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'''1940''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXL''') was a
leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar).
Events
January
*
January 4 -
World War II:
Axis powers -
Hermann Goering assumes control of all war industries in
Germany.
*
January 7 -
World War II:
Winter War - General
Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces.
*
January 8 -
World War II:
Winter War - Russian 44th Assault Division destroyed by Finnish forces in
Battle of Suomussalmi
*
January 25 -
Canada - Parliament dissolved and election called for
March 26.
February
*
February 1 -
World War II:
Winter War - Russian forces launch major assault on Finnish troops on the
Karelian Isthmus.
*
February 16 -
World War II -
British destroyer ''Cossack'' pursues
Germany German freighter ''Altmark'' into
Jossingfjord in southwestern
Norway, resulting in freedom for 290
British sailors and seamen held as prisoners.
March
*
March 3 - In Sweden, a
time bomb destroys the office of ''
Norrskenflamman'' newspaper of
Sweden Swedish communism communists - 5 dead
*
March 5- Members of Soviet politburo:
Stalin,
Molotov,
Lazar Kaganovich,
Mikhail Kalinin,
Kliment Voroshilov and
Lavrenty Beria, signed an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs. The action is known as the
Katyn massacre.
*
March 12 -
Soviet Union and
Finland sign a peace treaty in
Moscow ending the
Winter War. Finns, and world opinion, shocked by the harsh terms.
*
March 18 -
World War II:
Axis powers -
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini meet at
Brenner Pass in the
Alps and agree to form an alliance against
France and the
United Kingdom.
*
March 21 Édouard Daladier resigns as prime minister of France. He is replaced by
Paul Reynaud.
April
*
April 4 - Prime minister of
Greece,
Aleksandros Korizis, shoots himself - initial official explanation is "
heart attack"
*
April 7 -
Booker T. Washington becomes the first
African American to be depicted on a
United States postage stamp.
*
April 9 -
World War II:
Germany invades
Denmark and
Norway in operation ''
Weserübung.'' The
British campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced.
*
April 12 - The
Faroe Islands were occupied by British troops following the invasion of
Denmark by
Nazi Germany. This action was taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, which would have had very grave consequences for the course of the
Battle of the Atlantic.
*
April 15 - Opening day at Jamaica Racetrack features the use of pari-mutuel betting equipment, a departure from bookmaking heretofore used exclusively throughout New York state. Other NY tracks follow suit later in 1940.
*
April 23 - Rhythm Night Club burns in
Natchez, Mississippi - 198 dead
May
*
May 10 -
World War II:
Battle of France begin -
Germany German forces invaded
France and
Low Countries.
* May 10 -
World War II:
Iceland invaded by the
United Kingdom.
* May 10 - With the resignation of
Neville Chamberlain,
Winston Churchill becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
*
May 13 -
Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the
House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
*
May 13 -
World War II: German armies open 60-mile wide breach in
Maginot Line at
Sedan.
*
May 14 -
Queen Wilhelmina of the
Netherlands and her government flee to
London;
Rotterdam subjected to savage terror bombing by the
Luftwaffe - 980 killed, 20,000 buildings destroyed.
*
May 14 -
World War II: Recruitment begins in
Britain for a home defense force - the
Local Defence Volunteers, later known as the
Home Guard.
*
May 15 -
World War II:
Royal Netherlands Army Dutch army surrenders.
*
May 16 - U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of
Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
*
May 18 - Marshal
Henri Petain named vice-premier of
France.
*
May 19 - General
Maxime Weygand replaces
Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all
French forces.
*
May 20 -
World War II:
Germany German forces, under General
Erwin Rommel, reach the
English Channel.
Holocaust: concentration and death camp,
Auschwitz-Birkenau opens in
Poland.
*
May 22 -
World War II - British Parliament passes Emergency Powers Act giving the government full control over all persons and property.
*
May 26 -
World War II:
Dunkirk evacuation of
British Expeditionary Force starts.
*
May 28 -
World War II:
Belgian Army Belgium army surrenders.
*
May 28 -
Winston Churchill warns the
House of Commons to, "...prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."
June
*
June 4 -
World War II:
Dunkirk evacuation ends -
United Kingdom British forces complete evacuating 300,000 troops from
Dunkirk, France Dunkirk in
France.
*
June 9 - World War II: The
British Commandos are created.
*
June 10 - World War II:
Italy declares
war on
France and the
United Kingdom.
* June 10 - World War II: U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with [ftp://webstorage2.mcpa.virginia.edu/library/nara/fdr/audiovisual/speeches/fdr_1940_0610.mp3 "Stab in the Back"] speech from the graduation ceremonies of the
University of Virginia.
* June 10 - World War II:
Canada declares war on
Italy.
* June 10 - World War II:
Norway surrenders to
Germany German forces.
*
June 10 -
World War II: French government flees to
Tours.
*
June 12 - World War II: 13,000
United Kingdom British and
France French troops surrender to
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at
St. Valery-en-Caux.
*
June 13 -
World War II:
Paris is declared an
open city.
*
June 14 -
World War II: French government flees to
Bordeaux.
*
June 14 - World War II:
Paris falls under
Germany German occupation.
* June 14 - World War II: U.S. President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the
Naval Expansion Act into law which aims to increase the
United States Navy's tonnage by 11 %.
* June 14 -
Holocaust: A group of 728
Poland Polish political prisoners from
Tarnów become the first residents of the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
*
June 15 -
World War II:
Verdun falls to
German forces.
*
June 17 -
Henri Petain becomes
Prime Minister of
France and immediately asks
Germany for peace terms.
*
June 17 - The three
Baltic states of
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania fall under the occupation of the
Soviet Union.
* June 17 -
World War II:
Operation Ariel begins -
Allies Allied troops start to evacuate
France, following
Germany's takeover of
Paris and most of the nation.
* June 17 -
World War II:
Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks British ship ''
RMS Lancastria'', that was evacuating troops from near
Saint-Nazaire,
France. Death toll is over 2500. Wartime censorship prevents the story going public.
*
June 18 -
Winston Churchill speaks to the
House of Commons: "...the
Battle of France is over. The
Battle of Britain is about to begin."
*
June 18 - General
Charles DeGaulle broadcasts from
London, calling on all French people to continue the fight against
Nazi Germany: "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war."
*
June 22 -
World War II:
France and
Germany sign armistice at
Compiegne in the same wagon-lit railroad car used by Marshal
Ferdinand Foch to accept the surrender of
Germany in
1918.
*
June 23 - World War II:
Germany German leader
Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated
Paris in now occupied
France.[http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blhitler38.htm]
*
June 24 - U.S. politics:
Republican Party (United States) Republican Party begins its national convention in
Philadelphia and nominates
Wendell Willkie as its candidate for president
*
June 24 -
World War II:
France signs armistice terms with
Italy.
*
June 28 - General
Charles DeGaulle is officially recognized by
Britain as "Leader of all
Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be".
*
June 30 -
World War II:
Germany German forces land in
Guernsey marking the start of the 5-year
Occupation of the Channel Islands
July
*
July 10 -
World War II:
Vichy France begins with a constitutional law where only
The Vichy 80 80 members of the parliament voted against.
*
July 15 - U.S. politics:
Democratic Party begins its national convention in
Chicago and nominates
Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president
*
July 19 -
World War II:
Adolf Hitler makes peace appeal to
Britain in an address to the
Reichstag.
Lord Halifax, British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms in a broadcast reply on
July 22.
August
*
August 3, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Lithuania.
*
August 5, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Latvia.
*
August 6, 1940 Soviet Union annexes Estonia.
*
August 20 -
Winston Churchill pays tribute in the
House of Commons to the
Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
September
Image:StPaulBlitz.jpg thumb|300px|London in flames during heavy German bombing raids.
*
September -
U.S. 45th Infantry Division U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division (previously a National Guard Division in
Arizona,
Colorado,
New Mexico, and
Oklahoma), activated and ordered into federal service for one year to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana prior to serving in
World War II.
*
September 2 -
World War II: Agreement between
United States and
Great Britain announced. Fifty U.S. destroyers needed for escort work transferred to
Britain. In return, the
United States gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic,
West Indies and
Bermuda.
*
September 7 -
Treaty of Craiova:
Romania loses Southern
Dobrudja to
Bulgaria.
* September 7 -
World War II:
The Blitz -
Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on
London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of
strategic bombing.
*
September 12 - French children discover
Lascaux caves.
* September 12 - The Hercules Munitions Plant in
Succasunna-Kenvil, New Jersey Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people.
*
September 16 -
World War II:
Selective Service Act signed into law by
Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
*
September 27 -
World War II:
Germany,
Italy and
Japan sign
Tripartite Pact.
October
*
October 1 - Original section of the
Pennsylvania Turnpike opens between
Carlisle, Pennsylvania Carlisle and
Irwin, Pennsylvania Irwin.
*
October 9 - AA World War II: Battle of Britain - During a nighttime air raid by the
Germany German Luftwaffe,
St. Paul's Cathedral is pierced by a bomb; Musician
John Lennon is born during an air-raid in
Liverpool,
England.
*
October 15 - First release of
The Great Dictator, directed by
Charlie Chaplin who is cast as
fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel, clearly modeled on
Führer Adolf Hitler of
Nazi Germany.
*
October 16 -
World War II: Draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the
United States.
*
October 28 - World War II:
Italy invades
Greece.
*
October 29 -
World War II:
Selective Service System lottery held in
Washington, D.C..
*
October 31 - World War II:
Battle of Britain ends - The
United Kingdom prevents
Germany from invading
United Kingdom Britain.
November
*
November 5 -
U.S. presidential election, 1940:
United States Democrat Party Democrat incumbent
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats
United States Republican Party Republican challenger
Wendell Willkie and becomes the
United States' first third-term president.
*
November 7 - In
Washington, the middle section of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion (it opened to traffic on
July 1, 1940 as the third-longest
suspension bridge in the world).
*
November 9 - Premiere of
Joaquin Rodrigo's
Concierto de Aranjuez in
Barcelona,
Spain.
*
November 11 -
World War II:
Battle of Taranto - The
Royal Navy launches the first
aircraft carrier strike in history, on the
Italy Italian fleet at
Taranto.
* November 11 - World War II: The
Nazi Germany German Cruiser (warship) Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) ''
Atlantis auxiliary cruiser Atlantis'' captures
top secret United Kingdom British mail, and sends it to
Japan
* November 11 -
Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected
blizzard kills 144 in
U.S. Midwest.
*
November 14 -
World War II: In
England, the city of
Coventry is destroyed by 500
Germany German Luftwaffe bombers (150,000
fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, 130 parachute mines leveled 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people were killed).
*
November 16 - World War II: In response to
Germany leveling
Coventry two days before, the
Royal Air Force begins to bomb
Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents died from
Allied attacks).
* November 16 - Unexploded
pipe bomb founded in
Consolidated Edison office building (only years later the culprit,
George Metesky, is apprehended
*
November 18 - World War II:
Germany German leader
Adolf Hitler and
Italy Italian Foreign Minister
Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss
Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of
Greece.
*
November 20 - World War II:
Hungary,
Romania and
Slovakia join the
Axis Powers.
*
November 27 - In
Romania, coup leader General
Ion Antonescu's Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled king
Carol II of Romania's aides. Among the dead is former minister and acclaimed historian
Nicolae Iorga.
* November 27 - World War II:
Royal Navy and
Regia Marina fight the
Battle of Cape Spartivento.
December
*
December 12 &
December 15 - World War II: The "
Sheffield Blitz". The
Sheffield City of Sheffield is badly damaged by German air-raids.
*
December 26 - The film version of ''
The Philadelphia Story'', starring
Katharine Hepburn,
Cary Grant and
James Stewart (actor) James Stewart, premieres at
Radio City Music Hall in
New York City.
*
December 29 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a
fireside chat to the nation, declares that the
United States must become, "...the great arsenal of democracy."
*
December 30 -
California's first modern
freeway, the future
California State Route 110, is opened to traffic in
Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway. It is now called the Pasadena Freeway.
Unknown Date
*
Guilin,
China, acquires current name.
Ongoing Events
*
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Sino-Japanese War (
1937-
1945)
*
World War II (
1939 -
1945).
Births
See also
:Category:1940 births
January
*
January 4 -
Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
* January 4 -
Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
January 6 -
Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d.
1989)
*
January 14 -
Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
*
January 20 -
Carol Heiss, American figure skater
*
January 22 -
John Hurt, English actor
*
January 27 -
James Cromwell, American actor
February
*
February 2 -
David Jason, English actor
*
February 3 -
Fran Tarkenton, American football player
*
February 4 -
George Romero, American film writer, producer, and director
*
February 5 -
H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
*
February 6 -
Tom Brokaw, American television news reporter
* February 6 -
Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian
*
February 8 -
Ted Koppel, American journalist
* February 8 -
Joe South, American singer and songwriter
*
February 9 -
J. M. Coetzee, South African writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate
*
February 12 -
Richard Lynch, American actor
*
February 19 -
Smokey Robinson, American musician
*
February 20 -
Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
*
February 21 -
Wong Jim James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d.
2004)
*
February 23 -
Peter Fonda, American actor
*
February 24 -
Denis Law, Scottish footballer
*
February 25 -
Ron Santo, baseball player
*
February 28 -
Mario Andretti, American race car driver
*
February 29 -
Edward Frederic Benson, American writer
March
*
March 3 -
Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist
*
March 6 -
Willie Stargell, baseball player (d.
2001)
*
March 7 -
Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d.
1979)
*
March 9 -
Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d.
1994)
*
March 10 -
Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
*
March 12 -
Al Jarreau, American singer
*
March 15 -
Phil Lesh, American musician (
Grateful Dead)
*
March 16 -
Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
*
March 17 -
Mark White, Governor of Texas
*
March 22 -
Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d.
1996)
*
March 25 -
Anita Bryant, American entertainer
*
March 26 -
James Caan, American actor
* March 26 -
Spiridon Louis, Greek runner
*
March 27 -
Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
*
March 29 -
Ray Davis (musician) Ray Davis, American musician (
P-Funk)
*
March 30 -
Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer
April
*
April 1 -
Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
*
April 2 -
Penelope Keith, English actress
*
April 12 -
Herbie Hancock, American musician
*
April 16 - Queen
Margrethe II of Denmark
*
April 18 -
Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
April 20 -
George Takei, American actor
*
April 25 -
Al Pacino, American actor
*
April 26 -
Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
May
*
May 1 -
Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
*
May 8 -
Ricky Nelson, American singer (d.
1985)
*
May 9 -
James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
*
May 11 -
Juan Downey, Chilean-born video artist (d.
1993)
*
May 17 -
Alan Kay, American computer scientist
*
May 20 -
Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born hockey player
* May 20 -
Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
*
May 22 -
Bernard Shaw (journalist) Bernard Shaw, American journalist and television news reporter
*
May 24 -
Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996)
*
May 29 -
Farooq Leghari,
President of Pakistan
June
*June -
Carole Ann Ford, British actress
*
June 1 -
Rene Auberjonois (actor) René Auberjonois, American actor
*
June 2 - King
Constantine II of Greece
*
June 16 -
Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
*
June 17 -
George Akerlof, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
June 20 -
John Mahoney, English-born actor
*
June 21 -
Mariette Hartley, American actress
*
June 23 -
Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d.
2003)
* June 23 -
Lord Irvine of Lairg,
Lord Chancellor Lord Chancellor of England
* June 23 -
Wilma Rudolph, American athelete (d.
1994)
*
June 25 -
A.J. Quinnell, English writer (d.
2005)
July
*
July 3 -
César Tovar, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (d.
1994)
*
July 7 -
Ringo Starr, English drummer (
The Beatles)
*
July 10 -
Gene Alley, baseball player
* July 10 -
Helen Donath, American soprano
*
July 13 -
Patrick Stewart, English actor
*
July 18 -
Joe Torre, baseball player and manager
*
July 22 -
Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
*
July 24 -
Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
*
July 26 -
Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to
Robert F. Kennedy (d.
1969)
*
July 27 -
Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist
August
*
August 3 -
Martin Sheen, American actor
*
August 7 -
Jean-Luc Dehaene,
Prime Minister of Belgium
*
August 9 -
Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
*
August 10 -
Bobby Hatfield, American singer (
Righteous Brothers) (d.
2003)
*
August 20 -
Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
*
August 25 -
José Van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
September
*
September 5 -
Raquel Welch, American actress
*
September 10 -
David Mann (painter) David Mann, American artist (d.
2004)
*
September 12 -
Mickey Lolich, baseball player
*
September 13 -
Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
*
September 14 -
Larry Brown, American basketball coach
October
*
October 9 -
John Lennon, English musician and singer (
The Beatles) (d.
1980)
*
October 13 -
Pharaoh Sanders, American saxophonist
*
October 14 -
Cliff Richard, English singer
*
October 15 -
Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*
October 19 -
Michael Gambon, Irish actor
*
October 21 -
Manfred Mann, South African musician
*
October 23 -
Pelé, Brazilian footballer
*
October 25 -
Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
*
October 27 -
John Gotti, American Gangster (d.
2002)
November
*
November 1 -
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti,
Chief Justice of India
*
November 15 -
Sam Waterston, American actor
*
November 21 -
Richard Marcinko, U.S. Navy SEAL team member and author
*
November 25 -
Joe Gibbs, American football coach
*
November 27 -
Bruce Lee, American martial artist and actor (d.
1973)
December
*
December 1 -
Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d.
2005)
*
December 4 -
Gary Gilmore, American murderer
* December 4 -
John Cale, Welsh classical and rock musician and multi-instrumentalist from
The Velvet Underground
*
December 5 -
Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
*
December 12 -
Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
* December 12 -
Dionne Warwick, American singer
*
December 21 -
Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d.
1993)
*
December 22 -
Noel Jones, British Ambassador to Kazakhstan (d.
1995)
*
December 25 -
Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist
*
December 26 -
Edward C. Prescott, American economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
Unknown dates
*
Seamus Deane, Northern Irish poet and novelist
Deaths
January
*
January 4 -
Flora Finch, English-born actress and comedienne (b.
1869)
*
January 18 -
Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (b.
1865)
*
January 27 -
Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b.
1894)
February
*
February 11 -
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir,
Governor General of Canada (b.
1875)
March
*
March 5 -
Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b.
1868)
*
March 10 -
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b.
1891)
*
March 16 -
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1858)
*
March 20 -
Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b.
1860)
*
March 31 -
Tinsley Lindley, English footballer (b.
1865)
April
*
April 26 -
Carl Bosch, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1874)
May
*
May 15 -
Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (b.
1902)
*
May 20 -
Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1859)
*
May 25 -
Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (b.
1873)
*
May 28 -
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b.
1868)
June
*
June 10 -
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (b.
1887)
*
June 17 -
Arthur Harden, English chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865)
*
June 21 -
Smedley Butler, U.S. general (b.
1881)
*
June 29 -
Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b.
1879)
July
*
July 4 -
Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man in the world (infection) (b.
1918)
August
*
August 8 -
Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist (b.
1892)
*
August 18 -
Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b.
1875)
*
August 21 -
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b.
1879)
*
August 21 -
Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.
1882)
*
August 22 -
Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (b.
1860)
*
August 30 -
J.J. Thomson, English physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1856)
September
*
September 5 -
Charles de Broqueville, Belgian Prime Minister (b.
1860)
*
September 27 -
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1857)
October
*
October 5 -
Ballington Booth,
Salvation Army Officer and co-founder of
Volunteers of America (b.
1857)
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Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary to
Newfoundland and Labrador (b.
1865).
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Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b.
1876)
November
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Neville Chamberlain,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1869)
December
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Jan KubelÃk, Czech violinist (b.
1880)
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Kyösti Kallio,
President of Finland (b.
1873)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b.
1896)
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Agnes Ayres, American actress (b.
1898)
Unknown Date
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December -
Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b.
1879)
Nobel prizes
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Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry - not awarded
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
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Nobel Prize in literature Literature - not awarded
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Nobel Prize/Peace Peace - not awarded
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