1940 in History

Events in History

Events 1 - 100 of 429

Event of Interest

Mar 15 Hermann Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest

Nazi Politician Hermann Goering — Nazi Politician
Hermann Goering

Mar 16 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow

Event of Interest

Mar 18 Benito Mussolini and Italy join Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain

Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini — Italian Dictator
Benito Mussolini

Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler — Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler

Mar 19 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt

Mar 19 French government of Daladier falls
Mar 20 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
Mar 23 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
Mar 23 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.

Event of Interest

Mar 26 Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC

Author Ernest Hemingway — Author
Ernest Hemingway

Mar 28 Construction begins of the exhibition center to host the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.
Mar 31 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)

Event of Interest

Apr 1 Filipino President Quezon officially authorizes the printing and publication of the grammar and dictionary prepared by the Institute of the National Language.

2nd President of the Philippines Manuel L. Quezon — 2nd President of the Philippines
Manuel L. Quezon

Apr 4 R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher & Higher" premieres in NYC
Apr 7 US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American educator Book T. Washington
Apr 8 German battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
Apr 9 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
Apr 9 Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle
Apr 10 Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
Apr 12 Italy annexes Albania
Apr 13 Second battle of Narvik; 3 German destroyers and one U-boat sunk by the Royal Navy, 5 more German destroyers scuttled.
Apr 14 Allied troops land in Norway
Apr 14 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
Apr 15 British troops land at Narvik, Norway
Apr 16 Cleve Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chic, 1-0
Apr 19 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls, New York
Apr 19 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
Apr 20 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
Apr 22 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

Event of Interest

Apr 27 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler — Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS
Heinrich Himmler

Apr 28 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, diferent Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
Apr 29 Norwegian King Haakon & government flee to Britain
Apr 29 Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night" premieres in NYC
May 1 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
May 4 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
May 5 Norwegian government-in-exile forms in London

Event of Interest

May 6 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck for "The Grapes of Wrath"

Author John Steinbeck — Author
John Steinbeck

May 10 British Local Defence Volunteers forms (later renamed the Home Guard)
May 10 Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
May 10 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
May 10 French marines stationed on Aruba
May 10 French troops arrive in Zealand, Brabant Netherlands
May 10 Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg

Event of Interest

May 10 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister

Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill — Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain — British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain

May 10 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent
May 11 NY World's Fair reopens
May 12 French marines occupy St Maarten
May 12 German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug
May 12 Nazi blitzkrieg conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
May 13 British bomb factory at Breda, Netherlands
May 13 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons
May 13 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
May 13 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
May 14 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England

Birthdays in History

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 266

Jan 2 S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
Jan 4 Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973)
Jan 4 Helmut Jahn, German architect
Jan 4 Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
Jan 5 Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
Jan 5 General Sir Michael Rose, UK military officer, prominent in Bosnia
Jan 6 Ed Zschau, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
Jan 6 Laudir de Oliveira, Brazilian percussionist (Chicago), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jan 6 Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
Jan 7 William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
Jan 9 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
Jan 10 Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
Jan 10 Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
Jan 13 Edmund White, American author
Jan 14 Julian Bond, American civil rights leader and politician (D-Ga), born in Nashville Tennessee (d. 2015)
Jan 17 Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
Jan 19 Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- )
Jan 19 Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
Jan 21 Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
Jan 24 Flip Buurmeijer, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Jan 27 Brian T O'Leary, astronaut, born in Boston, Massachusetts

Carlos Slim

Jan 28 Carlos Slim, Mexican business magnate (América Móvil) once ranked as the richest person in the world, born in Mexico City, Mexico

Feb 2 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, American sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
Feb 4 George A. Romero, American-Canadian director (Night of the Living Dead), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2017)
Feb 4 Theodore "Ted" Stanley, American anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
Feb 5 H R Giger, Swiss artist & special effects designer (Alien), born in Zürich, (d. 2014)
Feb 8 Averil Cameron, British(?) historian
Feb 9 J.M. Coetzee, South African novelist, born in Cape Town, South Africa
Feb 10 Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's)
Feb 12 Hank Brown, (Rep-R-CO, 1981-88)
Feb 14 Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
Feb 15 Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician
Feb 16 Karoli Ruth Needles, painter
Feb 19 Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan (d. 2006)
Feb 20 RA Weiss, director (Institute of Cancer Research)
Feb 20 V Payne, British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
Feb 21 John Lewis, American politician (Rep-D-Georgia) and prominent civil rights leader (Big Six), born in Troy, Alabama
Feb 22 Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
Feb 22 Billy Name [William Linich Jr], photographer (Andy Warhol's factory), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 2016)
Feb 23 Jermyn P Brooks, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
Feb 24 Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
Feb 25 George Paul, CEO (Norwich Union Insurance Group)
Feb 25 Hector MacKenzie, trade unionist
Feb 27 Dame Barbara Kelly,Scottish civic activist and former CEO (Crichton Foundation, Scottish Consumer Council), born in Scotland
Feb 29 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Mar 1 Robert Grossman, American illustrator, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2018)
Mar 2 Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman (South African Prog Fed Party, 1979-86)
Mar 3 Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
Mar 4 Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
Mar 5 Mary Rose Oakar, (Rep)
Mar 7 Harald Gerlach, writer
Mar 7 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)
Mar 7 Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5)
Mar 8 Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted
Mar 10 David Rabe, Dubuque Iowa, playwright (Streamers)
Mar 15 Frank Dobson, British politician
Mar 15 Margo Coleman, American advice columnist
Mar 16 Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
Mar 16 Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Mar 16 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
Mar 17 Mark White, American politician
Mar 20 Gianpiero Moretti, steering wheel designer (Momo), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2012)
Mar 22 William Ritchie, vice-chancellor (Lancaster U)
Mar 24 Robert "Bob" Mackie, American fashion designer (RuPaul, Tina Turner, Judy Garland, Carol Burnett, Streisand, Cher), born in Monterey Park, California
Mar 26 Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
Mar 26 Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
Mar 26 Servaes Huys, Dutch politician (PvdA)
Mar 31 Barney Frank, (Rep-D-MA, 1981- )
Mar 31 Patrick J Leahy, (Sen-D-VT, 1975- )

Apr 1 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and political activist, founder of the Green Belt Movement, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006), born in Ihithe village, Kenya (d. 2011)

Environmentalist Wangari Maathai — Environmentalist
Wangari Maathai

Apr 2 Peter Haining, British writer and editor (Anatomy of Witchcraft), born in Enfield, Middlesex (d. 2007)
Apr 3 R S Burman, CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce)
Apr 4 Bijan, Iranian mens apparel designer (Bijan), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2011)
Apr 4 Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak), born in Willemstad, Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Apr 4 Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Zilair, Russia
Apr 6 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
Apr 9 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
Apr 12 John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist, born in Goose Creek, Texas
Apr 15 Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor)
Apr 15 Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
Apr 16 Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, British banker and deputy CEO (Barclays de Zoete Wedd), born in England

Margrethe II

Apr 16 Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (1972 - present), born in Copenhagen, Denmark

Apr 16 Paul Cox, Dutch-born Australian director (Lonely Hearts), born in Venlo, the Netherlands (d. 2016)
Apr 16 Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian public official and former politician, born in Roberval, Quebec
Apr 18 Ira von Furstenberg, [Virginia Caroline] Princess (Monaco), born in Rome, Italy
Apr 18 Joseph L Goldstein, Sumter SC, physician (Nobel-1985)
Apr 19 Algy Cluff, CEO (Spectator, Cluff Resources)
Apr 20 Jan Cremer, Dutch writer (I, John Cremer), born in Enschede, Netherlands
Apr 20 Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and director (Wether, Beltenebros), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1997)
Apr 21 Souleymane Cisse, director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara)
Apr 22 Peter Goldstein, joint founder (Superdrug)
Apr 23 Richard Monaco, American sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest), born in NYC, New York
Apr 23 Michael Copps, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Apr 24 Sue Grafton, American author
May 1 Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
May 2 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch director and politician (VVD)
May 3 David Koch, American businesman and philanthropist (Koch Industries billionaire), born in Wichita, Kansas
May 4 Dick Curl, Chester Pa, offensive coordinator coach (Barcelona Dragons)
May 4 Robin Cook, American novelist
May 6 Henry Habibe, Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)

Weddings in History

Wedding of Interest

Jan 1 68th Prime Minister of UK Harold Wilson (23) weds poet Mary Baldwin (23) in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson — British Prime Minister
Harold Wilson

Jan 2 Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer, linguist and academic and outspoken critic of the South African National Party government's Bantu Education policy, marries Priscilla Phyllis Ntantla.

Wedding of Interest

Feb 18 Molecular biologist Francis Crick (23) weds Ruth Doreen Dodd

Wedding of Interest

Mar 30 Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite weds Mary Elizabeth Maxwell at the Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

Wedding of Interest

Apr 7 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (21) weds Natalya Reshetovskaya

Writer and Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn — Writer and Nobel Laureate
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Wedding of Interest

Jun 4 Radio broadcaster Paul Harvey (21) weds radio producer Lynne Cooper

ABC Radio Broadcaster Paul Harvey — ABC Radio Broadcaster
Paul Harvey

Wedding of Interest

Jun 21 37th US President Richard Nixon (27) weds Pat Ryan (28) at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California

Aug 25 1st parachute wedding: Reverend Homer Tomlinson marries Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward while all are suspended in parachutes.

Wedding of Interest

Nov 1 Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer (36) weds biologist Katherine Harrison Puening

Physicist and Father of the Atomic Bomb Robert Oppenheimer — Physicist and Father of the Atomic Bomb
Robert Oppenheimer

Wedding of Interest

Nov 5 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn

Wedding of Interest

Dec 7 Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarry in San Francisco (divorced 1939)

Painter Diego Rivera — Painter
Diego Rivera

Painter Frida Kahlo — Painter
Frida Kahlo

Divorces in History

Divorce of Interest

Jul 22 Jacqueline Kennedy's parents John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee) divorce

US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — US First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Divorce of Interest

Nov 4 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer

Deaths in History

Deaths 1 - 100 of 103

Jan 1 Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
Jan 4 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
Jan 5 Tina Modotti, Italian artist and activist, dies at 45
Jan 5 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
Jan 12 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56
Jan 18 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
Jan 20 Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
Jan 25 Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
Jan 27 Isaak Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
Jan 31 René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
Feb 1 Philip Francis Nowlan, sci-fi writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
Feb 4 Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
Feb 9 Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
Feb 11 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies
Feb 25 Mary Mills Patrick, American author and 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College, dies at 89
Feb 27 Peter Behrens, German architect, dies
Feb 28 Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
Feb 29 Edward Frederic Benson, English novelist, dies at 72
Mar 1 Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (Truth and Justice), dies at 62
Mar 4 Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
Mar 5 Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
Mar 10 Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)

Selma Lagerlöf

Mar 16 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 81

Mar 19 Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
Mar 20 Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)

Michael Joseph Savage

Mar 27 Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-born New Zealand politician and first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935-40), dies of colon cancer at 68

Apr 18 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies
Apr 18 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian and politician, dies after being hit by a car during London blackout at 75
Apr 26 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65

Henry Ossian Flipper

May 3 Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84

May 7 George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
May 10 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56
May 14 Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
May 14 Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
May 14 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
May 14 Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
May 14 Edgar du Perron, Dutch author and poet (Land of Origin), dies at 40
May 15 Joseph Limburg, Dutch lawyer and politician, dies at 73
May 15 Willem Adriaan Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
May 20 Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
May 23 Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
May 28 Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
May 30 Y de Smit-Rog, oldest citizen of Netherlands, dies at 104
Jun 2 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 66
Jun 16 DuBose Heyward, American novelist (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
Jun 17 Arthur Harden, English biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), dies at 74
Jun 21 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies
Jun 21 Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic, drowns at 40
Jun 21 W Hasenclever, writer, dies at 49
Jun 21 Smedley Butler, American Marine general (b. 1881)
Jun 22 Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], German Meteorologist and Climatologist who developed the Köppen climate classification system for the regions of the world, dies at 93
Jun 22 Walter Hasenvlever, German writer commits suicide at 49
Jun 28 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
Jun 29 Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
Jul 2 Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
Jul 15 Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
Jul 19 Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
Jul 20 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
Jul 31 Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murdered by "Bugsy" Siegel
Aug 4 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
Aug 5 Frederick A Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, dies at 75
Aug 17 Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant and 1st American serviceman killed in action in World War II, dies at 29

Walter Chrysler

Aug 18 Walter Chrysler, American founder of car company Chrysler, dies at 65

Leon Trotsky

Aug 21 Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated at 62 by an ice-pick wielding Ramón Mercader

Aug 21 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 58
Aug 22 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
Aug 24 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80

J. J. Thomson

Aug 30 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906), dies at 83

Aug 31 Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
Aug 31 George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal, dies at 68
Sep 3 Otto V Ekelund, Swedish poet/writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
Sep 7 Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
Sep 15 Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
Sep 26 Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
Sep 27 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48
Sep 27 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
Oct 5 Lincoln Loy McCandless, American cattle rancher (b. 1859)
Oct 5 Ballington Booth, English Officer in The Salvation Army and co-founder of Volunteers of America
Oct 8 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
Oct 9 Wilfred Grenfell, British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador, dies at 75
Oct 11 Lluís Companys, President of Generalitat of Catalonia (shot) (b. 1882)
Oct 11 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1860)
Oct 18 Suze Groeneweg, 1st woman in Dutch 2nd Chamber (1918-37), dies at 65
Oct 20 Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
Oct 21 William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
Oct 24 Pierre Weiss, French physicist (theory of ferromagnetism) dies at 75

Manuel Azaña

Nov 4 Manuel Azaña, Prime Minister of Spain (1931-33) and 2nd President of the Spanish Republic (1936-39), dies of a heart attack at 60 while in exile in France

Neville Chamberlain

Nov 9 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937-40), dies of bowel cancer at 71

Nov 9 Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
Nov 17 Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
Nov 17 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
Nov 22 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67
Nov 24 James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish unionist politician and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (1921-1940), dies of natural causes at 69
Nov 26 Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, English newspaper (Daily Mail and Daily Mirror), dies at 72
Nov 28 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
Dec 5 Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
Dec 8 George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
Dec 9 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
Dec 13 Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
Dec 16 M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies

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