Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1940

Julius Wagner Jauregg fue un médico austríaco.

George Gibson Macaulay was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1935. He played in eight Test matches for England from 1923 to 1933, achieving the rare feat of taking a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket. One of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1924, he took 1,838 first-class wickets at an average of 17.64 including four hat-tricks.

Fusajirō Yamauchi nacido el 22 de noviembre de 1859 y fallecido en enero de 1940. Se le conoce por ser el fundador y primer presidente de Nintendo. Yamauchi vivió en Kioto, Japón, donde también instaló la sede de su empresa. Fusajirō siempre ha estado relacionado con todos los presidentes que ha tenido Nintendo, excepto con los tres últimos, Satoru Iwata, Tatsumi Kimishima y Shuntaro Furukawa.

Squadron Leader Caesar Barrand Hull, DFC was a Royal Air Force (RAF) flying ace during the Second World War, noted especially for his part in the fighting for Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and for being one of "The Few"—the Allied pilots of the Battle of Britain, in which he was shot down and killed. From a farming family, Hull's early years were spent in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa and Swaziland. He boxed for South Africa at the 1934 Empire Games. After being turned down by the South African Air Force because he did not speak Afrikaans, he joined the RAF and, on becoming a pilot officer in August 1936, mustered into No. 43 Squadron at RAF Tangmere in Sussex.

Paterson Clarence Hughes, DFC was an Australian fighter ace of World War II. Serving with the Royal Air Force (RAF), he was credited with as many as seventeen aerial victories during the Battle of Britain, before being killed in action on 7 September 1940. His tally made him the highest-scoring Australian of the battle, and among the three highest-scoring Australians of the war.

Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was the founding Sarsanghachalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur in 1925, based on the ideology of Hindutva with the intention of creating a Hindu Rashtra.

Sabat M. Islambouli fue una de las primeras médicas sirias. Era una judía de Siria. La ortografía de su nombre varía mucho siendo también conocida como Sabat Islambooly, Tabat Islambouly, Tabat Istanbuli, Thabat Islambooly y más.

Madeleine Talmage Force fue una socialite estadounidense y superviviente del RMS Titanic. Fue también la segunda esposa y viuda del empresario John Jacob Astor IV.

Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer fue un oficial irlandés del Indian Civil Service y más tarde teniente gobernador de Punjab, India británica, entre 1913 y 1919.

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf /ˈsɛlma ʊˈtiːlɪa lʊˈviːsa ˈlɑːgərˌløːv/, también escrito como Selma Lagerlof o Selma Lagerloef, fue una escritora sueca de fama universal y la primera mujer en obtener un Premio Nobel de Literatura (1909).