Famous Deaths for March 1940

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Results 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1st - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
4th - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
5th - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
10th - Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
10th - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
15th - Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies
16th - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
19th - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, dies at 54
20th - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
25th - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
26th - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
27th - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
29th - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(b. 1916)


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