Explore 3967 historical events from 1940–1949.
Aldo Leopold was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, professor, conservationist, and environmentalist. He taught at the University of Wisco…
Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (born 1887)
Jāzeps Vītols was a Latvian composer, pedagogue and music critic. He is considered one of the fathers of Latvian classical music.
Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (born 1863)
Knut Ernst Robert Tandefelt was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman.
Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (born 1876)
U Saw, also known as Galon U Saw, was a leading Burmese politician who served as Prime Minister of British Burma during the colonial era before the Second World War. He is also kno…
U Saw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (born 1900)
Hans Waldemar Wessolowski was a German-American artist best known under the pseudonym "Wesso" for his many cover illustrations for pulp magazines in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Hans Waldemar Wessolowski, German-American illustrator (born 1894)
Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, also known as "Kick" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgera…
Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (born 1920)
Edward Joseph Flanagan was an Irish-born priest of the Catholic Church in the United States who served for decades in Nebraska. After serving as a parish priest in the Diocese of O…
Edward J
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (born 1889)
Jacques Feyder was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films duri…
Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1885)
Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and Resistance leader (born 1901)
Torsten Lars Herman Jamte Bergström was a Swedish film director and theater and film actor.
Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (born 1896)
Dame Mary Louise Webster, known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two w…
May Whitty, English actress (born 1865)
József Klekl was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest from Prekmurje and politician in Hungary, writer, governor of the Slovene People's Party (Slovenska lüdska stranka), later a delega…
József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (born 1874)
Alex Gard was a Russian American cartoonist. He was a regular cartoonist for newspapers, magazines and books, but is most well known for his celebrity caricatures at Sardi's restau…
Alex Gard, Russian-American cartoonist (born 1900)
Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; th…
Viktor Brack, German physician (born 1904)
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor…
Karl Brandt, German SS officer (born 1904)
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a German physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps a…
Karl Gebhardt, German physician (born 1897)
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many c…
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born 1903)
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war cri…
Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (born 1905)
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion pic…
Louis Lumière, French film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1864)
Shūji Tsushima , known by his pen name Osamu Dazai , was a Japanese novelist and author. A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun and No Longer Human, are consid…
Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (born 1909)
William Edward Brooker was a Labor Party politician. He became the interim Premier of Tasmania on 19 December 1947 while Robert Cosgrove was facing corruption charges. He died on 1…
Edward Brooker, English-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (born 1891)
Major General William Carey Lee was a senior United States Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II, during which he commanded the 101st Airborne Division, nicknamed…
William C
Dorothea Frances Bleek was a German–South African anthropologist and philologist known for her research on the Bushmen of Southern Africa.
Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (born 1873)