Famous Deaths for August 1940
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Results 1 - 18 of 18
3rd - Willard Hershberger, catcher (Cin Reds), commits suicide
4th - Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
5th - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
8th - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)
13th - George C Pearce, actor (Hold tat Lion, British Agent), dies at 75
16th - Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
16th - Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
18th - Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive (b. 1875)
21st - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
21st - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer, dies at 68
21st - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
21st - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
22nd - Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
24th - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
29th - Arthur De Greef, composer, dies at 77
30th - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
31st - Johanna "Annie" Bakker, revue-artists/singer/actress, dies at 58
31st - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
