1940 in History

Events in History

Events 1 - 100 of 407

• Jan 3 WPG-AM in Atlantic City NJ consolidates with WBIL & WOV as "new" WOV
• Jan 5 FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal

• Jan 5 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
• Jan 6 Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
• Jan 7 Winter War: The Finish 9th Division defeats the Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road despite being significantly outnumbered
• Jan 8 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)
• Jan 9 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
• Jan 9 J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal" premieres in NYC
• Jan 11 Sergei Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo & Juliet" premieres in Leningrad
• Jan 12 World War II: Soviets bombs cities in Finland.
• Jan 15 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
• Jan 21 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands subjected to censorship
• Jan 25 Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland
• Jan 26 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
• Jan 27 -17°F (-27°C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
• Jan 30 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race


• Jan 30 Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win
• Jan 31 C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children" premieres in NYC
• Feb 1 Soviet Union begins new offensive against Finland
• Feb 5 General Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
• Feb 8 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
• Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
• Feb 10 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
• Feb 14 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
• Feb 16 British search plane finds German supply ship Altmark, used to accommodate allied sailors from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee off Norway
• Feb 17 Altmark Incident: Crew of the British destroyer "Cossack" board German "Altmark" in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass
• Feb 22 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
• Feb 22 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
• Feb 23 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
• Feb 24 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
• Feb 26 US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
• Feb 27 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California
• Feb 28 Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
• Feb 28 US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 African American (9.8%))
• Feb 29 Frederic from G & S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
• Feb 29 Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations


• Mar 1 Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published
• Mar 2 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island, Finland
• Mar 2 Beaten by a nose in both the 1937 and 1938 Santa Anita Handicaps, Seabiscuit finally wins the Big 'Cap in his final race; retires the leading money-winning horse in the world
• Mar 6 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
• Mar 12 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
• Mar 13 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische
• Mar 14 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas

• Mar 16 German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow

• Mar 19 Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt

• Mar 20 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
• Mar 23 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Lahore), calling for independent Muslim state(s), is adopted by the All-India Muslim League

• 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)

• 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 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 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, Pennsylvania [1]
• Apr 22 Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

• Apr 28 SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) Rudolf Höss (not Hess, different Nazi) becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
• Apr 29 Norwegian King Haakon & government flee to Britain
• Apr 29 Robert Sherwood's play "There Shall be No Night" premieres in NYC
• Apr 30 Air New Zealand then known as TEAL makes its inaugural flight with a flight from Auckland to Sydney. Later becomes 1st airline in the world to boil hot water in-flight to offer customers hot tea and coffee.
• 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

• May 10 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
• May 10 World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France

• 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 and conquest of France begins with the crossing of the Muese River
• May 13 British bomb factory at Breda, Netherlands
• May 13 Winston Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" in his first speech as Prime Minister to British House of Commons

• May 13 German breakthrough at Grebbelinie
• May 14 British Local Defence Volunteers forms, an armed citizen militia designed to support the British Army during the Second World War. It is later renamed the Home Guard.
• May 14 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England
• May 14 German breakthrough at Sedan
• May 14 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
• May 14 Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany
• May 15 German armoured division moves into Northern France
• May 15 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders
• May 15 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
• May 15 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the Squalus
• May 15 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald's restaurant in San Bernardino, California

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Birthdays in History

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 248

• 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, born in Novosibirsk, Russia
• Jan 5 Michael Rose, British army officer, born in British India
• Jan 6 Ed Zschau, American politician (Rep-R-CA, 1983- ), born in Omaha, Nebraska
• Jan 6 Penny Lernoux, American journalist, born in California (d. 1989)
• Jan 7 William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
• Jan 9 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Jan 10 Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
• Jan 10 Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician, born in Québec, Canada
• Jan 13 Edmund White, American author
• Jan 14 Julian Bond, American civil rights leader & politician (D-Ga), born in Nashville Tennessee (d. 2015)
• Jan 17 Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
• Jan 17 Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan politician and physician, President of Uruguay (2005-10, 2015-20), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2020) [1]
• Jan 19 Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance (1984- )
• Jan 19 Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
• Jan 21 Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, English peer (Woburn Abbey, Country House TV series), born at the Ritz, London (d. 2003)
• Jan 27 Brian T O'Leary, astronaut, born in Boston, Massachusetts

• Feb 2 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, American sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
• 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 and 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 22 Johnson Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress), born in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Feb 22 Billy Name [William Linich Jr.], American 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 & former CEO (Crichton Foundation, Scottish Consumer Council), born in Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom
• Feb 29 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1991- ), born in Zeytinliköy, Imbros, Turkey
• 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, German writer, born in Bolesławiec, Poland (d. 2001)
• Mar 7 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin)
• Mar 7 Viktor Savinykh, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-4, T-13, TM-5), born in Berezkiny, Kirov
• 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 Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)
• Mar 16 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)
• Mar 17 Mark White, American politician, lawyer, and 43rd Governor of Texas (1983-7), born in Henderson, Texas (d. 2017)
• Mar 20 Gianpiero Moretti, steering wheel designer (Momo), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2012)
• Mar 24 Robert "Bob" Mackie, American fashion designer (RuPaul, Tina Turner, Judy Garland, Carol Burnett, Barbra Streisand, Cher), born in Monterey Park, California

• Mar 26 Servaes Huys, Dutch politician (PvdA)
• Mar 31 Barney Frank, (Rep-D-MA, 1981- )
• Mar 31 Patrick Leahy, American politician (Senator-D-Vermont, 1975- ), born in Montpelier, Vermont

• 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 men's apparel designer (Bijan), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 2011)
• Apr 4 Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Zilair, Russia
• Apr 6 Homero Aridjis, Mexican poet (La Tumba de Filidor)
• Apr 9 Vasily Dmitriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, born in Melovashka, Ukraine (d. 1973)
• Apr 12 John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist, born in Goose Creek, Texas
• Apr 15 Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, English novelist, born in Finsbury, London
• Apr 16 Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, British banker and deputy CEO (Barclays de Zoete Wedd), born in England

• 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 Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and physician (Nobel-1985), born in Kingstree, South Carolina
• Apr 20 Jan Cremer, Dutch writer (I, John Cremer), born in Enschede, Netherlands
• Apr 21 Souleymane Cisse, director (Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara)
• 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 of detective novels ("A" Is for Alibi), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2017)
• May 1 Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
• May 2 Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch governor and politician (VVD), born in Goes, Netherlands
• May 3 David Koch, American businessman and philanthropist (Koch Industries billionaire), born in Wichita, Kansas
• May 4 Robin Cook, American physician and novelist, born in NYC, New York
• May 6 Henry Habibe, Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi), born in Aruba
• May 7 Angela Carter, English novelist (Magic Toyshop) and journalist, born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1992)
• May 7 Jim Connors, American Radio personality, born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (d. 1987)
• May 8 James Blyth, CEO (Boots)

• May 8 Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician
• May 10 Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You) (d. 2015)
• May 10 Bill Cash, British politician (C, born in London
• May 10 Wayne A. Downing, retired United States Army general
• May 13 Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
• May 14 Chay Blyth, English sailor (Alone in Order to the World)
• May 14 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
• May 15 Roger Ailes, American TV executive and CEO of Fox News (1996-2016), born in Warren, Ohio (d. 2017)

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Weddings in History

• 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.

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

Divorces in History

Deaths in History

• Jan 1 Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer & essayist, dies at 74
• Jan 4 Conrad Weiss, German writer and 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 19 William E. Borah, American lawyer and politician (Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho), dies at 74
• Jan 20 Omar Bundy, U.S. Army general (Spanish–American War in Cuba), dies at 78
• 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, American sci-fi writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
• Feb 4 Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
• 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 at 71
• Feb 28 Johan Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer), 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 writer (Middle Border), dies at 79
• Mar 5 Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
• Mar 7 Edwin Markham, American poet (1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937), dies at 87
• Mar 10 Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)

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

• Apr 18 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English historian & 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

• May 7 George Lansbury, British politician, Labour Party Leader and pacifist, dies at 81
• 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, American anarchist and author (Living My Life), dies at 70
• 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 14 Willem Johannes Leyds, Dutch-South Africa lawyer and diplomat (State Secretary of the South African Republic), dies at 81
• 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 van Severen, Flemish politician and founder of the Alliance of Dietsche National Solidarists, dies at 45
• May 20 Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish poet and novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916), dies at 80
• 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 Édouard Vuillard, French painter and graphic artist, dies at 71
• 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, dies at 58
• 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 and governor of Libya, dies at 44
• Jun 29 Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60
• Jul 2 Ben Turpin, American comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies at 65
• Jul 15 Robert Wadlow, American who was world's tallest known person (8'11.1"), dies at 22
• Jul 15 Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), dies at 82
• 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 Whitey Krakow [or Krakower], American gangster and hitman (Murder Inc), murdered by "Bugsy" Siegel
• Aug 4 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
• Aug 5 Frederick 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

• Aug 21 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, dies at 58
• Aug 22 Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist, early radio pioneer, dies at 89
• Aug 24 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80

• Aug 31 George Gauthier, French-Canadian Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal, dies at 68

• Sep 3 Vilhelm Ekelund, Swedish poet and writer (Hafvets Stjorna), dies at 59
• Sep 7 Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
• Sep 15 Dick Ket, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 37
• Sep 26 Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48
• Sep 26 William Henry Davies, Welsh poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp), dies at 69
• 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 and politician, dies at 81
• 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, Spanish politician, 123rd President of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1933-40), shot at 58
• Oct 11 Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist, dies at 80
• 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

• Nov 9 Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, dies at 64
• Nov 17 Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
• Nov 17 Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
• Nov 19 Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist, dies at 75
• Nov 22 Wacław Rawicz [Berent], Polish biologist and writer, 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, Romanian writer, literature historian and Prime Minister of Romania, murdered by fascist at 69
• Dec 5 Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)

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