Famous Deaths for July 1940
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Months in 1940: January February March April May June August September October November December
Results 1 - 11 of 11
2nd - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies
2nd - Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
3rd - George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for S Africa 1896-99), dies
10th - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
14th - Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
15th - Donald Calthrop, dies at 52
15th - Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
19th - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
20th - Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
28th - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66
31st - Whitney Krakower, US gangster, murderrd by "Bugsy" Siegel
