1940s deaths
Category: 1940s deaths

Fridrich Kuczynski
Polish Nazi war criminal

Adolf Monien
German politician

Lydia Kingsmill Commander
Canadian-born journalist, minister, and activist

David W. Stark
American politician

Elias Levenberg
Jewish teacher and folklorist who worked in Tartu, Estonia

Ladislav Ankert

Louise Eates
British suffragette

May Buckley
American actress (b. 1875)

Ivomoku Bakusuba
Burundian serial killer

John Hannay Thompson

Thomas Irwin

Rokhl Brokhes
Belarusian writer
Vito Cascioferro
Member of the Sicilian Mafia

John T. Smith
American guitarist

Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis
magyar és német nyelvű Bánáti író, újságíró, kritikus

María Vinyals
Spanish writer

Teodors Sukatnieks
Latvian athlete

Bonifacio Mencias
Filipino physician

Eugen Schnalek
Cyclist

Pál Budai
Hungarian composer

Arley Munson Hare
Medical missionary, physician

Rokhl Brokhes
Belarusian writer

Otoniel Gonzaga
Sports shooter

Vilko Begić
Croatian general

Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis

Simplicio de Castro
Filipino boxer

Mririda n’Ait Attik
Moroccan writer

José Turiano Santiago
Filipino patriot

Eugene De Rosa
American architect

Andrzej Włast
Songwriter

John McCartney
Scottish footballer

Jiří Jesenský
Czechoslovak fencer

Elena Bacaloglu
Romanian journalist, politician, literary critic, and essayist.

Luigi Olivetti
Italian painter

Holger Salin
Finnish footballer

Bolesław Matuszewski
Polish photographer

Mikhail Koltsov
Soviet journalist
Else Hirsch
German-Jewish teacher, organized children's transports out of Nazi Germany

Ida Jenbach
Austrian writer
Felice Schragenheim
Lesbian journalist, Resistance member, Holocaust victim