| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Robert S. Abbott |
Publisher |
24-Nov-1868 |
29-Feb-1940 |
Chicago Defender |
| Emile Argand |
Geologist |
6-Jan-1879 |
14-Sep-1940 |
Theory of embryotectonics |
| Isaac Babel |
Author |
1-Jul-1894 |
27-Jan-1940 |
Soviet master of short stories |
| William Brockman Bankhead |
Politician |
12-Apr-1874 |
15-Sep-1940 |
Speaker of the US House, 1936-40 |
| Peter Behrens |
Architect |
14-Apr-1868 |
27-Feb-1940 |
Invented corporate identity |
| Walter Benjamin |
Philosopher |
15-Jul-1892 |
26-Sep-1940 |
The Arcades Project |
| William E. Borah |
Politician |
29-Jun-1865 |
19-Jan-1940 |
US Senator from Idaho, 1907-40 |
| Carl Bosch |
Chemist |
27-Aug-1874 |
26-Apr-1940 |
Chairman of I. G. Farben |
| John Buchan |
Author |
26-Aug-1875 |
11-Feb-1940 |
The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| Mikhail Bulgakov |
Author |
3-May-1891 |
10-Mar-1940 |
The Master and Margarita |
| Smedley Butler |
Military |
30-Jul-1881 |
21-Jun-1940 |
Exposed the 1933 coup plot |
| Mrs. Patrick Campbell |
Actor |
9-Feb-1865 |
10-Apr-1940 |
Pygmalion |
| Neville Chamberlain |
Politician |
18-Mar-1869 |
9-Nov-1940 |
Architect of appeasement |
| Walter P. Chrysler |
Business |
2-Apr-1875 |
18-Aug-1940 |
Founder of Chrysler Corporation |
| Berton Churchill |
Actor |
9-Dec-1876 |
10-Oct-1940 |
Heroes for Sale |
| E. E. Clive |
Actor |
28-Aug-1879 |
6-Jun-1940 |
Tenney in Bulldog Drummond |
| Walter Connolly |
Actor |
8-Apr-1887 |
28-May-1940 |
It Happened One Night |
| George B. Cortelyou |
Politician |
26-Jul-1862 |
23-Oct-1940 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1907-09 |
| W. H. Davies |
Poet |
3-Jul-1871 |
26-Sep-1940 |
Tramp-Poet, The Soul's Destroyer |
| William E. Dodd |
Diplomat |
27-Oct-1869 |
9-Feb-1940 |
US Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
| Robert Emden |
Mathematician |
4-Mar-1862 |
8-Oct-1940 |
Stellar structure |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Author |
24-Sep-1896 |
21-Dec-1940 |
The Great Gatsby |
| George Fitzmaurice |
Film Director |
13-Feb-1885 |
13-Jun-1940 |
The Son of the Sheik |
| Alfred Fowler |
Astronomer |
22-Mar-1868 |
24-Jun-1940 |
Celestial spectroscopy |
| Hamlin Garland |
Author |
14-Sep-1860 |
4-Mar-1940 |
A Son of the Middle Border |
| Marcus Garvey |
Activist |
17-Aug-1887 |
10-Jun-1940 |
Pan-African black nationalist |
| Eric Gill |
Typographer |
22-Feb-1882 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Typographer, Gill Sans |
| John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
| Emma Goldman |
Anarchist |
27-Jun-1869 |
14-May-1940 |
Anarchist and feminist libertarian |
| C. Henry Gordon |
Actor |
17-Jun-1884 |
3-Dec-1940 |
Scarface |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| John P. Green |
Politician |
2-Apr-1845 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Labor Day |
| James Hall |
Actor |
22-Oct-1900 |
7-Jun-1940 |
Hell's Angels |
| Arthur Harden |
Chemist |
12-Oct-1865 |
17-Jun-1940 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Edward Stephen Harkness |
Philanthropist |
22-Jan-1874 |
29-Jan-1940 |
Philanthropist |
| Verner von Heidenstam |
Author |
6-Jul-1859 |
20-May-1940 |
The Charles Men |
| DuBose Heyward |
Novelist |
31-Aug-1885 |
16-Jun-1940 |
Porgy |
| Henry Horner |
Politician |
30-Nov-1878 |
6-Oct-1940 |
Governor of Illinois, 1933-40 |
| David F. Houston |
Government |
17-Feb-1866 |
2-Sep-1940 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-20 |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky |
Military |
18-Oct-1880 |
4-Aug-1940 |
Founder of the Jewish Legion |
| Saionji Kinmochi |
Government |
23-Oct-1849 |
24-Nov-1940 |
Twice Prime Minister of Japan |
| Paul Klee |
Painter |
18-Dec-1879 |
29-Jun-1940 |
German-Swiss abstract painter |
| Selma Lagerlöf |
Author |
20-Nov-1858 |
16-Mar-1940 |
First female Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Edwin Markham |
Poet |
23-Apr-1852 |
7-Mar-1940 |
The Man With the Hoe |
| George B. McClellan, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Nov-1865 |
30-Nov-1940 |
Mayor of New York City, 1904-09 |
| Tom Mix |
Actor |
6-Jan-1880 |
12-Oct-1940 |
Old-time silent movie cowboy |
| Talbot Mundy |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1879 |
5-Aug-1940 |
King of the Khyber Rifles |
| Charles Nagel |
Government |
9-Aug-1849 |
5-Jan-1940 |
US Secy. of Commerce & Labor, 1909-13 |
| James C. Napier |
Government |
9-Jun-1845 |
21-Apr-1940 |
Founder of Nashville One-Cent Savings Bank |
| A. Edward Newton |
Author |
1863 |
29-Sep-1940 |
A Magnificent Farce |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Key Pittman |
Politician |
12-Sep-1872 |
10-Nov-1940 |
US Senator from Nevada, 1913-40 |
| Michael Joseph Savage |
Head of State |
23-Mar-1872 |
27-Mar-1940 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1935-40 |
| Clyde Harold Smith |
Politician |
9-Jun-1876 |
8-Apr-1940 |
Congressman from Maine, 1937-40 |
| Ernest Thayer |
Poet |
14-Aug-1863 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Casey at the Bat |
| J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
| Leon Trotsky |
Activist |
26-Oct-1879 |
21-Aug-1940 |
Bolshevik exile, murdered by Stalin |
| Ben Turpin |
Actor |
19-Sep-1869 |
1-Jul-1940 |
Cross-eyed comic actor |
| Robert Wadlow |
Oddity |
22-Feb-1918 |
15-Jul-1940 |
Tallest documented individual |
| Julius Wagner-Jauregg |
Psychiatrist |
7-Mar-1857 |
27-Sep-1940 |
Cured syphilis with malaria, pioneered shock therapy |
| Lillian Wald |
Activist |
10-Mar-1867 |
1-Sep-1940 |
Henry Street Settlement |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Frank White |
Politician |
12-Dec-1856 |
23-Mar-1940 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1901-05 |
| Fusajiro Yamauchi |
Business |
22-Nov-1860 |
Jan-1940 |
Founder of Nintendo |
| Arthur Zimmermann |
Government |
5-Oct-1864 |
6-Jun-1940 |
Zimmerman Telegram |
| Hans Zinsser |
Scientist |
17-Nov-1878 |
4-Sep-1940 |
Typhus vaccine |
