Famous Deaths for May 1940
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Months in 1940: January February March April June July August September October November December
Results 1 - 18 of 18
7th - George Lansbury, Labour Party Leader (b. 1859)
10th - Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56
14th - Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
14th - Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies
14th - Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
14th - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite), suicide at 38
15th - Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75
15th - Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide at 63
20th - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
20th - Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
23rd - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
23rd - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
25th - Joe De Grasse, American film director (b. 1873)
28th - Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70
28th - Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65
28th - Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53
28th - Friedrich Karl von Hessen (b. 1868)
30th - Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
