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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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


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