicolae Iorga
1871
– 1940
· Age 69
Deceased
Vito Volterra
1860
– 1940
· Age 80
Deceased
Vsevolod Meyerhold
1874
– 1940
· Age 66
Deceased