Famous people and celebrities who died in August 1940

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in August 1940. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Aug. 3 Willard Hershberger

  Cin reds' catcher commits suicide

• Aug. 4 Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Ukrainian-american general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)

• Aug. 4 Vladimir Jabotinsky

  Revisionist zionism's founding father

• Aug. 5 Frederick A Cook

  United states -- explorer (north pole), died at 75

• Aug. 8 Johnny Dodds

  American clarinet player and saxophonist (b. 1892)

• Aug. 12 Nikolai Triik

  Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)

• Aug. 13 George C Pearce

  Actor (hold tat lion, british agent), is killed at 75

• Aug. 16 Henri Desgrange

  French cyclist racer and journalist, inventor of the tour de france bicycle ride in 1903.

• Aug. 17 Billy Fiske

  American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)

• Aug. 18 Walter Chrysler

  American industrialist who founded chrysler corporation. he also ran the company between 1925-1935. he started his career at buick in 1912. four years later, he became president. after that, he worked as vice-president at general motors. chrysler was a millionaire when he retired at the age of 45. he produced the first automobile bearing his name four years later.

• Aug. 21 Leon Trotsky

  Russian politician, leader of the bolshevik revolution. trotsky, who was still alive when lenin was alive was russia's most powerful man. he lost his leadership to joseph stalin. later, he was exiled to turkey and traveled to norway, norway, and finally to mexico. stalin sent secret police to assassinate his in mexico on august 20, 1940; he was wounded and …

• Aug. 21 Ernest Thayer

  American poet and author (b. 1863)

• Aug. 21 Hermann Obrecht

  Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)

• Aug. 21 Paul Juon

  Russian/swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68

• Aug. 21 Ernest Lawrence Thayer

  American poet (born 1863).

• Aug. 22 Oliver Lodge

  British scientist, physicist and author. his research included lightning, ultra-short waves and electro-magnetic radiation. he was well-known for his interest in psychic research later in his life. lodge was knighted in 1902.

• Aug. 22 Gerald Strickland

  1st baron strickland, maltese lawyer and politician, 4th prime minister of malta (b. 1861)

• Aug. 24 Paul Gottlieb Nipkow

  Polish-german technician and inventor, invented the nipkow disk (b. 1860)

• Aug. 25 Prince Jean

  Duke of guise (b. 1874)

• Aug. 25 Jean d'Orleans

  Duc de guise, orleanist pretender for the french throne (born 1874)

• Aug. 29 Arthur De Greef

  Composer dies at 77

• Aug. 30 J. J. Thomson

  PHY - English physicist and mathematician, nobel prize laureate (b. 1856)

• Aug. 30 Joseph John Thomson

  Nobel Prize laureate in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases

• Aug. 31 Georges Gauthier

  Canadian archbishop (b. 1871)

• Aug. 31 DeLancey W. Gill

  American painter (b. 1859)

• Aug. 31 Johanna "Annie" Bakker

  Revue-artists / singer / actress, dies at 58