Musicians Who Died in 1940

Mar 25 Ion Nonna Otescu, Romanian composer, dies at 51
Apr 6 Andrés Isasi, Spanish Basque composer, dies at 49
Apr 18 Florrie Forde [Flannagan], Australian singer and British music hall performer, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
May 28 Theodor Streicher, Austrian composer, dies at 65
Jun 8 Frederick Converse, American composer (The Pipe of Desire), dies at 69
Jun 16 Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
Jun 19 Maurice Jaubert, French composer and soldier, dies a few hours after being fatally wounded in action at 40
Jun 20 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
Jul 2 Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
Jul 10 Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
Jul 28 Richard Ohlsson, Swedish composer, dies at 66
Aug 8 Johnny Dodds, American early jazz clarinetist, dies at 48
Aug 21 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68
Aug 29 Arthur De Greef, Belgian composer, dies at 77

Aug 31 Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58
Sep 30 Walter Kollo, composer, dies at 62
Oct 5 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer: Cuauhnahuac/Planos, dies at 40
Oct 6 Ferdinando Liuzzi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 55
Oct 24 Victor Hollaender, German composer, dies at 74
Oct 27 Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72
Oct 28 Andrea d' Angeli, Italian composer, dies at 71
Nov 12 Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
Nov 23 Catharina van Rennes, Dutch composer, dies at 82
Nov 30 Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
Dec 5 Jan Kubelik, Czech composer, dies at 60
Dec 16 William Wallace, Scottish composer, dies at 80
Dec 21 Hal Kemp American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and sweet jazz bandleader, dies as a result of a car accident at 36
Dec 30 Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79