Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1940

Nae Ionescu fue un filósofo, profesor universitario de la Universidad de Bucarest e intelectual de extrema derecha, teórico del antisemitismo rumano, e ideólogo e inspirador de la Guardia de Hierro.

Alexander Aleksandrovich Goldenweiser was a Russian-born U.S. anthropologist and sociologist.

Nikolái Ivánovich Yezhov ^?, Marijampolė, 19 de abril^jul./ 1 de mayo de 1895^greg.-Moscú, 4 de febrero de 1940) fue un político y revolucionario ruso, llegó a la cúspide política en la Unión Soviética como comisario del pueblo de Interior (NKVD). También conocido como director de la Policía secreta soviética, sus hechos y acciones reflejan el pensamiento estalinista de la época de entreguerras. Hombre de confianza de Stalin, su periodo en el cargo fue el único de la historia de la Unión Soviética, además de la guerra civil rusa, en la que las sentencias de muerte no fueron aprobadas por el politburó, sino simplemente por el comisario de Interior y los jefes regionales del NKVD. Su nombre es símbolo del periodo más represivo de las Grandes Purgas de la década de 1930 denominado Yezhóvschina.

Sir Francis Edmund Hugh Elliot was a British diplomat who was envoy to Greece for 14 years.

Friedrich Emil Welti was a Swiss business manager and legal historian; one of the most influential figures in the Swiss insurance industry. His father was the Federal Councilor, Emil Welti and his first wife was Lydia Escher, a major patron of the arts.

József Vészi, Hungarian writer, journalist, poet, translator, editor and deputy; born at Arad 6 November 1858, died 1940. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town, and studied philosophy, literature, and languages at Budapest. In his early youth he was a poet, and in the 1870s his lyrical productions were accepted by the best literary periodicals, while two volumes of his verses were published at Budapest in 1880 under the titles A Bánat Dalaiból and Traviata, Dalok Egy Tévedt Nőhöz. Since 1877 he devoted himself to journalism, advocating liberal views. He was for some time editor of the Budapester Tagblatt, and contributed leaders and stories to the Pester Lloyd. In 1894 he became editor-in-chief of the Pesti Napló, and in 1896 he founded the Budapesti Napló.

George Edward Marston was an English artist who twice accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton on expeditions to Antarctic, first from 1907–09 on the Nimrod expedition, and then later from 1914–17 on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which ended with the crew being marooned on Elephant Island.

Princess Masako Takeda , born Masako, Princess Tsune , was the tenth child and sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji of Japan, and the third child and second daughter of Sachiko Sono, the Emperor's fifth concubine.