List of Famous people who died in 1940

1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943

F/O Richard Ughtred Paul Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baron Shuttleworth

First Name F/O

Born on October 30, 1913

Died on August 8, 1940 (aged 26)

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Cecil Clayton

First Name Cecil

Last Name Clayton

Born on August 12, 1880

Died on March 10, 1940 (aged 59)

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Maud Violet Woodroffe

First Name Maud

Died on February 23, 1940

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Mary Emily Elizabeth Howard

First Name Mary

Last Name Howard

Died on February 22, 1940

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Margaret Baillie-Hamilton

First Name Margaret

Last Name Baillie-Hamilton

Died on December 4, 1940

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Karl Duncker

First Name Karl

Last Name Duncker

Born on February 2, 1903

Died on February 23, 1940 (aged 37)

Born in Germany, Saxony

Karl Duncker was a German Gestalt psychologist. He attended Friedrich-Wilhelms-University from 1923 to 1923, and spent 1925–1926 at Clark University in Worcester, MA as a visiting professor, where he received a masters in arts degree. Until 1935 he was a student and assistant of the founders of Gestalt psychology in Berlin: Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka. In 1935, exiled by the Nazis, he got an assistantship in Cambridge with Frederic Charles Bartlett and later immigrated to the US, where he was again an assistant of Wolfgang Köhler’s at Swarthmore College. He committed suicide in 1940 at 37 years of age. He had been suffering from depression for some time and had received professional treatment.

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Dora Charlotte Agnew

First Name Dora

Last Name Agnew

Died on June 2, 1940

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Percy Seymour Douglas-Hamilton

First Name Percy

Last Name Douglas-Hamilton

Born on October 2, 1875

Died on February 6, 1940 (aged 64)

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Robert Guy Cyril King

First Name Robert

Last Name King

Born on April 1, 1877

Died on April 22, 1940 (aged 63)

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Alice Margaret Christian

First Name Alice

Last Name Christian

Born on February 6, 1859

Died on April 30, 1940 (aged 81)

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