• July 4 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man ever (infection) (b. 1918)
• August 8 - Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1892)
• August 18 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b. 1875)
• August 21 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
• August 21 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1882)
• August 22 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (b. 1860)
• August 30 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• September 5 - Charles de Broqueville, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1860)
• September 27 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)

Contents 1 Events of 1940 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 1.14 Ongoing 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Ship events 6 Notes 7 External links

• October 5 - Ballington Booth, American co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. 1857)
• October 9 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865)
• October 10 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• November 9 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• November 9 - John Henry Kirby, Texas legislator and American businessman (b. 1860)
• November 17 - Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer (b. 1882)
• November 17 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
• December 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
• December 15 or December 16 - Billy Hamilton, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (b. 1866)
• December 19 - Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (b. 1873)
• December 21 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
• December 25 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)

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Nobel prizes

• Physics - not awarded
• Chemistry - not awarded
• Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded

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Ship events

• List of ship launches in 1940
• List of ship commissionings in 1940
• List of ship decommissionings in 1940
• List of shipwrecks in 1940

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Notes

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External links

• The 1930s Timeline: 1940 — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia

• 1940 Coin Pictures

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