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Arthur Zimmermann
1864–1940
politician, diplomat, jurist
Official cause
pneumonia
Tokugawa Iesato
1863–1940
samurai, politician
Official cause
pneumonia
Platon Kerzhentsev
1881–1940
diplomat, historian, writer
Official cause
cardiac arrest
Andrew Nicholas Bonaparte-Wyse
1870–1940
Official cause
disease
Victor Benjamin Neuburg
1883–1940
poet
Official cause
tuberculosis
Walter Connolly
1887–1940
actor, stage actor, film actor
Official cause
stroke
Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
1879–1940
politician, engineer, governor
Official cause
gunshot wound
Mariano Albert Reigada
Unknown–1940
cabinetmaker, anarcho-syndicalist
Official cause
gunshot wound
Janina Lewandowska
1908–1940
military officer, aircraft pilot
Official cause
gunshot wound; execution by shooting
Georg Wertheim
1857–1939
merchant, entrepreneur
Official cause
pneumonia
Charles Mintz
1889–1939
film producer
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Madeleine Pelletier
1874–1939
politician, anthropologist, psychiatrist
Official cause
stroke
Henry Adams Bellows
1885–1939
linguist, translator, historian
Official cause
lung cancer
Tom Barwick
1907–1939
Australian rules football player
Official cause
traffic collision
Giulio Cederna
1876–1939
association football player
Official cause
cancer
Anthony Fokker
1890–1939
aerospace engineer, engineer, entrepreneur
Official cause
meningitis
Thorvald Erichsen
1868–1939
painter
Official cause
leukemia
Ma Rainey
1886–1939
street artist, singer, songwriter
Official cause
myocardial infarction
John Harron
1903–1939
actor, film actor
Official cause
meningitis
Henry May
1867–1939
Official cause
cancer
Władysław Cieszyński
1891–1939
journalist
Official cause
execution by shooting
Bronisław Kentzer
1880–1939
businessperson
Official cause
execution by shooting
Lois Weber
1879–1939
film director, screenwriter, film actor
Official cause
ulcer
Norman Bethune
1890–1939
physician, teacher, surgeon
Official cause
sepsis