Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
Fritz Bennicke Hart was an English composer, conductor, teacher and unpublished novelist, who spent considerable periods in Australia and Hawaii.
Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (born 1874)
Douglas Ross Hyde, known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn, was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ire…
Douglas Hyde, Irish scholar and politician, 1st President of Ireland (born 1860)
Walter Francis Kuhn was an American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.
Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (born 1877)
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet, playwright, Classicist, and senior literary and dramatic theorist of the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, tran…
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1866)
Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and his music is con…
Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (born 1870)
Hugó Veigelsberg was a Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus. He was known for the lyric individuality of his poems, stories, and sociologica…
Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)
Edward Lee Thorndike was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning p…
Edward Thorndike, American psychologist and academic (born 1874)
Francisco Javier Arana Castro was a Guatemalan military leader and one of the three members of the revolutionary junta that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 du…
Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (born 1905)
Homer Burton Adkins was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation o…
Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (born 1892)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone wit…
Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (born 1900)
Gregorio Milián Perfecto was a Filipino journalist, politician and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1945 to 1949. A controvers…
Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (born 1891)
Paul Mares, was an American early dixieland jazz cornet and trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1900)
Ragnhild Kaarbø was a Norwegian painter. Influenced by Fauvism, she painted expressionistic portraits. She was also influenced by Cubism, but as her cubistic paintings were critici…
Ragnhild Kaarbø, Norwegian painter (born 1889)
Helen Churchill Candee was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912,…
Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (born 1858)
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's fo…
Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (born 1877)
Song Zhenzhong, popularly known as Little Radish Head, was the son of Chinese Communist Party members Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia. Held by the Kuomintang for the majority of his life,…
Song Zhenzhong, Chinese child internee (born 1941)
Xu Linxia was a Chinese communist. Born in Pi County, she attended the No. 3 Normal School before joining the Kuomintang (KMT). After the dissolution of the First United Front, she…
Xu Linxia, Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905)
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.
Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (born 1864)
Song Qiyun was a Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born in Pi County, Jiangsu, to a poor family, he attended the Sixth Normal School but left teac…
Song Qiyun, Chinese communist activist (born 1904)
Yang Hucheng was a Chinese general during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang (KMT) general during the Chinese Civil War. He was a main supporter of Zhang Xueliang d…
Yang Hucheng, Chinese general (born 1893)
José Clemente Orozco was a Mexican painter. He specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance, together with fellow artists Diego Rivera and David A…
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter and illustrator (born 1883)
Henri Benjamin Rabaud was a French conductor, composer and teacher, who held important posts in the French musical establishment and upheld mainly conservative trends in French mus…
Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (born 1873)
Erik Adolf von Willebrand was a Finnish physician who made major contributions to hematology. Von Willebrand disease and von Willebrand factor are named after him. He also research…
Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (born 1870)
Schack August Steenberg Krogh was a Danish professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen from 1916 to 1945. He contributed a number of fundamental di…
August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)