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Maurice Leblanc
1864–1941
writer, novelist, journalist
Official cause
pneumonia
Joachim Gottschalk
1904–1941
stage actor, film actor, actor
Official cause
asphyxia
Walter Krämer
1892–1941
politician, resistance fighter, locksmith
Official cause
gunshot wound
Alexander Chekalin
1925–1941
partisan
Official cause
hanging to death
Arndt Pekurinen
1905–1941
conscientious objector, pacifist
Official cause
execution by shooting
Cornelia Barns
1888–1941
editorial cartoonist, printmaker, painter
Official cause
tuberculosis
Jean-Pierre Timbaud
1904–1941
founder, trade unionist
Official cause
gunshot wound; execution by shooting
Charles Michels
1903–1941
politician
Official cause
gunshot wound; execution by shooting
Guy Môquet
1924–1941
high school student, activist
Official cause
gunshot wound; execution by shooting
Lee E. Geyer
1888–1941
politician
Official cause
bronchopneumonia
Lou Gehrig
1903–1941
baseball player
Official cause
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Joseph Malègue
1876–1940
writer, Catholic theologian, philosopher
Official cause
stomach cancer
Hanna Hirsch-Pauli
1864–1940
painter
Official cause
Hodgkin lymphoma; kidney stone disease; pyelonephritis; diabetes
Dov Hoz
1894–1940
politician
Official cause
traffic collision
Agnes Ayres
1898–1940
actor, film actor
Official cause
cerebral hemorrhage
Eddie August Schneider
1911–1940
aircraft pilot, airport manager, flight instructor
Official cause
aviation accident
Nathanael West
1903–1940
writer, novelist, playwright
Official cause
traffic collision
Hal Kemp
1904–1940
bandleader, composer, conductor
Official cause
traffic collision
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896–1940
writer, novelist, short story writer
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Heinrich Nauen
1880–1940
painter, university teacher, printmaker
Official cause
stomach cancer
Gheorghe Argeșanu
1883–1940
politician
Official cause
deliberate murder
Ivar F. Andresen
1896–1940
opera singer
Official cause
heart disease
Gustav Neckel
1878–1940
professor, university teacher
Official cause
lung disease
Graham Laidler
1908–1940
cartoonist, illustrator, comics artist
Official cause
poliomyelitis