Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1940

David Franklin Houston was an American academic, businessman and conservative Democratic politician. He served under President Wilson as the 5th Secretary of Agriculture and the 48th United States Secretary of the Treasury.

Léon Henri Marie Frédéric fue un pintor simbolista belga.

Arthur Wellin fue un director y actor cinematográfico alemán, activo en la época del cine mudo.

Camilla Jellinek was an Austrian women's rights activist and lawyer. A large number of the women seeking advice of those days worked as waitresses, which was considered disreputable at the time, and was often seen in the "twilight" of prostitution. This was the occasion for Jellinek to deal intensively with the problem of those women, so in her articles, she tried to draw the public's attention to the poor working conditions and the exploitation of women working as waitresses and with the help of a fundraising and a municipal grant, she finally founded a women's home for waitresses in 1907.

Italo Balbo fue un político y militar fascista italiano, considerado internacionalmente un pionero de la aviación. Ascendido al rango de mariscal del Aire, durante la época de la Italia fascista ocupó distintos puestos oficiales, como gobernador general de la Libia italiana y comandante en jefe de las fuerzas italianas en el norte de África. Debido a su enorme popularidad fue considerado el sucesor natural del dictador Benito Mussolini, pero Balbo murió inesperadamente al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, posiblemente derribado por fuego amigo mientras realizaba un vuelo de reconocimiento.

Ernst Pfuhl was a German-Swiss classical archaeologist and art historian. He was the son of sculptor Johannes Pfuhl (1846-1914) and a son-in-law to art dealer Athanasios Rhousopoulos (1823-1898).

Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay from 1903 to 1907.

Charles Nagel was a United States politician and lawyer from St. Louis, Missouri. He was Secretary of Commerce and Labor during President William Howard Taft's administration (1909–1913) and was one of the key founders of the United States Chamber of Commerce.